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Docs: Lisdoonvarna – Ireland’s Love Capital 11 Feb 12
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Feb 11, 2012
Alison Finch meets one of Ireland's last traditional matchmakers as he reigns over the great Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival.
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DocArchive: Assignment - Equatorial Guinea
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Feb 09, 2012
Rob Walker investigates what’s happened to billions of dollars in oil revenues paid to the government of Equatorial Guinea.
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Docs: Dickens And India - Mutual Friends 07 Feb 12
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Feb 07, 2012
To celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens' birth, Indian writer Ayeesha Menon explores India's love affair with Dickens.
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Docs: Dreaming Dickens: Feb 03 12
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Feb 03, 2012
In this documentary-fantasy we bring the danger back to Dickens. Slipping in and out of his weird and brilliant imagination, we see modern London as he might have done, travelling through the city's streets at night to crack dens and strip-joints as the police sirens wail. We meet characters from his novels and characters who would be in his novels if he were still alive today.
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DocArchive: Assignment: Opposing Syria's President Assad
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Feb 02, 2012
Undercover in Damascus for Assignment. Tim Whewell enters the dangerous world of the Syrian opposition to find out how strong they are – and what they really want.
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Docs: Great Expectations: Part Eight - 27 Jan 12
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Jan 27, 2012
Nina Robinson reports from two Olympic cities - Beijing who were hosts in 2008 and Rio de Janeiro, who will be hosts in 2016.
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DocArchive: Assignment - Australia's FIFO Workers
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Jan 26, 2012
Australia's mining boom is proving lucrative for its so called Fly in Fly Out (FIFO) workers but as James Fletcher reports in Assignment, it can come at a cost.
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Docs: The Wealth Gap – The View from London: Part Two 24 Jan 12
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Jan 24, 2012
The gap between the super-rich and the rest has grown sharply around the world. Michael Robinson examines its effects on London.
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Dos: Great Expectations: Part Seven - 21 Jan 12
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Jan 20, 2012
Nina Robinson reports from two Olympic cities - Beijing who were hosts in 2008 and Rio de Janeiro, who will be hosts in 2016.
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DocArchive: The Toughest Guys On Ice
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Jan 19, 2012
Assignment goes inside the fast and furious world of North American ice hockey. Alex Capstick reports.
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Docs: The Wealth Gap – The View from London: Part One 17 Jan 12
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Jan 17, 2012
The gap between the super-rich and the rest has grown sharply around the world. Michael Robinson examines its effects on London.
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Docs: The Antartic Explorer
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Jan 13, 2012
Karen Bowerman retraces the route of Antarctic explorer Frank Wild - Sir Ernest Shackleton's second-in-command - as Wild's ashes are taken to South Georgia for burial next to Shackleton.
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DocArchive: Assignment - What Happened to the Kurdish Spring
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Jan 12, 2012
For Assignment Gabriel Gatehouse asks whether the autonomous Kurdish region in Northern Iraq should be a model for the Middle East to follow or avoid?
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Docs: Sporting Chances: Australia Part Two 10 Jan 12
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Jan 10, 2012
Farayi Mungazi looks at the role of sport in shaping the country's national identity and asks whether sporting success will always be part of Australia's soft power.
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Docs: The Women Of Tahrir Square: 7 Jan 2012
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Jan 06, 2012
Women were at the forefront of the revolution in Egypt. Hanan Razek discovers why many are disappointed and angry at the Egyptian revolution's failures.
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Docs: The Truth About NGOs - Haiti 5 Jan 2012
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Jan 05, 2012
Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in Haiti. Why, despite the vast effort and resources that flowed after the earthquake two years ago, are people still living in tents without basic amenities?
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Docs: Sporting Chances: South Sudan Part One 3 Jan 12
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Jan 03, 2012
Farayi Mungazi explores the power of basketball to create a national identity in newly independent South Sudan, as well as give its people a sense of dignity and pride.
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Docs: Goodbye To Bush House: Part Two 31 Dec 11
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Dec 31, 2011
John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, from 1941 to leaving Bush House in 2012.
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DocArchive: Guangzhou - China's migrant metropolis
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Dec 29, 2011
China's economy depends on a system regulating workers from around China and beyond. In Guangzhou, the migrant metropolis, Mukul Devichand hears stories of anger and reform.
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Docs: Goodbye To Bush House: Part One 24 Dec 11
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Dec 24, 2011
John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, from 1941 to leaving Bush House in 2012.
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Docs: The Truth About NGOs - India 27 Dec 11
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Dec 23, 2011
Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in India. Who really benefits from the work of NGOs?
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Docs: The Songs of Comrade Time: 24 Dec 11
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Dec 23, 2011
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 of the Soviet Union to the furthest reaches of the Red Empire. Then, in 1991, the world they had sung about ceased to exist and the Soviet Union passed into memory. Monica Whitlock goes in search of The Children's Choir of the USSR.
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DocArchive: Assignment - France Food Fights
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Dec 22, 2011
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 French cuisine has lost its way. Now there's a new generation of food-lovers hoping to change that. But what do the traditionalists make of it all? Robyn Bresnahan reports.
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Docs: Tales From The Arab Spring: Whose Tomorrow? (Syria) 22 Dec 11
Author: BBC World Service
Wed, Dec 21, 2011
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 first hand.
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Docs: Tales From The Arab Spring: Counter Revolution (Libya) 21 Dec 11
Author: BBC World Service
Wed, Dec 21, 2011
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 first hand.
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Docs: The Truth About NGOs - Malawi 20 Dec 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Dec 20, 2011
Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in Haiti, Malawi and India.
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Docs: Tales From The Arab Spring: Revolution (Egypt) 20 Dec 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Dec 20, 2011
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 first hand.
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Docs: Boundaries Of Blood: Part Two 17 Dec 11
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Dec 17, 2011
Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan.
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DocArchive: Assignment Cholera in Haiti
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
A hard hitting Assignment from Mark Doyle who reports on the massive cholera outbreak in Haiti and the controversy that surrounds it.
