BBC Radio Podcasts from The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2007
Debt Threat
The first programme will show how rapidly the shock wave of the credit crunch is and...
Assignment - Blackwater
There are now as many private security contractors in Iraq as there are US soldiers.
Quest for a Cure
Peter Day reports on whether the US Food and Drug Administration will licence the drug...
Global Account - Part 4
Allan Urry investigates links between the Pentagon, politicians and weapons manufacturers.
Assignment - Inside Uzbekistan
Since the Uzbek government put down an uprising in Andijan in 2005, the country has...
Press for Freedom - part three
Building democracy: What is the role of radio in building democracy? In Papua, a new...
Press for Freedom - part two
Freedom of the internet:How do the motives of mainstream news websites compare with of...
Citizen Journalists
What is the future of news, when the internet may undermine the old-fashioned BBC's...
Press For Freedom Part 1
BBC's Roy Greenslade looks at how far reporting 'the truth' can be endangered by and...
Making News Part 1
The BBC and other international broadcasters boast "objective" news and impartial onto...
Assignment - Leila's story
Leila is a young woman in Iran, sold into prostitution by her family at the age of 9,...
Global Account Part 2
Africa's Cocaine Coast - Guinea-Bissau is awash with cocaine and is ranked by the as...
Seeing Iraq, Thinking Vietnam Part 2
Jonathan Marcus explores the impact of these two conflicts on the american political...
Global Account - Part 1
Angus Stickler travels into the disputed "Red Zone" of Southern Thailand to discover a...
Assignment - Inside Gaza
Six months ago, the radical Palestinian faction Hamas took total control of the Gaza...
Seeing Iraq, Thinking Vietnam Part 1
Correspondent Jonathan Marcus compares the impact of the two conflicts on American and...
Jihad and the Petrodollar part 2
Roger Hardy follows the money trail and looks at the case of two prominent Saudi...
Assignment - The internet chatroom murder
This week on Assignment, a story of lust, deception and betrayal on the internet.
Taxing Questions (part four)
The final part of a four part series in which Maurice Walsh discovers why and the have...
Taxing Questions (part three)
In the third of a four part series Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the...
Can America Go Green? - Programme 3
The BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its...
Taxing Questions (programme two)
In the second of a four part series Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the...
Jihad and the Petrodollar - part 1
Has Saudi Arabia fanned the flames of Muslim militancy by exporting its own form of to...
Assignment - The neglected thalidomiders
Fifty years ago, the drug thalidomide was introduced as a treatment for pregnancy...
Taxing Questions (programme one)
The first part of a four part series in which Maurice Walsh discovers why and the have...
Can America Go Green? - Programme 2
The BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its...
In Search of a New Kyoto
In a special BBC WS One Planet debate, we bring together four people at the heart of...
Inside the Climate Change Talks (part 3)
The final part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex web...
Inside the Climate Change Talks (part 2)
The second part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex web...
Inside the Climate Change Talks (part 1)
The first part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex web...
Can America Go Green? - Programme 1
The BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its...
Assignment - Sexual violence in South Africa
South Africa has one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world.
Wole Soyinka Returns to Biafra Part Two
In this part, Wole Soyinka travels back on a route he first took in 1967 at the of the...
Benazir Bhutto - The Investigation
In Pakistan President Musharraf and the former Pakistani prime minister, Benazir did a...
Benazir Bhutto - The Investigation
We investigate the substance of the allegations against Benazir Bhutto and ask whether...
Wole Soyinka Returns to Biafra
Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning author, Wole Sayinka travels back to Biafra and comes to...
Tales from the Commonwealth 4
In the final part of this series Robin White visits Georgetown the capital of Guyana...
Tales from the Commonwealth
Robin White visits Maputo the capital city of Mozambique. After sixteen years of civil...
Tales from the Commonwealth
Robin White finds out about the disappearing Kweyol culture in St Lucia.
China's Long Arm 4
China has turned its attention to the US in its search for natural resources, even the...
China's Long Arm 3
Lucy Ash assesses the wider impact of China's insatiable appetite for natural and on...
