John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, to...
China's economy depends on a system regulating workers from around China and beyond.
John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, to...
Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of...
The Children's Choir of the USSR sang to their leaders, they sang to their people, and...
France has long been a country with a reputation for some of the best food in the world.
The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the East...
The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the East...
Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of...
The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the East...
Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan.
A hard hitting Assignment from Mark Doyle who reports on the massive cholera outbreak...
Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan.
In Assignment Ed Butler investigates reports that some orphanages in Bali are being as...
Richard Coles confronts accusations that the West is attempting to force gay rights on...
Knitting in Tripoli tells an intimate story of life during the Libyan war through the...
Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with the system rather than a...
A dark secret lies beneath the earth in Indian Kashmir. Bodies - thousands of them.
Richard Coles confronts accusations that the West is attempting to force gay rights on...
Around one million people around the world are infected with a sexually transmitted...
Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with the system rather than a...
A Dagestani billionaire, Suleiman Kerimov is bankrolling a football club and building...
Martin Wolf, Chief Economic Commentator of The Financial Times, examines how the world...
The BBC's Priyath Liyanage searches for a boy who was carrying a violin case when he a...
Mark Gregory examines the legacy of Steve Jobs. How will he be compared to the great a...
Rupa Jha reports for Assignment on India's whistleblowers - the people who find on the...
Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths...
Diplomacy is often presented as an artform, the peak of civilisation in a barren world...
Tim Franks reports from Israel for Assignment on how the country now sees itself as in...
Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths...
Katya meets the heartbroken families in Spain searching for their children and the now...
Diplomacy is often presented as an artform, the peak of civilisation in a barren world...
As Libyans absorb the impact of the death of Gaddafi, Owen Bennett-Jones presents a...
Meet Yusuf Mahmoud, who swapped Cheltenham for Zanzibar because of his love of African...
For Assignment, Bill Law paints a portrait of one day in the Syrian revolution, via to...
Why does Britain's narrow and elite establishment keep stumbling from crisis to crisis?
Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music.
Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music.
Robyn Bresnahan reports on how politics is dividing families in Ivory Coast.
Michael Goldfarb looks at why Britain's narrow and elite establishment keeps stumbling...
Alan Dein explores the impact of last summer's riots on a London man and his friends...
In Lebanon many people fear that another war between Hezbollah and Israel is just over...
The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a...
Some 80 years after George Orwell chronicled the lives of the hard-up and destitute in...
Facing old age presents its challenges where ever you come from. Nina Robinson travels...
The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a...
A series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals.
Fenerbahce fans are angry. Their club is at the centre of a match fixing scandal and...
The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a...
A series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals.
Strong views and language from the fans of Scotland's top football clubs - Rangers and...
Matthew Bannister tells the story of Amnesty International at 50, and discusses its on...
How Cambodia's contemporary music scene is creating a new golden era for a country the...
Mukul Devichand goes on the road with young children travelling alone on a journey of...
Matthew Bannister tells the story of Amnesty International at 50, and discusses its on...
eading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known of to...
As the Greek government struggles to tackle it's massive debt crisis, Ed Butler to for...
The Secret War On Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war...
Leading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known of...
Gabriel Gatehouse investigates the mysterious disappearance of Dirar Abu Sisi.
The Secret War On Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war...
Leading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known of...
Events in Libya have reached a dramatic conclusion. After a six month uprising, rebel...
On the Berlin Wall's 50th anniversary, Gerry Northam looks at its political context...
Warning: This documentary contains conversations about sexual experience.
Linda Pressly follows the migrants heading north through Guatemala into Mexico – the...
On the Berlin Wall's 50th anniversary, Gerry Northam looks at its political context...
Can a young Canadian man with Down's Syndrome get a university degree? Alisa Siegal of...
Have you bought a diamond recently? Would you really know where it came from? goes and...
BBC Security correspondent Gordon Corera tells the untold tale of how the Americans -...
Nina Robinson reports from India where the booming economy has fuelled a demand for...
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is Iran's Supreme Leader, a position he has held since 1989.
Ten years after foreign forces invaded Afghanistan, they've begun to hand full back to...
To mark ten years since the invasion of Afghanistan, key decision-makers reveal the of...
A medium tells Colette Kinsella what it's like to have a life like the film, The Sixth...
Cuba and Venezuela describe Luis Posada Carriles as the Bin Laden of the Americas.
BBC Environment Correspondent Richard Black explores the history and likely future of...
Is outsourcing pregnancy to India exploitative or mutually beneficial? Over the course...
In this week's Assignment the BBC's State Department correspondent Kim Ghattas has to...
BBC Environment Correspondent Richard Black explores the history and likely future of...
Sharon Mascall follows 18 young Aboriginal men through a new rehabilitation programme...
Defecting from North Korea is a dangerous business. It comes at a high price and no of...
BBC Washington Correspondent Jonny Dymond, investigates why America is facing a threat...
Sharon Mascall follows 18 young Aboriginal men through a new rehabilitation programme...
Who was Rafiq Hariri and who might have wanted to kill him. Owen Bennett Jones reports...
BBC Washington Correspondent Jonny Dymond, examines why some native born American are...
This year Russia is marking the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the USSR.
An extended family in Colombia struck by hereditary and very early onset Alzheimer's a...
Will Taiwan's new rapprochement with China bring opportunity, or hand Beijing control...
Ruth Evans reports on a unique dot.com venture providing jobs for the poor.
Emma Joseph reports for Assignment from Antigua on how people are rebuilding their two...
Will Taiwan's new rapprochement with China bring opportunity, or hand Beijing control...
Soldiers who have killed in war at close quarters talk about how it affects them today.