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Docs: Boundaries Of Blood: Part One 10 Dec 11
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Dec 09, 2011
Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan.
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DocArchive: Exposing Bali's Orphanages
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
In Assignment Ed Butler investigates reports that some orphanages in Bali are being run as commercial rackets and that children there are being exploited for the owners' benefit.
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Docs: Out In The World: Part Two 06 Dec 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Dec 06, 2011
Richard Coles confronts accusations that the West is attempting to force gay rights on Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
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Docs: Knitting In Tripoli 03 Dec 11
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Dec 03, 2011
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 of Gaddafi's dark shadow. Rana Jawad became the BBC website's Tripoli Witness and took up knitting and baking to cope with the strains of living in hiding and secretly gathering information.
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Docs: A New Global Economics: Radical Economics - Part Two
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Dec 02, 2011
Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with the system rather than a mere failure of policy? This two-part series investigates two schools of economics with radical solutions. In part two Paul Mason asks whether the expansion of credit created a new form of worker exploitation.
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DocArchive: The Missing in Kashmir
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
A dark secret lies beneath the earth in Indian Kashmir. Bodies - thousands of them. Who are they and how did they die? Jill McGivering reports for Assignment.
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Docs: Out In The World: Part One 29 Nov 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Nov 29, 2011
Richard Coles confronts accusations that the West is attempting to force gay rights on Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
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Docs: The Trouble With Condoms 28 Nov 11
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Nov 26, 2011
Around one million people around the world are infected with a sexually transmitted disease every single day. Yet even those with easy access to condoms often choose not to use them. Paul Bakibinga sets out to discover why.
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DocArchive: A New Global Economics: Radical Economics - Part One
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Nov 26, 2011
Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with the system rather than a mere failure of policy? This two-part series investigates two schools of economics with radical solutions. In part one, Jamie Whyte looks at the free market Austrian School of F.A. Hayek.
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DocArchive: Assignment - Roubles & Radicals in Dagestan
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
A Dagestani billionaire, Suleiman Kerimov is bankrolling a football club and building new sports facilities across the country in the hope of encouraging the young to turn away from militant Islam. Lucy Ash reports.
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DocArchive: New Global Economics: The Shock & the Shift: 22 Nov 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Nov 22, 2011
Martin Wolf, Chief Economic Commentator of The Financial Times, examines how the world has changed since the beginning of the financial crisis four years ago, and asks if the pre-2007 era might be the high point for free market capitalism.
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DocArchive: The Boy With The Violin
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Nov 18, 2011
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 Lanka.
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DocArchive: Upsetting The Apple Cart - The Genius of Steve Jobs
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
Mark Gregory examines the legacy of Steve Jobs. How will he be compared to the great American entrepreneurs of the past, such as Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie?Did he invent a new way of doing business?
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DocArchive: Assignment - India's Whistleblowers
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
Rupa Jha reports for Assignment on India's whistleblowers - the people who find themselves on the frontline of the country's anti-corruption struggle.
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DocArchive: A Short History Of Story: Part Two: 11 Nov 11
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Nov 11, 2011
Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths through to today's online gaming and the recording of our personal lives by way of social media.
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DocArchive: The Dark Side Of Diplomacy: Part Two: 08 Nov 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Nov 08, 2011
Diplomacy is often presented as an artform, the peak of civilisation in a barren political world. But what happens when it is conducted with torturers, murderers and serial human rights abusers? Lyse Doucet asks diplomats, politicians and activists how we should engage with brutal regimes.
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DocArchive: The state of Israel
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Nov 08, 2011
Tim Franks reports from Israel for Assignment on how the country now sees itself as political upheaval in neighbouring countries continues to change long held perceptions and alliances.
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DocArchive: A Short History Of Story: Part one: 05 Nov 11
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Nov 05, 2011
Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths through to today's online gaming and the recording of our personal lives by way of social media.
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DocArchive: Assignment: Spain's Stolen Babies: 03 Nov 11
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
Katya meets the heartbroken families in Spain searching for their children and the trafficked babies, now grown up, searching for their biological relatives and their true identities.
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DocArchive: The Dark Side Of Diplomacy: Part One: 01 Nov 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Nov 01, 2011
Diplomacy is often presented as an artform, the peak of civilisation in a barren political world. But what happens when it is conducted with torturers, murderers and serial human rights abusers? Lyse Doucet asks diplomats, politicians and activists how we should engage with brutal regimes.
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DocArchive: After The Dictators: 29 Oct 11
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Oct 29, 2011
As Libyans absorb the impact of the death of Gaddafi, Owen Bennett-Jones presents a special programme exploring what happens after dictators leave power.
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DocArchive: Musical Migrants: Zanzibar
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Oct 29, 2011
Meet Yusuf Mahmoud, who swapped Cheltenham for Zanzibar because of his love of African music.
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DocArchive: One Day In Syria
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Oct 27, 2011
For Assignment, Bill Law paints a portrait of one day in the Syrian revolution, talking via the internet and phone to people across the country.
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DocArchive: The British Establishment: Who For? - Part Two: 25 Oct 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Oct 25, 2011
Why does Britain's narrow and elite establishment keep stumbling from crisis to crisis?
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DocArchive: Musical Migrants: Nashville - Episode 2
Author: BBC World Service
Mon, Oct 24, 2011
Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music. In part two, Jesse Lee Jones explains how his love of country music took him from Brazil to Nashville.
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DocArchive: Musical Migrants: Milan - Episode 1
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Oct 21, 2011
Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music. In part one Pedro Carrillo from Venezuela fell in love with Italian opera and moved to Milan.
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DocArchive: Assignment Ivory Coast: A family divided
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Oct 20, 2011
Robyn Bresnahan reports on how politics is dividing families in Ivory Coast.
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DocArchive: The British Establishment: Who For? - Part One: 18 Oct 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Oct 18, 2011
Michael Goldfarb looks at why Britain's narrow and elite establishment keeps stumbling from crisis to crisis.
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DocArchive: Lives In Landscape
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Oct 14, 2011
Alan Dein explores the impact of last summer's riots on a London man and his friends in the immediate aftermath of the rioting.
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DocArchive: Defining Hezbollah
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Oct 13, 2011
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 people support it? For Assignment Owen Bennett Jones reports from southern Lebanon on the nature and structure of the Shia movement that is so difficult to define.
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DocArchive: Controlling People: Part Three: 11 October 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Oct 11, 2011
The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals.
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DocArchive: Down and Out in Paris and London
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Oct 07, 2011
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 changed? Retracing the writer's footsteps, Emma Jane Kirby finds the hallmarks of poverty identified by Orwell - addiction, exhaustion and, often, a quiet dignity - are as apparent now as they were then.
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DocArchive: Fading Voices
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Oct 06, 2011
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 an all male choir as their numbers decline and their voices fade.
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DocArchive: Controlling People: Part Two: 4 October 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Oct 04, 2011
The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals.
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DocArchive: Listening Post - Episode Two
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Sep 30, 2011
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, who 50 years ago started fostering. She has cared for countless children and was awarded an MBE in 1973 for her involvement in community relations - making her the first black female recipient.
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DocArchive: Assignment - Supporting Fenerbahce
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
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 the first game of the season. Tim Mansel went to meet them.
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DocArchive: Controlling People: Part One: 27 September 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Sep 27, 2011
The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals.
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DocArchive: Listening Post - Episode One
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Sep 23, 2011
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 at 19 was about to start a prison sentence of five to 15 years. Now almost two decades on, he has managed to turn his life around.
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DocArchive: Assignment - Rangers v Celtic
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
Strong views and language from the fans of Scotland's top football clubs - Rangers and Celtic. But how sectarian is their rivalry? Rob Walker reports for Assignment.
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DocArchive: The Future of Amnesty International: Part Two: 20 September 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Sep 20, 2011
Matthew Bannister tells the story of Amnesty International at 50, and discusses its future on the world stage.
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DocArchive: Always Hope: Cambodia's New Music
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Sep 16, 2011
How Cambodia's contemporary music scene is creating a new golden era for a country recovering from the dark years of Pol Pot's rule.
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DocArchive: Assignment - Zimbabwe's Migrant Children
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Sep 15, 2011
Mukul Devichand goes on the road with young children travelling alone on a journey of desperation, danger and hope - south from Zimbabwe and across the border to South Africa.
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DocArchive: The Future of Amnesty International: Part One: 13 September 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Sep 13, 2011
Matthew Bannister tells the story of Amnesty International at 50, and discusses its future on the world stage.
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DocArchive: Iconic Geometry - The Great Pyramid
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Sep 10, 2011
eading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known histories of three celebrated monuments: Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramid, to reveal the hidden geometry at their cores.
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DocArchive: Assignment - The Indignants of Greece
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Sep 08, 2011
As the Greek government struggles to tackle it's massive debt crisis, Ed Butler travels to Athens for Assignment to investigate the so-called Indignants - the popular protest movement gathering pace across the country.
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DocArchive: The Secret War On Terror: Part Two: 06 September 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Sep 06, 2011
The Secret War On Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war which has been fought against al-Qaeda over the last decade since 9/11.
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DocArchive: Iconic Geometry - The Taj Mahal
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Sep 03, 2011
Leading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known histories of three celebrated monuments: Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramid, to reveal the hidden geometry at their cores.
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DocArchive: The Mystery of Dirar Abu Sisi
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
Gabriel Gatehouse investigates the mysterious disappearance of Dirar Abu Sisi. He vanished from a train in Ukraine in February and turned up in an Israeli prison nine days later. Is he really the brains behind Hamas' missile programme, as Israel claims?
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DocArchive: The Secret War On Terror: Part One: 30 August 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Aug 30, 2011
The Secret War On Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war which has been fought against al-Qaeda over the last decade since 9/11.
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DocArchive: Iconic Geometry - Stonehenge
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Aug 27, 2011
Leading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known histories of three celebrated monuments: Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramid, to reveal the hidden geometry at their cores.
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DocArchive: The Road To Tripoli
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Aug 25, 2011
Events in Libya have reached a dramatic conclusion.
After a six month uprising, rebel forces have swept into the capital Tripoli. The Leader Colonel Gaddafi, after almost 42 years in power, has been forced from power. James Reynolds reports how this happened and what were the key turning points in Libya's conflict.
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DocArchive: The Day the Wall Went Up: Part Two: 23 August 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Aug 23, 2011
On the Berlin Wall's 50th anniversary, Gerry Northam looks at its political context and its human consequences.
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DocArchive: The Too Hard Basket
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Aug 20, 2011
Warning: This documentary contains conversations about sexual experience. Disabled people are rarely touched in a loving way or thought of as sexually desirable yet they have the same need for a sex life as everyone else. John Blades, who has a major disability himself, takes a look at the importance of touch to every human being.
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DocArchive: Assignment - August Central America
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Aug 18, 2011
Linda Pressly follows the migrants heading north through Guatemala into Mexico – despite the dangers of kidnap by the notorious Zetas gang.
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DocArchive: The Day the Wall Went Up: Part One: 16 August 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Aug 16, 2011
On the Berlin Wall's 50th anniversary, Gerry Northam looks at its political context and its human consequences.
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DocArchive: The Education of Ashif Jaffer
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Aug 13, 2011
Can a young Canadian man with Down's Syndrome get a university degree? Alisa Siegal follows the story of Ashif Jaffer who wants to fulfil his dream for a university education and the degree that goes with it.
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DocArchive: Assignment: Zimbabwe's Diamond Fields
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Aug 11, 2011
Have you bought a diamond recently? Would you really know where it came from? Assignment goes into Zimbabwe's Marange diamond fields and uncovers evidence of torture camps and wide-scale killings.
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DocArchive: The Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Aug 09, 2011
BBC Security correspondent Gordon Corera tells the untold tale of how the Americans hunted their most wanted man - from the caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan through to his stronghold in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.
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DocArchive: India's Working Children
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Aug 04, 2011
Nina Robinson reports from India where the booming economy has fuelled a demand for cheap domestic labour. She finds that children are filling the gaps, with evidence of trafficking and youngsters being set to work in households, where they are open to abuse with little hope of ever going to school.
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DocArchive: Ruling Iran: A Profile of the Supreme Leader
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Aug 02, 2011
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is Iran's Supreme Leader, a position he has held since 1989. Ayatollah Khamenei is the most powerful man in Iran, though one of the country's least scrutinised politicians. So who is this man? And how has he consolidated the Revolution? The BBC's Iran correspondent, James Reynolds, charts the Ayatollah’s reign and, through a number of interviews with relatives, biographers and politicians, builds a profile of Iran's most powerful man.
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DocArchive: Assignment: The Afghan Governors
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Jul 28, 2011
Ten years after foreign forces invaded Afghanistan, they've begun to hand full responsibility back to Afghans. Lyse Doucet, who's been covering Afghanistan for more than 20 years, travels around Afghanistan to meet the Afghans in charge.
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DocArchive: Afghanistan: War Without End?
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Jul 26, 2011
To mark ten years since the invasion of Afghanistan, key decision-makers reveal the inside story of how the West was drawn ever deeper into the Afghan war. John Ware charts the history of a decade of fighting and looks at when the conflict may end.
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DocArchive: The Dead News Network: 23 July 11
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Jul 23, 2011
A medium tells Colette Kinsella what it's like to have a life like the film, The Sixth Sense, how bored spirits play havoc with her love life, and why grocery shopping is a challenge.
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DocArchive: Assignment: Luis Posada Carriles
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Jul 21, 2011
Cuba and Venezuela describe Luis Posada Carriles as the Bin Laden of the Americas. Rob Walker goes on the trail of the man who for 50 years has opposed Cuba’s Fidel Castro and who leaves in his wake intrigue, alleged terrorist plots and assassination attempts.
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DocArchive: Atomic States - Part Two
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Jul 19, 2011
BBC Environment Correspondent Richard Black explores the history and likely future of the nuclear energy industry. In part two, Richard compares how the world's nations are having very different approaches to the nuclear landscape in the wake of Fukushima.
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DocArchive: Womb For Rent: 16 July 11
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Jul 16, 2011
Is outsourcing pregnancy to India exploitative or mutually beneficial? Over the course of nine months, we follow two women, who in each other seek solutions to the problems of poverty and infertility.
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DocArchive: Assignment: On the road with Hillary
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Jul 14, 2011
In this week's Assignment the BBC's State Department correspondent Kim Ghattas has gained rare "behind-the-scenes" access to one of Hillary Clinton's recent overseas trips. Join her on "special air mission 883" as it heads from the U.S. to the Middle East and Africa.
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DocArchive: Atomic States - Part One
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Jul 12, 2011
BBC Environment Correspondent Richard Black explores the history and likely future of the nuclear energy industry. Did the first atomic nations develop the best and safest technologies possible, or have they left the world with a ticking bomb?
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DocArchive: The Big House: Part Two: 10 July 11
Author: BBC World Service
Sun, Jul 10, 2011
Sharon Mascall follows 18 young Aboriginal men through a new rehabilitation programme at Port Augusta prison in South Australia.
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DocArchive: Assignment - Korea's People Smugglers
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Jul 07, 2011
Defecting from North Korea is a dangerous business. It comes at a high price and there's no guarantee of success. Many make the journey to South Korea with the help of brokers who smuggle people along the illegal overland route known as the "Underground Railroad". For Assignment Lucy Williamson meets the brokers who make a living helping people escape North Korea.
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DocArchive: America's Own Extremists - Part Two
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Jul 05, 2011
BBC Washington Correspondent Jonny Dymond, investigates why America is facing a resurgent threat from violent right-wing groups.
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DocArchive: The Big House: Part One: 02 July 11
Author: BBC World Service
Sun, Jul 03, 2011
Sharon Mascall follows 18 young Aboriginal men through a new rehabilitation programme at Port Augusta prison in South Australia.
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DocArchive: The story of Rafiq Hariri
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Jun 30, 2011
Who was Rafiq Hariri and who might have wanted to kill him. Owen Bennett Jones reports on the life of the man they once called Mr Lebanon.
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DocArchive: America's Own Extremists - Part One
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Jun 28, 2011
BBC Washington Correspondent Jonny Dymond, examines why some native born American Muslims are becoming radicalised, and turning their sights on their own country.
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DocArchive: Picturesque Street
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Jun 25, 2011
This year Russia is marking the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the USSR. Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg took a walk down his favourite street to find out how Russians view the past and to hear their hopes for the future.
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DocArchive: Assignment: Alzheimer's in Colombia
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
An extended family in Colombia struck by hereditary and very early onset Alzheimer's is taking part in a new drugs trial that doctors hope will lead to a cure for sufferers worldwide. Bill Law reports.
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DocArchive: Embracing The Dragon - Part Two
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Jun 21, 2011
Will Taiwan's new rapprochement with China bring opportunity, or hand Beijing control over what it sees as a renegade province? Chris Hogg reports.
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DocArchive: Dot.Com Camps: 18 June 11
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Jun 18, 2011
Ruth Evans reports on a unique dot.com venture providing jobs for the poor.
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DocArchive: Antigua beyond Stanford
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
Emma Joseph reports for Assignment from Antigua on how people are rebuilding their lives two years on from the collapse of Allen Stanford's business empire.
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DocArchive: Embracing The Dragon - Part One
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Jun 14, 2011
Will Taiwan's new rapprochement with China bring opportunity, or hand Beijing control over what it sees as a renegade province? Chris Hogg reports.
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DocArchive: The Kill Factor: Part Two: 11 June 11
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Jun 11, 2011
Soldiers who have killed in war at close quarters talk about how it affects them today. They talk frankly about their feelings before, during and after. And they reflect on whether humans are "natural" killers or whether they have to be trained to go against their instinctive repulsion.
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DocArchive: Assignment - Shaken Babies
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
Shaken baby syndrome - the sudden and violent shaking of an infant which often results in death - was once believed to be virtually a medical diagnosis of murder. But as Linda Pressley reports from the United States for Assignment, there's now growing disquiet about miscarriages of justice after such deaths.
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DocArchive: Bubble Trouble? - Part Three
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Jun 07, 2011
Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China is blamed for the record price of copper; flood, fire and drought for boosting the cost of food; and political tension in the Middle East for the sharply-rising price of oil. But are such fundamental forces the whole story? Michael Robinson asks whether investors and speculators are making prices more volatile and examines the role of the giant traders, banks and companies which now increasingly dominate the world's commodity markets.
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DocArchive: The Kill Factor: Part One: 04 June 11
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Jun 04, 2011
Soldiers who have killed in war at close quarters talk about how it affects them today. They talk frankly about their feelings before, during and after. And they reflect on whether humans are "natural" killers or whether they have to be trained to go against their instinctive repulsion.
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DocArchive: Assignment Inside California's Porn Industry
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Jun 02, 2011
California is the world's largest producer of commercial pornographic movies. But, as Ed Butler reports for Assignment, the billion dollar industry is in trouble. The programme begins on the film set of a porn movie in Los Angeles.
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DocArchive: Fifa - Football, Power and Politics
Author: BBC World Service
Wed, Jun 01, 2011
David Goldblatt tells the turbulent story of Fifa, international football's governing body.
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DocArchive: Bubble Trouble? - Part Two
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, May 31, 2011
Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China is blamed for the record price of copper; flood, fire and drought for boosting the cost of food; and political tension in the Middle East for the sharply-rising price of oil. But are such fundamental forces the whole story? Michael Robinson asks whether investors and speculators are making prices more volatile and examines the role of the giant traders, banks and companies which now increasingly dominate the world's commodity markets.
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DocArchive: The Ancestors Are Calling
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, May 28, 2011
The pressure on Lesego Mangwanyane - a South African journalist - to become a sangoma, or traditional healer. Does she have a choice?
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DocArchive: Assignment - Stalin's Toxic Legacy
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, May 26, 2011
Twenty years on from the collapse of the Soviet Union the toxic legacy of its industries still lives on. For Assignment Angus Crawford travels to a remote valley in Georgia where research has shown that there are dangerous levels of arsenic in the soil and water and yet the local community remains unaware of the health risks.
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DocArchive: Bubble Trouble? - Part One
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, May 24, 2011
Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China is blamed for the record price of copper; flood, fire and drought for boosting the cost of food; and political tension in the Middle East for the sharply-rising price of oil. But are such fundamental forces the whole story? Michael Robinson asks whether investors and speculators are making prices more volatile and examines the role of the giant traders, banks and companies which now increasingly dominate the world's commodity markets.
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DocArchive: Assignment Calling for Change in Yemen
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, May 19, 2011
For months Yemen has been the scene of widespread unrest and anti-government protests. President Ali Abdullah Saleh has warned that if he stands down the country risks falling into the hands of extremists groups like al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. For Assignment, Natalia Antelava reports from the capital Sana'a, on how warnings like these feed into the very fear that shapes US counter-terrorism policy in Yemen.
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DocArchive: Wars of Diplomacy: Part Two: 17 May 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, May 17, 2011
In the space of just over ten days in March 2011, the United Nations Security Council passed two of its most significant, emphatic and far-reaching resolutions in decades. Claire Bolderson looks at how the world body used a new-found strength to intervene militarily in Libya and Ivory Coast and assesses how the decisions have changed the course of these two brutal conflicts.
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DocArchive: Assignment - The Pakistan Connection
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, May 12, 2011
The killing of Osama bin Laden has stirred deep suspicions about whether the Pakistani authorities knew the world's most wanted man was living quietly in Abbotabad. For Assignment, Owen Bennett-Jones explores allegations of a web of links between Pakistan's security forces and militant jihadists.
Does Pakistan consider some extremists to be useful allies? And does it turn a blind eye when the courts allow notorious killers to walk free?
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DocArchive: Wars Of Diplomacy: Part One: 10 May 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, May 10, 2011
In the space of just over ten days in March 2011, the United Nations Security Council passed two of its most significant, emphatic and far-reaching resolutions in decades.
Claire Bolderson looks at how the world body used a new-found strength to intervene militarily in Libya and Ivory Coast and assesses how the decisions have changed the course of these two brutal conflicts.
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DocArchive: Building on Sand: Part Two: 7 May 11
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, May 07, 2011
Jonathan Glancey looks at whether Dubai has a sustainable policy towards building in one of the harshest environments on earth. How does the city compare to neighbouring Doha?
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DocArchive: Assignment - Mission Bin laden
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, May 05, 2011
On a moonless night on Sunday May 1st, four American military helicopters descended on a compound in the quiet town of Abbottabad in north-west Pakistan. Their mission to capture and if need be, kill, United States Enemy Number One - Osama Bin Laden. They succeeded and America's most exasperating manhunt was over. But how did the risky operation unfold both in Washington and in Pakistan? Rob Walker reports for Assignment.
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DocArchive: Alive In Chernobyl: Part Two: 3 May 2011
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, May 03, 2011
On the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant, presenter Olga Betko travels to Chernobyl - in her native Ukraine - to find the people who are living in what is known as the "dead zone".
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DocArchive: Building on Sand: Part One: 30 Apr 11
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Apr 30, 2011
Jonathan Glancey looks at whether Dubai has a sustainable policy towards building in one of the harshest environments on earth.
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DocArchive: Assignment - A Matter of Life and Death
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Apr 28, 2011
Jill McGivering reports from Pakistan where calls for debate about the country's controversial blasphemy laws have been almost silenced by death threats and violence. The laws stipulate the death penalty if blasphemy is proven but critics say the laws are frequently being used to target innocent people. For Assignment Jill goes in search of the accused and their accusers.
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DocArchive: Alive In Chernobyl: Part One: 26 April 2011
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Apr 26, 2011
On the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant, presenter Olga Betko travels to Chernobyl - in her native Ukraine - to find the people who are living in what is known as the "dead zone".
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DocArchive: After the Crash - Part Two
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Apr 23, 2011
On the anniversary of the Smolensk air crash, writer and historian Adam Zamoyski examines how Polish politics and society have been affected by the events of 10 April 2010, a day on which Poland lost its President and 95 others, which included many talented public servants and dignitaries.
For Part Two, Zamoyski travels to Warsaw to examine how the legacy of the crash has impacted on a year of Polish politics.
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DocArchive: Assignment: Trafficked from Uganda to Iraq
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Apr 21, 2011
Anna Cavell tells the extraordinary story of a rescue of a group of Ugandan women who were trafficked into Iraq. They were told they would get decent jobs but instead found themselves working as slaves and subject to violence and even rape. They were saved by an unlikely pair of heroes – a Ugandan security guard and an American military officer.
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DocArchive: Who Says I Can't Fish?
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Apr 19, 2011
Restrictions on commercial fishing in Europe were put in place to aid sustainability, but are they still appropriate? Charlotte Smith reports on the British perspective from the northen English town of Scarborough.
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DocArchive: After the Crash - Part One
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Apr 16, 2011
One year on from the Smolensk air crash, writer and historian Adam Zamoyski examines how Polish politics and society have been affected by loss of its President and other dignitaries.
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DocArchive: Assignment - Louisiana Deep Water
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Apr 14, 2011
A year ago, the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico creating a huge oil spill. In the aftermath, the BBC's Robyn Bresnahan spent a month in the American state of Louisiana with fishing families to see how they were affected. She found many communities on the brink, with fishermen fearing they would never fish again. One year on, she has returned to meet with some of the same families.
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DocArchive: Pomp and Matrimony: 12 Apr 2011
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Apr 12, 2011
From the news coverage of the 1923 wedding of the future King George VI to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, to the moment Lady Diana Spencer stepped out of the glass coach, we look back to the glamour and gossip, the spectacle and romance of British Royal weddings.
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DocArchive: Great Expectations: 08 Apr 2011
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Apr 09, 2011
In dense blocks of flats and social housing, just 10 minutes away from the Olympics Park, young people with nothing much else to do, are at risk of getting involved with gangs.
The BBC's Nina Robinson explores the problem of crime for those affected.
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DocArchive: Assignment - Jos: A City Still Divided
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Apr 07, 2011
Assignment reports on the shocking sectarian violence in the Nigerian city of Jos. But Rob Walker finds one neighbourhood where Christians and Muslims have come together to prevent the violence. This programme contains graphic descriptions of violence.
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DocArchive: For King or Country? Part Two - America
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Apr 05, 2011
A committed republican and ardent monarchist examine the case for and against monarchy as a form of government. Part two looks at America - whose very creation involved rejecting kingship - and those who prefer a crown to a republican constitution.
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DocArchive: Great Expectations: 02 Apr 2011
Author: BBC World Service
Sat, Apr 02, 2011
Great Expectations follows the lives of people who live in the diverse ethnic mix of east London, on the doorstep of the 2012 Olympic Games.
It looks at their view of the changes and money being spent around them from where they live - in a deprived part of the inner city, in dense blocks of flats and social housing - known as an estate in the UK. The BBC's Nina Robinson reports in the first of two programmes on the incidence of poverty in the area and how this is reflected in the lives of residents.
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DocArchive: Assignment - Speaking up in Saudi Arabia
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Mar 31, 2011
In this week's Assignment Sue Lloyd Roberts reports from Saudi Arabia where custom and religion are keeping women covered up and largely hidden. But behind the scenes Sue finds women pushing for change.
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DocArchive: For King or Country? Part One - Sweden
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Mar 29, 2011
A committed republican and ardent monarchist examine the case for and against monarchy as a form of government. Part one looks at Sweden - home to one of the world's oldest and yet most modernised courts. Why is it that opposition to keeping the king as head of state is growing?
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DocArchive: How My Country Speaks - Part Two
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Mar 25, 2011
"It just takes 26 letters to create the universe, the word is dismantled and then reassembled through the lens of a pen and verse." The South African poet Lebo Mashile contemplates the role of poetry in her country.
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DocArchive: Assignment - Somaliland - Going it Alone
Author: BBC World Service
Wed, Mar 23, 2011
It’s twenty years since Somaliland declared itself independent but it still remains unrecognised as a nation state. For Assignment, Mary Harper reports from Hargeisa, the capital, where she finds many people happy to be going it alone.
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DocArchive: The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
Author: BBC World Service
Wed, Mar 23, 2011
In a society where the sexes are strictly segregated, it is common for boys to dance for men in Afghanistan at weddings and traditional gatherings. But the tradition exposes the boys to sexual abuse.
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DocArchive: Family Matters - Part Two
Author: BBC World Service
Mon, Mar 21, 2011
Lucy Williamson reports on why Mexico, a developing Catholic nation, is the latest country to turn away from marriage.
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DocArchive: How My Country Speaks - Part One
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Mar 18, 2011
"I was sentenced to 12 years for writing poetry." Russian poet and dissident, Irina Ratushinskaya contemplates the role of poetry in her country.
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DocArchive: Albania's Munitions Mountain
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Mar 17, 2011
Albania's paranoid Cold War dictator stockpiled vast amounts of ammunition to threaten potential invaders. Albania now wants to get rid of the old ammunition -- and quickly. It's even willing to give it away. For Assignment Neal Razzell meets those trying to shift what the government calls "the heavy burden of the past."
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DocArchive: Animals on Trial 15 Mar 11
Author: BBC World Service
Tue, Mar 15, 2011
Throughout history donkeys, pigs, dogs, rats, even insects have been put on trial and some convicted and sentenced. Frances Fyfield, looks at these extraordinary cases of animals in court.
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DocArchive: Family Matters - Part One
Author: BBC World Service
Mon, Mar 14, 2011
Why is the nuclear family model so successful across the developing world? Lucy Williamson reports from Nepal - currently experiencing one of the fastest-ever shifts from extended families to nuclear ones. Who are the winners and losers in that process?
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DocArchive: The Changing Worlds Of Formula One
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Mar 11, 2011
From Italy to India, David Goldblatt examines the ever changing face of Formula One. Can Europe financially support the sport and does it matter that a country like India has been chosen to host the event?
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DocArchive: Assignment - Oil City Takoradi
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Mar 10, 2011
What happens when you take a run down African city and introduce a brand new oil industry worth billions of dollars? For Assignment Rob Walker reports from port city of Takoradi on the impact oil is having.
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DocArchive: What Can I Say? Singapore
Author: BBC World Service
Wed, Mar 09, 2011
The government behind the economic powerhouse that is Singapore guards its reputation for stability to the point of authoritarianism and censorship. What happens when journalists challenge the status quo?
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DocArchive: The Silent War: 7 Mar 2011
Author: BBC World Service
Mon, Mar 07, 2011
Why has India's north-east insurgency lasted so long, and is there any hope of a peaceful resolution? The BBC's Rupa Jha investigates and asks if special powers granted to the military are prolonging the problems.
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DocArchive: The Changing Worlds Of Formula One
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Mar 04, 2011
From Italy to India, David Goldblatt examines the ever changing face of Formula One. Can Europe financially support the sport and does it matter that a country like India has been chosen to host the event?
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DocArchive: Assignment - Imam of Peace
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Mar 03, 2011
John Mohammed Butt travelled to Kabul in the 1960s. Rather than finding drugs and hedonism, he discovered a tribal culture that transfixed him. Now a trained Imam and Muslim, he has dedicated his life to spreading peace in South Asia. But as reporter Nadene Ghouri discovers in this week's Assignment, that message has made him a target for militants.
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DocArchive: What Can I Say? Thailand
Author: BBC World Service
Wed, Mar 02, 2011
In Thailand, what part have - illegal - community radio stations had to play in the demonstrations by activists - redshirt or yellowshirt - that occupy opposite ends of the political spectrum?
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DocArchive: Revolutions in Iran: 28 Feb 2011
Author: BBC World Service
Mon, Feb 28, 2011
How does the spread of ideas impact individual lives, shape millions of minds, fuel revolutions and alter world opinion? The BBC's Afshin Dehkordi is on a quest to find out in the context of both Iran's recent media revolution and the overthrow of the Shah in 1979.
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DocArchive: The Short History of Five Notes: 25 Feb 2011
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Feb 25, 2011
Dancehall singer Sean Paul, Hip hop star Missy Elliot and Malian singer Habib Koite all use a deceptively simple but hypnotic beat from the heart of Africa in some of their biggest hits. But what is it? Music journalist Rita Ray journeys to Ghana to find out.
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DocArchive: Assignment: Depicting Detroit
Author: BBC World Service
Wed, Feb 23, 2011
Nina Robinson goes to Detroit where police have killed a seven-year-old girl while conducting a raid filmed for a reality TV programme. She finds a city asking deep questions about the way the media cover crime.
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DocArchive: What Can I Say? - Part Two
Author: BBC World Service
Wed, Feb 23, 2011
In this four-part documentary, Gary Bryson travels across South East Asia to explore freedom of speech and democracy. In part two he goes to Cambodia. How is the country's fledging media dealing with a nation still scarred by widespread murder and violence?
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DocArchive: Ship of Spies: 21 feb 2011
Author: BBC World Service
Mon, Feb 21, 2011
After allegations of torture and targeted killings, how can the CIA hope to repair its damaged reputation? The Spy Cruise has been set up for the public to sail around the Caribbean with ex-CIA chiefs and discuss global security - but who really gains?
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DocArchive: Tahrir Square: 18 Feb 2011
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Feb 18, 2011
The BBC's Magdi Abdelhadi - himself Egyptian-born - relives the drama on the final days of Mubarak's 30 year rule and talks to Egyptians about their hopes for the future.
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DocArchive: Assignment: Europe's New Politics - Part Two
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Feb 17, 2011
In part two of Europe's New Politics, the BBC's Chris Bowlby travels to Austria and Germany to investigate the rise of populist politics there.
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DocArchive: What Can I Say? - Part One
Author: BBC World Service
Wed, Feb 16, 2011
In this four-part documentary, Gary Bryson travels across South East Asia to explore freedom of speech and democracy. In part one he goes to Indonesia. How is independent media faring since the fall of Suharto's dictatorship?
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China: Shaking the World - Part Four
Author: BBC World Service
Mon, Feb 14, 2011
This series has shown how China is barrelling ahead with new infrastructure and new strategies to import the latest industrial technologies
But China's leaders want Chinese ideas and innovation to drive their economy.
This programme follows people at the leading edge of that effort, in the arts and sciences and for some, it's a time of unparalleled freedom.
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DocArchive: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Feb 11, 2011
"Mosquito one, mosquito two, mosquito jump in a hot callaloo." What are the world's most popular number rhymes and how do they overlap between different cultures? Kim Normanton looks at the different approaches to counting around the world.
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DocArchive: Assignment: Europe's New Politics
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
Chris Bowlby investigates for Assignment how the far right is influencing mainstream European politics. He travels to Scandinavia where anti-immigration parties are increasingly powerful. The Danish People's Party has cleverly used its hold on the balance of power to introduce harsh measures. And the Sweden Democrats have rapidly increased their share of the vote, claiming that public services are being swamped by immigrants.
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DocArchive: One Block in Harlem - Part Two
Author: BBC World Service
Wed, Feb 09, 2011
Michael Goldfarb traces the iconic neighbourhood's story by telling the history of a single street in Harlem from 1910 to the present day.
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China: Shaking the World - Part Three
Author: BBC World Service
Mon, Feb 07, 2011
Michael Robinson examines the social tensions within China that threaten the growth upon which much of the rest of the world now relies.
