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BBC World Service's wide range of documentaries from 2010.
In the final part of this series, Sir John Scarlett, the former head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service talks about the interrogation...
The Philippines is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report from. More than thirty journalists were killed there in a single...
How have advertisers and brand specialists convinced us to buy a commodity that is sold for a great deal more than it costs to produce? Loui...
In this two-part series, the BBC’s Paulo Cabral travels to the two places that marked Lula’s life – the poor region in the northeast where t...
The second part in this series describes what went on behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. Former MI6 Chief John Scarlett describes...
For Assignment Rob Walker travels to the city of Tijuana on Mexico's border with the United States on the trail of one of Mexico's most cont...
How have advertisers and brand specialists convinced us to buy a commodity that is sold for a great deal more than it costs to produce? Loui...
Many Turks have lost faith in their judges, who are seen as out of touch and too close to Ataturk's secular and military state. What will de...
Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, marks its centenary this year and BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera talks to senior intelligen...
How have advertisers and brand specialists convinced us to buy a commodity that is sold for a great deal more than it costs to produce? Loui...
Why are judges so important in today's world and how do the courts earn and use their power? In part one Laura Lynch hears from judges opera...
Does Somalia deserve its bad reputation for corruption? In the second of a two-part series, Pascale Harter asks if, after nearly two decades...
Does Sweden live up to its squeaky clean image? In the first of a two-part series looking at perceptions of state corruption, Pascale Harter...
"We like our crooks, our fast Eddies, and we find them entertaining." Steve Edwards takes to the mean streets of his hometown Chicago - aski...
In this exclusive two-part documentary, Mike Costello travels to the Philippines to meet boxing legend, record-breaking eight times world ch...
For Assignment Angus Stickler tracks how money has gone astray across the 27 member states of the European Union and asks why funding contin...
You're standing on a footbridge next to a very big man. The only way you can stop an out-of-control train is to push him over the footbridge...
In this exclusive two-part documentary, Mike Costello travels to the Philippines to meet boxing legend, record-breaking eight times world ch...
More than six million people in Pakistan now face the start of winter without adequate shelter because their homes were destroyed in the dev...
"Lucky them, they didn't have to fight the battles we fought." Michael Goldfarb traces the history of protest through the footsteps of those...
"There are no words to describe when you lose your child, especially one who was full of life a talented girl that liked dancing." Sheena Mc...
Pioneering French marine explorer Jacques Cousteau brought marine life to cinema and television screens for the first time. Bridget Nicholls...
Almost every day in the Russian republic of Dagestan there are reports of Islamist insurgents assassinating police officers and local offici...
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by...
"It's a woman with a tiny baby and luggage on the back of a motorbike with no helmet." Sheena McDonald travels to Kenya to find out what the...
Completed by the poet Ferdowsi in 1010 AD, the Shahnameh is widely regarded as a masterpiece of world literature. It is of central importanc...
For Assignment Thomas Fessy investigates allegations that a senior Congolese general profited from the illegal takeover of a gold mine.
Ali Abbas became an icon of the Iraq War when images of him with his arms amputated were beamed around the world. Seven years after an Ameri...
"With the city being built here on our doorstep, I can look after the children and earn some money." Carrie Gracie returns to China to see h...
“If you say bye bye to that fountain of life you may as well say bye bye to my heritage.” How will a proposed copper mine affect Alaska’s ma...
The people of Burma go to the polls on November 7th for the first time in 20 years. In 1990, an overwhelming majority voted for pro-democrac...
Seven years after an American rocket attack destroyed his home, killed 16 members of his family, and left him without arms, Ali Abbas return...
"We took the decision to build a new city ten years ago. We had four objectives: civilised, hygienic and scenic - with a focus on eco-touris...
Nick Rankin reports from Alaska during the greatest wild salmon run in the world and joins commercial and subsistence fishermen who live off...
As Ireland faces up to one of Europe's most punishing financial crises, Ed Butler looks at the growing anger amongst its citizens.
Travel writer Polly Evans goes to Guantanamo, Cuba, and talks to local people about the town where they live. How do they feel about it beco...
The BBC's Central Asia correspondent, Rayhan Demytrie, explores the relationship between drugs and politics in Kyrgyzstan.
Organisers of the 2012 Olympic Games argue that its legacy will be felt for generations to come. With the prospects for jobs, will regenerat...
It is two years to go until the London 2012 Olympic Games and the residents of a council estate nearby have been watching the venues take sh...
"I find it difficult to recognize famous people because they have very symmetrical faces. I only know Madonna by her eyeliner." How do our b...
In the midst of a financial crisis, Maywood, a small city near Los Angeles, took the radical step of firing all city employees. Policing in...
It’s halfway through the European ‘Decade of Roma inclusion’ but millions of euros in EU funding have failed to make a dent in Roma exclusio...
Can oral history challenge or alter the official past of a nation? History is often said to be written by the victors, but oral history has...
"I have to choose between the fruit salad and the cream cake. Rationally, I know what I should do. I should choose the fruit salad. But will...
As a 23-year-old, young British colonial officer John Smith was put in charge of the vast area of Kano in Nigeria. In his position, he repre...
There's a tough marriage market in the US for single, college educated, black women. For Assignment Nina Robinson travels to New York to fin...
Can oral history challenge or alter the official past of a nation? History is often said to be written by the victors, but oral history has...
“When I wake up in the morning I think I’ve still got two normal arms and I have to look to see which one is not there.” How do our brains w...
Writer Cathy FitzGerald explores the past, present, and very real future of the magic carpet and wonders what our desire to defy gravity tel...
With anti-Islamic sentiment on the rise in America, Claire Bolderson reports for Assignment on what it is like to be a young American muslim...