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The BBC World Service's wide range of documentaries from 2009.
A midget street thug on a kiddy bike. Incompetent thieves who resort to stealing air-conditioning units. A woman too drunk to notice a polic...
Twenty years ago, on November 9th, the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. The greatest symbol of the Cold War, which many never dreamt they wou...
The Canadian city of Vancouver is routinely named as one of the best communities in the world in which to live. But the city, which is to ho...
Back in the year 2000, the world's leaders did not seem to be troubled by the notion of global warming, so what has changed? Edward Stourton...
What have been the defining moments of the decade? Edward Stourton explores Google's mighty impact on the internet and finds a world of comp...
Nick Baker is on a mission to connect people, stories and places via internet cafe. Via Kenya and France he finds a remarkable story in Beni...
It's estimated that up to one million people were killed during communism in Eastern Europe, but there's no clear figure for those imprisone...
Until recently, little Latvia appeared to have a rosy future. It was the fastest growing economy in Europe. But now that boom looks like a m...
Nick Baker is on a mission to connect people, stories and places via the internet. His journey takes him to New York, China and London.
Quentin Peel, International Affairs editor of the Financial Times, looks at the communist regimes and movements orphaned by the collapse of...
To what extent did communist regimes intrude into the lives of ordinary people? And how are they dealing with those transgressions now the f...
Six years ago, the second Palestinian Intifada – or uprising – was raging in the West Bank town of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied territorie...
The second part of Jonathon Porritt's report from China, where, amidst the toxic power stations and burgeoning numbers of cars, he finds som...
Quentin Peel, International Affairs editor of the Financial Times, presents the first of a two-part series looking at the communist regimes...
Did I turn out to be the son you wanted? What was the saddest moment of your life? Questions like these have arisen out of StoryCorps - an A...
Twenty-five years ago, a gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal killed 8000 people. Allan Little returns to the scene of the...
Jonathon Porritt reports from China, where, amidst the toxic power stations and burgeoning numbers of cars, he finds some extraordinary and...
In the final part of this series, Owen Bennett-Jones examines the Islamic leader who confronted the might of the British Empire. The Mahdi w...
How would you like to leave a record of your life for your great-great-great-grandchildren? That's the future for participants of StoryCorps...
Twenty seven years after Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falklands, or the Malvinas islands, Argentine army officers are facing p...
In Assignment Peter Greste investigates whether Rwandans in France and Germany are controlling a deadly African militia in the Democratic Re...
The BBC World Service has been investigating the controversial issue of whether poor countries have ever seen all of the money promised by i...
In the third instalment of The Crescent and the Cross, Owen Bennett Jones examines one of the most important Muslim empires in history - the...
The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the story of 20 years of post-communist life. Through personal stories, he traces the diff...
In Nepal, severe drought and unreliable monsoon rains have led to acute food shortages. The impact is felt most by people like Charuri who i...
Owen Bennett Jones explores five crucial battles in the relationship between Christianity and Islam. This episode looks at the Crusades.
Seventy years after the start of the Second World War the overwhelming impression is of a conflict fought on the battlefields of Europe by w...
As governments struggle to curb the so-called “casino-banking” practices which some blame for the global financial meltdown, Michael Robinso...
Thrown off nearby farms at the time of Namibia’s independence, the squatters of Otjivero lived a hand-to-mouth existence. Last year a scheme...
The Crescent and the Cross, a four-part series, presented by Owen Bennett-Jones, examines several turning points in the relationship between...
To mark the 50th birthday of Youssou N'Dour, Robin Denselow travels to Senegal to profile the best known African musician of recent times.
Mark Doyle reports from Guinea in West Africa on the harrowing events of 28 September when government troops crushed an opposition rally in...
What keeps a billion people trapped in the most persistent poverty? Mike Wooldridge travels to Nicaragua to meet Justa who hoped for a bette...
The extraordinary but little-known tale of Russia's three all-female regiments that flew more than 30,000 missions on the Eastern Front. At...
Public Places, Private Lives is a series of portraits of well known places that reveal the lives and stories of those people who come to a f...
Jill McGivering travels to Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, to meet a doctor who is battling against the odds to prevent women from dying i...
Nigeria is campaigning for a new image and a new reputation in an effort to attract some much needed investment. Reporter Henry Bonsu follow...
The head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service Sir John Scarlett, talks for the first time about the interrogation of terrorist suspects...
Public Places, Private Lives is a series of portraits of well known places that reveal the lives and stories of those people who come to a f...
When a 17 month-old London child died after horrific abuse by his family, it unleashed a barrage of criticism against British social service...
Can the home of 419 internet scams, corruption and voodoo ever transmit a positive image? Is changing Nigeria's image an impossible mission?
In Programme Two, we find out what were spies really up to behind the Iron Curtain. MI6 chief John Scarlett describes his clandestine meetin...
Every two years teams from all over the world compete with one another in the Chess Olympiad. In the last two Olympiads, the winning medal h...
The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the story of 20 years of post-communist life. Through personal stories, he traces the diff...
An unprecedented look inside MI6 - Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, which marks its centenary this year. Programme One - Gadgets & Gre...
Imagine that conflict and violence force you to flee your country, leaving behind all that you know and love. In the chaos and panic, you ha...
A life sentence for stealing a pair of socks. In California the tough 'three strikes' law is sending people to prison for life even if their...
Yiddish was the language of the Jewish Diaspora, the language of a people on the move across Europe. It has suffered a dramatic decline over...
The third part of the BBC's definitive series on the banking crash tells the extraordinary story of how politicians reacted, and asks what h...
Imagine that conflict and violence force you to flee your country, leaving behind all that you know and love. In the chaos and panic, you ha...