This programme examines China's leaders attempts to manage growing conflicts and calls for political change - not for multi-party democracy, as some in the West advocate, but for a shift from a system of absolute Communist Party rule to one where individual rights are protected under law.
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DocArchive: Profile: Mohamed ElBaradei
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Feb 04, 2011
Mukul Devichand tells the story of Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Laureate and former Chief Weapons Inspector who some want to see as the next president of Egypt. Could he now unite a fragmented opposition and ride the wave of protest to the very top?
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DocArchive: Assignment - Palliative Care in India
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
As part of the BBC's Extreme World coverage Linda Pressly reports from India on palliative care - medical provision for those nearing the end of life.
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DocArchive: One Block in Harlem - Part One
Author: BBC World Service
Wed, Feb 02, 2011
Michael Goldfarb traces the iconic neighbourhood's story by telling the history of a single street in Harlem from 1910 to the present day.
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China: Shaking the World - Part Two
Author: BBC World Service
Mon, Jan 31, 2011
As China's role has become the world's banker, Michael Robinson looks at the potentially world-shaking clash of cultures between non-democratic, state-planned China and the American-centred world of democracy and free market ideology.
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DocArchive: Japan: A Friend In Need
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Jan 28, 2011
Would you still walk down the aisle if you found out that you're prospective in-laws, the best man and congregation were fake? Roland Buerk investigates Japan's growing 'rent a friend' service and why social standing is driving excluded people to extremes.
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DocArchive: Assignment - India's Microcredit Meltdown
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Jan 27, 2011
Why is there a crisis in India's microcredit industry? For Assignment Madeleine Morris travels to the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to investigate.
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DocArchive: Open Eye: Part Two
Author: BBC World Service
Wed, Jan 26, 2011
Why are racial tensions increasing in one of the most progressive countries in Europe? Joseph Rodriguez goes to a region of Sweden that is symbolic of the divide between the Muslim population and indigenous Swedes.
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China: Shaking the World - Part One
Author: BBC World Service
Mon, Jan 24, 2011
This documentary series examines the political, economic and cultural mechanisms of China's growing global influence. Michael Robinson, who documented China's awakening for the BBC almost 20 years ago, returns to assess the prospects and problems of the unrelenting shift of power from West to East.
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DocArchive: Lost Voices of Afghanistan
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Jan 21, 2011
"My mind is unhinged and I'm sick of the smell of blood / it's hard to stay human in such a morass / to avoid prejudice and bigotry/ to keep your hands clean." Through words and verse, Afghan civilians reflect on decades of war. Listen to their poetry.
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DocArchive: Assignment: Baghdad International Airport
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Jan 20, 2011
A snapshot of Iraq as seen through the prism of its main airport. For Assignment, Gabriel Gatehouse talks to the travellers and workers who pass through Baghdad international airport each day.
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DocArchive: Open Eye: Part One
Author: BBC World Service
Wed, Jan 19, 2011
What sort of relationships do photojournalists form with the people that are the subject of their pictures? Photographer Dalia Khamissy has been documenting the story of the thousands of people who disappeared during Lebanon's civil war.
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DocArchive: Inside the IMF - Part Two
Author: BBC World Service
Mon, Jan 17, 2011
In the past two years the International Monetary Fund has come out of the shadows to play a key role in efforts deal with global financial crisis. Governments say they want it to fix the global economy as well. But what do those working inside the IMF in Washington really think about their role? And are they up to the job? The BBC Economics Editor, Stephanie Flanders has had an exclusive opportunity to interview staff including the Managing Director of the IMF, Dominique Strauss Kahn.
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Wikipedia at 10
Author: BBC World Service
Fri, Jan 14, 2011
As it enters its tenth year, we look at the history and evolution of Wikipedia, which by allowing people from opposite sides of the world to contribute, has grown into one of the most popular websites on the internet.
What does the future hold for the site? Will it simply be replaced by another way of sharing knowledge on a mass level? Or will Wikipedia one day contain the sum of human knowledge? And are there any downsides to this democratisation of information?
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DocArchive: Assignment - Cyber Bullied
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Jan 13, 2011
For Assignment, Nina Robinson reports on how teenagers are navigating their online lives in a virtual world, where they face the very real risk of being cyber bullied.
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DocArchive: Blind Man Roams the Globe - Part Two
Author: BBC World Service
Wed, Jan 12, 2011
Peter White is blind, but travels all over the world for his job. By listening to the sounds of his surroundings, he gets to know a place. What does he discover about the city of Istanbul?
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DocArchive: Inside the IMF - Part One
Author: BBC World Service
Mon, Jan 10, 2011
In the past two years the International Monetary Fund has come out of the shadows to play a key role in efforts deal with global financial crisis. Governments say they want it to fix the global economy as well. But what do those working inside the IMF in Washington really think about their role? And are they up to the job? The BBC Economics Editor, Stephanie Flanders has had an exclusive opportunity to interview staff including the Managing Director of the IMF, Dominique Strauss Kahn.
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DocArchive: Terra Madre
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
The world’s disappearing food tribes and how their traditional food production may offer the world a sustainable model.
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DocArchive: Assignment: The Rise and Fall of Wikileaks
Author: BBC World Service
Thu, Jan 06, 2011
The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, is currently in England fighting extradition to Sweden. Despite this he remains defiant that his whistle blowing website will continue to publish sensitive material. Simon Cox investigates the rise of Wikileaks and asks if it can recover from its recent troubles.
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DocArchive: Blind Man Roams the Globe
Author: BBC World Service
Wed, Jan 05, 2011
Peter White is blind, but travels all over the world for his job. Though listening to the sounds of a city, he gets to know a place. What does he discover about San Franciso?
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DocArchive: Brazil: Lula's Legacy - part two
Author: BBC World Service
Mon, Jan 03, 2011
In this two-part series, the BBC’s Paulo Cabral looks at Brazil’s investment fever and asks if the massive state-led development programmes during Lula’s reign have put the country in the global economic super league.
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