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View the full archive of Documentary Archive DocArchive: John Simpson Returns to 1989 - Part Two The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the story of 20 years of post-communist life. Through personal stories, he traces the different roads that East Germany, the Czech Republic and Romania have taken since 1989. In part two John returns to Prague to speak to those who lived through the Velvet Revolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Dollar A Day - Part Three In Nepal, severe drought and unreliable monsoon rains have led to acute food shortages. The impact is felt most by people like Charuri who is struggling to feed three children and cannot afford the medical help she needs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Crescent and The Cross: Part Two Owen Bennett Jones explores five crucial battles in the relationship between Christianity and Islam. This episode looks at the Crusades. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Better Banking As governments struggle to curb the so-called “casino-banking” practices which some blame for the global financial meltdown, Michael Robinson now reports on growing concerns over super-fast, computerised share-dealing systems which are earning massive new profits for banks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Africa's Forgotten Soldiers Seventy years after the start of the Second World War the overwhelming impression is of a conflict fought on the battlefields of Europe by white troops. Britain’s war effort was bolstered by soldiers from the white Commonwealth – Australia, Canada and New Zealand and later by the United States. The war in the Far East is often overlooked, as is the fighting that took place in Africa. Yet one million African troops participated in the conflict, fighting their way through the jungles of B ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: A Dollar a Day - Part 2 Thrown off nearby farms at the time of Namibia’s independence, the squatters of Otjivero lived a hand-to-mouth existence. Last year a scheme was established to give every inhabitant a basic cash grant of US$10 a month, to spend as they wanted. School enrolment has shot up, small businesses are springing up, and the nurse at the local clinic says malnutrition rates amongst the children have dropped. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Crescent and the Cross - Part One The Crescent and the Cross, a four-part series, presented by Owen Bennett-Jones, examines several turning points in the relationship between Christianity and Islam covering Muslim Spain, the Crusades, the Ottoman Empire and the struggle for Africa. Part One starts by look going back over 1,000 years ago, in what we now call Spain, but was then known as al-Andalus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Youssou N’Dour at 50 To mark the 50th birthday of Youssou N'Dour, Robin Denselow travels to Senegal to profile the best known African musician of recent times. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Guinea on the Brink Mark Doyle reports from Guinea in West Africa on the harrowing events of 28 September when government troops crushed an opposition rally in the centre of the capital, Conakry. This programme contains some graphic description of sexual violence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: A Dollar a Day - Part 1 What keeps a billion people trapped in the most persistent poverty? Mike Wooldridge travels to Nicaragua to meet Justa who hoped for a better life after the Sandinista revolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The extraordinary but little-known tale of Russia's three all-female regiments that flew more than 30,000 missions on the Eastern Front. At home they were celebrated as 'Stalin's Falcons' but terrified German troops called them the 'Night Witches'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Public Places, Private Lives - Part Two Public Places, Private Lives is a series of portraits of well known places that reveal the lives and stories of those people who come to a famous spot not to gaze as tourists, but for work or for their own private reasons. The second programme is set in the Taj Mahal, where we hear the experiences of those people for whom one of the most important sites in India is part of their daily landscape. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Dying to Give Birth Jill McGivering travels to Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, to meet a doctor who is battling against the odds to prevent women from dying in childbirth. Listeners may find parts of this Assignment programme distressing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Rebranding Nigeria - Part Two Nigeria is campaigning for a new image and a new reputation in an effort to attract some much needed investment. Reporter Henry Bonsu follows the many steps of this charm offensive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: MI6 - A Century in the Shadows - Part Tree The head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service Sir John Scarlett, talks for the first time about the interrogation of terrorist suspects and MI6’s role in the run-up to the war in Iraq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Public Places, Private Lives - Part One Public Places, Private Lives is a series of portraits of well known places that reveal the lives and stories of those people who come to a famous spot not to gaze as tourists, but for work or for their own private reasons. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Protecting Britain's Children When a 17 month-old London child died after horrific abuse by his family, it unleashed a barrage of criticism against British social services. For Assignment Catherine Miller gains rare access to the people whose job it is to protect Britain's vulnerable children. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Rebranding Nigeria - Part One Can the home of 419 internet scams, corruption and voodoo ever transmit a positive image? Is changing Nigeria's image an impossible mission? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MI6 - A Century in the Shadows In Programme Two, we find out what were spies really up to behind the Iron Curtain. MI6 chief John Scarlett describes his clandestine meeting with an agent, and the Russian defector Oleg Gordievsky talks about his reasons for coming over to the other side. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment Armenia: The cleverest nation on the planet Every two years teams from all over the world compete with one another in the Chess Olympiad. In the last two Olympiads, the winning medal has gone to a small country in the Caucasus. How has this nation done it? Gabriel Gatehouse investigates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |