BBC纪实性广播档案 BBC Documentary Archive 2009.5.21更新6个节目及4月合集[MP3!]

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今日更新如标题....5月6个文件和4月合集, 不好意思! 这个月都要忙毕业的各种各样的事情, 更新也慢下来了...而且最近不知道是驴子的问题还是学校网络的问题...完全没有上传速度... 所以....更要委屈大家了....5555555555..传不上去真的很想哭啊....恳请大家不要再催我上传了..我从早到晚都开电脑供源的...这个样子我真的没办法了... Documentaries Throughout the week BBC World Service offers a wide range of documentaries and other factual programmes. This podcast offers you the chance to access landmark series from our archive. 这次发布的是另外一套Podcast, 是BBC的纪实性广播节目, 基本上也是每周都有~ 不过这个节目每期都很短,大概20分钟左右, 很适合用来练听力哦!! 而且其内容也不错, 记者们都跑到世界各地去挖掘新闻. 并且报道也很客观. 不多说了~ 大家试试就知道~~ 以下是简单的内容介绍: Global Perspective Part 4 2007.4.20 BBC World Service and seven of its partner stations around the world bring a global perspective on the theme of belief.This week Amsterdam. The Falklands War and the White House 2007.4.25 Peter Snow investigates the battle that raged within the US government over the Falklands War, revealing previously unheard archive interviews. Death to America - Part 1 2007.4.30 Michael Goldfarb takes a thoughtful look at the rise of global anti Americanism. In part one, he visits Venezuela. World Stories: Surviving the Century 2007.6.8 Haimo Li travels to China to find out how many traditional values the Mosuo have held onto, despite the invasion of tourism and popular culture. Winning the Peace 2007.6.11 Paddy Ashdown argues that Winning the Peace is much harder than winning a war. In part one he looks at Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War The Treasury War - Part 1 2007.6.12 Mark Gregory investigates how the US government has been economically squeezing its enemies. In part one we examine North Korea Treasury War Part 2 2007.6.14 Mark Gregory looks at how the USA is trying to squeeze the Iranian economy. The programme features an exclusive interview with Nick Burns, the US Under-Secretary in charge of Iran policy at the State Department. DocArchive: Assignment - Blackwater 27 Dec 2007 2007.12.27 There are now as many private security contractors in Iraq as there are US soldiers. To whom are they accountable when things go wrong? Steve Evans reports on the most controversial contractor, Blackwater, which has been criticised by the Iraqi government, American politicians and its own employees. DocArchive: Debt Threat 2007.12.31 The first programme will show how rapidly the shock wave of the credit crunch is spreading and why it is now moving far beyond the sub-prime homeowners where it began. DocArchive: Press For Freedom Part 4 2008.1.2 In the final part of the series Roy Greenslade profiles the head of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch. DocArchive: Assignment - Taxi to the Dark Side 3 Jan 2008 2008.1.4 American film-maker Alex Gibney tells the story of an Afghan taxi driver, tortured to death by American soldiers and military police in Bagram airbase. Were they rogue soldiers, or was the torture authorised at the highest levels of government? DocArchive: Only One Bakira 2008.1.4 Bakira Hasecic is unrelenting in her pursuit of the war criminals of the Bosnian war. How does she and the members of the Association of Women Victims of War find the strength to talk about the rapes and other horrors they endured? DocArchive: Debt Threat Part 2 2008.1.7 The dangers of the present crisis turning into a full scale recession, and at the seemingly desperate attempts of bankers, regulators and politicians to prevent that happening. DocArchive: A Dollar A Day - Part 1 2008.1.9 In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to live on one dollar a day. The first programme focuses on Kenya. DocArchive: Assignment - S Korea computer addiction 10 Jan 2008 2008.1.10 Computer gaming has become a national obsession in South Korea but there is a dark side. Gaming, like gambling, can become an addiction that has even led to death. Julian Pettifer reports. DocArchive: Friday Documentary - Looted Art: Part One 2008.1.10 At the end of World War Two, as Nazi Germany lay in ruins, millions of works of art were secrety shipped back to Russia by the Soviet Army. Charles Wheeler now investigates their fate and the political row that still surrounds them in Looted Art. DocArchive: Desperate Dreams Part 1 2008.1.11 Every year, thousands of young men and women from sub-Saharan Africa set off across the desert dreaming of a better life in Europe. Part one: George from Cameroon starts his journey. Doc: A Dollar A Day - Part 2 2008.1.16 In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to live on one dollar a day. The second programme focuses on Peru. Doc: Assignment - On the trail of spammers 17 Jan 2007 2008.1.17 Simon Cox tries to track down the criminals who plague us with spam emails offering everything from get rich schemes to products to improve our sex lives. Doc: Looted Art: Part II 2008.1.17 Charles Wheeler is on the trail of art seized by the Soviets at the end of World War II Doc: Desperate Dreams - Part 2 2008.1.18 The second in a three part series. Every year, thousands of young people from sub-Saharan Africa set off across the desert dreaming of a better life in Europe. Part two: The Journey. Doc: A Dollar A Day - Part 3 2008.1.23 In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to live on one dollar a day. The third programme focuses on elder people in India. Assignment - African Footballers 24 Jan 2008 2008.1.24 Millions of young African boys dream of following such football stars as Didier Drogba and Emmanuel Eboue to Europe to make their fortune. Only a handful succeed whilst many more fall into the hands of unscrupulous clubs and agents who exploit them. Henry Bonsu investigates the growth in what has been described as football slavery. Doc: Desperate Dreams Part 3 2008.1.24 The final part of a three part series. Every year, thousands of young people from sub-Saharan Africa set off across the desert dreaming of a better life in Europe. Part two: Returning home. Doc: Fading Traditions - Part 1 2008.1.25 The number of Moroccan story-tellers, known as halakis, is dwindling. Why is their art dying out? Doc: A Dollar A Day - Part 4 2008.1.30 In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to live on one dollar a day. The third programme focuses on education in Ghana. Doc: Assignment - Kenya violence 30 Jan 2008 2008.1.31 This week's Assignment reports on the post election violence in Kenya which has claimed the lives of up to 900 people. The opposition claim that the poll was rigged and the violence, which began in Western Kenya, has spread to other parts of the country. Pascale Harter travelled to the town of Eldoret in western Kenya to trace the roots of the tribal violence that has pitted neighbour against neighbour. Doc: Fading Traditions - Part 2 2008.1.31 Georgia, considered to be the birthplace of wine, risks losing its wine industry. How are the producers coping? Doc: Securing Pakistan's Bomb 2008.2.4 What would happen if the government of Pakistan, one of the world's nuclear powers, were to collapse? Would extreme Islamist militants be able to get their hands on the country's nuclear weapons? Doc: Pain: Episode One 2008.2.6. In this two part series, former BBC Iraq correspondent, Andrew North takes a personal journey through his own experience of pain and that of others. Doc: Assignment - Kurdistan Corruption 05 Feb 2008 2008.2.7. With its functioning parliament, a booming oil economy and a small but well-trained army, the Kurdish area of Iraq appears to offer a model for other areas of the country. But Kate Clark discovers growing corruption and dissatisfaction with the region's government. Doc: Fading Traditions - part 3 2008.2.7. Temple prostitutes: The ancient Hindu tradition of dedicating young girls to the temple has come up against the modern horrors of AIDS. Doc: Bangladesh Floods: Three Months On 2008.2.11 It's been three months since cyclone Sidr struck Bangladesh. BBC reporter, Siobhann Tighe returns to speak to some of the survivors. She also talks to government advisers about the vulnerability of Bangladesh and what can be done to be better prepared. Doc: Pain: Episode Two 2008.2.13 In this second programme on Pain, Andrew North explores the strategies we use to survive pain, through expressing and suppressing it. Doc: Uncovering Pakistan - Part 1 2008.2.14 Why have so many of the hopes and aspirations of Pakistan's founders remained unfulfilled? Doc: Uncovering Pakistan - Part 2 2008.2.14 Owen Bennett-Jones examines the rise of Islamist militancy in Pakistan and the risk of the country being split apart. Doc: The Kremlin and the World - Part 1 2008.2.18 Nearly twenty years after the Cold War, there’s a new chill in relations between Russia and the West. Tim Whewell finds out what has happened to Russia's historic partnership with the Western Europe and the US. Doc: The Kremlin and the World - Part 2 2008.2.20 Pipeline Power: Could Russia's vast energy sources possibly be the missiles of the future? Tim Whewell investigates why Russia's state energy company, Gazprom fell out with Ukraine. Doc: The Danish Nazi 2008.2.21 Soeren Kam is a former Danish SS Officer and one of the most wanted Nazi war criminals still alive. Now 86 and living in Bavaria, Kam admitted taking part in the abduction and killing of an anti-Nazi newspaper editor in Copenhagen in 1943. For Assignment Steve Rosenburg goes in search of Soeren Kam and talks to the people who know his story. Doc: Friday Documentary: After the KGB - Part One 2008.2.22 Martin Sixsmith looks at Russia's fast growing and politically influential secret service. Doc: The Kremlin and the World - Part 3 2008.2.25 Tim Whewell investigates why a 'new' Cold War could be underway and if Russia and the US is embarking once again on a race for arms. Doc: The Kremlin and the World - Part 4 2008.2.27 Martin Sixsmith looks at Russia's fast growing and politically influential secret service. Doc: Assignment - Unknown Neighbours 2008.2.28 Martin Sixsmith gets under the skin of the fastest growing and arguably most politically influential secret service in the world the "new KGB". Doc: After the KGB: Part Two 2008.2.29 Programme One: BBC correspondent Jim Muir evaluates how war has changed Iraq from the beginning of the invasion to the handover of power. DocArchive: How Iraq's War Shaped Our World: Part One 2008.3.3 Programme One: BBC correspondent Jim Muir evaluates how war has changed Iraq from the beginning of the invasion to the handover of power. DocArchive: Assignment Jacob Zuma: The Investigation 2008.3.6 Jacob Zuma is one of the most powerful men in South Africa. He controls the ruling African National Congress and is poised to replace President Thabo Mbeki as head of state. But Jacob Zuma has a problem. Prosecutors say he's corrupt and hope to bring him to trial in August. Mr Zuma says the charges are political, designed to keep him from power. For Assignment Martin Plaut travelled to South Africa to investigate. DocArchive: Boom or Bust 2008.3.7 Sharon Mascall investigates the Australian mining industry where many inexperienced workers are lured by high wages but face harsh conditions, poor safety standards and an uncertain future. DocArchive: How Iraq's War Shaped Our World: Part Two 2008.3.10 Magdi Abdelhadi explores how the dream of a democratic Arab world was promoted then put in reverse as things went wrong in Iraq. DocArchive: Assignment: Afghanistan - Winning Hearts and Minds 2008.3.13 According to US intelligence the Afghan president Hamid Karzai controls only 30 percent of Afghanistan, with the Taleban holding 10 percent. Most of the country is under local tribal control. But building support among the tribes is now at the core of a new American counter-insurgency strategy. The Americans believe they've now got a blueprint for winning hearts and minds. The BBC's Alastair Leithead has been following US troops and their British allies to find out how the plan is working. DocArchive: Teacher Flower 2008.3.14 In the 1980s Kathy Flower became the most famous face on Chinese television, as English teacher to millions of students long isolated from the outside world. Now she returns to a very different country as it prepares to host the Beijing Olympics. DocArchive: How Iraq's War Shaped Our World: Part Three 2008.3.17 In Programme Three, Lyse Doucet looks at how the Iraq War changed the regional balance of power. DocArchive: Pirates Part Three 2008.3.18 Nick Rankin enters cyber space to explore the world of intellectual piracy - the stealing of ideas. DocArchive: The Kids Who Ran Iraq 2008.3.20 After the invasion of Iraq in 2003 hundreds of young American recruits were sent by Washington to help run the Coalition Provisional Authority, the body set up to administer Iraq. The CPA's tenure was widely criticised, as were its staff who, critics say, were simply political appointees with little or no experience relevant to the massive task they faced. Five years on Pascale Harter speaks to some of the so-called Brat Pack of US recruits to find out if they feel proud of what they achieved. DocArchive: Escaping the Water Wolf 2008.3.21 With climate change bringing new threats of rising sea levels and increased rainfall, will luck and ingenuity continue to save the Netherlands from submersion? DocArchive: Return to Kurdistan - Part 1 2008.3.26 In the first part of the series Return to Kurdistan, Michael Goldfarb follows the upheaval of Kurdistan through the eyes of his translator Ahmad Shawkat. DocArchive: How Iraq's War Shaped Our World: Part Four 2008.3.26 John Simpson looks at the how the Iraq War has affected America's international role and reputation. DocArchive: Assignment: No more child witches in DRC? 2008.3.27 Is it possible to legislate against deeply held beliefs? That's what the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo are hoping to do. They want to make it a criminal offence to accuse a child of being a witch. Many of the hundreds of children who are sleeping rough on the streets of the capital city Kinshasa have been accused of being witches. But can such a law be enforced and can it really make a difference in a country that has been so fractured by war? For Assignment Angus Crawford spends time with the street children of Kinshasa to see if they think the new law can work. DocArchive: No Way Out 2008.3.28 Shazia Khan investigates the agony of forced marriages in the UK and the risks of trying to escape it. DocArchive: Simpson Returns to China 2008.3.29 Programme one: The Road From Tiananmen charts John Simpson's return to modern China 19 years after he witnessed the massacre of June 4 1989 DocArchive: Return to Kurdistan Part 2 2008.4.2 For Iraqi Kurds these are the best times they have ever known. But can the desire for full independence be contained? Michael Goldfarb goes to Kirkuk disputed heart of northern Iraq's oil industry and the future source of wealth. DocArchive: Assignment: The Most Dangerous Gang in America 2008.4.3. The United States has long been home to violent gangs, from the Mafia to the Bloods and Crips. But recently, US authorities have warned of the dangers of a transnational, ultra-violent gang with its origins in Central America. The FBI has now opened an office in El Salvador to deal with the threat of Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13. For Assignment, Maurice Walsh travelled to Washington DC's suburbs and San Salvador to take a look at MS-13, dubbed "The Most Dangerous Gang in America." DocArchive: The Grass is Greener 2008.4.4. Why do Ghanaians dream of living a better life abroad? What must change in Ghana for more Ghanaians to want to stay? DocArchive: Simpson Returns to China - part 2 2008.4.7. John Simpson meets the ladies cracking down on spitting in Beijing before the Olympics and chats to the lady everyone's calling China's Oprah Winfrey on the set of the hit TV show Win in China DocArchive: The Message from China 2008.4.9. Dr Anne-Marie Brady from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand investigates how the Chinese Communist Party has adapted its propaganda methods to suit the 21st century. DocArchive: Call me Nana 2008.4.11 More than 65,000 grandparents in Canada are raising their grandchildren on their own, turning their lives upside down to raise a child for a second time. DocArchive: A Dollar a Day - China 2008.4.12 China is on track to meeting the Millennium Development Goal of halving Dollar-a-day poverty. But what uncertainties lie ahead now the Iron Bowl has been smashed? Mike Wooldrige reports. DocArchive: Elegy for the Tech 2008.4.16 Award winning poet Fred D’Aguiar is head of creative writing at Virginia Tech, the scene of a mass shooting of students and staff one year ago. He lost a student in the tragedy and had, in the past taught the shooter. In this documentary Fred reflects on the events of that day and the poetry both he and his students have written since. DocArchive: Assignment: Inside Somalia's Insurgency 2008.4.17 The last few weeks have seen an increase in violence in Somalia. Insurgents have stepped up attacks on the Ethiopian army and on the Somali transitional government it's backing. Ethiopia sent it's troops into Somalia at the end of 2006, to remove an Islamist movement - the Islamic Courts - from the capital. But now Ethiopia is bogged down and anger at its presence has boosted supported for the insurgents. In Assignment, Rob Walker goes in search of a radical Islamist movement which is playing an increasingly deadly role in the conflict. DocArchive: Harare Festival 2008.4.18 Manuel Bagorro, the director of the Harare International Festival of the Arts, describes his efforts to bring a cultural highlight in the midst of the election chaos in Zimbabwe. DocArchive: Strangers in Marseilles 2008.4.21 Laurie Taylor explores Marseille's unique racial geography to find out what kept the peace during 2005 and 2007 when race riots tore at the fabric of French society. DocArchive: The My Lai Tapes - Part One 2008.4.22 Forty years ago in the village of My Lai in South Vietnam, a massacre took place. The victims were innocent Vietnamese civilians – 504 mainly women, old men, children