John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, to...
Published on Saturday, 31st December 2011.
China's economy depends on a system regulating workers from around China and beyond.
Published on Thursday, 29th December 2011.
Published on Saturday, 24th December 2011.
Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of...
Published on Friday, 23rd December 2011.
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.
Published on Thursday, 22nd December 2011.
The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the East...
Published on Wednesday, 21st December 2011.
Published on Tuesday, 20th December 2011.
Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan.
Published on Saturday, 17th December 2011.
A hard hitting Assignment from Mark Doyle who reports on the massive cholera outbreak...
Published on Thursday, 15th December 2011.
Published on Friday, 9th December 2011.
In Assignment Ed Butler investigates reports that some orphanages in Bali are being as...
Published on Thursday, 8th December 2011.
Richard Coles confronts accusations that the West is attempting to force gay rights on...
Published on Tuesday, 6th December 2011.
Knitting in Tripoli tells an intimate story of life during the Libyan war through the...
Published on Saturday, 3rd December 2011.
Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with the system rather than a...
Published on Friday, 2nd December 2011.
A dark secret lies beneath the earth in Indian Kashmir. Bodies - thousands of them.
Published on Thursday, 1st December 2011.
Published on Tuesday, 29th November 2011.
Around one million people around the world are infected with a sexually transmitted...
Published on Saturday, 26th November 2011.
A Dagestani billionaire, Suleiman Kerimov is bankrolling a football club and building...
Published on Thursday, 24th November 2011.
Martin Wolf, Chief Economic Commentator of The Financial Times, examines how the world...
Published on Tuesday, 22nd November 2011.
The BBC's Priyath Liyanage searches for a boy who was carrying a violin case when he a...
Published on Friday, 18th November 2011.
Mark Gregory examines the legacy of Steve Jobs. How will he be compared to the great a...
Published on Thursday, 17th November 2011.
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...
Published on Friday, 11th November 2011.
Diplomacy is often presented as an artform, the peak of civilisation in a barren world...
Published on Tuesday, 8th November 2011.
Tim Franks reports from Israel for Assignment on how the country now sees itself as in...
Published on Saturday, 5th November 2011.
Katya meets the heartbroken families in Spain searching for their children and the now...
Published on Thursday, 3rd November 2011.
Published on Tuesday, 1st November 2011.
As Libyans absorb the impact of the death of Gaddafi, Owen Bennett-Jones presents a...
Published on Saturday, 29th October 2011.
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...
Published on Thursday, 27th October 2011.
Why does Britain's narrow and elite establishment keep stumbling from crisis to crisis?
Published on Tuesday, 25th October 2011.
Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music.
Published on Monday, 24th October 2011.
Published on Friday, 21st October 2011.
Robyn Bresnahan reports on how politics is dividing families in Ivory Coast.
Published on Thursday, 20th October 2011.
Michael Goldfarb looks at why Britain's narrow and elite establishment keeps stumbling...
Published on Tuesday, 18th October 2011.
Alan Dein explores the impact of last summer's riots on a London man and his friends...
Published on Friday, 14th October 2011.
In Lebanon many people fear that another war between Hezbollah and Israel is just over...
Published on Thursday, 13th October 2011.
The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a...
Published on Tuesday, 11th October 2011.
Some 80 years after George Orwell chronicled the lives of the hard-up and destitute in...
Published on Friday, 7th October 2011.
Facing old age presents its challenges where ever you come from. Nina Robinson travels...
Published on Thursday, 6th October 2011.
Published on Tuesday, 4th October 2011.
A series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals.
Published on Friday, 30th September 2011.
Fenerbahce fans are angry. Their club is at the centre of a match fixing scandal and...
Published on Thursday, 29th September 2011.
Published on Tuesday, 27th September 2011.
Published on Friday, 23rd September 2011.
Strong views and language from the fans of Scotland's top football clubs - Rangers and...
Published on Thursday, 22nd September 2011.
Matthew Bannister tells the story of Amnesty International at 50, and discusses its on...
Published on Tuesday, 20th September 2011.
How Cambodia's contemporary music scene is creating a new golden era for a country the...
Published on Friday, 16th September 2011.
Mukul Devichand goes on the road with young children travelling alone on a journey of...
Published on Thursday, 15th September 2011.
Published on Tuesday, 13th September 2011.
eading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known of to...
Published on Saturday, 10th September 2011.
As the Greek government struggles to tackle it's massive debt crisis, Ed Butler to for...
Published on Thursday, 8th September 2011.
The Secret War On Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war...
Published on Tuesday, 6th September 2011.
Leading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known of...
Published on Saturday, 3rd September 2011.
Gabriel Gatehouse investigates the mysterious disappearance of Dirar Abu Sisi.
Published on Thursday, 1st September 2011.
Published on Tuesday, 30th August 2011.
Published on Saturday, 27th August 2011.
Events in Libya have reached a dramatic conclusion. After a six month uprising, rebel...
Published on Thursday, 25th August 2011.
On the Berlin Wall's 50th anniversary, Gerry Northam looks at its political context...
Published on Tuesday, 23rd August 2011.
Warning: This documentary contains conversations about sexual experience.
Published on Saturday, 20th August 2011.
Linda Pressly follows the migrants heading north through Guatemala into Mexico – the...
Published on Thursday, 18th August 2011.
Published on Tuesday, 16th August 2011.
Can a young Canadian man with Down's Syndrome get a university degree? Alisa Siegal of...
Published on Saturday, 13th August 2011.
Have you bought a diamond recently? Would you really know where it came from? goes and...
Published on Thursday, 11th August 2011.
BBC Security correspondent Gordon Corera tells the untold tale of how the Americans -...
Published on Tuesday, 9th August 2011.
Nina Robinson reports from India where the booming economy has fuelled a demand for...
Published on Thursday, 4th August 2011.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is Iran's Supreme Leader, a position he has held since 1989.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd August 2011.
Ten years after foreign forces invaded Afghanistan, they've begun to hand full back to...
Published on Thursday, 28th July 2011.
To mark ten years since the invasion of Afghanistan, key decision-makers reveal the of...
Published on Tuesday, 26th July 2011.
A medium tells Colette Kinsella what it's like to have a life like the film, The Sixth...
Published on Saturday, 23rd July 2011.
Cuba and Venezuela describe Luis Posada Carriles as the Bin Laden of the Americas.
Published on Thursday, 21st July 2011.
BBC Environment Correspondent Richard Black explores the history and likely future of...
Published on Tuesday, 19th July 2011.
Is outsourcing pregnancy to India exploitative or mutually beneficial? Over the course...
Published on Saturday, 16th July 2011.
In this week's Assignment the BBC's State Department correspondent Kim Ghattas has to...
Published on Thursday, 14th July 2011.
Published on Tuesday, 12th July 2011.
Sharon Mascall follows 18 young Aboriginal men through a new rehabilitation programme...
Published on Sunday, 10th July 2011.
Defecting from North Korea is a dangerous business. It comes at a high price and no of...
Published on Thursday, 7th July 2011.
BBC Washington Correspondent Jonny Dymond, investigates why America is facing a threat...
Published on Tuesday, 5th July 2011.
Published on Sunday, 3rd July 2011.
Who was Rafiq Hariri and who might have wanted to kill him. Owen Bennett Jones reports...
Published on Thursday, 30th June 2011.
BBC Washington Correspondent Jonny Dymond, examines why some native born American are...
Published on Tuesday, 28th June 2011.
This year Russia is marking the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the USSR.
Published on Saturday, 25th June 2011.
An extended family in Colombia struck by hereditary and very early onset Alzheimer's a...
Published on Thursday, 23rd June 2011.
Will Taiwan's new rapprochement with China bring opportunity, or hand Beijing control...
Published on Tuesday, 21st June 2011.
Ruth Evans reports on a unique dot.com venture providing jobs for the poor.
Published on Saturday, 18th June 2011.
Emma Joseph reports for Assignment from Antigua on how people are rebuilding their two...
Published on Thursday, 16th June 2011.
Published on Tuesday, 14th June 2011.
Soldiers who have killed in war at close quarters talk about how it affects them today.
Published on Saturday, 11th June 2011.
Shaken baby syndrome - the sudden and violent shaking of an infant which often results...
Published on Thursday, 9th June 2011.
Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China...
Published on Tuesday, 7th June 2011.
Published on Saturday, 4th June 2011.
California is the world's largest producer of commercial pornographic movies.
Published on Thursday, 2nd June 2011.
David Goldblatt tells the turbulent story of Fifa, international football's governing...
Published on Wednesday, 1st June 2011.
Published on Tuesday, 31st May 2011.
The pressure on Lesego Mangwanyane - a South African journalist - to become a sangoma,...
Published on Saturday, 28th May 2011.
Twenty years on from the collapse of the Soviet Union the toxic legacy of its still on...
Published on Thursday, 26th May 2011.
Published on Tuesday, 24th May 2011.
For months Yemen has been the scene of widespread unrest and anti-government protests.
Published on Thursday, 19th May 2011.
In the space of just over ten days in March 2011, the United Nations Security Council...
Published on Tuesday, 17th May 2011.
The killing of Osama bin Laden has stirred deep suspicions about whether the Pakistani...
Published on Thursday, 12th May 2011.
Published on Tuesday, 10th May 2011.
Jonathan Glancey looks at whether Dubai has a sustainable policy towards building in...
Published on Saturday, 7th May 2011.
On a moonless night on Sunday May 1st, four American military helicopters descended on...
Published on Thursday, 5th May 2011.
On the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant, Olga to...
Published on Tuesday, 3rd May 2011.
Published on Saturday, 30th April 2011.
Jill McGivering reports from Pakistan where calls for debate about the country's laws...
Published on Thursday, 28th April 2011.
Published on Tuesday, 26th April 2011.
On the anniversary of the Smolensk air crash, writer and historian Adam Zamoyski how a...
Published on Saturday, 23rd April 2011.
Anna Cavell tells the extraordinary story of a rescue of a group of Ugandan women who...
Published on Thursday, 21st April 2011.
Restrictions on commercial fishing in Europe were put in place to aid sustainability,...
Published on Tuesday, 19th April 2011.
One year on from the Smolensk air crash, writer and historian Adam Zamoyski examines...
Published on Saturday, 16th April 2011.
A year ago, the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico creating a huge...
Published on Thursday, 14th April 2011.
From the news coverage of the 1923 wedding of the future King George VI to Elizabeth...
Published on Tuesday, 12th April 2011.
In dense blocks of flats and social housing, just 10 minutes away from the Olympics to...
Published on Saturday, 9th April 2011.
Assignment reports on the shocking sectarian violence in the Nigerian city of Jos.
Published on Thursday, 7th April 2011.
A committed republican and ardent monarchist examine the case for and against monarchy...
Published on Tuesday, 5th April 2011.
Great Expectations follows the lives of people who live in the diverse ethnic mix of...
Published on Saturday, 2nd April 2011.
In this week's Assignment Sue Lloyd Roberts reports from Saudi Arabia where custom and...
Published on Thursday, 31st March 2011.
Published on Tuesday, 29th March 2011.
"It just takes 26 letters to create the universe, the word is dismantled and then the...
Published on Friday, 25th March 2011.
It’s twenty years since Somaliland declared itself independent but it still remains...
Published on Wednesday, 23rd March 2011.
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...
Published on Monday, 21st March 2011.
"I was sentenced to 12 years for writing poetry. " Russian poet and dissident, Irina of...
Published on Friday, 18th March 2011.
Albania's paranoid Cold War dictator stockpiled vast amounts of ammunition to threaten...
Published on Thursday, 17th March 2011.
Throughout history donkeys, pigs, dogs, rats, even insects have been put on trial and...
Published on Tuesday, 15th March 2011.
Why is the nuclear family model so successful across the developing world? Lucy from -...
Published on Monday, 14th March 2011.
From Italy to India, David Goldblatt examines the ever changing face of Formula One.
Published on Friday, 11th March 2011.
What happens when you take a run down African city and introduce a brand new oil worth...
Published on Thursday, 10th March 2011.
The government behind the economic powerhouse that is Singapore guards its reputation...
Published on Wednesday, 9th March 2011.
Why has India's north-east insurgency lasted so long, and is there any hope of a The...
Published on Monday, 7th March 2011.
Published on Friday, 4th March 2011.
John Mohammed Butt travelled to Kabul in the 1960s. Rather than finding drugs and he a...
Published on Thursday, 3rd March 2011.
In Thailand, what part have - illegal - community radio stations had to play in the by...
Published on Wednesday, 2nd March 2011.
How does the spread of ideas impact individual lives, shape millions of minds, fuel is...
Published on Monday, 28th February 2011.
Dancehall singer Sean Paul, Hip hop star Missy Elliot and Malian singer Habib Koite a...
Published on Friday, 25th February 2011.
Nina Robinson goes to Detroit where police have killed a seven-year-old girl while a a...
Published on Wednesday, 23rd February 2011.
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...
Published on Monday, 21st February 2011.
The BBC's Magdi Abdelhadi - himself Egyptian-born - relives the drama on the final of...
Published on Friday, 18th February 2011.
In part two of Europe's New Politics, the BBC's Chris Bowlby travels to Austria and to...
Published on Thursday, 17th February 2011.
Published on Wednesday, 16th February 2011.
This series has shown how China is barrelling ahead with new infrastructure and new to...
Published on Monday, 14th February 2011.
"Mosquito one, mosquito two, mosquito jump in a hot callaloo. " What are the world's do...
Published on Friday, 11th February 2011.
Chris Bowlby investigates for Assignment how the far right is influencing mainstream...
Published on Thursday, 10th February 2011.
Michael Goldfarb traces the iconic neighbourhood's story by telling the history of a...
Published on Wednesday, 9th February 2011.
Michael Robinson examines the social tensions within China that threaten the growth of...
Published on Monday, 7th February 2011.
Mukul Devichand tells the story of Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Laureate and former to...
Published on Friday, 4th February 2011.
As part of the BBC's Extreme World coverage Linda Pressly reports from India on care -...
Published on Thursday, 3rd February 2011.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd February 2011.
As China's role has become the world's banker, Michael Robinson looks at the clash of...
Published on Monday, 31st January 2011.
Would you still walk down the aisle if you found out that you're prospective in-laws,...
Published on Friday, 28th January 2011.
Why is there a crisis in India's microcredit industry? For Assignment Madeleine Morris...
Published on Thursday, 27th January 2011.
Why are racial tensions increasing in one of the most progressive countries in Europe?...
Published on Wednesday, 26th January 2011.
This documentary series examines the political, economic and cultural mechanisms of...
Published on Monday, 24th January 2011.
"My mind is unhinged and I'm sick of the smell of blood / it's hard to stay human in a...
Published on Friday, 21st January 2011.
A snapshot of Iraq as seen through the prism of its main airport. For Assignment, to...
Published on Thursday, 20th January 2011.
What sort of relationships do photojournalists form with the people that are the of of...
Published on Wednesday, 19th January 2011.
In the past two years the International Monetary Fund has come out of the shadows to a...
Published on Monday, 17th January 2011.
As it enters its tenth year, we look at the history and evolution of Wikipedia, which...
Published on Friday, 14th January 2011.
For Assignment, Nina Robinson reports on how teenagers are navigating their online in...
Published on Thursday, 13th January 2011.
Peter White is blind, but travels all over the world for his job. By listening to the...
Published on Wednesday, 12th January 2011.
Published on Monday, 10th January 2011.
The world’s disappearing food tribes and how their traditional food production may a...
Published on Thursday, 6th January 2011.
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...
Published on Wednesday, 5th January 2011.
In this two-part series, the BBC’s Paulo Cabral looks at Brazil’s investment fever...
Published on Monday, 3rd January 2011.
