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The BBC World Services wide range of documentaries from 2013.
Graphene is a super-strong and super-conductive material. Gerry Northam looks at its move from the laboratory to the commercial world.
The US Federal Reserve, America's central bank, is one hundred years old. Simon Jack tells its surprising story.
Brazil's anti-slavery hit-squads are unique. Linda Pressly joins a raid with a committed band of labour inspectors on an alleged slave labou...
Childcare options in Fiji, where children are taken care of by the community, and China where infants as young as three might live away from...
The emerging Jihadi challenge across the Sahara and Sahel regions of Africa. Are there links between various Islamist groups?
Farhana Haider investigates the prosecution of alleged war criminals from the conflict of 1971 and asks if the trials are being used to targ...
The story of Kampala Music School told by its pupils and teachers. Kampala Music School began life in 2001 in the basement of the YMCA but i...
When a group of young Texan women found naked pictures of themselves online, they wanted justice, but their critics accused them of tramplin...
Forty years after the premiere of Jamaican cult film The Harder They Come, Chris Salewicz asks whether a whole generation of musicians were...
Mandela's 1962 pan-African journey to explain the mission of the ANC and seek political support, money and military training. What impact di...
Nelson Mandela on the struggle against apartheid, with words from those who fought with - and against - him. One of the most comprehensive o...
A look back at the life of Nelson Mandela by the BBC's former South Africa correspondent, Allan Little.
One year on from the horrific attack on a student in Delhi, Joanna Jolly hears from three women who've chosen to report a rape in a country...
The cult classic Jamaican crime film The Harder They Come, its reggae soundtrack - and its legacy. Meet the people who made it and starred i...
Pope Francis is being acclaimed for his leadership of the Roman Catholic Church - but why did his predecessor suddenly resign? Mark Dowd tra...
Be it in Lagos, Minneapolis or Rio de Janeiro, how have shopping malls become such a permanent fixture in modern cities?
Vladimir Hernandez meets the Mexican Catholic priests who believe the country's drug wars mean it's in the grip of the devil - and who are f...
How decisions noted by Ebenezer Morley in 1863 allowed football to become the most successful of international sports.
Tiny Moldova is the world's 7th biggest wine exporter so a ban on exports to Russia has hit hard. Tessa Dunlops asks if Russian politics wil...
Are military metaphors such as 'battling' always appropriate when it comes to dealing with cancer? Andrew Graystone explores the language us...
People with a perspective on the assassination and death of John F Kennedy in Dallas: former secret service agent Clint Hill, witness Gayle...
With rare access to the government's rehabilitation programme Tom Esslemont meets children as they attempt to find their way to back to thei...
Jamaica's gay rights and anti-homosexuality movements: what it is like to be a gay person in Jamaica from day-to-day.
Can Indonesia create the world's largest public health system? Claire Bolderson investigates.
Madeleine Morris explores alternative childcare with a visit a boarding school where children as young as two are educated away from their p...
Melilla is one of Europe’s most southerly land borders with Africa, a town under intense pressure from migration, Linda Pressly investigates...
Childcare - its costs and its developmental implications - has become one of the most vexed issues for new parents in the developed world. M...
The inside story of the world’s most successful gang of jewel thieves, nicknamed The Pink Panthers.
Neal Razzell spends days and nights in Lagos with the electricity teams who are working to literally bring power to the people.
Emma Barnett examines which countries in the world do allow women to serve, and contrasts the experiences of three women to present a pictur...
The toils and tribulations of Polly Apio a smallholder in rural Uganda, where men own the land, but women toil in the fields to provide the...
James Fletcher travels to Alice Springs in Australia to hear first-hand how alcohol is affecting the Aboriginal community there.
As the global population ages, is it time for a re-think about how we view elderly people? Listen to four very different stories of growing...
"Anything that can happen on earth, at some point happens in the sky." Air hostess Betty Thesky shares the weird, wonderful, and wacky thing...
Cancer-fighting BBC foreign correspondent Helen Fawkes shares her list of things she wants to do before she dies... a bucket list, or as she...
The dramatic, disturbing and inspiring story of Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head for campaigning for the right of all girls to an...
More than a thousand garment workers died and several thousand were injured in the collapse of the 8 storey factory in Dhaka. Jane Deith rep...
The BBC's North America Editor, Mark Mardell, travels to China to explore the most important geopolitical relationship in the world today, b...
Lucy Ash looks at the conflicts within Iraq between 2005 and 2012, told from the point of view of senior decision-makers.
Man is a social creature, so how does he cope in situations of isolation - bereft of human contact - or in situations where he or she is con...
The BBC’s Anne Soy reflects on what these last few days will mean for the future of her city, Nairobi.
Ed Butler follows consumer’s quest for goods, the phenomenon of widespread smuggling, and asks whether the government has a plan to tackle t...
Lucy Ash looks at the mistakes made early in the occupation of Iraq during the period 2003 to 2004 in this documentary about the invasion of...
The Red Cross turns 150 this year, but is their humanitarian role still relevant? Michael Ignatieff investigates.
Linda Pressly investigates the threat from mercury poisoning to the health of Indonesian gold miners.
The inside story of the invasion of Iraq and the ensuring decade of conflict, told from the point of view of the senior decision-makers invo...
As Burma (also known as Myanmar), opens up, one new freedom comes in the form of thangyat - the satirical art form, newly legalised after tw...
Lucy Ash reports on China’s gender imbalance which by 2020 will leave 24 million bachelors looking for love.
Turkish businessmen have been rapidly rebuilding their links with the Balkan states – and some see this as a first step towards rebuilding o...
The history of tension between the US President and Congress over taking military action. President Obama seems to be setting a precedent by...