China's Long Arm 2
Maurice Walsh considers whether China might use its growing military power to reclaim...
China's Long Arm 1
Maurice Walsh examines whether US government concerns about rising defence spending in...
Tales from the Commonwealth 1
Local broadcaster Eunis Taumomoa guides us through Papua New Guinea, a country that...
Assignment - Afghanistan's war crimes
Afghanistan's recent history has been a long list of human rights abuses and war - yet...
Stem Cell Bazaar - Part 2
Meet the doctors who are trying to introduce regulation of stem cell therapies in so...
The Land of the Mobile Millionaires
Matthew Sweet presents the extraordinary story of Finland's Nokia Millionaires, and a...
Life After Vietnam
Lance Corporal Baronowski's personal recordings, made in Vietnam shortly before he was...
Assignment - Britain's gangmasters
Assignment reports on the fate of thousands of migrants from eastern Europe, who come...
Stem Cell Bazaar - Part 1
Do stem cells really offer a miracle cure? Are the clinics offering genuine treatments...
Assignment - Burma: the road to crisis
The two week uprising in Burma has been ruthlessly put down by the Burmese military.
Rebuilding Southern Sudan Part 2
Darfur has diverted attention from Southern Sudan, now emerging from civil war.
Assignment - Eritrea's persecuted Christians
Assignment reports on the persecution of Christians in Eritrea - home to one of the in...
A Journey from Conflict to Brotherhood
John McCarthy looks at how the Kaduna Declaration in Kaduna, Nigeria, has had some in...
Rebuilding Southern Sudan Part 1
Darfur has diverted attention from Southern Sudan, now emerging from civil war.
We're No Angels
Karin Wells investigates controversial new laws in Poland that require over 35s to...
Top of the Class - Part 2
Owen Bennett-Jones visits two of the world's leading educational establishments - and...
Assignment - Liverpool's drug gangs
Assignment reports on how a once model public housing project in Liverpool, has become...
The Clinton Years Part 4
Gavin Esler tells the story of Bill Clinton's controversial and colourful presidency,...
On the road in Iraq
Many ordinary people in Iraq continue to live in extraordianry circumstances.
Assignment - Rough justice in Japan
We report on a miscarriage of justice in Japan - a case which has opened a debate how...
Top of the Class - Part 1
Education matters - Owen Bennett-Jones visits educational establishments which have to...
The Clinton Years Part 3
Having won a second term, Clinton found new confidence when dealing with foreign policy.
Heritage, The Balkans - Part Four: Butrint, Albania
Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's...
The Clinton Years - part 2
From authorising emergency bailout during the Mexican economic collapse to balancing...
Mother's Mountain
In August 1986 Julie Tullis became the first British woman climber to reach the summit...
Heritage, The Balkans - Part Three: Bosnia
Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's...
The Clinton Years - Part 1
When William Jefferson Clinton was elected President of the United States on 3 1992,...
Sudan: The Lost Boy Returns
Jane Little follows one of the "Lost Boys of Sudan" who goes back to be reunited with...
Heritage, The Balkans - Part Two: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's...
Zimbabwe Out of Control - Part 2
In the second of these two programmes, Paul Bakibinga considers how Zimbabwe might one...
Malaria and Fake Drugs
Jill McGivering follows the trail of fake drugs, from the marginalised communities at...
Heritage, The Balkans - Part One: Kosovo
Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's...
Maids: The Untold Story Part 1
It reads like a soap opera, but this is not fiction: round-the-clock confinement, and...
Zimbabwe Out of Control - Part 1
In the first of two programmes, Paul Bakibinga considers the causes behind the of the...
Assignment: Ghanaian Drug Mules
Gabby O'Donnell goes to Ghana to meet some convicted drugs mules, and hears how they,...
Maids: The Untold Story - Part Two
In the second programme, Judith Kampfner looks at women who work as maids in their own...
Coming Out Part 2
In South Africa, equality - on the basis of race, language, culture and sexual - are...
The Generals Debate Iraq
Owen Bennett-Jones chairs a unique debate with some of the most senior and influential...