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DocArchive: A Short History Of Story: Part one: 05 Nov 11 Updated: 2011-11-05 19:00:00 Description: Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths through to today's online gaming and the recording of our personal lives by way of social media....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment: Spain's Stolen Babies: 03 Nov 11 Updated: 2011-11-03 10:05:00 Description: Katya meets the heartbroken families in Spain searching for their children and the trafficked babies, now grown up, searching for their biological relatives and their true identities....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Dark Side Of Diplomacy: Part One: 01 Nov 11 Updated: 2011-11-01 10:05:00 Description: Diplomacy is often presented as an artform, the peak of civilisation in a barren political world. But what happens when it is conducted with torturers, murderers and serial human rights abusers? Lyse Doucet asks diplomats, politicians and activists h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: After The Dictators: 29 Oct 11 Updated: 2011-10-29 19:05:00 Description: As Libyans absorb the impact of the death of Gaddafi, Owen Bennett-Jones presents a special programme exploring what happens after dictators leave power....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: After The Dictators:29 Oct 11 Updated: 2011-10-29 19:05:00 Description: As Libyans absorb the impact of the death of Gaddafi, Owen Bennett-Jones presents a special programme exploring what happens after dictators leave power....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Musical Migrants: Zanzibar Updated: 2011-10-29 14:05:00 Description: Meet Yusuf Mahmoud, who swapped Cheltenham for Zanzibar because of his love of African music....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: One Day In Syria Updated: 2011-10-27 11:39:00 Description: For Assignment, Bill Law paints a portrait of one day in the Syrian revolution, talking via the internet and phone to people across the country....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The British Establishment: Who For? - Part Two: 25 Oct 11 Updated: 2011-10-25 09:00:00 Description: Why does Britain's narrow and elite establishment keep stumbling from crisis to crisis?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Musical Migrants: Nashville - Episode 2 Updated: 2011-10-24 08:05:00 Description: Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music. In part two, Jesse Lee Jones explains how his love of country music took him from Brazil to Nashville....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Musical Migrants - Episode 1 Updated: 2011-10-21 13:40:00 Description: Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music. In part one Pedro Carrillo from Venezuela fell in love with Italian opera and moved to Milan....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Musical Migrants: Milan - Episode 1 Updated: 2011-10-21 13:40:00 Description: Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music. In part one Pedro Carrillo from Venezuela fell in love with Italian opera and moved to Milan....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment Ivory Coast: A family divided Updated: 2011-10-20 04:00:00 Description: Robyn Bresnahan reports on how politics is dividing families in Ivory Coast....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The New Establishment: Part One: 18 Oct 11 Updated: 2011-10-18 09:00:00 Description: Michael Goldfarb looks at why Britain's narrow and elite establishment keeps stumbling from crisis to crisis....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The British Establishment: Who For? - Part One: 18 Oct 11 Updated: 2011-10-18 09:00:00 Description: Michael Goldfarb looks at why Britain's narrow and elite establishment keeps stumbling from crisis to crisis....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Lives In Landscape Updated: 2011-10-14 13:31:00 Description: Alan Dein explores the impact of last summer's riots on a London man and his friends in the immediate aftermath of the rioting....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Defining Hezbollah Updated: 2011-10-13 04:00:00 Description: In Lebanon many people fear that another war between Hezbollah and Israel is just over the horizon. But what exactly is Hezbollah and why do people support it? For Assignment Owen Bennett Jones reports from southern Lebanon on the nature and structur...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Controlling People: Part Three: 11 October 11 Updated: 2011-10-11 09:00:00 Description: The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Down and Out in Paris and London Updated: 2011-10-07 11:42:00 Description: Some 80 years after George Orwell chronicled the lives of the hard-up and destitute in his book Down and Out in Paris and London, what has changed? Retracing the writer's footsteps, Emma Jane Kirby finds the hallmarks of poverty identified by Orwell ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Fading Voices Updated: 2011-10-06 12:30:00 Description: Facing old age presents its challenges where ever you come from. Nina Robinson travels to Wales in the United Kingdom to talk to members of an all male choir as their numbers decline and their voices fade....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Controlling People: Part Two: 4 October 11 Updated: 2011-10-04 08:55:00 Description: The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Listening Post - Episode Two Updated: 2011-09-30 14:54:00 Description: A series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals. In part two, we hear the story of 84 year-old Sybil Phoenix, who 50 years ago started fostering. She has cared for countless children and was awarded an MBE in 1973 for h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - Supporting Fenerbahce Updated: 2011-09-29 04:00:00 Description: Fenerbahce fans are angry. Their club is at the centre of a match fixing scandal and they've suffered the humiliation of being banned from the first game of the season. Tim Mansel went to meet them....