Documentary Archive - BBC Podcast
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DocArchive: Trouble in the Townships: Assignment
Author: BBC World Service Wed, Jul 23, 2008
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.
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DocArchive: Building Better Health - Part Two
Author: BBC World Service Wed, Jul 23, 2008
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.
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DocArchive: Beijing Calling - Part One
Author: BBC World Service Fri, Jul 18, 2008
Russell Fuller follows the difficult journeys of six hopefuls from around the world in the run up to the Beijing Olympics.
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DocArchive: Secrets in the Blood - Part One
Author: BBC World Service Fri, Jul 18, 2008
In this two-part investigation, Matt McGrath sets out to expose corruption, drug use and cover-ups at the highest levels in sport.
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DocArchive: Football's Conmen - Assignment
Author: BBC World Service Thu, Jul 17, 2008
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.
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DocArchive: Building Better Health
Author: BBC World Service Tue, Jul 15, 2008
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.
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DocArchive: Policing the Poppy Fields - Part Two
Author: BBC World Service Fri, Jul 11, 2008
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.
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DocArchive: The World's Shifting Balance
Author: BBC World Service Thu, Jul 10, 2008
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?
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DocArchive: Congo's Contract of the Century
Author: BBC World Service Thu, Jul 10, 2008
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.
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DocArchive: Countdown to the Olympics: Part Two
Author: BBC World Service Wed, Jul 09, 2008
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.
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