Shaken baby syndrome - the sudden and violent shaking of an infant which often results...
Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China...
Soldiers who have killed in war at close quarters talk about how it affects them today.
California is the world's largest producer of commercial pornographic movies.
David Goldblatt tells the turbulent story of Fifa, international football's governing...
Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China...
The pressure on Lesego Mangwanyane - a South African journalist - to become a sangoma,...
Twenty years on from the collapse of the Soviet Union the toxic legacy of its still on...
Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China...
For months Yemen has been the scene of widespread unrest and anti-government protests.
In the space of just over ten days in March 2011, the United Nations Security Council...
The killing of Osama bin Laden has stirred deep suspicions about whether the Pakistani...
In the space of just over ten days in March 2011, the United Nations Security Council...
Jonathan Glancey looks at whether Dubai has a sustainable policy towards building in...
On a moonless night on Sunday May 1st, four American military helicopters descended on...
On the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant, Olga to...
Jonathan Glancey looks at whether Dubai has a sustainable policy towards building in...
Jill McGivering reports from Pakistan where calls for debate about the country's laws...
On the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant, Olga to...
On the anniversary of the Smolensk air crash, writer and historian Adam Zamoyski how a...
Anna Cavell tells the extraordinary story of a rescue of a group of Ugandan women who...
Restrictions on commercial fishing in Europe were put in place to aid sustainability,...
One year on from the Smolensk air crash, writer and historian Adam Zamoyski examines...
A year ago, the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico creating a huge...
From the news coverage of the 1923 wedding of the future King George VI to Elizabeth...
In dense blocks of flats and social housing, just 10 minutes away from the Olympics to...
Assignment reports on the shocking sectarian violence in the Nigerian city of Jos.
A committed republican and ardent monarchist examine the case for and against monarchy...
Great Expectations follows the lives of people who live in the diverse ethnic mix of...
In this week's Assignment Sue Lloyd Roberts reports from Saudi Arabia where custom and...
A committed republican and ardent monarchist examine the case for and against monarchy...
"It just takes 26 letters to create the universe, the word is dismantled and then the...
It’s twenty years since Somaliland declared itself independent but it still remains...
In a society where the sexes are strictly segregated, it is common for boys to dance...
Lucy Williamson reports on why Mexico, a developing Catholic nation, is the latest to...
"I was sentenced to 12 years for writing poetry. " Russian poet and dissident, Irina of...
Albania's paranoid Cold War dictator stockpiled vast amounts of ammunition to threaten...
Throughout history donkeys, pigs, dogs, rats, even insects have been put on trial and...
Why is the nuclear family model so successful across the developing world? Lucy from -...
From Italy to India, David Goldblatt examines the ever changing face of Formula One.
What happens when you take a run down African city and introduce a brand new oil worth...
The government behind the economic powerhouse that is Singapore guards its reputation...
Why has India's north-east insurgency lasted so long, and is there any hope of a The...
From Italy to India, David Goldblatt examines the ever changing face of Formula One.
John Mohammed Butt travelled to Kabul in the 1960s. Rather than finding drugs and he a...
In Thailand, what part have - illegal - community radio stations had to play in the by...
How does the spread of ideas impact individual lives, shape millions of minds, fuel is...
Dancehall singer Sean Paul, Hip hop star Missy Elliot and Malian singer Habib Koite a...
Nina Robinson goes to Detroit where police have killed a seven-year-old girl while a a...
In this four-part documentary, Gary Bryson travels across South East Asia to explore...
After allegations of torture and targeted killings, how can the CIA hope to repair its...
The BBC's Magdi Abdelhadi - himself Egyptian-born - relives the drama on the final of...
In part two of Europe's New Politics, the BBC's Chris Bowlby travels to Austria and to...
In this four-part documentary, Gary Bryson travels across South East Asia to explore...
This series has shown how China is barrelling ahead with new infrastructure and new to...
"Mosquito one, mosquito two, mosquito jump in a hot callaloo. " What are the world's do...
Chris Bowlby investigates for Assignment how the far right is influencing mainstream...
Michael Goldfarb traces the iconic neighbourhood's story by telling the history of a...
Michael Robinson examines the social tensions within China that threaten the growth of...
Mukul Devichand tells the story of Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Laureate and former to...
As part of the BBC's Extreme World coverage Linda Pressly reports from India on care -...
Michael Goldfarb traces the iconic neighbourhood's story by telling the history of a...
As China's role has become the world's banker, Michael Robinson looks at the clash of...
Would you still walk down the aisle if you found out that you're prospective in-laws,...
Why is there a crisis in India's microcredit industry? For Assignment Madeleine Morris...
Why are racial tensions increasing in one of the most progressive countries in Europe?...
This documentary series examines the political, economic and cultural mechanisms of...
"My mind is unhinged and I'm sick of the smell of blood / it's hard to stay human in a...
A snapshot of Iraq as seen through the prism of its main airport. For Assignment, to...
What sort of relationships do photojournalists form with the people that are the of of...
In the past two years the International Monetary Fund has come out of the shadows to a...
As it enters its tenth year, we look at the history and evolution of Wikipedia, which...
For Assignment, Nina Robinson reports on how teenagers are navigating their online in...
Peter White is blind, but travels all over the world for his job. By listening to the...
In the past two years the International Monetary Fund has come out of the shadows to a...
The world’s disappearing food tribes and how their traditional food production may a...
The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, is currently in England fighting extradition...
Peter White is blind, but travels all over the world for his job. Though listening to...
In this two-part series, the BBC’s Paulo Cabral looks at Brazil’s investment fever...