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Controlling People: Part One: 27 September 11 Updated: 2011-09-27 09:00:00 Description: The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Listening Post - Episode One Updated: 2011-09-23 14:03:00 Description: A series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals. In part one we hear the story of Yusef Shakur, who in 1992 at 19 was about to start a prison sentence of five to 15 years. Now almost two decades on, he has managed to tu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - Rangers v Celtic Updated: 2011-09-22 04:00:00 Description: Strong views and language from the fans of Scotland's top football clubs - Rangers and Celtic. But how sectarian is their rivalry? Rob Walker reports for Assignment....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Future of Amnesty International: Part Two: 20 September 11 Updated: 2011-09-20 09:00:00 Description: Matthew Bannister tells the story of Amnesty International at 50, and discusses its future on the world stage....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Always Hope: Cambodia's New Music Updated: 2011-09-16 10:29:00 Description: How Cambodia's contemporary music scene is creating a new golden era for a country recovering from the dark years of Pol Pot's rule....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - Zimbabwe's Migrant Children Updated: 2011-09-15 04:00:00 Description: Mukul Devichand goes on the road with young children travelling alone on a journey of desperation, danger and hope - south from Zimbabwe and across the border to South Africa....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Future of Amnesty International: Part Owo: 13 September 11 Updated: 2011-09-13 09:00:00 Description: Matthew Bannister tells the story of Amnesty International at 50, and discusses its future on the world stage....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Future of Amnesty International: Part One: 13 September 11 Updated: 2011-09-13 09:00:00 Description: Matthew Bannister tells the story of Amnesty International at 50, and discusses its future on the world stage....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Iconic Geometry - The Great Pyramid Updated: 2011-09-10 13:05:00 Description: eading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known histories of three celebrated monuments: Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramid, to reveal the hidden geometry at their cores....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - The Indignants of Greece Updated: 2011-09-08 04:00:00 Description: As the Greek government struggles to tackle it's massive debt crisis, Ed Butler travels to Athens for Assignment to investigate the so-called Indignants - the popular protest movement gathering pace across the country....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Secret War On Terror: Part Two: 06 September 11 Updated: 2011-09-06 09:00:00 Description: The Secret War On Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war which has been fought against al-Qaeda over the last decade since 9/11....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Iconic Geometry - The Taj Mahal Updated: 2011-09-03 13:05:00 Description: Leading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known histories of three celebrated monuments: Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramid, to reveal the hidden geometry at their cores....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Mystery of Dirar Abu Sisi Updated: 2011-09-01 04:00:00 Description: Gabriel Gatehouse investigates the mysterious disappearance of Dirar Abu Sisi. He vanished from a train in Ukraine in February and turned up in an Israeli prison nine days later. Is he really the brains behind Hamas' missile programme, as Israel clai...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Secret War On Terror: Part One: 30 August 11 Updated: 2011-08-30 09:00:00 Description: The Secret War On Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war which has been fought against al-Qaeda over the last decade since 9/11....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Iconic Geometry - Stonehenge Updated: 2011-08-27 13:05:00 Description: Leading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known histories of three celebrated monuments: Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramid, to reveal the hidden geometry at their cores....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Road To Tripoli Updated: 2011-08-25 08:05:00 Description: Events in Libya have reached a dramatic conclusion. After a six month uprising, rebel forces have swept into the capital Tripoli. The Leader Colonel Gaddafi, after almost 42 years in power, has been forced from power. James Reynolds reports how this...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Day the Wall Went Up: Part Two: 23 August 11 Updated: 2011-08-23 09:00:00 Description: On the Berlin Wall's 50th anniversary, Gerry Northam looks at its political context and its human consequences....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Too Hard Basket Updated: 2011-08-20 13:05:00 Description: Warning: This documentary contains conversations about sexual experience. Disabled people are rarely touched in a loving way or thought of as sexually desirable yet they have the same need for a sex life as everyone else. John Blades, who has a major...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - August Central America Updated: 2011-08-18 08:05:00 Description: Linda Pressly follows the migrants heading north through Guatemala into Mexico – despite the dangers of kidnap by the notorious Zetas gang....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Day the Wall Went Up: Part One: 16 August 11 Updated: 2011-08-16 09:00:00 Description: On the Berlin Wall's 50th anniversary, Gerry Northam looks at its political context and its human consequences....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Education of Ashif Jaffer Updated: 2011-08-13 13:05:00 Description: Can a young Canadian man with Down's Syndrome get a university degree? Alisa Siegal follows the story of Ashif Jaffer who wants to fulfil his dream for a university education and the degree that goes with it....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment: Zimbabwe's Diamond Fields Updated: 2011-08-11 04:00:00 Description: Have you bought a diamond recently? Would you really know where it came from? Assignment goes into Zimbabwe's Marange diamond fields and uncovers evidence of torture camps and wide-scale killings....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden Updated: 2011-08-09 08:05:00 Description: BBC Security correspondent Gordon Corera tells the untold tale of how the Americans hunted their most wanted man - from the caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan through to his stronghold in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: India's Working Children Updated: 2011-08-04 04:00:00 Description: Nina Robinson reports from India where the booming economy has fuelled a demand for cheap domestic labour. She finds that children are filling the gaps, with evidence of trafficking and youngsters being set to work in households, where they are open...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Ruling Iran: A Profile of the Supreme Leader Updated: 2011-08-02 08:05:00 Description: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is Iran's Supreme Leader, a position he has held since 1989. Ayatollah Khamenei is the most powerful man in Iran, though one of the country's least scrutinised politicians. So who is this man? And how has he consolidated the Re...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment: The Afghan Governors Updated: 2011-07-28 04:00:00 Description: Ten years after foreign forces invaded Afghanistan, they've begun to hand full responsibility back to Afghans. Lyse Doucet, who's been covering Afghanistan for more than 20 years, travels around Afghanistan to meet the Afghans in charge....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Afghanistan: War Without End? Updated: 2011-07-26 13:05:00 Description: To mark ten years since the invasion of Afghanistan, key decision-makers reveal the inside story of how the West was drawn ever deeper into the Afghan war. John Ware charts the history of a decade of fighting and looks at when the conflict may end....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Dead News Network: 23 July 11 Updated: 2011-07-23 13:05:00 Description: A medium tells Colette Kinsella what it's like to have a life like the film, The Sixth Sense, how bored spirits play havoc with her love life, and why grocery shopping is a challenge....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment: Luis Posada Carriles Updated: 2011-07-21 04:00:00 Description: Cuba and Venezuela describe Luis Posada Carriles as the Bin Laden of the Americas. Rob Walker goes on the trail of the man who for 50 years has opposed Cuba’s Fidel Castro and who leaves in his wake intrigue, alleged terrorist plots and assassinat...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Atomic States - Part Two Updated: 2011-07-19 08:05:00 Description: BBC Environment Correspondent Richard Black explores the history and likely future of the nuclear energy industry. In part two, Richard compares how the world's nations are having very different approaches to the nuclear landscape in the wake of Fuku...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Womb For Rent: 16 July 11 Updated: 2011-07-16 13:05:00 Description: Is outsourcing pregnancy to India exploitative or mutually beneficial? Over the course of nine months, we follow two women, who in each other seek solutions to the problems of poverty and infertility....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment: On the road with Hillary Updated: 2011-07-14 04:34:00 Description: In this week's Assignment the BBC's State Department correspondent Kim Ghattas has gained rare "behind-the-scenes" access to one of Hillary Clinton's recent overseas trips. Join her on "special air mission 883" as it heads from the U.S. to the Middle...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Atomic States - Part One Updated: 2011-07-12 08:05:00 Description: BBC Environment Correspondent Richard Black explores the history and likely future of the nuclear energy industry. Did the first atomic nations develop the best and safest technologies possible, or have they left the world with a ticking bomb?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Big House: Part Two: 10 July 11 Updated: 2011-07-10 09:05:00 Description: Sharon Mascall follows 18 young Aboriginal men through a new rehabilitation programme at Port Augusta prison in South Australia....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - Korea's People Smugglers Updated: 2011-07-07 04:30:00 Description: Defecting from North Korea is a dangerous business. It comes at a high price and there's no guarantee of success. Many make the journey to South Korea with the help of brokers who smuggle people along the illegal overland route known as the "Under...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: America's Own Extremists - Part Two Updated: 2011-07-05 08:05:00 Description: BBC Washington Correspondent Jonny Dymond, investigates why America is facing a resurgent threat from violent right-wing groups....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Big House: Part One: 02 July 11 Updated: 2011-07-03 08:05:00 Description: Sharon Mascall follows 18 young Aboriginal men through a new rehabilitation programme at Port Augusta prison in South Australia....