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The BBC World Service's wide range of documentaries from 2011.
John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, from 1941 to leaving Bush House in 2012.
China's economy depends on a system regulating workers from around China and beyond. In Guangzhou, the migrant metropolis, Mukul Devichand h...
John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, from 1941 to leaving Bush House in 2012.
Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in India. Who really benefits from the wo...
The Children's Choir of the USSR sang to their leaders, they sang to their people, and through their songs projected a bright, happy dream o...
France has long been a country with a reputation for some of the best food in the world. But in recent years, many critics have argued that...
The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the Middle East and hears from those who witnessed events at f...
The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the Middle East and hears from those who witnessed events at f...
Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in Haiti, Malawi and India.
The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the Middle East and hears from those who witnessed events at f...
Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan.
A hard hitting Assignment from Mark Doyle who reports on the massive cholera outbreak in Haiti and the controversy that surrounds it.
Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan.
In Assignment Ed Butler investigates reports that some orphanages in Bali are being run as commercial rackets and that children there are be...
Richard Coles confronts accusations that the West is attempting to force gay rights on Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Knitting in Tripoli tells an intimate story of life during the Libyan war through the eyes of people who battled their own fears to step out...
Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with the system rather than a mere failure of policy? This two-part series investigat...
A dark secret lies beneath the earth in Indian Kashmir. Bodies - thousands of them. Who are they and how did they die? Jill McGivering repor...
Richard Coles confronts accusations that the West is attempting to force gay rights on Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Around one million people around the world are infected with a sexually transmitted disease every single day. Yet even those with easy acces...
Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with the system rather than a mere failure of policy? This two-part series investigat...
A Dagestani billionaire, Suleiman Kerimov is bankrolling a football club and building new sports facilities across the country in the hope o...
Martin Wolf, Chief Economic Commentator of The Financial Times, examines how the world has changed since the beginning of the financial cris...
The BBC's Priyath Liyanage searches for a boy who was carrying a violin case when he was used as a human shield by the Tamil Tigers in Sri L...
Mark Gregory examines the legacy of Steve Jobs. How will he be compared to the great American entrepreneurs of the past, such as Rockefeller...
Rupa Jha reports for Assignment on India's whistleblowers - the people who find themselves on the frontline of the country's anti-corruption...
Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths through to today's online gaming and the recording of o...
Diplomacy is often presented as an artform, the peak of civilisation in a barren political world. But what happens when it is conducted with...
Tim Franks reports from Israel for Assignment on how the country now sees itself as political upheaval in neighbouring countries continues t...
Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths through to today's online gaming and the recording of o...
Katya meets the heartbroken families in Spain searching for their children and the trafficked babies, now grown up, searching for their biol...
Diplomacy is often presented as an artform, the peak of civilisation in a barren political world. But what happens when it is conducted with...
As Libyans absorb the impact of the death of Gaddafi, Owen Bennett-Jones presents a special programme exploring what happens after dictators...
Meet Yusuf Mahmoud, who swapped Cheltenham for Zanzibar because of his love of African music.
For Assignment, Bill Law paints a portrait of one day in the Syrian revolution, talking via the internet and phone to people across the coun...
Why does Britain's narrow and elite establishment keep stumbling from crisis to crisis?
Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music. In part two, Jesse Lee Jones explains how his love of country music t...
Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music. In part one Pedro Carrillo from Venezuela fell in love with Italian o...
Robyn Bresnahan reports on how politics is dividing families in Ivory Coast.
Michael Goldfarb looks at why Britain's narrow and elite establishment keeps stumbling from crisis to crisis.
Alan Dein explores the impact of last summer's riots on a London man and his friends in the immediate aftermath of the rioting.
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...
The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals.
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 c...
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...
The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals.
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,...
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 t...
The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals.
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 a...