and babies. They were murdered, and in many cases, raped by US soldiers. This episode of the Vietnam War became known as 'The My Lai Massacre' and proved to be a turning point in the war. In the My Lai Tapes Robert Hodierne tells the story of what happened that day in interviews with the victims and the perpetraotors. DocArchive: Assignment - Granny Dumping 2008.4.24 Abandonment, abuse and neglect of the elderly by their own children and grandchildren is at record levels in India. In a society where reverence and respect towards senior citizens has been a source of pride, Tinku Ray reports for Assignment on why things have changed in India. DocArchive: The Convict Streak 2008.4.24 The resourcefulness and resilience of prisioners fighting for freedom that make Australians today proudly boast of their own inherited 'convict streak' DocArchive: Policing the UN 2008.4.28 The BBC's Africa editor Martin Plaut sets out to examine serious new allegations of corruption and wrongdoing within the United Nations' peacekeeping operations. DocArchive: How Crime Took on the World: Part One 2008.4.28 As part of his investigation into global crime, Misha Glenny is in Canada, where the wholesale production of marijuana is posing a challenge to the US-led 'War on Drugs'. DocArchive: The My Lai Tapes - Part Two 2008.4.29 Forty years ago, 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians were killed by US soldiers. It became known as ‘The My Lai Massacre' and was covered up by the army for almost a year. In the second part of ‘The My Lai Tapes’, presented by Robert Hodierne, you can hear for the first time, the taped recordings of the US Army’s internal inquiry into the massacre. DocArchive: Assignment: Football in the Holy City 2008.5.1 In this week's Assignment David Goldblatt travels to Israel to meet the fans of Beitar Jerusalem football club. As you'll hear in this programme the fans pride themselves on their extreme nationalist views and anti-arab chanting at matches. Beitar fans boast that an Arab never has and never will play for the club. Now under the ownership of flamboyant Russian Billionaire Arkadi Gaydamak Beitar is top of the Israeli league, but the behaviour of its hard-core fans continues to cause trouble. Since this programme was recorded, Beitar fans have been punished for a pitch invasion, and are now banned from their own stadium for the rest of the season. Beitar remain top of the Israeli league. DocArchive: Escape to New Zealand 2008.5.2 Environmental refugees seek a home somewhere in the planet where the predicted global changes can, perhaps, be weathered. DocArchive: How crime took on the world: Part two 2008.5.5 In the second of this series which charts the explosion of international organised crime, Misha Glenny goes to the Balkans to follow the trail of smuggled cigarettes. DocArchive: Philosophy in the Streets 2008.5.6 Nick Fraser looks at the intellectual revolution that spread from Paris throughout the world, particularly to America and then to Britain, in 1968. DocArchive: Where the Buffalo Roam 2008.5.9 How have non-native creatures - from birds to bovines, reptiles to rhesus monkeys - become unlikely, but permanent, residents of Hong Kong? DocArchive: How Crime Took on the World: Part Three 2008.5.12 In the third part of this series on international crime, Misha Glenny is in South Africa where since the end of Apartheid, personal security has become almost a national obsession; the number of private security firms has mushroomed. DocArchive: Living With Chico Mendes 2008.5.13 To mark the 20th anniversary of his assassination, Nick Maes looks at the life of Chico Mendes, the highly significant green activist who helped to galvanise the race to preserve the Amazon. Nick investigates what Chico Mendes achieved and gains exclusive access to his family. DocArchive: Assignment - Beyond Mark Weil 2008.5.15 Last September, Mark Weil, the radical theatre director of the Ilkhom theatre in Uzbekistan, was stabbed to death while returning home from a rehearsal. As the regime in Tashkent hardened it's line Mark Weil continued to challenge the authorities with his work. For Assignment Natalya Antelava asks whether this radical endeavour can survive without its director in an environment that is becoming more and more repressive. DocArchive: Escape from Time 2008.5.16 Who wouldn't like to escape the relentless march of time? Find out about the routes from those who attempt to escape the tyranny of time. DocArchive: How Crime Took on the World 2008.5.17 Cyber-crime is the fastest-growing sector of global-organised crime, worth about US$100 billion a year. Misha Glenny travels to Sao Paulo to find out why Brazil is the cyber-crime capital of the world. DocArchive: What Next For Kenya? - Part One 2008.5.20 In this two-part series, former BBC East Africa Correspondent Mike Wooldridge travels from the bustling capital, Nairobi, to the Rift Valley to report on the issues behind the conflict that erupted in Kenya at the turn of the year. DocArchive: Kidnapped: Part One 2008.5.23 Presenter Ritula Shah reunites former hostage Norman Kember - kidnapped in Iraq - with the people who were personally involved in negotiations to free him, and who put their lives on hold to get him back. DocArchive: Failure at the Central Bank 2008.5.24 For the last six decades, central bankers have run the international financial system with the aid of a powerful set of economic levers handed to them after the World War 2. Last year, these levers came off in their hands. In this two-part series Robert Peston examines how the former supermen of global financial economy became pathetic weaklings. DocArchive: What Next For Kenya? - Part Two 2008.5.27 In this two-part series, former BBC East Africa Correspondent Mike Wooldridge travels from the bustling capital, Nairobi, to the Rift Valley to report on the issues behind the conflict that erupted in Kenya at the turn of the year. DocArchive: Assignment 22 May 08 2008.5.29 The Commodities Bubble: Michael Robinson investigates and reveals how the commodities markets are attracting major players now looking for somewhere to invest other than the dollar, banking or shares and how this has affected the price of food products around the world. DocArchive: Assignment 2008.5.29 Lucy Ash finds out if new trade deals and diplomatic dialogue with Libya can encourage them to abandon torture and oppression for political reform and human rights improvements. DocArchive: Kidnapped - part two 2008.5.30 Dr Thomas Hargrove, an American scientist kidnapped by FARC, is reunited with the family's German neighbour, who was part of 'Team Tom' which organized the negotiations. DocArchive: Taxi to the Dark Side 2008.5.31 In Taxi To The Dark Side, American film-maker Alex Gibney reports on the use of torture by American soldiers in Afghanistan. Was the torture the work of a few rogue soldiers, or officially approved by the Pentagon? DocArchive: Age of Terror Part 1 2008.6.4 In the first part of this series, Peter Taylor reveals how events unfolded in the 1976 hijacking of an Air France plane on a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris which ends with a bid to rescue hostages from Idi Amin's Uganda DocArchive: Auroville - Assignment 2008.6.5 The town of Auroville in southern India was built in 1968 on the basis of a utopian ideal - that a community could live in peace and harmony without having to worry about food and shelter. But forty years on there are unsettling allegations of abuse emerging from the City of Dawn. For Assignment Rachel Wright visits Auroville and tells the disturbing story of a dream gone wrong. DocArchive: Argentina – Dancing To The Music Of The Mind 2008.6.5 Argentinian film director, writer and tango enthusiast, Edgardo Cozarinsky, talks to artists, dancers, novelists and other Argentinians about why psychotherapy and tango have such a pervasive hold on the Argentine mind and soul. DocArchive: Leila's Story 2008.6.6 The powerful story of a young Iranian woman called Leila, sold into prostitution at the age of nine by her own family and sentenced to hang aged 18. DocArchive: Age of Terror - part 2 2008.6.11 In the second part of this series, Peter Taylor investigates how two events in 1987 contributed to the beginnings of the road to peace in Northern Ireland. DocArchive: Rome's New Wolf - Assignment 2008.6.12 The new mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno was once a so-called neo-fascist - a supporter of anti-democratic, right wing radicalism. And his election has come at a time of mounting ethnic tension in Italy. As Christian Fraser now discovers in Assignment, there are fears that Rome could be about to suffer the return of hard right, authoritarian rule. DocArchive: Bomb Hunters 2008.6.12 More than 30 years after the end of the Vietnam War, Bomb Hunters, tells the stories of the people living in Xieng Khuang in Laos and how they survive in a land still littered with unexploded ordnance. DocArchive: Race and Reconciliation - Part One 2008.6.13 Fourteen years after liberation and 60 years since the beginning of what was then 'apartheid', Audrey Brown explores and uncovers the extent to which race still plays a part in everyday life for those living in South Africa. DocArchive: Age of Terror - Part 3 2008.6.18 In the third part of this series, Peter Taylor investigates The Paris Plot, the hijacking of a plane in Algiers on its way to Paris; a plan to use a plane as a weapon of mass destruction. DocArchive: The Baseball Factory 2008.6.19 Baseball may be the United States' national sport - but this year, 2008, almost half of all its professional players come from overseas - and some 40 per cent of them from the Dominican Republic, which shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with Haiti. For Assignment David Goldblatt visits Haiti to report on what has become a significant export industry for this country of nine million people. DocArchive: Feeding the Spirit of New Orleans 2008.6.20 Sheila Dillon reports on the work of restaurateurs, farmers, fishermen and activists to restore the culinary heritage of a devastated city. DocArchive: Race and Reconciliation - Part Two 2008.6.23 In the second part of this series, Audrey Brown travels to South Africa to explore how privilege and access to resources is increasingly being seen as an issue of colour. DocArchive: Age of Terror - part 4 2008.6.25 In 1998, a truck bomb exploded outside the American embassy in Nairobi. Over 200 people died and thousands were injured. It features an extraordinary interview with the FBI agent who tracked down and questioned a suspected al-Qaeda bomber. It was Osama Bin Laden's first major strike in his jihad against America. DocArchive: Burma - Reporting the Cyclone: Assignment 2008.6.26 This week's Assignment tells the story of the Burmese cyclone through the eyes and ears of the few BBC journalists who managed to get into the country after the disaster. Hear the story of the cyclone unfold told by those who witnessed it first hand. That's Reporting The Cyclone, from Assignment this week. DocArchive: Race and Reconciliation - Part Three 2008.6.27 In the third part of this series, Audrey Brown travels to Atteridgeville, a township outside the capital, Pretoria, to explore what really lay behind the recent attacks by South Africans on foreigners. DocArchive: Health for All 2008.6.27 Is health for all a fact or just fiction? Helen Sharp asks if the world has the will, people and money to deliver basic good health to everyone. DocArchive: Countdown to the Olympics: Part One 2008.7.2 As the world counts down to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Gerry Northam investigates China's claims of 'vigorous growth in the public practice of religion' but he discovers people are still being persecuted and oppressed for practising religion. DocArchive: Health for All Part 2 2008.7.4 Campaigners for improving maternal health have been lobbying the G8 to get the topic on the agenda for the next meeting in Japan. In programme two of the series Health for All, Uduak Amimo asks is there enough political will to combat maternal mortality? DocArchive: Policing the Poppy Fields - Part One 2008.7.7 Kate Clark gains rare access to the fight against the Afghan opium trade and asks how effective attempts to control it have been. DocArchive: Countdown to the Olympics: Part Two 2008.7.9 China says hosting the Olympics has accelerated national reforms, technological advances and greater freedoms overall but Gerry Northam investigates claims that life has gotten worse for China's poor. DocArchive: Congo's Contract of the Century 2008.7.10 In a multi billion dollar deal China has promised to rebuild DR Congo's crumbling infrastructure in exchange for a valuable slice of Congo's vast mineral wealth. What's being called the Contract of the Century was negotiated in secret and has left some people in the country wondering who stands to benefit most from the deal - for Assignment Tim Whewell travels to the DR Congo to find out. DocArchive: The World's Shifting Balance 2008.7.11 The dynamics of the old world and the new world are changing and the balance of economic systems is shifting. Martin Wolf of the Financial Times asks leading economists how important is the American financial cycle to the rest of the world now? DocArchive: Policing the Poppy Fields - Part Two 2008.7.11 In the second part of this series, Kate Clark reports from those provinces where an opium ban is in force, but farmers are feeling the pressure. DocArchive: Building Better Health 2008.7.15 Part One: Jill McGivering compares two very different free health systems in the developed world: the British NHS and that of the US state of Massachusetts. DocArchive: Football's Conmen - Assignment 2008.7.17 An undercover BBC investigation has exposed how young African footballers are being defrauded by conmen posing as talent scouts from English Premiership clubs. Victims are duped into parting with thousands of pounds in the false belief that they are paying an official fee for a trial to play with their favourite teams. Gavin Lee reports from Nigeria for Assignment. DocArchive: Secrets in the Blood - Part One 2008.7.18 In this two-part investigation, Matt McGrath sets out to expose corruption, drug use and cover-ups at the highest levels in sport. DocArchive: Beijing Calling - Part One 2008.7.18 Russell Fuller follows the difficult journeys of six hopefuls from around the world in the run up to the Beijing Olympics. DocArchive: Building Better Health - Part Two 2008.7.23 Jill McGivering explores whether China is doing enough to provide healthcare to 1.3 billion people and what it can learn from the struggles of the developed world. DocArchive: Trouble in the Townships: Assignment 2008.7.23 In May violence against African immigrants exploded across South Africa. Two months on thousands are still displaced, living in camps and shelters. Robert Walker travels to one of the townships in Johannesburg where the attacks started and asks whether the violence could happen again. DocArchive: Secrets in the Blood - Part Two 2008.7.25 In this two-part investigation, Matt McGrath sets out to expose corruption, drug use and cover-ups at the highest levels in sport. DocArchive: The Trouble with Money - Part 1 2008.7.29 With the world's economy now threatened by what some believe is the most dangerous crisis since the depression of the 1930s, Michael Robinson looks at the deepening international financial turmoil. DocArchive: South Africa's Promised Land: Assignment 2008.7.31 After the ending of apartheid in South Africa, the transfer of land from white to black was a key ANC promise - a proud calling card to correct the injustices of apartheid. But many critics argue that the reform programme has gone badly wrong. For Assignment Rosie Goldsmith reports on the struggle for South Africa's promised land, which is driving a political, economic and racist wedge down the middle of an already tense country. DocArchive: The Billion Dollar Election - Part One - 527s 2008.8.1 The United States is due to have the first billion-dollar election in its history. The BBC's Steve Evans presents this two-part investigation into election spending done in collaboration with the Centre for Public Integrity in Washington DC. DocArchive: The Trouble with Money - Part Two 2008.8.6 Will there be a return to the dreaded days of "stagflation" with weak growth and rising inflation. Can economic policymakers find a way to deal with this double danger? Or is further pain inevitable? DocArchive: Soft Jihad: Assignment 2008.8.7 In the United States a small but increasingly vocal group of people believe that members of the country's Muslim community are working from within to turn America into an Islamic state. This group of right wing thinkers believe this so-called 'Soft Jihad' is being carried out in schools, universities and other institutions across the country and they want to put a stop to it. In Assignment, Pascale Harter travels to America to find out how this fear is finding a foothold in public opinion there and hears from some of those accused of being the 'soft jihadists'. DocArchive: The Right to Know - Part 1 2008.8.7 Freedom of information is well on the way to being seen as an essential prerequisite for a modern democracy. But there's almost always a backlash from politicians and officials. DocArchive: The Billion Dollar Election: Part 2 - Ambassadors 2008.8.8 Prestigious job. Exotic location. Stately home, fine food and wine, and many other perks thrown in. Yours for only $200,000. The position a US ambassadorship. Around a third of all US ambassadors are not career diplomats; they're political appointees and almost all of them are major donors, wealthy businessmen. Is this really the way for the US to run its foreign policy? DocArchive: Why they're dying in the Congo - Part One 2008.8.13 BBC World Affairs Correspondent Mark Doyle explores why over five million people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the past decade. DocArchive: Secrets in the Family - Assignment 2008.8.14 During Argentina's Dirty War of the seventies and eighties thousands of leftists and dissidents vanished after being abducted by the security forces. Many of the women detained gave birth in detention centres before being killed and their babies were given to military families to bring up. Now, as Daniel Schweimler reports for Assignment, those babies have come of age in Argentina and some are trying to seek justice for what happened to them. DocArchive: Your Right to Know - Part 2 2008.8.14 What do Freedom of Information laws actually achieve? Are they sometimes more symbolic than practical in their impact? DocArchive: Rehearsing for War 2008.8.18 The extraordinary US military base at the heart of a vast shift in American military strategy, aiming for nation-building and peacekeeping. DocArchive: Why they're dying in the Congo - Part Two 2008.8.20 BBC World Affairs correspondent Mark Doyle continues travelling from the west to the east of the DR Congo on a journey to find out why so many people have died and continue to die in that country. DocArchive: A young life of crime: Assignment 2008.8.21 The experience of growing up in a socially deprived, inner city neighbourhood is a common one, no matter where you may live in the world. In Britain's main cities, police and politicians say a worrying trend has developed where some young people are now carrying and using both knives and guns at an ever younger age. The BBC's Nina Robinson takes a day out of the life of two youngsters in the English city of Birmingham to find out a little more about what it is that shapes their lives. DocArchive: What Lies Beneath - Part One 2008.8.21 International seas are largely unregulated, meaning most underwater archaeological wealth can be retrieved and sold without any obstacle. Can a new UNESCO convention bring some order? DocArchive: The Presidential Contenders 2008.8.25 Barack Obama:the profile of one of the two individuals who are the presumptive nominees in the US presidential election. DocArchive: Al-Qaeda's Internal Debate 2008.8.26 BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner talks to former allies of Osama bin Laden who are now engaged in countering the terrorist leader's agenda. DocArchive: Spain's Civil War - Breaking the Silence 2008.8.28 Following recent legislation in Spain the government has agreed to offer support to families wishing to find the remains of their loved ones killed during the country's brutal civil war of the 1930s. For Assignment, Mike Williams travels to Spain to visit an exhumation of bodies and asks if the government's attempt to end the political silence of that period is working. DocArchive: What Lies Beneath - Part two 2008.8.29 Win Scutt finds out how the maritime treasure hunting industry has boomed in recent years. DocArchive: The Presidential Contenders - Part Two 2008.9.1 John McCain: a profile of the man who talks of honour and patriotic duty and admits having a legendary short fuse. DocArchive: Feeding Haiti: Assignment 2008.9.4 Haiti, one of the very poorest countries in the world, has been hit hard by soaring food prices. Earlier this year riots led to the sacking of the prime minister. In Assignment, Orin Gordon looks at the ongoing struggle for Haitians to feed themselves. DocArchive: The 66 Club 2008.9.4 Ruth Evans tells the extraordinary story of 11 women brought together on the internet by one man's sperm. DocArchive: The Desert Capitalists - Part One 2008.9.8 Mukhul Devichand finds out how the Marwari trading caste from India's western deserts has become a major global economic and political force. DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth - Part One 2008.9.11 The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Mauritius are all popular tourist destinations. Robin White tells the stories behind the tourist facades, visiting the Maldives for part one of this series. DocArchive: The Desert Capitalists - Part Two 2008.9.15 How are the Marwari traders managing as India goes global? Can a business culture based on traditional values survive as India's economy changes? DocArchive: My Senator, My Vote: Part One 2008.9.17 We know the two US presidential candidates and what they would do in office, but what does the electorate itself want? Robin Lustig travels to the candidates' home states to meet four Americans to find out what issues have determined their choices. DocArchive: The Afghan Arms Bazaar Assignment 2008.9.18 As the insurgency in Afghanistan grows, Kate Clark travels undercover to investigate who's arming the Taleban. Meeting commanders and arms dealers, she finds the Taleban are getting their weapons from some suprising sources. DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth - Part Two 2008.9.18 The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Mauritius are all popular tourist destinations. Robin White tells the stories behind the tourist facades, visiting Sri Lanka for part two of this series. DocArchive: Looted Art 2008.9.22 A tale of a tiny painting, set against a large canvas of war, politics and looted art in Charle's Wheeler quest to solve a 50-year mystery. DocArchive: My Senator, My Vote - Part Two 2008.9.24 Robin Lustig travels to Phoenix, Arizona, the home of Senator John McCain, to ask two ordinary voters about their most pressing concerns in the forthcoming US presidential election. DocArchive: Pakistan's Tribal areas 2008.9.25 Pakistan's government is locked in an intense battle with Islamist militants for control of areas on its northern border with Afghanistan. For Assignment Owen Bennett-Jones visits the Khyber pass - the main supply route for the American and other western forces based in Afghanistan - and discovers that the insurgency has made it vulnerable. DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth - Part Three 2008.9.25 The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Mauritius are all popular tourist destinations. Robin White tells the stories behind the tourist facades, visiting the Seychelles for part three of this series. DocArchive: Is al Qaeda Winning? Part one 2008.9.29 Seven years into the global war on terror, is al-Qaeda winning? It's a deceptively simple question, one Owen Bennett-Jones asked in Riyadh, Peshawar and Baghdad, as well as London, Brussels and Washington for this series in four parts. DocArchive: Children of the revolution - Part one 2008.10.1 This series explores what life offers to Iran's burgeoning young population who are trapped by conservatism and an ailing economy. In the first programme, we hear how the war with Iraq acted as a continuation of the Revolution. DocArchive: Africa's Guantanamo - Assignment 2008.10.2 In Assignment, Robert Walker travels to East Africa to investigate a secret detention programme - involving the transfer of suspected terrorists across three countries: Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth - Part Four 2008.10.2 The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Mauritius are all popular tourist destinations. Robin White tells the stories behind the tourist facades, visiting Mauritius for part four of this series. DocArchive: Is al Qaeda Winning? - part two 2008.10.3 Owen Bennett-Jones looks at al Qaeda's hard power and military capabilities in its chosen key battlegrounds: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. DocArchive: Children of the Revolution - Part two 2008.10.8 In Iran, the constant drugs crisis and loss of skilled workers contrast with a lively internet scene which harbours poets, political dissidents and religious leaders. DocArchive: In the Shadow of the Cartel : Assignment 2008.10.9 In Mexico, the government has deployed thousands of troops in an attempt to break up the powerful drug cartels operating in the country. Emilio San Pedro travels to the border city of Tijuana and profiles a community under pressure from one of Mexico's most violent gangs. DocArchive: The Italian Patient 2008.10.10 What is the state of health of the Italian nation today? Is Italy in crisis or undergoing a new Renaissance? Italian journalist Annalisa Piras returns home to find out. DocArchive: Is al-Qaeda Winning? Part Three 2008.10.10 Owen Bennett-Jones tests the big promises governments have made about the financial war on terror. DocArchive: My Lai Tapes - Part One 2008.10.15 Robert Hodierne reports on the recordings revealing the extent of the US Military's cover up of the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War. DocArchive: The View from Kashmir - Assignment 2008.10.16 A series of protests against Indian rule in Kashmir has left more than 30 people dead since August. Thousands of people have died in the violence there since 1989. For Assignment George Arney travels to Kashmir to speak to young people caught up in the protests and discovers that for the first time the Muslim separatist struggle is embracing non-violence. DocArchive: Out of the Ghetto 2008.10.17 This special documentary exploring life in Chicago's inner city is based on Ghetto Life 101, an acclaimed 1993 documentary featuring LeAlan Jones and LLoyd Newman, two teenagers who brought US radio listeners face to face with life in of one of Chicago's worst housing projects. Jones has revisited the area to see how it has changed. DocArchive: Is al-Qaeda winning? Part Four 2008.10.20 The Saudi Interior Ministry and the US Military in Iraq have offered al - Qaeda sympathisers and detainees therapy and job training. Owen Bennett-Jones asks if this can really prevent someone from supporting al-Qaeda. DocArchive: My Lai Tapes - Part Two 2008.10.21 Robert Hodierne looks at 'The Peers Inquiry', which was the US Army's own investigation into what really happened in the village of My Lai during the Vietnam war. DocArchive: Failure or Fraud 2008.10.24 As the global banking crisis deepens, a flood of multi-million dollar lawsuits is beginning to shed light into some of the darkest corners of international finance. The BBC's Michael Robinson investigates these cases and what they reveal about the present disaster. DocArchive: America’s First Principles 2008.10.27 Allan Little presents an appraisal of the man described as America's Apostle of Freedom: Thomas Jefferson, author of the founding document of the American Republic. DocArchive: The Lost Veterans 2008.10.29 Andrew Purcell investigates the growing homelessness crisis among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in the United States. The programme looks at how these 'lost veterans' struggle to reintegrate into civilian society, and how they feel abandoned by the US military. DocArchive: Rat Attack 2008.10.31 Neil McCarthy pieces together a story of rats, famine and insurrection from the 1950's to present day, in remote hills of North East India. DocArchive: The PR battle for the Caucasus 2008.11.3 The South Ossetian conflict not only sparked a military war between Russia and Georgia, but a propaganda battle. James Rodgers examines this ongoing media war between Georgia and Russia - featuring archive clips of key events and interviews. DocArchive: Animal Migration in a Climate of Change 2008.11.5 Animal Migration in a Climate of Change is a special four-part series that explores the way environmental change is affecting the natural movement of animals all around the world. In Part One, The Mexican Wave, the focus is on sustaining the Orange Monarch butterfly. DocArchive: Hard Lessons from Afghanistan - Part One 2008.11.5 Former Kabul correspondent Alan Johnston reflects on decades of turmoil in Afghanistan, from the Soviet invasion in 1979 to the intervention by the West. DocArchive: The world without...cows 2008.11.7 Discover just how important cows have been civilisation, all around the world. DocArchive: Animal Migration in a Climate of Change - Part Two 2008.11.10 Animal Migration in a Climate of Change is a special four-part series that explores the way environmental change is affecting the natural movement of animals all around the world. In Part Two, Silent Landscapes, focuses on how environmental change is affecting some popular bird species. DocArchive: Animal Migration in a Climate of Change - Part Three 2008.11.10 Animal Migration in a Climate of Change is a special four-part series that explores the way environmental change is affecting the natural movement of animals all around the world. In Part Three, The Elephant's Journey, Brett Westwood looks at African elephant migration. DocArchive: Animal Migration in a Climate of Change - Part Four 2008.11.11 Animal Migration in a Climate of Change is a special four-part series that explores the way environmental change is affecting the natural movement of animals all around the world. In Part Four, In A Wild Goose Chase, the focus is on wild geese. DocArchive: Hard lessons from Afghanistan - Part Two 2008.11.12 Former Kabul correspondent Alan Johnston reflects on decades of turmoil in Afghanistan, from the Soviet invasion in 1979 to the intervention by the West. DocArchive: Toxic Trailers - Assignment 2008.11.13 Hundreds of thousands of people were made homeless when Hurricane Katrina devastated parts of the southern coast of the United States in 2005. Many survivors were rehoused by the federal government in travel trailers which they claim made them sick. For Assignment, Rob Walker travels to Mississippi to hear their story. DocArchive: The world without...copper 2008.11.14 You might think that copper is just another metal, but in fact it is a vital substance. Discover why, without this metal, even the evolution of life itself would be radically different. DocArchive: Giving up the gun in Kashmir 2008.11.19 Rupa Jha talks to former militants in Kashmir and their families about why they took up arms and the reasons behind giving up violence. What are the challenges of returning to normal society? DocArchive: Dead by Christmas 2008.11.20 The Neapolitan crime syndicate, the Camorra, has said it wants a young writer dead by Christmas, because he has exposed how they really do business. Increasingly it's brave individuals - not the Italian state - who are taking on the Camorra, by breaking the code of silence and stripping away the glamour that surrounds organised crime in Italy. For Assignment, Pascale Harter travels to southern Italy to talk to the people caught up in the deadly battle against the Camorra. DocArchive: Street Art - Part One 2008.11.21 This series looks at street art in two very different cities: New York and Sao Paulo. Each episode profiles a rising artist, and speaks to people on the street to discover how attitudes to graffiti and street art vary from city to city. Episode 1 looks at New York through the eyes of Elbow-Toe. DocArchive: Tired of Terror Part Two 2008.11.26 Rupa Jha explores what ex-militants in Kashmir and their families expect from the future. DocArchive: Street Art - Part Two 2008.11.28 This series looks at the growth of street art. Programme two focuses on Sao Paulo, Brazil through the eyes of a street artist, Nunca. Can Nunca transfer his counter-cultural message to the Tate Modern gallery in London? DocArchive: 1968: The year that changed the world? 2008.11.28 In this four part series, using archive recordings and music from the time, Sir John Tusa examines what made 1968 such a climactic year. Starting with the Vietnam War and the assasination of Bobby Kennedy, this series reflects on why 1968 was significant in world history. DocArchive: The Priest of Pará 2008.12.3 Father Henri Des Roziers is a Dominican priest and human rights lawyer working in Pará, one of Brazil's most violent regions. Nick Maes is given a privileged insight into the life of this man, his faith and the cause he would give his life for. DocArchive: Timeline - part one 2008.12.4 In this topical and lively series, contemporary stories and events are explored through the examination of archive material of events that have gone before. DocArchive: Assignment - Aids and the Caribbean 2008.12.4 Five years after doing a series of reports on HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean, Emma Joseph retraces her steps for Assignment to find out whether the region still has one of the highest infection rates in the world, and to meet some of the people she first encountered in 2003. DocArchive: 1968: The year that changed the world?2 2008.12.5 In this four part series, using archive recordings and music from the time, Sir John Tusa examines what made 1968 such a climactic year. Programme two captures the student unrest around the world. DocArchive: Return to White Horse Village - part one 2008.12.10 Over the past two-and-a-half years, former BBC Beijing correspondent Carrie Gracie has been witnessing the upheaval as White Horse village in rural China is turned into a city. In this series Carrie returns to find out how the residents feel about the changes. In the programme one, Carrie meets a young mother impatient for a new city life to find a way out of poverty for her children. DocArchive: Assignment - Bolivia on the Brink 2008.12.10 And now Assignment asks whether Bolivia is on the brink of civil war. In the run-up to next month’s crucial vote on a new constitution, Daniel Schweimler reports from the wealthy and white-dominated city of Santa Cruz, where the dispute over the policies of the country’s indigenous President Evo Morales are spilling over into racial violence. DocArchive: Timeline - part two 2008.12.12 In this topical and lively series, contemporary stories and events are explored through the examination of archive material of events that have gone before. DocArchive: 1968: The year that changed the world? 3 2008.12.12 In this four part series, using archive recordings and music from the time, Sir John Tusa examines what made 1968 such a climactic year. Programme three looks at how race and nationalism finally came to a head in 1968. DocArchive: DocArchive: Return to White Horse Village - part two 2008.12.17 While China's economy has boomed over the past 30 years, many of its 700 million farmers have been stuck in poverty. DocArchive: Assignment - A Return to Helmand 2008.12.18 Last year our correspondent Jill McGivering reported from Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan on the constant violence and the struggle to bring development to the region. Now she's returned, one year on, to see if there's been any progress. DocArchive: 1968: The year that changed the world? 2008.12.19 In this four part series, using archive recordings and music from the time, Sir John Tusa examines what made 1968 such a climactic year. Programme four focuses on the Prague Spring and the subsequent Russian invasion, but also anti-communist rumblings in Poland and China. DocArchive: Timeline - part three 2008.12.19 Timeline is the programme where the past sheds light on recent events though use of archive material. DocArchive: Return to White Horse Village - part three 2008.12.23 While China's economy has boomed over the past 30 years, many of its 700 million farmers have been stuck in poverty. Their only hope of a wage has been far from home in the factories and building sites of the boomtowns. DocArchive: Assignment - In Exile 2008.12.25 There are more than 10 million Palestinians living around the world, more than half of whom are stateless. In this year when Israel has been marking its 60th anniversary many Palestinians have been reflecting on the event that for them meant exile. The 'naqba', or catastrophe, is how they describe the destruction of many of their villages and towns and their own dispersal following the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. For Assignment Paul Adams spoke to four Palestinians in exile. DocArchive: Too Many Santas 2008.12.26 Throughout much of the Christian world Christmas is the time when Santa Claus dominates – a fat jolly chap who is our friend. DocArchive: Brand Cuba - part one 2008.12.29 In Brand Cuba, Allan Little analyses some of the factors that have kept Cuba alive in the public imagination over such a long period. DocArchive: The Rules of Risk 2008.12.30 As leaders in Europe and America struggle to re-write the rules of international finance following the credit crunch, we investigate the roots and role of risk. DocArchive: The Story of Braille 2009.1.2 Peter White tells the story of Louis Braille, the founder of Braille, and the story behind his invention, in the light of new technology for the blind, which threatens to make it redundant. DocArchive: Brand Cuba - part two 2009.1.5 On 1st January 2009, Cuba marks the 50th anniversary of its revolution. All over the world, this Caribbean nation has cultivated a name-recognition and influence much greater than its size. DocArchive: The Pardon Game 2009.1.8 A US president has a constitutional and inalienable right to grant pardons. He usually does this just before he leaves office. It is a mysterious and controversial business - notorious past pardons include Jimmy Hoffa, Caspar Weinberger, Ford's pardon of Nixon, Patty Hearst and fugitive billionaire Marc Rich. Listen to Owen Bennett-Jones as travels to Washington to find out what the process involves and who might be getting one from President George W. Bush. DocArchive: Obama: Professor President 2009.1.13 Kwame Anthony Appiah is one of America’s leading public intellectuals. In this investigative feature he is on a mission to find out what Barack Obama is like as an intellectual. DocArchive: The Legacy of George W Bush - Part One 2009.1.16 Justin Webb explores the domestic and international legacies of President George W Bush as he leaves office. In part one, he looks at how 9/11 changed American foreign policy and how the world viewed the US. DocArchive: The Bicycle Diaries - part one 2009.1.16 This series features three portraits of the use of the bicycle around the world. The first programme looks at a new bicycle system in Paris, France called the Velib. DocArchive: Human Rights and Wrongs at the UN 2009.1.21 Is the UN's Human Rights Council fulfilling its role to protect the most vulnerable from human rights abuses or a cabal fixated on protecting itself? DocArchive: The Bicycle Diaries - part two 2009.1.23 This three-part series looks at the impact the bicycle has had on people's lives. Programme two visits Kampala, Uganda where the bicycle is being used as a wheelchair for disabled users. DocArchive: The Legacy of George W Bush - Part Two 2009.1.26 Justin Webb explores the domestic and international legacies of President George W Bush as he leaves office. In part two, he looks at how President Bush's failures paved the way for Barack Obama. DocArchive: Assignment - A City Divided 2009.1.29 At the end of last year, violent clashes broke out in Jos in central Nigeria after a disputed local election. Christian and Muslim mobs took to the streets burning mosques, churches and homes. Hundreds were killed: in some of the worst incidents, children were burnt inside their schools. This is just the latest round in a cycle of sectarian violence that has killed at least ten thousand Nigerians over the past decade. Robert Walker travels to Jos, a town still under curfew, to find out what caused the clashes and to investigate why many residents believe more violence is likely. DocArchive: The Bicycle Diaries - part three 2009.1.30 This three-part series looks at the impact the bicycle has had on people's lives. In programme three, two newspaper deliverers in New Delhi, India take us on their daily cycle route. DocArchive: Fresh Start - Part One 2009.1.31 As prison numbers in Britain continue to soar, what can be done to stop criminals re-offending? In part one, Lucy Ash finds out if creativity can help to cut crime. DocArchive: Assignment - Children for Sale 2009.2.5 Nadene Ghouri goes undercover to expose the trade in children by some charities registered in the United States and operating as businesses in Liberia. DocArchive: The Wildlife Smugglers 2009.2.6 Worldwide, the illegal trade in wildlife is worth up to $25 billion US a year. Australia is one of the countries counting the cost as its rare birds and reptiles are targeted by international criminal gangs. Sharon Mascall tracks this trade across Australia and speaks to investigators, customs officers and dealers, attracting the attention of smugglers along the way. DocArchive: Fresh Start - Part Two 2009.2.6 Lucy Ash looks at why allowing prisoners to raise puppies has proved to be a successful way of bringing out their caring, and more emotive side. Join her on her global journey as she looks at innovative ways of cutting crime. DocArchive: Beatles in the USSR 2009.2.13 As Beatlemania swept throughout the world in 1964, it seemed unable to penetrate the Iron Curtain. However, an underground culture grew which used ingenious ways to discover the Beatles' music. Paul Gambaccini reveals the extraordinary ways the Beatles' music was listened to in the Soviet Union during the 1960s. Did the music and spirit of The Beatles help to end communism? DocArchive: Fresh Start - Part Three 2009.2.16 Lucy Ash looks at a successful prison reform scheme in Kansas that is turning crack dealers into respectable businessmen. She also visits Italy where a maximum security jail has become Tuscany's most exclusive eatery. Join Lucy on the final stop on her global journey looking at innovative ways to cut crime. DocArchive: Indonesian Journeys - Jakarta 2009.2.24 In the run up to the Indonesian elections in April, Anita Barraud travels to four different regions of the country to take a closer look at its politics and democracy. DocArchive: Assignment: Kenya Reconciliation 2009.2.26 It's a year since Kenya's political rivals signed a power-sharing agreement to end the violence which broke out after presidential elections there. In this week's Assignment Pascale Harter travels back to the scene of some of the worst violence to see if the power-sharing government really has reconciled Kenyans. DocArchive: Third Agers - Part One 2009.3.2 What is it really like to be old? In this four part series, Jane Little meets Third Agers from four continents to find out. In programme one, Jane meets some extraordinary women who’ve given old age a whole new meaning. DocArchive: Indonesian Journeys - Aceh 2009.3.4 Anita Barraud explores how peace and democracy is working in Aceh, a region that has endured dictatorship, decades of war and the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. DocArchive: Public Places, Private Lives 2009.3.4 Trafalgar Square is a must-see destination on any tourist map of the UK. But beyond the statues and clicking cameras are the lives and stories of those for whom this space exists as an everyday environment. DocArchive: Assignment - Rating the Credit Ratings Agencies 2009.3.5 Who's responsible for our current economic meltdown? Financial institutions around the globe are now sitting on mega losses – they hold assets worth a fraction of what they paid for them. But one set of organizations – credit rating agencies - gave these institutions false confidence to buy these assets. So are the Credit Rating Agencies the real villains? DocArchive: Third Agers - Part Two 2009.3.9 What is it really like to be old? In this four part series, Jane Little meets people from four continents to find out. In part two, she hears from older people facing financial challenges in Kenya, Brazil, the UK and the US. DocArchive: Indonesian Journeys - West Timor 2009.3.11 In the run up to elections, Anita Barraud finds out why poverty and starvation are causing major problems for West Timor. Join her as she travels deep into the countryside and discovers malnutrition that rivals parts of sub-Saharan Africa. DocArchive: Yiddish: A Struggle for Survival - part one 2009.3.13 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 last century. DocArchive: Third Agers - Part Three 2009.3.16 What is it really like to be old? In this four part series, Jane Little meets Third Agers from four continents to find out. In programme three, Jane explores what happens when older people become frail or ill. DocArchive: Indonesian Journeys - Bali 2009.3.18 In the run up to the Indonesian elections in April, Anita Barraud explores how terrorism, tourism and globalisation is affecting Bali's local politics. DocArchive: Assignment - Falling in Love with the Stasi 2009.3.19 During the cold war, more than thirty west German women were prosecuted after been tricked into handing over secrets to Romeo spies sent by the Stasi, the East German secret police. For Assignment, Angus Crawford asks if twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, they deserve to be forgiven. DocArchive: Yiddish: A Struggle for Survival - part two 2009.3.20 What has become of Yiddish and how much of the language survives today? DocArchive: Third Agers - Part Four 2009.3.23 What is it really like to be old? In this four part series, Jane Little meets Third Agers from four continents to find out. In the final programme Jane hears from people who have dared to think the unthinkable in managing old age. DocArchive: Chinua Achebe: A Hero Returns 2009.3.25 Richard Dowden joins the greatest of all African novelists, Chinua Achebe, on his first trip back to his homeland of Nigeria for many years. DocArchive: Obama's Pentagon 2009.3.30 Mark Urban asks if Barack Obama's presidency will see substantial reform at the Pentagon. DocArchive: Assignment - Turkey's Dirty War 2009.4.2 For twenty five years, Turkey fought a dirty war with Kurdish separatist insurgents. Atrocities were committed on both sides but most of the 40 000 people killed were Kurds. Many thousands of deaths remain unexplained. But now a high profile trial of suspected members of an alleged ultra nationalist gang has led some Kurds to believe there may finally be a chance for justice. Sarah Rainsford reports for Assignment. DocArchive: Culture Not Colour 2009.4.3 Jared Thomas is an Aboriginal Australian. Born of mixed race parents. We follow his search for the nature of identity and see how it relates to a generation of young Aboriginal Australian men. DocArchive: The Atrocity Archives - part one 2009.4.6 In Guatemala four years ago, 80 million documents were discovered in a warehouse. They contain evidence of police atrocities during Guatemala's 36 year long civil war. Gerry Northam investigates the story of the archive’s chance discovery. DocArchive: Kosovo's Disappeared 2009.4.9 Ten years after the war in Kosovo, Michael Montgomery returns to the region for Assignment. He investigates allegations of torture, kidnap and murder by the Kosovo Liberation Army both during and after the war. DocArchive: Keeping the Peace - part one 2009.4.10 In 2003 peace was declared between the Liberian government and rebel groups. DocArchive: The Atrocity Archives - part two 2009.4.13 In Guatemala four years ago, 80 million documents were discovered. They contained evidence of police atrocities during Guatemala's civil war. In programme 2 of this series, Gerry Northam continues his tour of the archives. DocArchive: Escape from Eritrea: Assignment 2009.4.16 The Eritrean government is turning its country into a giant prison, according to new report released by Human Rights Watch. For this week's Assignment Pascale Harter travels to Sicily, where thousands of Eritrean refugees arrive every year, to ask why they're fleeing their country. DocArchive: Keeping the Peace - part two 2009.4.17 After one of Africa's most vicious conflicts - a war that claimed the lives of more than 200 thousand people and displaced a million others - can Liberia keep its peace? DocArchive: The Secret Scientists 2009.4.17 Jim Al-Khalili looks at the scientists from the Islamic world who created a legacy for scientists in the European renaissance. DocArchive: West African Journeys - Part One 2009.4.20 Sorious Samura takes four journeys that explore the challenges and contradictions of life in modern West Africa. In Part One, we hear about Cletus Anaaya and his efforts to stop the widespread killing of so-called 'spirit children' in northern Ghana. DocArchive: The Secret Scientists - part two 2009.4.21 Jim Al-Khalili looks at the scientists from the Islamic world who created a legacy for scientists in the European renaissance. DocArchive: The Secret Scientists - part three 2009.4. 29 Professor Jim Al-Khalili looks at the legacy of scientists from the Islamic world. In part three of The Secret Scientists, he talks about the work of Abu Rayhan Biruni, who calculated the Earth's circumference with an incredible degree of accuracy. Jim explores how the Christian Crusades, the invasion of the Mongols, the fall of the Abbasid dynasty and the discovery of the New World may have contributed to the decline of great scholarship in the 13th century. Finally he explores the status of science in the modern Muslim world and investigates recent developments in funding and research. DocArchive: Assignment - The Rich in Retreat 2009.5.1 Just one year ago Wall Street bankers enjoyed widespread regard, even veneration, in American public life, respected as people who understood the world of money and finance. Twelve months on the story is very different with many of those bankers having experienced a meterioric fall from grace. So what's happened to our respect for the financial whizz-kids? And how do they now see the world, now that the world has disowned them? For Assignment, Ed Butler travels to Wall Street to hear their stories. DocArchive: West African Journeys - part three 2009.5.1 Award-winning journalist Sorious Samura heads back to his native West Africa for a trip through his homeland of Sierra Leone and other neighbouring countries. In part three Sorious returns to Liberia to follow the journey of a 26-year old woman called ‘Black Diamond’ as she travels hundreds of miles across Liberia in search of the daughter she calls ‘Beloved’. The child was born after Diamond, then aged 15, was raped by government soldiers. During the rape her parents tried to defend her and were killed. Fuelled by anger, she joined the rebels to become one of Liberia’s most infamous child soldiers. She tells Sorious her version of the war. DocArchive: On the brink - part 1 2009.5.5 Continuing his award-winning reports for the BBC World Service, Michael Robinson looks at the increasingly desperate efforts to stave off a global economic slump and depression. He visits Europe and Asia to identify the dangers that lie ahead and investigates how the present bail-out packages devised by leaders in rich countries will hit newly emerging nations. DocArchive: Friday Documentary: The Library Cart 2009.5.8 Exploring the world of an extraordinary individual. This week, we travel to Colombia to experience a day in the life of Cartagena’s Martin Murrillo – mobile cart librarian and self-taught teacher. DocArchive: West African Journeys - Part Four 2009.5.11 In the last of this four part series, Sorious Samura is in a fishing village near Freetown in Sierra Leone. DocArchive: My World - The Infidelity Agency 2009.5.12 Vivek Kumar runs India's number one detective agency and business - investigating marital infidelities - is booming. DocArchive: On the brink - part 2 2009.5.13 Continuing his award-winning reports for the BBC World Service, Michael Robinson looks at the increasingly desperate efforts to stave off a global economic slump and depression. He visits Europe and Asia to identify the dangers that lie ahead and investigates how the present bail-out packages devised by leaders in rich countries will hit newly emerging nations. DocArchive: Assignment - Killer Toxic Waste 2009.5.14 Assignment this week investigates just who was responsible for the toxic dumping in Ivory Coast, and what it was that caused one hundred thousand people to become so ill there. DocArchive: Freedom from Slavery in Mauritania 2009.5.18 Mauritania is a country with a tradition of slavery, but in August 2007 owning slaves became a criminal act. David Gutnick visits Mauritania and finds out how entrenched the master/slave relationship still is. DocArchive: The Lost Voices of Tiananmen Square - part one 2009.5.19 James Miles, the BBC's China correspondent in 1989, was an eye-witness to the events leading up to the Tiananmen Square protests. 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