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The story of Rafiq Hariri Updated: 2011-06-30 04:00:00 Description: Who was Rafiq Hariri and who might have wanted to kill him. Owen Bennett Jones reports on the life of the man they once called Mr Lebanon....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: America's Own Extremists - Part One Updated: 2011-06-28 09:13:00 Description: BBC Washington Correspondent Jonny Dymond, examines why some native born American Muslims are becoming radicalised, and turning their sights on their own country....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Picturesque Street Updated: 2011-06-25 13:05:00 Description: This year Russia is marking the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the USSR. Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg took a walk down his favourite street to find out how Russians view the past and to hear their hopes for the future....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment: Alzheimer's in Colombia Updated: 2011-06-23 09:20:00 Description: An extended family in Colombia struck by hereditary and very early onset Alzheimer's is taking part in a new drugs trial that doctors hope will lead to a cure for sufferers worldwide. Bill Law reports....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Embracing The Dragon - Part Two Updated: 2011-06-21 08:05:00 Description: Will Taiwan's new rapprochement with China bring opportunity, or hand Beijing control over what it sees as a renegade province? Chris Hogg reports....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Dot.Com Camps: 18 June 11 Updated: 2011-06-18 13:05:00 Description: Ruth Evans reports on a unique dot.com venture providing jobs for the poor....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Antigua beyond Stanford Updated: 2011-06-16 04:29:00 Description: Emma Joseph reports for Assignment from Antigua on how people are rebuilding their lives two years on from the collapse of Allen Stanford's business empire....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Embracing The Dragon - Part One Updated: 2011-06-14 08:05:00 Description: Will Taiwan's new rapprochement with China bring opportunity, or hand Beijing control over what it sees as a renegade province? Chris Hogg reports....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Kill Factor: Part Two: 11 June 11 Updated: 2011-06-11 13:05:00 Description: Soldiers who have killed in war at close quarters talk about how it affects them today. They talk frankly about their feelings before, during and after. And they reflect on whether humans are "natural" killers or whether they have to be trained to go...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - Shaken Babies Updated: 2011-06-09 04:00:00 Description: Shaken baby syndrome - the sudden and violent shaking of an infant which often results in death - was once believed to be virtually a medical diagnosis of murder. But as Linda Pressley reports from the United States for Assignment, there's now growin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Bubble Trouble? - Part Three Updated: 2011-06-07 08:00:00 Description: Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China is blamed for the record price of copper; flood, fire and drought for boosting the cost of food; and political tension in the Middle East for the sharply-rising pric...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Kill Factor: Part One: 04 June 11 Updated: 2011-06-04 13:05:00 Description: Soldiers who have killed in war at close quarters talk about how it affects them today. They talk frankly about their feelings before, during and after. And they reflect on whether humans are "natural" killers or whether they have to be trained to go...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment Inside California's Porn Industry Updated: 2011-06-02 04:00:00 Description: California is the world's largest producer of commercial pornographic movies. But, as Ed Butler reports for Assignment, the billion dollar industry is in trouble. The programme begins on the film set of a porn movie in Los Angeles....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Fifa - Football, Power and Politics Updated: 2011-06-01 19:32:00 Description: David Goldblatt tells the turbulent story of Fifa, international football's governing body....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Bubble Trouble? - Part Two Updated: 2011-05-31 08:05:00 Description: Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China is blamed for the record price of copper; flood, fire and drought for boosting the cost of food; and political tension in the Middle East for the sharply-rising pric...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Ancestors Are Calling Updated: 2011-05-28 13:05:00 Description: The pressure on Lesego Mangwanyane - a South African journalist - to become a sangoma, or traditional healer. Does she have a choice?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - Stalin's Toxic Legacy Updated: 2011-05-26 04:05:00 Description: Twenty years on from the collapse of the Soviet Union the toxic legacy of its industries still lives on. For Assignment Angus Crawford travels to a remote valley in Georgia where research has shown that there are dangerous levels of arsenic in the s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Bubble Trouble? - Part One Updated: 2011-05-24 08:05:00 Description: Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China is blamed for the record price of copper; flood, fire and drought for boosting the cost of food; and political tension in the Middle East for the sharply-rising pric...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment Calling for Change in Yemen Updated: 2011-05-19 11:00:00 Description: For months Yemen has been the scene of widespread unrest and anti-government protests. President Ali Abdullah Saleh has warned that if he stands down the country risks falling into the hands of extremists groups like al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Wars of Diplomacy: Part Two: 17 May 11 Updated: 2011-05-17 08:05:00 Description: In the space of just over ten days in March 2011, the United Nations Security Council passed two of its most significant, emphatic and far-reaching resolutions in decades. Claire Bolderson looks at how the world body used a new-found strength to inte...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - The Pakistan Connection Updated: 2011-05-12 08:00:00 Description: The killing of Osama bin Laden has stirred deep suspicions about whether the Pakistani authorities knew the world's most wanted man was living quietly in Abbotabad. For Assignment, Owen Bennett-Jones explores allegations of a web of links between Pak...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Wars Of Diplomacy: Part One: 10 May 11 Updated: 2011-05-10 09:00:00 Description: In the space of just over ten days in March 2011, the United Nations Security Council passed two of its most significant, emphatic and far-reaching resolutions in decades. Claire Bolderson looks at how the world body used a new-found strength to int...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Building on Sand: Part Two: 7 May 11 Updated: 2011-05-07 13:00:00 Description: Jonathan Glancey looks at whether Dubai has a sustainable policy towards building in one of the harshest environments on earth. How does the city compare to neighbouring Doha?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - Mission Bin laden Updated: 2011-05-05 16:00:00 Description: On a moonless night on Sunday May 1st, four American military helicopters descended on a compound in the quiet town of Abbottabad in north-west Pakistan. Their mission to capture and if need be, kill, United States Enemy Number One - Osama Bin Lad...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Alive In Chernobyl: Part Two: 3 May 2011 Updated: 2011-05-03 08:05:00 Description: On the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant, presenter Olga Betko travels to Chernobyl - in her native Ukraine - to find the people who are living in what is known as the "dead zone"....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Building on Sand: Part One: 30 Apr 11 Updated: 2011-04-30 13:05:00 Description: Jonathan Glancey looks at whether Dubai has a sustainable policy towards building in one of the harshest environments on earth....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - A Matter of Life and Death Updated: 2011-04-28 05:00:00 Description: Jill McGivering reports from Pakistan where calls for debate about the country's controversial blasphemy laws have been almost silenced by death threats and violence. The laws stipulate the death penalty if blasphemy is proven but critics say the la...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Alive In Chernobyl: Part One: 26 April 2011 Updated: 2011-04-26 10:14:00 Description: On the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant, presenter Olga Betko travels to Chernobyl - in her native Ukraine - to find the people who are living in what is known as the "dead zone"....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: After the Crash - Part Two Updated: 2011-04-23 13:05:00 Description: On the anniversary of the Smolensk air crash, writer and historian Adam Zamoyski examines how Polish politics and society have been affected by the events of 10 April 2010, a day on which Poland lost its President and 95 others, which included many t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment: Trafficked from Uganda to Iraq Updated: 2011-04-21 06:00:00 Description: Anna Cavell tells the extraordinary story of a rescue of a group of Ugandan women who were trafficked into Iraq. They were told they would get decent jobs but instead found themselves working as slaves and subject to violence and even rape. They were...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Who Says I Can't Fish? Updated: 2011-04-19 08:00:00 Description: Restrictions on commercial fishing in Europe were put in place to aid sustainability, but are they still appropriate? Charlotte Smith reports on the British perspective from the northen English town of Scarborough....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: After the Crash - Part One Updated: 2011-04-16 13:05:00 Description: One year on from the Smolensk air crash, writer and historian Adam Zamoyski examines how Polish politics and society have been affected by loss of its President and other dignitaries....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - Louisiana Deep Water Updated: 2011-04-14 08:05:00 Description: A year ago, the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico creating a huge oil spill. In the aftermath, the BBC's Robyn Bresnahan spent a month in the American state of Louisiana with fishing families to see how they were affected. She foun...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Pomp and Matrimony: 12 Apr 2011 Updated: 2011-04-12 08:00:00 Description: From the news coverage of the 1923 wedding of the future King George VI to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, to the moment Lady Diana Spencer stepped out of the glass coach, we look back to the glamour and gossip, the spectacle and romance of British Royal weddi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Great Expectations: 08 Apr 2011 Updated: 2011-04-09 13:05:00 Description: In dense blocks of flats and social housing, just 10 minutes away from the Olympics Park, young people with nothing much else to do, are at risk of getting involved with gangs. The BBC's Nina Robinson explores the problem of crime for those affe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - Jos: A City Still Divided Updated: 2011-04-07 08:00:00 Description: Assignment reports on the shocking sectarian violence in the Nigerian city of Jos. But Rob Walker finds one neighbourhood where Christians and Muslims have come together to prevent the violence. This programme contains graphic descriptions of violenc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: For King or Country? Part Two - America Updated: 2011-04-05 08:00:00 Description: A committed republican and ardent monarchist examine the case for and against monarchy as a form of government. Part two looks at America - whose very creation involved rejecting kingship - and those who prefer a crown to a republican constitution....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Great Expectations: 02 Apr 2011 Updated: 2011-04-02 12:05:00 Description: Great Expectations follows the lives of people who live in the diverse ethnic mix of east London, on the doorstep of the 2012 Olympic Games. It looks at their view of the changes and money being spent around them from where they live - in a depriv...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - Speaking up in Saudi Arabia Updated: 2011-03-31 10:59:00 Description: In this week's Assignment Sue Lloyd Roberts reports from Saudi Arabia where custom and religion are keeping women covered up and largely hidden. But behind the scenes Sue finds women pushing for change....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: For King or Country? Part One - Sweden Updated: 2011-03-29 08:05:00 Description: A committed republican and ardent monarchist examine the case for and against monarchy as a form of government. Part one looks at Sweden - home to one of the world's oldest and yet most modernised courts. Why is it that opposition to keeping the king...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: How My Country Speaks - Part Two Updated: 2011-03-25 15:05:00 Description: "It just takes 26 letters to create the universe, the word is dismantled and then reassembled through the lens of a pen and verse." The South African poet Lebo Mashile contemplates the role of poetry in her country....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - Somaliland - Going it Alone Updated: 2011-03-23 15:50:00 Description: It’s twenty years since Somaliland declared itself independent but it still remains unrecognised as a nation state. For Assignment, Mary Harper reports from Hargeisa, the capital, where she finds many people happy to be going it alone....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan Updated: 2011-03-23 11:20:00 Description: In a society where the sexes are strictly segregated, it is common for boys to dance for men in Afghanistan at weddings and traditional gatherings. But the tradition exposes the boys to sexual abuse....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Family Matters - Part Two Updated: 2011-03-21 14:55:00 Description: Lucy Williamson reports on why Mexico, a developing Catholic nation, is the latest country to turn away from marriage....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: How My Country Speaks - Part One Updated: 2011-03-18 13:33:00 Description: "I was sentenced to 12 years for writing poetry." Russian poet and dissident, Irina Ratushinskaya contemplates the role of poetry in her country....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Albania's Munitions Mountain Updated: 2011-03-17 08:00:00 Description: Albania's paranoid Cold War dictator stockpiled vast amounts of ammunition to threaten potential invaders. Albania now wants to get rid of the old ammunition -- and quickly. It's even willing to give it away. For Assignment Neal Razzell meets those t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Animals on Trial 15 Mar 11 Updated: 2011-03-15 15:13:00 Description: Throughout history donkeys, pigs, dogs, rats, even insects have been put on trial and some convicted and sentenced. Frances Fyfield, looks at these extraordinary cases of animals in court....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Family Matters - Part One Updated: 2011-03-14 10:15:00 Description: Why is the nuclear family model so successful across the developing world? Lucy Williamson reports from Nepal - currently experiencing one of the fastest-ever shifts from extended families to nuclear ones. Who are the winners and losers in that proce...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Changing Worlds Of Formula One Updated: 2011-03-11 09:05:00 Description: From Italy to India, David Goldblatt examines the ever changing face of Formula One. Can Europe financially support the sport and does it matter that a country like India has been chosen to host the event?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - Oil City Takoradi Updated: 2011-03-10 08:00:00 Description: What happens when you take a run down African city and introduce a brand new oil industry worth billions of dollars? For Assignment Rob Walker reports from port city of Takoradi on the impact oil is having....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: What Can I Say? Singapore Updated: 2011-03-09 10:05:00 Description: The government behind the economic powerhouse that is Singapore guards its reputation for stability to the point of authoritarianism and censorship. What happens when journalists challenge the status quo?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Silent War: 7 Mar 2011 Updated: 2011-03-07 09:00:00 Description: Why has India's north-east insurgency lasted so long, and is there any hope of a peaceful resolution? The BBC's Rupa Jha investigates and asks if special powers granted to the military are prolonging the problems....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Changing Worlds Of Formula One Updated: 2011-03-04 10:58:00 Description: From Italy to India, David Goldblatt examines the ever changing face of Formula One. Can Europe financially support the sport and does it matter that a country like India has been chosen to host the event?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - Imam of Peace Updated: 2011-03-03 15:00:00 Description: John Mohammed Butt travelled to Kabul in the 1960s. Rather than finding drugs and hedonism, he discovered a tribal culture that transfixed him. Now a trained Imam and Muslim, he has dedicated his life to spreading peace in South Asia. But as reporter...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: What Can I Say? Thailand Updated: 2011-03-02 10:04:00 Description: In Thailand, what part have - illegal - community radio stations had to play in the demonstrations by activists - redshirt or yellowshirt - that occupy opposite ends of the political spectrum?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Revolutions in Iran: 28 Feb 2011 Updated: 2011-02-28 09:00:00 Description: How does the spread of ideas impact individual lives, shape millions of minds, fuel revolutions and alter world opinion? The BBC's Afshin Dehkordi is on a quest to find out in the context of both Iran's recent media revolution and the overthrow of th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: The Short History of Five Notes: 25 Feb 2011 Updated: 2011-02-25 09:05:00 Description: Dancehall singer Sean Paul, Hip hop star Missy Elliot and Malian singer Habib Koite all use a deceptively simple but hypnotic beat from the heart of Africa in some of their biggest hits. But what is it? Music journalist Rita Ray journeys to Ghana to ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment: Depicting Detroit Updated: 2011-02-23 23:59:00 Description: Nina Robinson goes to Detroit where police have killed a seven-year-old girl while conducting a raid filmed for a reality TV programme. She finds a city asking deep questions about the way the media cover crime....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: What Can I Say? - Part Two Updated: 2011-02-23 09:00:00 Description: In this four-part documentary, Gary Bryson travels across South East Asia to explore freedom of speech and democracy. In part two he goes to Cambodia. How is the country's fledging media dealing with a nation still scarred by widespread murder and vi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Ship of Spies: 21 feb 2011 Updated: 2011-02-21 11:00:00 Description: After allegations of torture and targeted killings, how can the CIA hope to repair its damaged reputation? The Spy Cruise has been set up for the public to sail around the Caribbean with ex-CIA chiefs and discuss global security - but who really gain...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Tahrir Square: 18 Feb 2011 Updated: 2011-02-18 11:00:00 Description: The BBC's Magdi Abdelhadi - himself Egyptian-born - relives the drama on the final days of Mubarak's 30 year rule and talks to Egyptians about their hopes for the future....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment: Europe's New Politics - Part Two Updated: 2011-02-17 09:00:00 Description: In part two of Europe's New Politics, the BBC's Chris Bowlby travels to Austria and Germany to investigate the rise of populist politics there....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: What Can I Say? - Part One Updated: 2011-02-16 11:00:00 Description: In this four-part documentary, Gary Bryson travels across South East Asia to explore freedom of speech and democracy. In part one he goes to Indonesia. How is independent media faring since the fall of Suharto's dictatorship?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD China: Shaking the World - Part Four Updated: 2011-02-14 09:05:00 Description: This series has shown how China is barrelling ahead with new infrastructure and new strategies to import the latest industrial technologies But China's leaders want Chinese ideas and innovation to drive their economy. This programme follows peo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Updated: 2011-02-11 09:00:00 Description: "Mosquito one, mosquito two, mosquito jump in a hot callaloo." What are the world's most popular number rhymes and how do they overlap between different cultures? Kim Normanton looks at the different approaches to counting around the world....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment: Europe's New Politics Updated: 2011-02-10 09:06:00 Description: Chris Bowlby investigates for Assignment how the far right is influencing mainstream European politics. He travels to Scandinavia where anti-immigration parties are increasingly powerful. The Danish People's Party has cleverly used its hold on the ba...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: One Block in Harlem - Part Two Updated: 2011-02-09 09:47:00 Description: Michael Goldfarb traces the iconic neighbourhood's story by telling the history of a single street in Harlem from 1910 to the present day....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD China: Shaking the World - Part Three Updated: 2011-02-07 09:05:00 Description: Michael Robinson examines the social tensions within China that threaten the growth upon which much of the rest of the world now relies. This programme examines China's leaders attempts to manage growing conflicts and calls for political change -...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Profile: Mohamed ElBaradei Updated: 2011-02-04 09:05:00 Description: Mukul Devichand tells the story of Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Laureate and former Chief Weapons Inspector who some want to see as the next president of Egypt. Could he now unite a fragmented opposition and ride the wave of protest to the very top?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - Palliative Care in India Updated: 2011-02-03 09:09:00 Description: As part of the BBC's Extreme World coverage Linda Pressly reports from India on palliative care - medical provision for those nearing the end of life....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: One Block in Harlem - Part One Updated: 2011-02-02 09:05:00 Description: Michael Goldfarb traces the iconic neighbourhood's story by telling the history of a single street in Harlem from 1910 to the present day....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD China: Shaking the World - Part Two Updated: 2011-01-31 11:04:00 Description: As China's role has become the world's banker, Michael Robinson looks at the potentially world-shaking clash of cultures between non-democratic, state-planned China and the American-centred world of democracy and free market ideology....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Japan: A Friend In Need Updated: 2011-01-28 11:53:00 Description: Would you still walk down the aisle if you found out that you're prospective in-laws, the best man and congregation were fake? Roland Buerk investigates Japan's growing 'rent a friend' service and why social standing is driving excluded people to ext...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - India's Microcredit Meltdown Updated: 2011-01-27 09:06:00 Description: Why is there a crisis in India's microcredit industry? For Assignment Madeleine Morris travels to the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to investigate....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Open Eye: Part Two Updated: 2011-01-26 09:22:00 Description: Why are racial tensions increasing in one of the most progressive countries in Europe? Joseph Rodriguez goes to a region of Sweden that is symbolic of the divide between the Muslim population and indigenous Swedes....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD China: Shaking the World - Part One Updated: 2011-01-24 09:05:00 Description: This documentary series examines the political, economic and cultural mechanisms of China's growing global influence. Michael Robinson, who documented China's awakening for the BBC almost 20 years ago, returns to assess the prospects and problems of ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Lost Voices of Afghanistan Updated: 2011-01-21 09:00:00 Description: "My mind is unhinged and I'm sick of the smell of blood / it's hard to stay human in such a morass / to avoid prejudice and bigotry/ to keep your hands clean." Through words and verse, Afghan civilians reflect on decades of war. Listen to their poetr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment: Baghdad International Airport Updated: 2011-01-20 11:45:00 Description: A snapshot of Iraq as seen through the prism of its main airport. For Assignment, Gabriel Gatehouse talks to the travellers and workers who pass through Baghdad international airport each day....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Open Eye: Part One Updated: 2011-01-19 09:05:00 Description: What sort of relationships do photojournalists form with the people that are the subject of their pictures? Photographer Dalia Khamissy has been documenting the story of the thousands of people who disappeared during Lebanon's civil war....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Inside the IMF - Part Two Updated: 2011-01-17 10:14:00 Description: In the past two years the International Monetary Fund has come out of the shadows to play a key role in efforts deal with global financial crisis. Governments say they want it to fix the global economy as well. But what do those working inside the IM...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Wikipedia at 10 Updated: 2011-01-14 13:23:00 Description: As it enters its tenth year, we look at the history and evolution of Wikipedia, which by allowing people from opposite sides of the world to contribute, has grown into one of the most popular websites on the internet. What does the future hold for...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment - Cyber Bullied Updated: 2011-01-13 09:06:00 Description: For Assignment, Nina Robinson reports on how teenagers are navigating their online lives in a virtual world, where they face the very real risk of being cyber bullied....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Blind Man Roams the Globe - Part Two Updated: 2011-01-12 10:05:00 Description: Peter White is blind, but travels all over the world for his job. By listening to the sounds of his surroundings, he gets to know a place. What does he discover about the city of Istanbul?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Inside the IMF - Part One Updated: 2011-01-10 10:56:00 Description: In the past two years the International Monetary Fund has come out of the shadows to play a key role in efforts deal with global financial crisis. Governments say they want it to fix the global economy as well. But what do those working inside the IM...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Terra Madre Updated: 2011-01-06 23:06:00 Description: The world’s disappearing food tribes and how their traditional food production may offer the world a sustainable model....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Assignment: The Rise and Fall of Wikileaks Updated: 2011-01-06 11:04:00 Description: The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, is currently in England fighting extradition to Sweden. Despite this he remains defiant that his whistle blowing website will continue to publish sensitive material. Simon Cox investigates the rise of Wikil...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Blind Man Roams the Globe Updated: 2011-01-05 10:55:00 Description: Peter White is blind, but travels all over the world for his job. Though listening to the sounds of a city, he gets to know a place. What does he discover about San Franciso?...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DocArchive: Brazil: Lula's Legacy - part two Updated: 2011-01-03 09:00:00 Description: In this two-part series, the BBC’s Paulo Cabral looks at Brazil’s investment fever and asks if the massive state-led development programmes during Lula’s reign have put the country in the global economic super league....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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