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Docs: The Truth About NGOs - Malawi 20 Dec 11 Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in Haiti, Malawi and India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Docs: Tales From The Arab Spring: Revolution (Egypt) 20 Dec 11 The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the Middle East and hears from those who witnessed events at first hand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Docs: Boundaries Of Blood: Part Two 17 Dec 11 Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment Cholera in Haiti A hard hitting Assignment from Mark Doyle who reports on the massive cholera outbreak in Haiti and the controversy that surrounds it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Docs: Boundaries Of Blood: Part One 10 Dec 11 Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Exposing Bali's Orphanages In Assignment Ed Butler investigates reports that some orphanages in Bali are being run as commercial rackets and that children there are being exploited for the owners' benefit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Docs: Out In The World: Part Two 06 Dec 11 Richard Coles confronts accusations that the West is attempting to force gay rights on Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Docs: Knitting In Tripoli 03 Dec 11 Knitting in Tripoli tells an intimate story of life during the Libyan war through the eyes of people who battled their own fears to step out of Gaddafi's dark shadow. Rana Jawad became the BBC website's Tripoli Witness and took up knitting and baking to cope with the strains of living in hiding and secretly gathering information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Docs: A New Global Economics: Radical Economics - Part Two Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with the system rather than a mere failure of policy? This two-part series investigates two schools of economics with radical solutions. In part two Paul Mason asks whether the expansion of credit created a new form of worker exploitation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Missing in Kashmir A dark secret lies beneath the earth in Indian Kashmir. Bodies - thousands of them. Who are they and how did they die? Jill McGivering reports for Assignment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Docs: Out In The World: Part One 29 Nov 11 Richard Coles confronts accusations that the West is attempting to force gay rights on Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Docs: The Trouble With Condoms 28 Nov 11 Around one million people around the world are infected with a sexually transmitted disease every single day. Yet even those with easy access to condoms often choose not to use them. Paul Bakibinga sets out to discover why. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: A New Global Economics: Radical Economics - Part One Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with the system rather than a mere failure of policy? This two-part series investigates two schools of economics with radical solutions. In part one, Jamie Whyte looks at the free market Austrian School of F.A. Hayek. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Roubles & Radicals in Dagestan A Dagestani billionaire, Suleiman Kerimov is bankrolling a football club and building new sports facilities across the country in the hope of encouraging the young to turn away from militant Islam. Lucy Ash reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: New Global Economics: The Shock & the Shift: 22 Nov 11 Martin Wolf, Chief Economic Commentator of The Financial Times, examines how the world has changed since the beginning of the financial crisis four years ago, and asks if the pre-2007 era might be the high point for free market capitalism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Boy With The Violin The BBC's Priyath Liyanage searches for a boy who was carrying a violin case when he was used as a human shield by the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Upsetting The Apple Cart - The Genius of Steve Jobs Mark Gregory examines the legacy of Steve Jobs. How will he be compared to the great American entrepreneurs of the past, such as Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie?Did he invent a new way of doing business? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - India's Whistleblowers Rupa Jha reports for Assignment on India's whistleblowers - the people who find themselves on the frontline of the country's anti-corruption struggle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: A Short History Of Story: Part Two: 11 Nov 11 Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths through to today's online gaming and the recording of our personal lives by way of social media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Dark Side Of Diplomacy: Part Two: 08 Nov 11 Diplomacy is often presented as an artform, the peak of civilisation in a barren political world. But what happens when it is conducted with torturers, murderers and serial human rights abusers? Lyse Doucet asks diplomats, politicians and activists how we should engage with brutal regimes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The state of Israel Tim Franks reports from Israel for Assignment on how the country now sees itself as political upheaval in neighbouring countries continues to change long held perceptions and alliances. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: A Short History Of Story: Part one: 05 Nov 11 Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths through to today's online gaming and the recording of our personal lives by way of social media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Spain's Stolen Babies: 03 Nov 11 Katya meets the heartbroken families in Spain searching for their children and the trafficked babies, now grown up, searching for their biological relatives and their true identities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Dark Side Of Diplomacy: Part One: 01 Nov 11 Diplomacy is often presented as an artform, the peak of civilisation in a barren political world. But what happens when it is conducted with torturers, murderers and serial human rights abusers? Lyse Doucet asks diplomats, politicians and activists how we should engage with brutal regimes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: After The Dictators: 29 Oct 11 As Libyans absorb the impact of the death of Gaddafi, Owen Bennett-Jones presents a special programme exploring what happens after dictators leave power. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Musical Migrants: Zanzibar Meet Yusuf Mahmoud, who swapped Cheltenham for Zanzibar because of his love of African music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: One Day In Syria For Assignment, Bill Law paints a portrait of one day in the Syrian revolution, talking via the internet and phone to people across the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The British Establishment: Who For? - Part Two: 25 Oct 11 Why does Britain's narrow and elite establishment keep stumbling from crisis to crisis? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Musical Migrants: Nashville - Episode 2 Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music. In part two, Jesse Lee Jones explains how his love of country music took him from Brazil to Nashville. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Musical Migrants: Milan - Episode 1 Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music. In part one Pedro Carrillo from Venezuela fell in love with Italian opera and moved to Milan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment Ivory Coast: A family divided Robyn Bresnahan reports on how politics is dividing families in Ivory Coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The British Establishment: Who For? - Part One: 18 Oct 11 Michael Goldfarb looks at why Britain's narrow and elite establishment keeps stumbling from crisis to crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Lives In Landscape Alan Dein explores the impact of last summer's riots on a London man and his friends in the immediate aftermath of the rioting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Defining Hezbollah In Lebanon many people fear that another war between Hezbollah and Israel is just over the horizon. But what exactly is Hezbollah and why do people support it? For Assignment Owen Bennett Jones reports from southern Lebanon on the nature and structure of the Shia movement that is so difficult to define. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Controlling People: Part Three: 11 October 11 The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Down and Out in Paris and London Some 80 years after George Orwell chronicled the lives of the hard-up and destitute in his book Down and Out in Paris and London, what has changed? Retracing the writer's footsteps, Emma Jane Kirby finds the hallmarks of poverty identified by Orwell - addiction, exhaustion and, often, a quiet dignity - are as apparent now as they were then. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Fading Voices Facing old age presents its challenges where ever you come from. Nina Robinson travels to Wales in the United Kingdom to talk to members of an all male choir as their numbers decline and their voices fade. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Controlling People: Part Two: 4 October 11 The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Listening Post - Episode Two A series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals. In part two, we hear the story of 84 year-old Sybil Phoenix, who 50 years ago started fostering. She has cared for countless children and was awarded an MBE in 1973 for her involvement in community relations - making her the first black female recipient. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Supporting Fenerbahce Fenerbahce fans are angry. Their club is at the centre of a match fixing scandal and they've suffered the humiliation of being banned from the first game of the season. Tim Mansel went to meet them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Controlling People: Part One: 27 September 11 The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Listening Post - Episode One A series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals. In part one we hear the story of Yusef Shakur, who in 1992 at 19 was about to start a prison sentence of five to 15 years. Now almost two decades on, he has managed to turn his life around. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Rangers v Celtic Strong views and language from the fans of Scotland's top football clubs - Rangers and Celtic. But how sectarian is their rivalry? Rob Walker reports for Assignment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Future of Amnesty International: Part Two: 20 September 11 Matthew Bannister tells the story of Amnesty International at 50, and discusses its future on the world stage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Always Hope: Cambodia's New Music How Cambodia's contemporary music scene is creating a new golden era for a country recovering from the dark years of Pol Pot's rule. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Zimbabwe's Migrant Children Mukul Devichand goes on the road with young children travelling alone on a journey of desperation, danger and hope - south from Zimbabwe and across the border to South Africa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Future of Amnesty International: Part One: 13 September 11 Matthew Bannister tells the story of Amnesty International at 50, and discusses its future on the world stage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Iconic Geometry - The Great Pyramid eading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known histories of three celebrated monuments: Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramid, to reveal the hidden geometry at their cores. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - The Indignants of Greece As the Greek government struggles to tackle it's massive debt crisis, Ed Butler travels to Athens for Assignment to investigate the so-called Indignants - the popular protest movement gathering pace across the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Secret War On Terror: Part Two: 06 September 11 The Secret War On Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war which has been fought against al-Qaeda over the last decade since 9/11. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Iconic Geometry - The Taj Mahal Leading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known histories of three celebrated monuments: Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramid, to reveal the hidden geometry at their cores. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Mystery of Dirar Abu Sisi Gabriel Gatehouse investigates the mysterious disappearance of Dirar Abu Sisi. He vanished from a train in Ukraine in February and turned up in an Israeli prison nine days later. Is he really the brains behind Hamas' missile programme, as Israel claims? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Secret War On Terror: Part One: 30 August 11 The Secret War On Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war which has been fought against al-Qaeda over the last decade since 9/11. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Iconic Geometry - Stonehenge Leading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known histories of three celebrated monuments: Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramid, to reveal the hidden geometry at their cores. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Road To Tripoli Events in Libya have reached a dramatic conclusion. After a six month uprising, rebel forces have swept into the capital Tripoli. The Leader Colonel Gaddafi, after almost 42 years in power, has been forced from power. James Reynolds reports how this happened and what were the key turning points in Libya's conflict. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Day the Wall Went Up: Part Two: 23 August 11 On the Berlin Wall's 50th anniversary, Gerry Northam looks at its political context and its human consequences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Too Hard Basket Warning: This documentary contains conversations about sexual experience. Disabled people are rarely touched in a loving way or thought of as sexually desirable yet they have the same need for a sex life as everyone else. John Blades, who has a major disability himself, takes a look at the importance of touch to every human being. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - August Central America Linda Pressly follows the migrants heading north through Guatemala into Mexico – despite the dangers of kidnap by the notorious Zetas gang. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Day the Wall Went Up: Part One: 16 August 11 On the Berlin Wall's 50th anniversary, Gerry Northam looks at its political context and its human consequences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Education of Ashif Jaffer Can a young Canadian man with Down's Syndrome get a university degree? Alisa Siegal follows the story of Ashif Jaffer who wants to fulfil his dream for a university education and the degree that goes with it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Zimbabwe's Diamond Fields Have you bought a diamond recently? Would you really know where it came from? Assignment goes into Zimbabwe's Marange diamond fields and uncovers evidence of torture camps and wide-scale killings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden BBC Security correspondent Gordon Corera tells the untold tale of how the Americans hunted their most wanted man - from the caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan through to his stronghold in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: India's Working Children Nina Robinson reports from India where the booming economy has fuelled a demand for cheap domestic labour. She finds that children are filling the gaps, with evidence of trafficking and youngsters being set to work in households, where they are open to abuse with little hope of ever going to school. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Ruling Iran: A Profile of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is Iran's Supreme Leader, a position he has held since 1989. Ayatollah Khamenei is the most powerful man in Iran, though one of the country's least scrutinised politicians. So who is this man? And how has he consolidated the Revolution? The BBC's Iran correspondent, James Reynolds, charts the Ayatollah’s reign and, through a number of interviews with relatives, biographers and politicians, builds a profile of Iran's most powerful man. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: The Afghan Governors Ten years after foreign forces invaded Afghanistan, they've begun to hand full responsibility back to Afghans. Lyse Doucet, who's been covering Afghanistan for more than 20 years, travels around Afghanistan to meet the Afghans in charge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Afghanistan: War Without End? To mark ten years since the invasion of Afghanistan, key decision-makers reveal the inside story of how the West was drawn ever deeper into the Afghan war. John Ware charts the history of a decade of fighting and looks at when the conflict may end. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Dead News Network: 23 July 11 A medium tells Colette Kinsella what it's like to have a life like the film, The Sixth Sense, how bored spirits play havoc with her love life, and why grocery shopping is a challenge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Luis Posada Carriles Cuba and Venezuela describe Luis Posada Carriles as the Bin Laden of the Americas. Rob Walker goes on the trail of the man who for 50 years has opposed Cuba’s Fidel Castro and who leaves in his wake intrigue, alleged terrorist plots and assassination attempts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Atomic States - Part Two BBC Environment Correspondent Richard Black explores the history and likely future of the nuclear energy industry. In part two, Richard compares how the world's nations are having very different approaches to the nuclear landscape in the wake of Fukushima. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Womb For Rent: 16 July 11 Is outsourcing pregnancy to India exploitative or mutually beneficial? Over the course of nine months, we follow two women, who in each other seek solutions to the problems of poverty and infertility. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: On the road with Hillary In this week's Assignment the BBC's State Department correspondent Kim Ghattas has gained rare "behind-the-scenes" access to one of Hillary Clinton's recent overseas trips. Join her on "special air mission 883" as it heads from the U.S. to the Middle East and Africa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Atomic States - Part One BBC Environment Correspondent Richard Black explores the history and likely future of the nuclear energy industry. Did the first atomic nations develop the best and safest technologies possible, or have they left the world with a ticking bomb? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Big House: Part Two: 10 July 11 Sharon Mascall follows 18 young Aboriginal men through a new rehabilitation programme at Port Augusta prison in South Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Korea's People Smugglers Defecting from North Korea is a dangerous business. It comes at a high price and there's no guarantee of success. Many make the journey to South Korea with the help of brokers who smuggle people along the illegal overland route known as the "Underground Railroad". For Assignment Lucy Williamson meets the brokers who make a living helping people escape North Korea. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: America's Own Extremists - Part Two BBC Washington Correspondent Jonny Dymond, investigates why America is facing a resurgent threat from violent right-wing groups. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Big House: Part One: 02 July 11 Sharon Mascall follows 18 young Aboriginal men through a new rehabilitation programme at Port Augusta prison in South Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The story of Rafiq Hariri Who was Rafiq Hariri and who might have wanted to kill him. Owen Bennett Jones reports on the life of the man they once called Mr Lebanon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: America's Own Extremists - Part One BBC Washington Correspondent Jonny Dymond, examines why some native born American Muslims are becoming radicalised, and turning their sights on their own country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Picturesque Street This year Russia is marking the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the USSR. Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg took a walk down his favourite street to find out how Russians view the past and to hear their hopes for the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Alzheimer's in Colombia An extended family in Colombia struck by hereditary and very early onset Alzheimer's is taking part in a new drugs trial that doctors hope will lead to a cure for sufferers worldwide. Bill Law reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Embracing The Dragon - Part Two Will Taiwan's new rapprochement with China bring opportunity, or hand Beijing control over what it sees as a renegade province? Chris Hogg reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Dot.Com Camps: 18 June 11 Ruth Evans reports on a unique dot.com venture providing jobs for the poor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Antigua beyond Stanford Emma Joseph reports for Assignment from Antigua on how people are rebuilding their lives two years on from the collapse of Allen Stanford's business empire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Embracing The Dragon - Part One Will Taiwan's new rapprochement with China bring opportunity, or hand Beijing control over what it sees as a renegade province? Chris Hogg reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Kill Factor: Part Two: 11 June 11 Soldiers who have killed in war at close quarters talk about how it affects them today. They talk frankly about their feelings before, during and after. And they reflect on whether humans are "natural" killers or whether they have to be trained to go against their instinctive repulsion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Shaken Babies Shaken baby syndrome - the sudden and violent shaking of an infant which often results in death - was once believed to be virtually a medical diagnosis of murder. But as Linda Pressley reports from the United States for Assignment, there's now growing disquiet about miscarriages of justice after such deaths. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Bubble Trouble? - Part Three Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China is blamed for the record price of copper; flood, fire and drought for boosting the cost of food; and political tension in the Middle East for the sharply-rising price of oil. But are such fundamental forces the whole story? Michael Robinson asks whether investors and speculators are making prices more volatile and examines the role of the giant traders, banks and companies which now increasingly dominate th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Kill Factor: Part One: 04 June 11 Soldiers who have killed in war at close quarters talk about how it affects them today. They talk frankly about their feelings before, during and after. And they reflect on whether humans are "natural" killers or whether they have to be trained to go against their instinctive repulsion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment Inside California's Porn Industry California is the world's largest producer of commercial pornographic movies. But, as Ed Butler reports for Assignment, the billion dollar industry is in trouble. The programme begins on the film set of a porn movie in Los Angeles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Fifa - Football, Power and Politics David Goldblatt tells the turbulent story of Fifa, international football's governing body. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Bubble Trouble? - Part Two Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China is blamed for the record price of copper; flood, fire and drought for boosting the cost of food; and political tension in the Middle East for the sharply-rising price of oil. But are such fundamental forces the whole story? Michael Robinson asks whether investors and speculators are making prices more volatile and examines the role of the giant traders, banks and companies which now increasingly dominate th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Ancestors Are Calling The pressure on Lesego Mangwanyane - a South African journalist - to become a sangoma, or traditional healer. Does she have a choice? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Stalin's Toxic Legacy Twenty years on from the collapse of the Soviet Union the toxic legacy of its industries still lives on. For Assignment Angus Crawford travels to a remote valley in Georgia where research has shown that there are dangerous levels of arsenic in the soil and water and yet the local community remains unaware of the health risks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Bubble Trouble? - Part One Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China is blamed for the record price of copper; flood, fire and drought for boosting the cost of food; and political tension in the Middle East for the sharply-rising price of oil. But are such fundamental forces the whole story? Michael Robinson asks whether investors and speculators are making prices more volatile and examines the role of the giant traders, banks and companies which now increasingly dominate th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment Calling for Change in Yemen For months Yemen has been the scene of widespread unrest and anti-government protests. President Ali Abdullah Saleh has warned that if he stands down the country risks falling into the hands of extremists groups like al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. For Assignment, Natalia Antelava reports from the capital Sana'a, on how warnings like these feed into the very fear that shapes US counter-terrorism policy in Yemen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Wars of Diplomacy: Part Two: 17 May 11 In the space of just over ten days in March 2011, the United Nations Security Council passed two of its most significant, emphatic and far-reaching resolutions in decades. Claire Bolderson looks at how the world body used a new-found strength to intervene militarily in Libya and Ivory Coast and assesses how the decisions have changed the course of these two brutal conflicts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - The Pakistan Connection The killing of Osama bin Laden has stirred deep suspicions about whether the Pakistani authorities knew the world's most wanted man was living quietly in Abbotabad. For Assignment, Owen Bennett-Jones explores allegations of a web of links between Pakistan's security forces and militant jihadists. Does Pakistan consider some extremists to be useful allies? And does it turn a blind eye when the courts allow notorious killers to walk free? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Wars Of Diplomacy: Part One: 10 May 11 In the space of just over ten days in March 2011, the United Nations Security Council passed two of its most significant, emphatic and far-reaching resolutions in decades. Claire Bolderson looks at how the world body used a new-found strength to intervene militarily in Libya and Ivory Coast and assesses how the decisions have changed the course of these two brutal conflicts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Building on Sand: Part Two: 7 May 11 Jonathan Glancey looks at whether Dubai has a sustainable policy towards building in one of the harshest environments on earth. How does the city compare to neighbouring Doha? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Mission Bin laden On a moonless night on Sunday May 1st, four American military helicopters descended on a compound in the quiet town of Abbottabad in north-west Pakistan. Their mission to capture and if need be, kill, United States Enemy Number One - Osama Bin Laden. They succeeded and America's most exasperating manhunt was over. But how did the risky operation unfold both in Washington and in Pakistan? Rob Walker reports for Assignment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Alive In Chernobyl: Part Two: 3 May 2011 On the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant, presenter Olga Betko travels to Chernobyl - in her native Ukraine - to find the people who are living in what is known as the "dead zone". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Building on Sand: Part One: 30 Apr 11 Jonathan Glancey looks at whether Dubai has a sustainable policy towards building in one of the harshest environments on earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - A Matter of Life and Death Jill McGivering reports from Pakistan where calls for debate about the country's controversial blasphemy laws have been almost silenced by death threats and violence. The laws stipulate the death penalty if blasphemy is proven but critics say the laws are frequently being used to target innocent people. For Assignment Jill goes in search of the accused and their accusers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Alive In Chernobyl: Part One: 26 April 2011 On the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant, presenter Olga Betko travels to Chernobyl - in her native Ukraine - to find the people who are living in what is known as the "dead zone". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: After the Crash - Part Two On the anniversary of the Smolensk air crash, writer and historian Adam Zamoyski examines how Polish politics and society have been affected by the events of 10 April 2010, a day on which Poland lost its President and 95 others, which included many talented public servants and dignitaries. For Part Two, Zamoyski travels to Warsaw to examine how the legacy of the crash has impacted on a year of Polish politics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Trafficked from Uganda to Iraq Anna Cavell tells the extraordinary story of a rescue of a group of Ugandan women who were trafficked into Iraq. They were told they would get decent jobs but instead found themselves working as slaves and subject to violence and even rape. They were saved by an unlikely pair of heroes – a Ugandan security guard and an American military officer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Who Says I Can't Fish? Restrictions on commercial fishing in Europe were put in place to aid sustainability, but are they still appropriate? Charlotte Smith reports on the British perspective from the northen English town of Scarborough. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: After the Crash - Part One One year on from the Smolensk air crash, writer and historian Adam Zamoyski examines how Polish politics and society have been affected by loss of its President and other dignitaries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Louisiana Deep Water A year ago, the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico creating a huge oil spill. In the aftermath, the BBC's Robyn Bresnahan spent a month in the American state of Louisiana with fishing families to see how they were affected. She found many communities on the brink, with fishermen fearing they would never fish again. One year on, she has returned to meet with some of the same families. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Pomp and Matrimony: 12 Apr 2011 From the news coverage of the 1923 wedding of the future King George VI to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, to the moment Lady Diana Spencer stepped out of the glass coach, we look back to the glamour and gossip, the spectacle and romance of British Royal weddings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Great Expectations: 08 Apr 2011 In dense blocks of flats and social housing, just 10 minutes away from the Olympics Park, young people with nothing much else to do, are at risk of getting involved with gangs. The BBC's Nina Robinson explores the problem of crime for those affected. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Jos: A City Still Divided Assignment reports on the shocking sectarian violence in the Nigerian city of Jos. But Rob Walker finds one neighbourhood where Christians and Muslims have come together to prevent the violence. This programme contains graphic descriptions of violence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: For King or Country? Part Two - America A committed republican and ardent monarchist examine the case for and against monarchy as a form of government. Part two looks at America - whose very creation involved rejecting kingship - and those who prefer a crown to a republican constitution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Great Expectations: 02 Apr 2011 Great Expectations follows the lives of people who live in the diverse ethnic mix of east London, on the doorstep of the 2012 Olympic Games. It looks at their view of the changes and money being spent around them from where they live - in a deprived part of the inner city, in dense blocks of flats and social housing - known as an estate in the UK. The BBC's Nina Robinson reports in the first of two programmes on the incidence of poverty in the area and how this is reflected in the lives ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Speaking up in Saudi Arabia In this week's Assignment Sue Lloyd Roberts reports from Saudi Arabia where custom and religion are keeping women covered up and largely hidden. But behind the scenes Sue finds women pushing for change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: For King or Country? Part One - Sweden A committed republican and ardent monarchist examine the case for and against monarchy as a form of government. Part one looks at Sweden - home to one of the world's oldest and yet most modernised courts. Why is it that opposition to keeping the king as head of state is growing? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: How My Country Speaks - Part Two "It just takes 26 letters to create the universe, the word is dismantled and then reassembled through the lens of a pen and verse." The South African poet Lebo Mashile contemplates the role of poetry in her country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Somaliland - Going it Alone It’s twenty years since Somaliland declared itself independent but it still remains unrecognised as a nation state. For Assignment, Mary Harper reports from Hargeisa, the capital, where she finds many people happy to be going it alone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan In a society where the sexes are strictly segregated, it is common for boys to dance for men in Afghanistan at weddings and traditional gatherings. But the tradition exposes the boys to sexual abuse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Family Matters - Part Two Lucy Williamson reports on why Mexico, a developing Catholic nation, is the latest country to turn away from marriage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: How My Country Speaks - Part One "I was sentenced to 12 years for writing poetry." Russian poet and dissident, Irina Ratushinskaya contemplates the role of poetry in her country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Albania's Munitions Mountain Albania's paranoid Cold War dictator stockpiled vast amounts of ammunition to threaten potential invaders. Albania now wants to get rid of the old ammunition -- and quickly. It's even willing to give it away. For Assignment Neal Razzell meets those trying to shift what the government calls "the heavy burden of the past." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Animals on Trial 15 Mar 11 Throughout history donkeys, pigs, dogs, rats, even insects have been put on trial and some convicted and sentenced. Frances Fyfield, looks at these extraordinary cases of animals in court. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Family Matters - Part One Why is the nuclear family model so successful across the developing world? Lucy Williamson reports from Nepal - currently experiencing one of the fastest-ever shifts from extended families to nuclear ones. Who are the winners and losers in that process? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Changing Worlds Of Formula One From Italy to India, David Goldblatt examines the ever changing face of Formula One. Can Europe financially support the sport and does it matter that a country like India has been chosen to host the event? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Oil City Takoradi What happens when you take a run down African city and introduce a brand new oil industry worth billions of dollars? For Assignment Rob Walker reports from port city of Takoradi on the impact oil is having. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: What Can I Say? Singapore The government behind the economic powerhouse that is Singapore guards its reputation for stability to the point of authoritarianism and censorship. What happens when journalists challenge the status quo? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Silent War: 7 Mar 2011 Why has India's north-east insurgency lasted so long, and is there any hope of a peaceful resolution? The BBC's Rupa Jha investigates and asks if special powers granted to the military are prolonging the problems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Changing Worlds Of Formula One From Italy to India, David Goldblatt examines the ever changing face of Formula One. Can Europe financially support the sport and does it matter that a country like India has been chosen to host the event? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Imam of Peace John Mohammed Butt travelled to Kabul in the 1960s. Rather than finding drugs and hedonism, he discovered a tribal culture that transfixed him. Now a trained Imam and Muslim, he has dedicated his life to spreading peace in South Asia. But as reporter Nadene Ghouri discovers in this week's Assignment, that message has made him a target for militants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: What Can I Say? Thailand In Thailand, what part have - illegal - community radio stations had to play in the demonstrations by activists - redshirt or yellowshirt - that occupy opposite ends of the political spectrum? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Revolutions in Iran: 28 Feb 2011 How does the spread of ideas impact individual lives, shape millions of minds, fuel revolutions and alter world opinion? The BBC's Afshin Dehkordi is on a quest to find out in the context of both Iran's recent media revolution and the overthrow of the Shah in 1979. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Short History of Five Notes: 25 Feb 2011 Dancehall singer Sean Paul, Hip hop star Missy Elliot and Malian singer Habib Koite all use a deceptively simple but hypnotic beat from the heart of Africa in some of their biggest hits. But what is it? Music journalist Rita Ray journeys to Ghana to find out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Depicting Detroit Nina Robinson goes to Detroit where police have killed a seven-year-old girl while conducting a raid filmed for a reality TV programme. She finds a city asking deep questions about the way the media cover crime. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: What Can I Say? - Part Two In this four-part documentary, Gary Bryson travels across South East Asia to explore freedom of speech and democracy. In part two he goes to Cambodia. How is the country's fledging media dealing with a nation still scarred by widespread murder and violence? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Ship of Spies: 21 feb 2011 After allegations of torture and targeted killings, how can the CIA hope to repair its damaged reputation? The Spy Cruise has been set up for the public to sail around the Caribbean with ex-CIA chiefs and discuss global security - but who really gains? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Tahrir Square: 18 Feb 2011 The BBC's Magdi Abdelhadi - himself Egyptian-born - relives the drama on the final days of Mubarak's 30 year rule and talks to Egyptians about their hopes for the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Europe's New Politics - Part Two In part two of Europe's New Politics, the BBC's Chris Bowlby travels to Austria and Germany to investigate the rise of populist politics there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: What Can I Say? - Part One In this four-part documentary, Gary Bryson travels across South East Asia to explore freedom of speech and democracy. In part one he goes to Indonesia. How is independent media faring since the fall of Suharto's dictatorship? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | China: Shaking the World - Part Four This series has shown how China is barrelling ahead with new infrastructure and new strategies to import the latest industrial technologies But China's leaders want Chinese ideas and innovation to drive their economy. This programme follows people at the leading edge of that effort, in the arts and sciences and for some, it's a time of unparalleled freedom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe "Mosquito one, mosquito two, mosquito jump in a hot callaloo." What are the world's most popular number rhymes and how do they overlap between different cultures? Kim Normanton looks at the different approaches to counting around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Europe's New Politics Chris Bowlby investigates for Assignment how the far right is influencing mainstream European politics. He travels to Scandinavia where anti-immigration parties are increasingly powerful. The Danish People's Party has cleverly used its hold on the balance of power to introduce harsh measures. And the Sweden Democrats have rapidly increased their share of the vote, claiming that public services are being swamped by immigrants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: One Block in Harlem - Part Two Michael Goldfarb traces the iconic neighbourhood's story by telling the history of a single street in Harlem from 1910 to the present day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | China: Shaking the World - Part Three Michael Robinson examines the social tensions within China that threaten the growth upon which much of the rest of the world now relies. This programme examines China's leaders attempts to manage growing conflicts and calls for political change - not for multi-party democracy, as some in the West advocate, but for a shift from a system of absolute Communist Party rule to one where individual rights are protected under law. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Profile: Mohamed ElBaradei Mukul Devichand tells the story of Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Laureate and former Chief Weapons Inspector who some want to see as the next president of Egypt. Could he now unite a fragmented opposition and ride the wave of protest to the very top? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Palliative Care in India As part of the BBC's Extreme World coverage Linda Pressly reports from India on palliative care - medical provision for those nearing the end of life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: One Block in Harlem - Part One Michael Goldfarb traces the iconic neighbourhood's story by telling the history of a single street in Harlem from 1910 to the present day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | China: Shaking the World - Part Two As China's role has become the world's banker, Michael Robinson looks at the potentially world-shaking clash of cultures between non-democratic, state-planned China and the American-centred world of democracy and free market ideology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Japan: A Friend In Need Would you still walk down the aisle if you found out that you're prospective in-laws, the best man and congregation were fake? Roland Buerk investigates Japan's growing 'rent a friend' service and why social standing is driving excluded people to extremes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - India's Microcredit Meltdown Why is there a crisis in India's microcredit industry? For Assignment Madeleine Morris travels to the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to investigate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Open Eye: Part Two Why are racial tensions increasing in one of the most progressive countries in Europe? Joseph Rodriguez goes to a region of Sweden that is symbolic of the divide between the Muslim population and indigenous Swedes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | China: Shaking the World - Part One This documentary series examines the political, economic and cultural mechanisms of China's growing global influence. Michael Robinson, who documented China's awakening for the BBC almost 20 years ago, returns to assess the prospects and problems of the unrelenting shift of power from West to East. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Lost Voices of Afghanistan "My mind is unhinged and I'm sick of the smell of blood / it's hard to stay human in such a morass / to avoid prejudice and bigotry/ to keep your hands clean." Through words and verse, Afghan civilians reflect on decades of war. Listen to their poetry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Baghdad International Airport A snapshot of Iraq as seen through the prism of its main airport. For Assignment, Gabriel Gatehouse talks to the travellers and workers who pass through Baghdad international airport each day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Open Eye: Part One What sort of relationships do photojournalists form with the people that are the subject of their pictures? Photographer Dalia Khamissy has been documenting the story of the thousands of people who disappeared during Lebanon's civil war. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Inside the IMF - Part Two In the past two years the International Monetary Fund has come out of the shadows to play a key role in efforts deal with global financial crisis. Governments say they want it to fix the global economy as well. But what do those working inside the IMF in Washington really think about their role? And are they up to the job? The BBC Economics Editor, Stephanie Flanders has had an exclusive opportunity to interview staff including the Managing Director of the IMF, Dominique Strauss Kahn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Wikipedia at 10 As it enters its tenth year, we look at the history and evolution of Wikipedia, which by allowing people from opposite sides of the world to contribute, has grown into one of the most popular websites on the internet. What does the future hold for the site? Will it simply be replaced by another way of sharing knowledge on a mass level? Or will Wikipedia one day contain the sum of human knowledge? And are there any downsides to this democratisation of information? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Cyber Bullied For Assignment, Nina Robinson reports on how teenagers are navigating their online lives in a virtual world, where they face the very real risk of being cyber bullied. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Blind Man Roams the Globe - Part Two Peter White is blind, but travels all over the world for his job. By listening to the sounds of his surroundings, he gets to know a place. What does he discover about the city of Istanbul? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Inside the IMF - Part One In the past two years the International Monetary Fund has come out of the shadows to play a key role in efforts deal with global financial crisis. Governments say they want it to fix the global economy as well. But what do those working inside the IMF in Washington really think about their role? And are they up to the job? The BBC Economics Editor, Stephanie Flanders has had an exclusive opportunity to interview staff including the Managing Director of the IMF, Dominique Strauss Kahn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Terra Madre The world’s disappearing food tribes and how their traditional food production may offer the world a sustainable model. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: The Rise and Fall of Wikileaks The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, is currently in England fighting extradition to Sweden. Despite this he remains defiant that his whistle blowing website will continue to publish sensitive material. Simon Cox investigates the rise of Wikileaks and asks if it can recover from its recent troubles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Blind Man Roams the Globe Peter White is blind, but travels all over the world for his job. Though listening to the sounds of a city, he gets to know a place. What does he discover about San Franciso? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Brazil: Lula's Legacy - part two In this two-part series, the BBC’s Paulo Cabral looks at Brazil’s investment fever and asks if the massive state-led development programmes during Lula’s reign have put the country in the global economic super league. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Legal World - Part One It is claimed that thousands of people of Haitian descent are suffering systematic discrimination by authorities in the Dominican Republic. Brian King meets the local lawyers who are fighting individual cases of injustice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Battle for Hearts and Lungs - Part One Sue Armstrong investigates the growing pressure on developing countries as tobacco companies battle for new smokers. Poorer tobacco growing countries like Malawi are becoming ever more dependent on tobacco as a regular income. But how do they resolve the dilemma between health and wealth? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Assignment - Cutting the Lifeline in Honduras Money sent home by migrant workers provides a lifeline for millions of the world's poorest people. In this Assignment programme we hear from Honduran migrant workers in the US and from their impoverished families back home. Vera Frankl presents. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: World Stories: The Rollercoaster of Life in Kabul "Why doesn't grandad smile?" Meena Baktash takes a personal look at the Kabul of her youth. What has war done to a city that was once so beautiful and a people so vibrant? After decades of conflict, what is left aside from a feeling of nostalgia? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Brotherhood - Part two Despite an official ban and regular crack downs the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has gone from strength to strength. The the BBC's Arabic affairs analyst Magdi Abdelhadi investigates the secret of its endurance and its global reach. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Wireless World of Gerry Wells Guru, boffin, eccentric and genius, Gerry Wells is obsessed with radio - tinkering with, building and repairing them. It is a fixation that has got him into trouble with the law, but ultimately radio has been his saviour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - On the Run in Sweden Sweden has garnered respect around the world for the welcome it offered to thousands of Iraqi refugees after the invasion of 2003. It's taken more Iraqis than any other country in Europe - indeed one small town outside Stockholm, Södertälje, has taken more than the United States. But 3,000 of those refugees are now living in hiding. Their applications for permanent residency have been denied and they face deportation if they are arrested. Tim Mansel reports from Sweden on why the governm ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Brotherhood - Part one "No taxi driver in Cairo knows how to find the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood. The brothers may be everywhere but the organisation is nowhere to be seen." The BBC's Magdi Abdelhadi investigates Egypt's oldest Islamist organisation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Muslim Superstar Singer Sami Yusuf is one of the biggest superstars in the Muslim world. He's eyeing up success in the mainstream market, but how can he compete in an industry that makes its profit from outrageous stars like Lady Gaga? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Proud to be Georgian How do you train someone to love their country? Two years ago Russia and Georgia fought a brief war over the little known territory of South Ossetia. Russia sent its tanks deep into Georgian territory. In Georgia, the war led to an outbreak of patriotic fervour. In this week’s Assignment, Tom Esslemont has been to visit a government-run “patriotic” summer camp - where young Georgians learn to develop a sense of national pride. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Useful Idiots - Part Two In this two part series, the BBC takes a look at the intellectuals - or Lenin's ‘useful idiots’ - who have praised tyrants, and rewritten history. How was it that so many supposedly intelligent people were manipulated by dictators over the 20th Century into saying good things about bad regimes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Mossad "They teach you how to steal and they teach you how to kill and they teach you to do things which normal people don't do." Security Correspondent Gordon Corera reveals the story behind Israel's secret service. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Korea's lost children Korea's overseas adoption programme began in the 1950s as the impoverished government's answer to the masses of mixed-race orphans from the Korean war. All told, around 200,000 Korean children have been adopted overseas over the past 60 years. About 300 of them have since returned to live in Korea – and many are now involved in trying to change the adoption laws. In this programme, the BBC's Ellen Otzen meets Jane Trenka and Suki Leith, both of whom were adopted by American famili ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Politics in Rwanda Days before Rwanda's presidential election, the government has issued a strongly worded statement denying any involvement in the killing of political opponents. Rob Walker has been investigating the allegations for Assignment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Useful Idiots “That’s what my role was. I was taken around and shown things as a useful idiot.” – Doris Lessing In this two part series, the BBC takes a look at the intellectuals - or Lenin's ‘useful idiots’ - who have praised tyrants, and rewritten history. How was it that so many supposedly intelligent people were manipulated by dictators over the 20th Century into saying good things about bad regimes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | China: Shaking the World - Part Four "This culture inhibits the evolution of new ideas," says Professor Guosong Liu of the deferntial culture of China. Will this deferential culture keep China behind the West in the race to create the next big thing? Michael Robinson looks at whether the political model which has delivered China's fantastic economic growth over the last 30 years is the same model that will deliver growth over the next 30 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Spanning the World - Part Four London Bridge has served as a crossing, a shopping district, a housing settlement and a platform for the grotesque display of criminal's heads. It crosses the river Thames. How did it end up in Arizona? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Jamaica's Sprint Factory Jamaica has a reputation for producing world class athletes. Athletes are nurtured from a young age: boys and girls as young as six enter competitions and train intensively throughout their school years to compete in fiercely contested national athletics championships. Most of these children come from poor socio-economic backgrounds and their knowledge of the risks of drug taking - whether for medicinal or performance enhancement - is limited. There's a debate now in Jamaica about how ea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Listening Post - Part Two The Listening Post is a new series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals and the histories they carry with them. In Part Two listen to the touching story of Belfast-born Philip McTaggart, a man who lives in the shadow of his son's suicide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | China: Shaking the World - Part Three China's social tensions may threaten the growth upon which much of the rest of the world now relies. There have been protests over wages and working conditions in factories of China's east coast but as Michael Robinson finds out, there are long-simmering problems as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Spanning the World - Part Three What personal stories can a bridge reveal? When the he Oresund Bridge-Tunnel opened between Denmark and Sweden, it forged a connection between two countries with a difficult past. How can Swedes from Scania and Danes from Zealand attempt to forge a new unified identity? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Who Jails the Pirates? Why are so few captured pirates brought to trial? Each year hundreds of ships are attacked by pirate gangs, many off the coast of Somalia. An international Combined Task Force now patrols the region and its ships regularly witness boarding raids and seize pirates, yet most are just released or returned to the Somali shore - probably to participate in further attacks. For Assignment, Simon Cox investigates the highly-charged political, social and legal issues which enable pirates to operate ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Listening Post - Part One Mary Thida Lun works is a civil servant. She has had postings in Sudan and Iraq. A seemingly ordinary girl, she is Oxford-educated and is dating a cavalry officer. However she has her own story to tell - a family story from the killing fields of Cambodia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | China: Shaking the World - Part Two Part Two of this series looks outwards at the potentially world-shaking clash of cultures between non-democratic state-planned China and the American-centred world of democracy and free market ideology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Greatest Hits of the World - Part 2 The song Wimoweh, or The Lion Sleeps Tonight has been exposed to a mass audience with its inclusion in the musical The Lion King. It is reportedly worth $16 million, but the composer died in poverty. Listen to the story of a song in search for justice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: China Shaking the World - part one Michael Robinson examines the political, economic and cultural mechanisms of China's growing global influence - and how its rise to superpower status is being accelerated by the world recession. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Stand By Me Ben E King says of his song Stand By Me "It tends to fall in place for someone who needs it." What are the other factors that come into play for a song to endure across boundaries and generations? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: The Families of Manshiyet Nasser Catherine Miller reports from one of Cairo's biggest slums where - in 2008 - a massive rock slide swept away dozens of homes killing many people. Two year's on what's happened to the families of Manshiyet Nasser? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Caribbean voices - Part one The BBC's seminal role in launching Caribbean writing in the region is remembered 60 years on in Caribbean Voices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Every Picture Tells A Story "A good photograph has an emotional component, the iconic photos hit you right away and they stay with you, and you just can't forget it." Razia Iqbal investigates the power of modern images and their ability to appeal to our imagination. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Home from Home Part Two London based British-Asian DJ, Bobby Friction travels to North America to find out more about the Canadian members of his family. How does closer inspection of one's family inform us about who we are and where we come from? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Arizona's Immigration Law SB1070 Arizona has passed a law cracking down on illegal immigrants -- the toughest of its kind in the US. It allows police officers to check the immigration status of anyone they stop or detain, if there’s a suspicion that the person is in America illegally. Driving it is frustration both at Arizona’s role as the main hub for illegal entry into America, and the organised cross border crime that’s come with it. Many support the law. But there is anger and fear among the Latino community: Le ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Tiger v Dragon: China's String of Pearls (part two) Mukul Devichand explores the rising Asian giants, China and India. How will the old acrimony between the world's most populous nations shape the new faultlines of power in Asia and the wider world? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Power and the Passion - Part Four With the World Cup underway, many fans will be avidly debating the fate of their nations in the tournament, but it is at domestic level where football has the most support. Follow David Goldblatt as he adventures into the meaning and madness of the game. Fourth and last stop, the English Premiership’s beleaguered Newcastle United. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Home from Home Part One How does one's family history alter one's sense of sefl? Nihal Arthanayake - a successful London DJ - travels to Sri Lanka to find out more about his maternal grandfather, a lawyer and politician who was murdered in 1940. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Spain's Hard Times Pascale Harter reports from Spain for Assignment to see how families there are coping with record unemployment as the government slashes public spending to cope with its massive budget deficit. As she discovers, many people are turning to their families to get them through the hard times. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Tiger v Dragon: The Power of the Poor (part one) Mukul Devichand explores the rising Asian giants, China and India. In the churn and tumult of India and China's rapid economic growth, which country has done more to lift the lives of its hundreds of millions of very poor? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Power and the Passion - Part Three With the World Cup underway, many fans will be avidly debating the fate of their nations in the tournament, but it is at domestic level where football has the most support. Follow David Goldblatt as he adventures into the meaning and madness of the game. Third stop, the Ghana derby. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Aung San Suu Kyi: Freedom from Fear Aung San Suu Kyi leads the pro-democracy movement in Burma. She has been under house arrest for 17 years. A personal look at the woman behind the political icon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: South Africa's Path to Freedom - Part Two Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian author Wole Soyinka travels to South Africa to assess the past and present of the rainbow nation through the eyes of its finest writers. How has the post-Apartheid nation evolved? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Power and the Passion - Part Two With the World Cup underway, many fans will be avidly debating the fate of their nations in the tournament, but it is at domestic level where football has the most support. Follow David Goldblatt as he adventures into the meaning and madness of the game. Second stop, the Cairo derby. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Crime, Scene, Insects Amoret Whitaker is a forensic entomologist. She is called in to help on cases where it is difficult to determine the time of death. How does the study of insects help to solve crimes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: India's Maoist Insurgency The Indian government is engaged in its biggest ever offensive against Maoist insurgents in Jharkand state in eastern India. Large swathes of the territory are under rebel control and access to the area is rare. British Anthropologist Alpa Shah has visited a Maoist-controlled region in Jharkand and this is her unique portrait of day to day life in some of the region's poorest villages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: South Africa's Path to Freedom - Part One Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian author Wole Soyinka travels to South Africa to assess the past and present of the rainbow nation through the eyes of its finest writers. How has the post-Apartheid nation evolved? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Power and the Passion - Part One With the World Cup fast approaching many fans will be avidly debating the fate of their nations in the tournament, but it is at domestic level where football has the most support. Follow David Goldblatt as he adventures into the meaning and madness of the game. First stop, the Milan derby. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: In the Shadow of the Stadium What is the mood of South Africa ahead of the 2010 World Cup? Audrey Brown talks to those who cannot wait to welcome the world to South Africa, as well as others who are more skeptical. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Thawil - the Red Shirt protestor When Thai soldiers stormed an anti-government protest in Bangkok last month more than 80 people were killed. Thawil - a rice farmer from the northeast of the country - was one of them. Assignment tell his story, who he was and what his death signals for Thailand's future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Travelling Electric In 1951, a black man named Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's travelling electric chair - the only one of its kind in the country. His granddaughter explores this lost episode in America's early civil rights history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Thank You for My Freedom Former Beirut hostage John McCarthy has never thanked Giandomenico Picco, the United Nations negotiator who arranged his release. In this documentary John at last travels to meet him and explores the development of the role of the crisis negotiator. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Nightingales and Roses Iran has an enthralling literary landscape. Poetry extends to all areas of Iranian life: scolding children, romanitc encounters and political protest. How has the Persian passion for poetry has shaped Iranian identity? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Jamaica's 'Godfather' This week's Assignment comes from Jamaica where there have been pitched street battles between police and supporters of an alleged drugs lord. Nina Robinson has been investigating the power and appeal of Michael Christopher Coke - the man known as Dudus - who's wanted on charges of drugs trafficking by the United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Art of War The Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote a treatise called The Art of War over 2,500 years ago. From conflicts in Ireland to Iraq, the BBC explores how his words have influenced military warfare since. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Soft Power - Part Two The ability to get what you want by attracting and persuading others to adopt your goals is known as soft power. Philip Dodd examines the areas where this art of persuasion is being used. In part two Philip Dodd finds out if the values and culture of India can rival those of China - to make New Delhi Asia's soft superpower. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Global Perspective - Wedge Island Wedge Island is located in a secluded spot on the rugged, windswept Indian Ocean coastline off Australia. It is occupied by squatters who will be evicted when a new highway arrives. How are the people there dealing with this change in fortunes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Swine Flu: Panic or Pandemic In June 2009 the head of the World Health Organisation declared swine flu a global pandemic. Governments around the world sprang into action and ordered millions of doses of vaccine. But in the event thousands, not millions died, and swine flu proved to be less dangerous than ordinary seasonal flu. So why did the WHO announce a pandemic and were they right to do so? Imogen Foulkes visits two countries in Europe, one of which ordered 90 million doses of vaccine and used just ten per cent of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Would You Kill The Big Guy - Part Two A runaway train is heading towards five people. You're standing on a footbridge, next to a very big man and the only way you can stop the train is to push the big man onto the track. His bulk will stop the train and five lives will be spared. Would you do it? Steve Evans explores how these moral conundrums are dealt with in crises like war. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Soft Power - Part One The ability to get what you want by attracting and persuading others to adopt your goals is known as soft power. Philip Dodd examines the areas where this art of persuasion is being used. In the first part, he takes a look at how China's global charm offensive is taking shape - why they want to be loved and take the world's attention. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Global Perspective - The Lonely Funeral Civil servant Ger Frits and poet Frank Starik come together in their shared determination that those who die alone in Amsterdam have a respectful and personal funeral. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: A Taliban Class War? In Pakistan, the Taliban are continuing to attract recruits, despite the fact that their violent methods have outraged most Pakistanis. For Assignment, Owen Bennett-Jones investigates the Taliban’s appeal – and asks how much it’s based on class conflict, rather than religious faith. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Would you kill the big guy? A runaway train is heading towards five people. You're standing on a footbridge, next to a very big man and the only way you can stop the train is to push the big man onto the track: his bulk will stop the train; five lives will be spared. Would you? Steve Evans explores how these moral conundrums are dealt with in crises like war. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Cracking The Code The BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera gains exclusive access to Britain's ultra secret listening station where super computers monitor the world's communications traffic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Global Perspective - Middle C A year-long transition from woman to man, chronicled by Tristan Whiston through the change in his singing voice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Goldmine Sachs Assignment investigates how Goldman Sachs has made record profits since it was bailed out by the US government in 2008. Reporter Matt Prodger reveals that the firm is still operating as an investment bank, trading in exotic derivatives, more than a year after it turned itself into a regular bank holding company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Other Guantanamo Award-winning travel writer Polly Evans goes in search of the other Guantanamo, talking to local people about their home and how they feel about it becoming synonymous with what Amnesty International called "the gulag of our times". She delves into the history of the open-ended American lease of this corner of the island - and asks whether the nearly ten thousand Cubans who held construction jobs on the site (and still draw a favourable US pension) have different feelings about it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Price of Bio Fuels - Part Two What are the practical and moral issues around this alternative energy source? Gerry Northam reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Global Perspective - Living in Limbo In the UK, failed asylum seekers like Collen have no rights to accommodation or benefits. They cannot work. And yet it could be dangerous for him to return to Zimbabwe. What is it like for him and others like him to be living in limbo? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Inside Britain's Class System With the British election on May 6th, the BBC’s Nina Robinson examines the class system to see how far it is still relevant to people living in Britain today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Apostle's Workshop Apostle Asafo guides us around his remarkable workshops in Accra, where teenagers can learn trades. Is it really sustainable? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Price of Bio Fuels - Part One Gerry Northam investigates claims that bio fuels - once believed to be the answer to global warming and dwindling oil stocks - are instead leading to heightened pollution, environmental havoc, deforestation, and worsening poverty and hunger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: On the Edge in Soweto Unemployment in Soweto is well above the national average for South Africa. How are young people like Anza, Freddy and Sibusiso coping with long-term job searching and the daily temptations to make a fast - rather than an honest - buck? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Total Recall - The Toyota Story Toyota, the world's biggest car company, is in crisis, accused of putting the public at risk by selling cars that could potentially accelerate out of control. A company respected for years for its core principles, its reputation is now badly damaged. Justin Rowlatt asks how this happened and whether Toyota can recover. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Looking for Jaballah Matar Libyan dissident Jaballah Matar disappeared 20 years ago, and his son Hisham is investigating his fate. Razia Iqbal reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Generation Jihad - Part Three Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists radicalised on the internet. In part three he looks at why the British government is now investing big money in trying to combat the appeal of radical Islam. But will its strategy work? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Return to Trebizond - Part Two In 1923 hundreds of thousands of Christian and Muslims moved between what is now modern Greece and Turkey. What do these communities share after years of political division? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Zimbabwe's New Farmers It's ten years since Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe initiated a land reform programme which saw the forced transfer of white commercial farms into black ownership. Since then the country has been through a period of political turmoil and sharp economic decline. For Assignment, Dan Isaacs travels through Zimbabwe to see what price people have paid for reform and to meet the new owners of the land. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Living With Tourists - Part Two How does tourism affect local culture? In the second part of Living With Tourists, Ros Atkins visits holiday destinations in England and the Caribbean where people have been arguing that tourism ignores the importance of culture at its peril. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Generation Jihad - Part Two Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists radicalised on the internet. In part two he finds out how a network of young jihadists - that stretched across three continents - were plotting together with murderous intent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Return to Trebizond In 1923 hundreds of thousands of Christian and Muslims moved moved between what is now modern Greece and Turkey. What do these communities share after years of political division? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - the French Burqa Ban With several European countries now considering banning face veils in public places, Claire Bolderson reports from France, home to Europe's biggest muslim population, and the place where heated debate over the Niqab began. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Living With Tourists - Part One Is tourism encroaching on lives, highlighting inequalities and causing antipathy between visitors and hosts? BBC presenter Ros Atkins visits tourist hotspots in England and the Caribbean to examine attitudes to tourism and tourists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Generation Jihad In the first of a three-part series, Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists radicalised on the internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: My World Diverse short films that represent humanity. That was the end result of the BBC World Service My World competition. Simon Pitts talks to some of the film-makers whose work featured in this remarkable mosaic of humanity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: The Art of Match-Fixing A series of recent arrests across Europe has highlighted the growing threat of match-fixing in European football. How are the games rigged? David Goldblatt investigates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Queenan's Crime Scenes - Part Two American author Joe Queenan visits Sweden, perhaps the most exciting and important centre for crime fiction over the last two decades, most recently offering up Stieg Larsson's international phenomenon, the Millennium trilogy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Great Writ The writ of Habeas Corpus prevents an individual from unlawful detention. Historically it safeguards individuals from arbitrary state imprisonment. Frances Fyfield explores this tremendously important principle we often take for granted. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Shed Men Australian men are typically defined as confident and unassailable characters, but this stereotype is outdated, and has made it difficult for today's generation to open up when times are tough. How can community sheds help? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Love and Morals in Mangalore Tinku Ray reports from Mangalore in south India where street vigilantes are making it dangerous for young couples to walk hand in hand in public - especially if they don't share the same religion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Queenan's Crime Scenes American author Joe Queenan's passion for crime fiction sees him heading to two very different locations to find out about the nature of the crime there and how it is reflected in the indigenous hard-boiled literature. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Road to Rwanda "I don't know anything about the genocide. I didn't kill anyone or steal from anyone. I just want to get back to my home, to my family property with my children," Sorious Samura follows Vestine, a Hutu refugee as she returns home to Rwanda after the genocide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Other Internet China patrols its cyberspace carefully. The government there closes down hundreds of websites each year and blocks access to many international websites.How do Chinese citizens get over the great firewall of China? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Afghan Bloggers Najieh Ghulami looks at the way bloggers in Afghanistan operate and how increased internet penetration will help the country's development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Virtual Revolution - Homo Interneticus Dr Aleks Krotoski concludes her investigation of the internet twenty years on by asking whether our brains are being rewired by the net. Are Facebook and other social media infantilising and corrupting young minds, or will they encourage a new cooperative way of thinking? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Internet Cafe Hobo - Part Three Nick finds that internet cafes are not just a way to stay in contact with family, friends and football results. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Hackers For Hire An investigation into the expertise of Russian hackers. What makes them so good at breaking cyberdefences? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Netrimony: Online dating in India The people behind the booming online dating industry in India believe they are transforming society. But critics say they are just cementing old prejudices. Can this new online revolution really cross the digital divide to the large majority of Indians who still scarcely understand what the Internet offers? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Virtual Revolution - The Cost Of Free How commerce has colonised the web - and how web users are paying for what appear to be free sites and services in hidden ways. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Spanning the World - Part Two The Ponte Milvio, the bridge that spans the Tiber river in Rome, is a site of both romantic and religious pilgrimage. What place has the bridge had in ancient - and modern - history? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Great Expectations, part two Nina Robinson returns to east London for the second part of Great Expectations, the series discovering the community living in the shadows of the London 2012 Olympics. She hears from Hilary, who has two children, about why she does not feel initiatives from the government really work for families like theirs. Nina meets up again with Darrell James who shows her the new investment at the nearby Dalston Junction train station. Darrell says the change here is dramatic, more so than th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Virtual Revolution - Enemy Of The State How has the online world impacted on global politics? Twenty years on from the invention of the World Wide Web, Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at how it is reshaping power. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Spanning the World - Part One Italian artist Joseph Stella depicted the Brooklyn Bridge in New York as a metaphor for the immigrant experience in America. What does the bridge mean to people who cross it today? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Taxing Questions for Greeks No-one likes paying tax - but avoiding it is a way of life for many people in Greece, whose black economy is estimated to be worth more than a quarter of its GDP. This certainly hasn't helped the government as it struggles to bring down its budget deficit - which currently stands at more than 12%. So why do so many Greeks evade tax? For Assignment Ed Butler travels to Athens to try to get to the heart of the problem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Great Expectations, part one The world may be coming to East London in 2012, but the world is already represented and residing in Hackney, East London. With the Olympics arriving on their doorstep, BBC World Service will be following the experiences of residents living in one inner city housing estate as they contemplate what the games mean to them and their future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Virtual Revolution -- The Great Leveller Since its birth almost twenty years ago, the World Wide Web has transformed our world : A quarter of the planet is now online and able as never before to communicate, publish, and garner information seemingly without limits. But will the Web’s empowerment of ordinary people endure? As part of the BBC’s internet season, the computer expert Doctor Aleks Krotoski starts a four part series (this week) documenting the Web’s remarkable growth and asking if the old hierarchies it challenges ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Polar Bear Kebabs Iranian Kazem Ariaiwand runs the most northerly kebab shop on the planet. This is his extraordinary story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Mexico's Drug War A war is raging between rival drug cartels along Mexico's border with the United States. Last year more than 7000 people were killed in the drug related violence and 2010 has already got off to a bloody start. For Assignment Katya Adler reports on the shocking consequences of the conflict on Mexican society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Obama's America - The End of the Dream As the United States endures its worst economic crisis since The Great Depression, historian Simon Schama explores the debate about the morality which has run through American history and asks about the future of capitalism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: New York's Catholics The religious face of New York is being transformed. Once the preserve of the Irish Catholics, New York’s churches are now filled with Hispanic Catholics. The dominance of the Irish immigrant community has long been on the wane but not so the Irish leadership of the Catholic Church which is still led by an Irish American Archbishop. Maurice Walsh travels to New York to talk to Catholics about the leaders of their community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Message in a Bottle The fabric of island life as described through the most non-instant of communication devices - the message in a bottle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Unlawful Detention Every year thousands of asylum seekers are detained in Britain. They are held while the Home Office decides whether to grant their claim for asylum or to remove them from the country. Its part of what is supposed to be a faster and more effective system for dealing with asylum. But there are claims that the government is routinely breaching its own guidelines -- and detaining vulnerable asylum seekers unlawfully. Rob Walker investigates for Assignment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Obama's America - Part One Simon Schama examines some of the daunting challenges facing Barack Obama, both on the world stage and at home. In part one he considers potential strategies for the president's inherited conflict in Afghanistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Opposing Obama - Part Two Author and journalist Gary Younge tells the story of the other side of the Obama phenomenon, meeting people who think his presidency is nothing but bad news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: China's Forgotten Admiral Zheng He was an epic seafarer who predates Columbus - and who symbolises China's martine supremacy. Why don’t more of us know more about him? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Textbook Diplomacy - Part Two In Europe, school history textbooks are used to heal the wounds of conflict, overcome deep-seated antagonisms between neighbouring countries and achieve greater understanding among states that must work together politically and economically. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Opposing Obama - Part One Author and journalist Gary Younge tells the story of the other side of the Obama phenomenon, meeting people who think his presidency is nothing but bad news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Africa Kicks Farayi Mungazi looks ahead to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and explores how racial politics have affected football's development in that country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Ten Days in Haiti On 12th January a powerful earthquake struck Haiti in the Caribbean. As many as 200,000 people may have been killed and some 2 million are in need of aid. In this edition of Assignment the BBC's International Development Corrrespondent Mark Doyle reports on Ten days in Haiti. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Textbook Diplomacy - Part One Mark Whitaker looks at South Africa’s struggle to produce school history textbooks that are adequate and appropriate for the post-apartheid country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Africa Kicks - Part Three Adebayor, Droga and Essien are African football superstars who have found fame and wealth in Europe, but as Farayi Mungazi tells us, there are many who have failed in the quest for glory. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Guantanamo Reunited Gavin Lee tells the story of how a former prison guard at Guantanamo Bay detention centre sought reconciliation with two of his former prisoners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Health of a Nation - Part Two Business, money, demographics, politics - these are the issues preventing health reform from going ahead in the US. Michael Goldfarb looks at the complexities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Africa Kicks - Part Two As South Africa prepares to host the 2010 World Cup, Farayi Mungazi, the voice of African Sport on BBC World Service’s Fast Track, crosses the continent to explore the history of African Football and tells a story that is by turns epic and unexpected. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Assignment: Closing Guantanamo Assignment explores what President Barack Obama done in his attempts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre? The BBC's Jon Manel discovers why the US administration failed to meet the closure deadline set on the President's second day in office. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Health of a Nation - Part One Michael Goldfarb looks at President Obama's mission to reform America's health care system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Africa Kicks - Part One As South Africa prepares to host the 2010 World Cup, Farayi Mungazi, the voice of African Sport on BBC World Service’s Fast Track, crosses the continent to explore the history of African Football and tells a story that is by turns epic and unexpected. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Arming Angola Angola has also been described as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Rob Walker re-traces the story of the "Angolagate" deal and goes on the trail of a story that changed the course of the civil war in the 1990s - and tracks down those who got rich because of it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sound of Snow and Ice The Jyväskylä School for the Visually Impaired in Finland has one important aim: discouraging blind children from relying on high tech and expensive navigational aids. Find out how they help. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 24 Hours in Tulsa A midget street thug on a kiddy bike. Incompetent thieves who resort to stealing air-conditioning units. A woman too drunk to notice a police car heading towards her with all lights flashing. These are just some of the criminals and junkies, the faithful and forlorn encountered by one police officer cruising the streets of one Midwestern US city. But this policeman has an eye for the weird, an overdeveloped sense of humour and a talent for narrative. Which is why Officer Jay Chiarit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Simpson Returns to 1989 - part three Twenty years ago, on November 9th, the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. The greatest symbol of the Cold War, which many never dreamt they would see disappear, was overwhelmed by people power. This momentous event precipitated largely peaceful revolutions across Eastern Europe as people shook off 40 years of communism. The BBC’s World Affairs Editor John Simpson, experienced it at first hand. He was in the thick of the action for the gun battles in Bucharest, Romania. Taking ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Vancouver Gangland The Canadian city of Vancouver is routinely named as one of the best communities in the world in which to live. But the city, which is to host the 2010 Winter Olympics in the coming weeks, is fast developing another reputation: one built on illicit drugs and guns. Bill Law reports for Assignment on the youngsters in the city who are exploiting legal loopholes to build a multi-billion dollar industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Defining the Decade - Part two Back in the year 2000, the world's leaders did not seem to be troubled by the notion of global warming, so what has changed?Edward Stourton tries to make sense of a decade in which history has been put on fast forward. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Defining the Decade - Part one What have been the defining moments of the decade? Edward Stourton explores Google's mighty impact on the internet and finds a world of complex moral and legal pitfalls beneath the promise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Internet Cafe Hobo Nick Baker is on a mission to connect people, stories and places via internet cafe. Via Kenya and France he finds a remarkable story in Benin of a young man for whom a single search changed his life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | State Secrets - Part two It's estimated that up to one million people were killed during communism in Eastern Europe, but there's no clear figure for those imprisoned, persecuted or spied on. While few have been put on trial for those crimes, most countries have started to open their secret police archives and some have limited the participation of former communists and informers to public office. The whole issue of what to do about the past - forget, forgive, confront - is a live and contentious in Eastern Europe. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Latvia: Coping with Crisis Until recently, little Latvia appeared to have a rosy future. It was the fastest growing economy in Europe. But now that boom looks like a mirage. No country in the EU has been worse hit by the global recession. Its economy has been in freefall, property prices have collapsed, unemployment has been rising rapidly. Six months ago, Assignment visited several Latvians from various walks of life to see how they were affected by the crisis – now the programme returns to find out how these ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Internet Cafe Hobo Nick Baker is on a mission to connect people, stories and places via the internet. His journey takes him to New York, China and London. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Orphans of '89 - Part Two Quentin Peel, International Affairs editor of the Financial Times, looks at the communist regimes and movements orphaned by the collapse of the governments of the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. In Programme Two Quentin looks at the new self-proclaimed "radical" governments in Latin America, such as Venezuela and Bolivia, which draw inspiration from that key "orphan of 1989", Cuba. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: State Secrets - Part One To what extent did communist regimes intrude into the lives of ordinary people? And how are they dealing with those transgressions now the files have been made publicly available? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Return to Nablus Six years ago, the second Palestinian Intifada – or uprising – was raging in the West Bank town of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied territories. This was an era when Palestinian militants regularly battled the Israeli Defence Force in the streets. The BBC’s Alan Johnston reported from Nablus during those dark, dangerous days. Now, for Assignment, on his first reporting trip back in the Middle East since he was kidnapped in Gaza, he returns to Nablus to find out how life has changed f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Can China Go Green? Part two The second part of Jonathon Porritt's report from China, where, amidst the toxic power stations and burgeoning numbers of cars, he finds some extraordinary and pioneering green solutions. In two provocative and counter-intuitive programmes, Jonathon Porritt flies in the face of international protest and fear at what China is 'doing' to the world's environment in order to properly explore what's actually happening across the vast country. Although the Chinese are avid to grow their econom ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Orphans of '89 Quentin Peel, International Affairs editor of the Financial Times, presents the first of a two-part series looking at the communist regimes and movements 'orphaned' by the collapse of the governments of the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: StoryCorps - Part Two Did I turn out to be the son you wanted? What was the saddest moment of your life? Questions like these have arisen out of StoryCorps - an American oral history project described as "a story-foraging mission of epic proportions". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Bhopal Twenty-five years ago, a gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal killed 8000 people. Allan Little returns to the scene of the disaster to find out why people are still suffering. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Can China Go Green? Part One Jonathon Porritt reports from China, where, amidst the toxic power stations and burgeoning numbers of cars, he finds some extraordinary and pioneering green solutions. In two provocative and counter-intuitive programmes, Jonathon Porritt flies in the face of international protest and fear at what China is 'doing' to the world's environment in order to properly explore what's actually happening across the vast country. Although the Chinese are avid to grow their economy at all costs, P ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Crescent and the Cross - Part Four In the final part of this series, Owen Bennett-Jones examines the Islamic leader who confronted the might of the British Empire. The Mahdi was a devout man, who developed a huge following. This programme examines his rise to power and his clash with the British General, Charles Gordon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: StoryCorps - Part One How would you like to leave a record of your life for your great-great-great-grandchildren? That's the future for participants of StoryCorps, an American oral history project. What do people choose to talk about? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment Malvinas War Crimes Twenty seven years after Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falklands, or the Malvinas islands, Argentine army officers are facing prosecution. Not for the way they treated the enemy, but for crimes allegedly committed against their own troops. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - The Congo Connection In Assignment Peter Greste investigates whether Rwandans in France and Germany are controlling a deadly African militia in the Democratic Republic of Congo. For the last 15 years, the rebels of the FDLR have enforced their control through a series of brutal atrocities. Now Assignment has secret intelligence suggesting that they were taking orders from political leaders living openly in Europe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Short Changing the Planet The BBC World Service has been investigating the controversial issue of whether poor countries have ever seen all of the money promised by industrialised countries in 2001. According to some less than 10 percent of it has been paid: others disagree. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Crescent and The Cross: Part Three In the third instalment of The Crescent and the Cross, Owen Bennett Jones examines one of the most important Muslim empires in history - the Ottoman Empire. In particular, it focuses on the time of Suleiman The Magnificent, a towering figure in the rivalry between Christianity and Islam, and a crucial battle - the 1565 Seige of Malta. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 | 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: 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 | 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 | DocArchive: John Simpson Returns to 1989 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | MI6 - A century in the shadows An unprecedented look inside MI6 - Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, which marks its centenary this year. Programme One - Gadgets & Green Ink explores the early years of MI6, set up by Sir Mansfield Cumming, a formidable figure known as 'C' who signed his name in green ink. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Memento, part two Imagine that conflict and violence force you to flee your country, leaving behind all that you know and love. In the chaos and panic, you have to choose a single object to take with you - something so full of resonance that it will always remind you of the life and people that you left behind. In the second part of Memento, we meet people who have fled to Britain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Three Strike Lifers A life sentence for stealing a pair of socks. In California the tough 'three strikes' law is sending people to prison for life even if their third crime is a non-violent one. Now a group of law students is trying to change things. Rob Walker reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Yiddish - a Struggle for Survival - Part One Yiddish was the language of the Jewish Diaspora, the language of a people on the move across Europe. It has suffered a dramatic decline over the last century. What will become of it now? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Crash: Back from the brink The third part of the BBC's definitive series on the banking crash tells the extraordinary story of how politicians reacted, and asks what has been learnt from the entire calamity. Could it happen again? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Memento, part one Imagine that conflict and violence force you to flee your country, leaving behind all that you know and love. In the chaos and panic, you have to choose a single object to take with you - something so full of resonance that it will always remind you of the life and people that you left behind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - The Mystery of the Arctic Sea It's straight out of the pages of a thriller novel: a cargo ship, lost without trace; pirates working the seas at the heart of Europe; whispers of arms smuggling and the scent of international conspiracy. The mysterious disappearance of a Russian-operated cargo ship off the coast of Britain in late July sparked furious speculation that's never been resolved. For Assignment, Sarah Rainsford tries to shine a light on what really happened on board the vessel, the Arctic Sea. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Desperate Dreams - Part Two Presenter Jenny Cuffe sets out to find Fereinatu, a teenage girl who was trafficked for sex. She had returned to her impoverished home in Benin City, but she is missing once more and relatives fear she may have been sucked back into prostitution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Chasing the Tax Cheats This week's Assignment looks at the much-vaunted crackdown on tax havens announced by the G20 earlier this year. The drive is aimed at getting tax havens to agree to yield up information on tax cheats. But is the G-20's weapon of choice, shooting blanks? Is its approach cumbersome and ineffective in the fight to get every dollar that's owed to tax authorities? Lesley Curwen investigates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Crash: The Age of Risk The second of this three-part series that examines the boom before the bust of 2008 looks at how our attitudes to risk and debt changed with disastrous consequences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Building out of the Recession - part two Can we build our way out of the recession? The Empire State Building was started just weeks after the Wall Street Crash, giving Americans hope in times of depression. Jonathan Glancey, architecture correspondent for the Guardian newspaper in London, looks at the economic and social policies of the 1930s and the parallels we can find today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Desperate Dreams - part one Two years ago, Jenny Cuffe followed the journeys of migrants trying to leave Africa and find a better life in Europe. Innocent Akibor left Nigeria to get to Spain. As exploitation greets him at almost every step of his journey, listen to find out if he made his dream come true. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Crash: The bank that busted the world What were the key moments that led to financial meltdown, and what happened in the aftermath? The first of a three-part series that looks closely at the turbulent events in the autumn of 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Dog Fighting in Chicago If my dog is tough then I'm tough. Killer dogs give teenagers status in Chicago. For Assignment, Nina Robinson, goes right to the heart of the cruel sport of dog fighting that is attracting so many young people in the run down areas of Chicago's south side. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Building Out of the Recession Just weeks after the Wall Street Crash in 1929, work began on the Empire State Building. The Guardian's architecture correspondent Jonathan Glancey assesses the economics of building out of a recession. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Dreams from my mother President Barack Obama has famously written of the influence exerted on him by his father in his memoir Dreams of My Father, but what of his mother, Ann Dunham? Listen to Judith Kampfner as she unveils more about this unconventional and idealistic woman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Benjamin Jealous - the future of the NAACP enjamin Jealous is the leader of America's oldest and largest black civil rights group. In a USA fronted by Barack Obama, what are the future battlegrounds for African American human rights? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | World Stories: Mexico's Missing Island Bermeja Island is missing. This strategically important island was clearly visible on maps of the Gulf of Mexico until the middle of the 20th century but it's now gone. BBC Mundo's David Cuen goes in search. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Assignment: Mastering Business What role did the business schools play in last year's financial crisis? In this week's edition of Assignment, Ed Butler investigates whether, as the chair of Harvard's MBA programme insists, the schools were guilty only of teaching a deficient assessment of risk in the business world, or whether something more fundamental was at fault. Some inside the system tell Assignment that there had been a growing disconnect between the schools and society, with insufficient attention being paid to t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Citizen Journalism - Part Two n the second episode Michael Buerk visits Cairo and experience for himself how bloggers - arguably among the most hounded anywhere in the world - are taking on the Egyptian government. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Why is Africa poor? Part three Enterprise, money, innovation are all there. Is tapping into a continent's optimism the key to Africa's future? Mark Doyles looks at the solutions to solve Africa's poverty. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | World Stories: Israel's Muslim soldiers Rachid Sekkai from the BBC's Arabic Service talks to Muslims currently serving in the Israeli Defence Force and also to former soldiers and hears about the conflicts they face, at home and on duty, and the pride that military service sometimes brings them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - China Saving's Habit Colin Yu is a teacher who lives in Shanghai. He has a job but still struggles to support his parents on his modest income. Colin would like to spend more money and the Chinese government is offering incentives to people like him to go out and buy Chinese goods. They're hoping that by doing so it will help the country to survive the current global economic downturn. Average savings rates in China stand at around 30% and, as Chris Hogg discovers, most of that money is spent on healthcare. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Citizen journalism - democracy or chaos? Michael Buerk analyses the potential – and the dangers – of citizen journalism. In part one, he talks to bloggers and critics from Sri Lanka, Iran, Burma, and Iraq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Why is Africa poor? Part Two Accusations of tribalism, corruption and complacency have all been offered as explanations to the question of Africa's poverty. Mark Doyle looks at each of these and asks why the status quo persists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: World stories: new media in Kashmir Violent footage from the Kashmir conflict has been shared almost in real-time by citizen-journalists on video sharing websites. Suvojit Bagchi tells the story of the impact of new media communication in a conflict zone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Mutiny in Bangladesh Six months ago there was a short military revolt in Bangladesh that threatened to push the country into nationwide armed conflict. But some things remain mysterious. Why was it so brutal? Who was really behind it? What did they hope to achieve? In this week’s addition of Assignment, Mark Dummett has tracked down key participants and eyewitnesses in search of some answers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Gold - part three Nick Rankin explores how we assess the value of gold. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Why is Africa poor? Mark Doyle crosses the continent of Africa and finds a place rich in natural resources and human potential, which begs the question, why is Africa poor? Outsiders have been coming to Africa for centuries for its raw materials and potential. It was an exploitative relationship that has contributed to Africa's poverty, but can foreigners now turn the fortunes of a modern Africa? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | World Stories: Fighting for Pao Culture in Burma Ko Ko Aung from the BBC's Burmese Service, travelled to Burma to find out why a rebel army of 100 men is taking on the 400,000 strong Burmese army. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Assignment: America's African Outpost Fran Abrams is given rare access to the US base in Djibouti questioning military chiefs, local leaders and ordinary Djiboutians as she explores the role and impact of America's African outpost. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Gold - part two Nick Rankin descends into the deepest goldmine in the world – Tau Tona in South Africa for part two of this series. Five thousand miners extract gold up to four kilometres under the surface but for every tonne of ore they take out, there is only 8 grams of gold to be found. Nick talks to miners about their lives underground and learns about the real price of gold. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Selling cheese to the Chinese Mukul Devichand tells the story of the Europeans who are trying to persuade China's expanding middle class to ditch their noodles and soya in favour of pricey European fine foods. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | World Stories: Bombs, Stamps and Throat Singers American physicist Richard Feynman fell in love with the remote Russian region Tuva through his hobby of stamp collecting. He died just before his visitor's visa arrived but his daughter Michelle went to the land of throat singers in his honour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - The Pardon Game The Afghan drugs mafia is rich, powerful and entrenched, with connections running into the heart of the Afghan state. But a new, multi-million dollar counter-narcotics justice system has started to get results and is putting senior traffickers in prison. So when people heard that the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, had pardoned five traffickers, they were stunned. This week’s Assignment looks into allegations that the pardons were part of a political deal, ahead of presidential electio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Gold - part one Man's long-term obsession with gold and the lengths we have gone to to get it. From the ancient myth of King Midas, through Alexander The Great and the Spanish Conquistadors to the massive mines of South Africa, Nick Rankin unlocks the history and enduring fascination of the rare yellow metal that has been integral to economic exchange systems for millennia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: William Morris and the Muslims Navid Akhtar examines the influence of Islamic design and values in the life of Victorian designer, poet, and craftsman William Morris. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tracing the strain The World Health Organisation has warned that the worldwide spread of the so-called Swine Flu virus is now unstoppable. As cases continue to multiply, reporter Julian O'Halloran investigates the origins of the H1N1 virus and examines claims that it is linked to factory style pig farming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Iran and the West - part three Iran in the post 9/11 era, a time of friction and unrest over its nuclear ambitions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Global Perspective: Chungking Mansions A slice of life at a shabby but popular tenement in Hong Kong's teeming commercial district. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Caribbean voices - Part two Colin Grant reflects on the BBC’s role in boosting Caribbean writing in the region 60 years on from the original broadcast of Caribbean Voices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Iran and the West: From Khomeini to Ahmedinejad - part 2 The inside story of Iran's war with Iraq, and how the US viewed the conflict - ultimately a battle for control and influcence in this most vital, but unstable, part of the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Global Perspective - Across the Water Nick Rankin travels to Fair Isle, one of the most remote inhabited islands in the British Isles, to see how newcomers find their place in a small and tight-knit community on a rocky island which is too windy for trees to grow on. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Pakistan - Winning the Peace In this week's edition of Assignment, Jill McGivering travels through Pakistan, hearing the stories of some of the two million people who fled their homes as a result of the fighting between government forces and the Taliban in the country’s North West – and assesses the consequences of the humanitarian crisis for Pakistan and its people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: West African journeys - Part two Award-winning journalist Sorious Samura drops into the middle of an undercover investigation of a Chinese brothel in Accra, Ghana, where 16 women have been trafficked to work as prostitutes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Iran and the West: From Khomeni to Ahmedinejad - part 1 For the first time, the BBC tells the story of Iran's relationship with the West over the last 30 years - as seen by the key insiders on both sides. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Death Diminishes Me A soundscape of memory, loss, regret and hope from men who have been living with HIV for over 20 years in New Zealand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Greening of the Deserts - part three In this series, Ayisha Yahya explores climate change issues in the African desert. In the final programme, she meets Egyptian scientists experimenting with techniques to make the desert bloom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: From Guantanamo to Paradise The story of four imprisoned Uyghur men transferred from Guantanamo Bay to the wealthy paradise of Bermuda. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Global Persepctive: Islands of Security South Africa's wealthy are retreating to high-security gated communities to protect themselves from violent crime. In Islands of Security we explore why the issue of keeping people out is a sensitive one in post-Apartheid times. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Land Grab Cambodia 150,000 Cambodians are reported to be facing eviction from their land. Huge tracts of the country have been granted to private companies for large scale agriculture or other purposes. Some of those who have tried to resist say they have been attacked or threatened. Rob Walker reports for Assignment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Greening of the Deserts In this three part series, Ayisha Yahya explores climate change issues in the African desert. In programme two she visits the Desert Research Station in Namibia. Can they increase the water available in arid areas such as the Namib? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Global Perspective: Alert Bay Teenagers on the island of Alert Bay, British Columbia, talk openly about the beauty and frustration on living in a remote place. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Thembi’s Story Thembi Ngubane’s Radio Diary about living with Aids in a South African Township. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - The Opus Dei enigma It's widely regarded as one of the most secretive religious organisations in the world. It makes heavy demands on its members - and has been accused of cult-like practices. It's also an influential movement within Roman Catholicism. Opus Dei, made famous by Dan Brown's bestselling novel the Da Vinci Code, has many critics - but few have found out what life is like on the inside. The BBC's religious affairs correspondent, Christopher Landau, has been granted exclusive access to the moveme ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Greening of the Deserts In this three part series, Ayisha Yahya explores climate change issues in the African desert. In programme one she asks, what are the implications for traditional nomadic desert communities? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Assignment: Iran in crisis In this special edition of Assignment, John Simpson reveals how the protests, and the police reprisals that followed, are intricately linked to the rivalry inside the clique of clerics who created the Islamic state. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Blood and lava When the dried blood of Naples' patron saint fails to liquefy, Neapolitans believe great misfortune will descend upon them. With Mount Vesuvius overdue for a major eruption, Malcolm Billings investigates if tragedy awaits this historic city. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Mubarak's Egypt - part two After 28 years in power, President Mubarak's promise of shepherding his country into a stable democracy has all but dissipated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - The Rich in Retreat In a programme first broadcast in April, Ed Butler reports from New York on how the super rich have been dealing with the impact of the financial crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Farm Swap - part two In the final part of this series, Mike Gallagher meets a British farmer working vast landholdings in Hungary and Serbia. Does 'going global' in agriculture really offer a better future? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Mubarak's Egypt - part one After 28 years in power, Mubarak's promise of leading Egypt into stable democracy has dissipated. Magdi Abdelhadi reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Dear Birth Mother Listen to the story of Suzanne, a single woman in her forties who opted for a trans-racial adoption and became the mother of an African-American baby. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - America's Somali Bantu Hundreds of thousands of people have fled from Somalia since civil war broke out there in the early 1990s. Many of them go to refugee camps in Kenya, others to Tanzania - and many have spent more than 15 years living in those camps. But one group has been more fortunate than others - the Somali Bantu, whose ancestors were taken to Somalia as slaves from southern Africa in the 19th Century. In 2001 the Somali Bantu were recognised as an especially vulnerable group by the United States and tw ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Farm Swap - part one In this series, Mike Gallagher meets two farmers working outside their own countries. In programme one, a young Ecuadorian visits Hawaii. What farming techniques can he take back to Ecuador? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Diabetes: The Silent Killer Justin Webb goes beyond his role as a journalist to explore the issue from the perspective of a parent who is desperate to know what the future holds for his child. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: My world: Thailand's Dr Death The final programme in the My World series explores the story of Pornthip Rojanasunan, Thailand’s leading forensic scientist who has turned a straightforward autopsy into a battleground for the truth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Cricket Revolution - part two In this series, David Goldblatt charts the rise of Twenty20 cricket. In the final programme he asks, can the Twenty20 revolution help to make cricket become a truly global game? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: My World: Kades A poetic story of survival set against the soundscape of the Mathare slums in Kenya. Meet Kades, a teenage poet who has escaped poverty. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Economy on the Edge Martin Wolf, of the Financial Times, predicted that the global downturn would be much worse than anyone had reason to believe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Anatomy of a Hijack Since the beginning of last year, pirates have succeeded in seizing more than 70 ships off the coast of Somalia. Hundreds of crew members have been held to ransom, and millions of dollars have been paid to the pirates to secure their release. For Assignment Rob Walker has gained exclusive access to the people involved in one of those hijacks – the captain, the ship owner and the mysterious middleman – the pirates negotiator. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Cricket Revolution - part one David Goldblatt charts the recent arrival and rise on the sporting scene of Twenty20 cricket. David meets those who run the game, former and current players, and seasoned commentators. Has Twenty20 changed cricket for ever? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Anatomy of a Car Crash Tracing the profound physical and emotional toll on all those involved in the wake of a single collision on a road. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: My world: A different kind of stroke Every year, 15 million people will suffer from a stroke, five million of them will die and a further five million will be left permanently disabled. This documentary tells the story of Dr Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain scientist who suffered a massive stroke 13 years ago. Knowing how the brain operates, she was able to observe and understand the deterioration that followed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Lost Voices of Tiananmen Square - part two James Miles, the BBC's China correspondent in 1989, was an eye-witness to the events leading up to the Tiananmen Square protests. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Lincoln and the World Abraham Lincoln's legacy and political influence is more powerful today than it ever was. Allan Little looks at how movements and leaders from very different political perspectives have looked up to Lincoln. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: My world: The homecoming Follow the story of Gemma Tracee Apiku, a former refugee who spent her teenage years in the camps of Sudan, as she returns to Africa to become a relief worker herself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - The Bad Samaritan Until the end of last year Bernard Madoff was a highly respected financial guru and long time advisor to America's rich and famous. Then on Thursday the twelfth December 2008 he was exposed as a major crook. His 'Ponzi' scheme is probably the largest ever pyramid fraud in US history. Amongst his victims there were not only individuals and banks but also charities. For Assignment, James Coomarasamy looks at the damage he has done to two charities in particular - The JEHT Foundation ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Lost Voices of Tiananmen Square - part one James Miles, the BBC's China correspondent in 1989, was an eye-witness to the events leading up to the Tiananmen Square protests. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Freedom from Slavery in Mauritania Mauritania is a country with a tradition of slavery, but in August 2007 owning slaves became a criminal act. David Gutnick visits Mauritania and finds out how entrenched the master/slave relationship still is. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: On the brink - part 2 Continuing his award-winning reports for the BBC World Service, Michael Robinson looks at the increasingly desperate efforts to stave off a global economic slump and depression. He visits Europe and Asia to identify the dangers that lie ahead and investigates how the present bail-out packages devised by leaders in rich countries will hit newly emerging nations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: My World - The Infidelity Agency Vivek Kumar runs India's number one detective agency and business - investigating marital infidelities - is booming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: West African Journeys - Part Four In the last of this four part series, Sorious Samura is in a fishing village near Freetown in Sierra Leone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Friday Documentary: The Library Cart Exploring the world of an extraordinary individual. This week, we travel to Colombia to experience a day in the life of Cartagena’s Martin Murrillo – mobile cart librarian and self-taught teacher. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: On the brink - part 1 Continuing his award-winning reports for the BBC World Service, Michael Robinson looks at the increasingly desperate efforts to stave off a global economic slump and depression.He visits Europe and Asia to identify the dangers that lie ahead and investigates how the present bail-out packages devised by leaders in rich countries will hit newly emerging nations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: West African Journeys - part three Award-winning journalist Sorious Samura heads back to his native West Africa for a trip through his homeland of Sierra Leone and other neighbouring countries. In part three Sorious returns to Liberia to follow the journey of a 26-year old woman called ‘Black Diamond’ as she travels hundreds of miles across Liberia in search of the daughter she calls ‘Beloved’. The child was born after Diamond, then aged 15, was raped by government soldiers. During the rape her parents tried ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - The Rich in Retreat Just one year ago Wall Street bankers enjoyed widespread regard, even veneration, in American public life, respected as people who understood the world of money and finance. Twelve months on the story is very different with many of those bankers having experienced a meterioric fall from grace. So what's happened to our respect for the financial whizz-kids? And how do they now see the world, now that the world has disowned them? For Assignment, Ed Butler travels to Wall Street to hear their ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Taxi to the Dark Side In Taxi To The Dark Side, American film-maker Alex Gibney reports on the use of torture by American soldiers in Afghanistan. Was the torture the work of a few rogue soldiers, or officially approved by the Pentagon? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Kidnapped - part two Dr Thomas Hargrove, an American scientist kidnapped by FARC, is reunited with the family's German neighbour, who was part of 'Team Tom' which organized the negotiations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment Lucy Ash finds out if new trade deals and diplomatic dialogue with Libya can encourage them to abandon torture and oppression for political reform and human rights improvements. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment 22 May 08 The Commodities Bubble: Michael Robinson investigates and reveals how the commodities markets are attracting major players now looking for somewhere to invest other than the dollar, banking or shares and how this has affected the price of food products around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: What Next For Kenya? - Part Two In this two-part series, former BBC East Africa Correspondent Mike Wooldridge travels from the bustling capital, Nairobi, to the Rift Valley to report on the issues behind the conflict that erupted in Kenya at the turn of the year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Failure at the Central Bank For the last six decades, central bankers have run the international financial system with the aid of a powerful set of economic levers handed to them after the World War 2. Last year, these levers came off in their hands. In this two-part series Robert Peston examines how the former supermen of global financial economy became pathetic weaklings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Kidnapped: Part One Presenter Ritula Shah reunites former hostage Norman Kember - kidnapped in Iraq - with the people who were personally involved in negotiations to free him, and who put their lives on hold to get him back. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: What Next For Kenya? - Part One In this two-part series, former BBC East Africa Correspondent Mike Wooldridge travels from the bustling capital, Nairobi, to the Rift Valley to report on the issues behind the conflict that erupted in Kenya at the turn of the year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: How Crime Took on the World Cyber-crime is the fastest-growing sector of global-organised crime, worth about US$100 billion a year. Misha Glenny travels to Sao Paulo to find out why Brazil is the cyber-crime capital of the world. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Living With Chico Mendes To mark the 20th anniversary of his assassination, Nick Maes looks at the life of Chico Mendes, the highly significant green activist who helped to galvanise the race to preserve the Amazon. Nick investigates what Chico Mendes achieved and gains exclusive access to his family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: How Crime Took on the World: Part Three In the third part of this series on international crime, Misha Glenny is in South Africa where since the end of Apartheid, personal security has become almost a national obsession; the number of private security firms has mushroomed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Where the Buffalo Roam How have non-native creatures - from birds to bovines, reptiles to rhesus monkeys - become unlikely, but permanent, residents of Hong Kong? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Philosophy in the Streets Nick Fraser looks at the intellectual revolution that spread from Paris throughout the world, particularly to America and then to Britain, in 1968. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: How crime took on the world: Part two In the second of this series which charts the explosion of international organised crime, Misha Glenny goes to the Balkans to follow the trail of smuggled cigarettes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Escape to New Zealand Environmental refugees seek a home somewhere in the planet where the predicted global changes can, perhaps, be weathered. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Football in the Holy City In this week's Assignment David Goldblatt travels to Israel to meet the fans of Beitar Jerusalem football club. As you'll hear in this programme the fans pride themselves on their extreme nationalist views and anti-arab chanting at matches. Beitar fans boast that an Arab never has and never will play for the club. Now under the ownership of flamboyant Russian Billionaire Arkadi Gaydamak Beitar is top of the Israeli league, but the behaviour of its hard-core fans continues to cause troub ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The My Lai Tapes - Part Two Forty years ago, 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians were killed by US soldiers. It became known as �The My Lai Massacre' and was covered up by the army for almost a year. In the second part of �The My Lai Tapes�, presented by Robert Hodierne, you can hear for the first time, the taped recordings of the US Army�s internal inquiry into the massacre. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: How Crime Took on the World: Part One As part of his investigation into global crime, Misha Glenny is in Canada, where the wholesale production of marijuana is posing a challenge to the US-led 'War on Drugs'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Policing the UN The BBC's Africa editor Martin Plaut sets out to examine serious new allegations of corruption and wrongdoing within the United Nations' peacekeeping operations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Convict Streak The resourcefulness and resilience of prisioners fighting for freedom that make Australians today proudly boast of their own inherited 'convict streak' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Granny Dumping Abandonment, abuse and neglect of the elderly by their own children and grandchildren is at record levels in India. In a society where reverence and respect towards senior citizens has been a source of pride, Tinku Ray reports for Assignment on why things have changed in India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The My Lai Tapes - Part One Forty years ago in the village of My Lai in South Vietnam, a massacre took place. The victims were innocent Vietnamese civilians � 504 mainly women, old men, children and babies. They were murdered, and in many cases, raped by US soldiers. This episode of the Vietnam War became known as 'The My Lai Massacre' and proved to be a turning point in the war. In the My Lai Tapes Robert Hodierne tells the story of what happened that day in interviews with the victims and the perpetraotors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Strangers in Marseilles Laurie Taylor explores Marseille's unique racial geography to find out what kept the peace during 2005 and 2007 when race riots tore at the fabric of French society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Harare Festival Manuel Bagorro, the director of the Harare International Festival of the Arts, describes his efforts to bring a cultural highlight in the midst of the election chaos in Zimbabwe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Inside Somalia's Insurgency The last few weeks have seen an increase in violence in Somalia. Insurgents have stepped up attacks on the Ethiopian army and on the Somali transitional government it's backing. Ethiopia sent it's troops into Somalia at the end of 2006, to remove an Islamist movement - the Islamic Courts - from the capital. But now Ethiopia is bogged down and anger at its presence has boosted supported for the insurgents. In Assignment, Rob Walker goes in search of a radical Islamist movement which is play ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Elegy for the Tech Award winning poet Fred D�Aguiar is head of creative writing at Virginia Tech, the scene of a mass shooting of students and staff one year ago. He lost a student in the tragedy and had, in the past taught the shooter. In this documentary Fred reflects on the events of that day and the poetry both he and his students have written since. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: A Dollar a Day - China China is on track to meeting the Millennium Development Goal of halving Dollar-a-day poverty. But what uncertainties lie ahead now the Iron Bowl has been smashed? Mike Wooldrige reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Call me Nana More than 65,000 grandparents in Canada are raising their grandchildren on their own, turning their lives upside down to raise a child for a second time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Message from China Dr Anne-Marie Brady from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand investigates how the Chinese Communist Party has adapted its propaganda methods to suit the 21st century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Grass is Greener Why do Ghanaians dream of living a better life abroad? What must change in Ghana for more Ghanaians to want to stay? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: The Most Dangerous Gang in America The United States has long been home to violent gangs, from the Mafia to the Bloods and Crips. But recently, US authorities have warned of the dangers of a transnational, ultra-violent gang with its origins in Central America. The FBI has now opened an office in El Salvador to deal with the threat of Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13. For Assignment, Maurice Walsh travelled to Washington DC's suburbs and San Salvador to take a look at MS-13, dubbed "The Most Dangerous Gang in America." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Return to Kurdistan Part 2 For Iraqi Kurds these are the best times they have ever known. But can the desire for full independence be contained? Michael Goldfarb goes to Kirkuk disputed heart of northern Iraq's oil industry and the future source of wealth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Simpson Returns to China Programme one: The Road From Tiananmen charts John Simpson's return to modern China 19 years after he witnessed the massacre of June 4 1989 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: No Way Out Shazia Khan investigates the agony of forced marriages in the UK and the risks of trying to escape it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: No more child witches in DRC? Is it possible to legislate against deeply held beliefs? That's what the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo are hoping to do. They want to make it a criminal offence to accuse a child of being a witch. Many of the hundreds of children who are sleeping rough on the streets of the capital city Kinshasa have been accused of being witches. But can such a law be enforced and can it really make a difference in a country that has been so fractured by war? For Assignment Angus Crawf ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: How Iraq's War Shaped Our World: Part Four John Simpson looks at the how the Iraq War has affected America's international role and reputation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Return to Kurdistan - Part 1 In the first part of the series Return to Kurdistan, Michael Goldfarb follows the upheaval of Kurdistan through the eyes of his translator Ahmad Shawkat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Escaping the Water Wolf With climate change bringing new threats of rising sea levels and increased rainfall, will luck and ingenuity continue to save the Netherlands from submersion? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: The Kids Who Ran Iraq After the invasion of Iraq in 2003 hundreds of young American recruits were sent by Washington to help run the Coalition Provisional Authority, the body set up to administer Iraq. The CPA's tenure was widely criticised, as were its staff who, critics say, were simply political appointees with little or no experience relevant to the massive task they faced. Five years on Pascale Harter speaks to some of the so-called Brat Pack of US recruits to find out if they feel proud of what they achie ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Pirates Part Three Nick Rankin enters cyber space to explore the world of intellectual piracy - the stealing of ideas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: How Iraq's War Shaped Our World: Part Three In Programme Three, Lyse Doucet looks at how the Iraq War changed the regional balance of power. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Teacher Flower In the 1980s Kathy Flower became the most famous face on Chinese television, as English teacher to millions of students long isolated from the outside world. Now she returns to a very different country as it prepares to host the Beijing Olympics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment: Afghanistan - Winning Hearts and Minds According to US intelligence the Afghan president Hamid Karzai controls only 30 percent of Afghanistan, with the Taleban holding 10 percent. Most of the country is under local tribal control. But building support among the tribes is now at the core of a new American counter-insurgency strategy. The Americans believe they've now got a blueprint for winning hearts and minds. The BBC's Alastair Leithead has been following US troops and their British allies to find out how the plan is working ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Pirates Part Two Nick Rankin travels to Africa to find out how modern day pirates are ruling the high seas. From hijacking, kidnapping and ransoms, he finds out what is being done to combat the problem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: How Iraq's War Shaped Our World: Part Two Magdi Abdelhadi explores how the dream of a democratic Arab world was promoted then put in reverse as things went wrong in Iraq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: How Iraq's War Shaped Our World: Part Two In Programme Two Magdhi Abdulhadi looks at how the neocon dream of a democratic Arab world was promoted then put in reverse as things went wrong in Iraq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Boom or Bust Sharon Mascall investigates the Australian mining industry where many inexperienced workers are lured by high wages but face harsh conditions, poor safety standards and an uncertain future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment Jacob Zuma: The Investigation Jacob Zuma is one of the most powerful men in South Africa. He controls the ruling African National Congress and is poised to replace President Thabo Mbeki as head of state. But Jacob Zuma has a problem. Prosecutors say he's corrupt and hope to bring him to trial in August. Mr Zuma says the charges are political, designed to keep him from power. For Assignment Martin Plaut travelled to South Africa to investigate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: How Iraq's War Shaped Our World: Part One Programme One: BBC correspondent Jim Muir evaluates how war has changed Iraq from the beginning of the invasion to the handover of power. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: After the KGB: Part Two Martin Sixsmith gets under the skin of the fastest growing and arguably most politically influential secret service in the world the "new KGB". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: Assignment - Unknown Neighbours Why are the British so scared of Islam? When the head of the Anglican church, Dr Rowan Williams, suggested that some aspects of Sharia law seemed unavoidable in parts of Britain, he prompted a storm of protest. For Assignment, Keith Adams explores what informs British public opinion about Islam. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: The Kremlin and the World - Part 4 Russia has made more enemies than friends recently. Tim Whewell finds out where this new East, West confrontation is leading and why Russia is harking back to the days of the old Soviet Union. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: The Kremlin and the World - Part 3 Tim Whewell investigates why a 'new' Cold War could be underway and if Russia and the US is embarking once again on a race for arms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: Friday Documentary: After the KGB - Part One Martin Sixsmith looks at Russia's fast growing and politically influential secret service. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: The Danish Nazi Soeren Kam is a former Danish SS Officer and one of the most wanted Nazi war criminals still alive. Now 86 and living in Bavaria, Kam admitted taking part in the abduction and killing of an anti-Nazi newspaper editor in Copenhagen in 1943. For Assignment Steve Rosenburg goes in search of Soeren Kam and talks to the people who know his story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: The Kremlin and the World - Part 2 Pipeline Power: Could Russia's vast energy sources possibly be the missiles of the future? Tim Whewell investigates why Russia's state energy company, Gazprom fell out with Ukraine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: The Kremlin and the World - Part 1 Nearly twenty years after the Cold War, there�s a new chill in relations between Russia and the West. Tim Whewell finds out what has happened to Russia's historic partnership with the Western Europe and the US. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: Uncovering Pakistan - Part 2 Owen Bennett-Jones examines the rise of Islamist militancy in Pakistan and the risk of the country being split apart. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: Uncovering Pakistan - Part 1 Why have so many of the hopes and aspirations of Pakistan's founders remained unfulfilled? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: Pain: Episode Two In this second programme on Pain, Andrew North explores the strategies we use to survive pain, through expressing and suppressing it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: Bangladesh Floods: Three Months On It's been three months since cyclone Sidr struck Bangladesh. BBC reporter, Siobhann Tighe returns to speak to some of the survivors. She also talks to government advisers about the vulnerability of Bangladesh and what can be done to be better prepared. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: Fading Traditions - part 3 Temple prostitutes: The ancient Hindu tradition of dedicating young girls to the temple has come up against the modern horrors of AIDS. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: Assignment - Kurdistan Corruption 05 Feb 2008 With its functioning parliament, a booming oil economy and a small but well-trained army, the Kurdish area of Iraq appears to offer a model for other areas of the country. But Kate Clark discovers growing corruption and dissatisfaction with the region's government. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: Pain: Episode One In this two part series, former BBC Iraq correspondent, Andrew North takes a personal journey through his own experience of pain and that of others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: Securing Pakistan's Bomb What would happen if the government of Pakistan, one of the world's nuclear powers, were to collapse? Would extreme Islamist militants be able to get their hands on the country's nuclear weapons? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: Fading Traditions - Part 2 Georgia, considered to be the birthplace of wine, risks losing its wine industry. How are the producers coping? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: Assignment - Kenya violence 30 Jan 2008 This week's Assignment reports on the post election violence in Kenya which has claimed the lives of up to 900 people. The opposition claim that the poll was rigged and the violence, which began in Western Kenya, has spread to other parts of the country. Pascale Harter travelled to the town of Eldoret in western Kenya to trace the roots of the tribal violence that has pitted neighbour against neighbour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: A Dollar A Day - Part 4 In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to live on one dollar a day. The third programme focuses on education in Ghana. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: Fading Traditions - Part 1 The number of Moroccan story-tellers, known as halakis, is dwindling. Why is their art dying out? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: Desperate Dreams Part 3 The final part of a three part series. Every year, thousands of young people from sub-Saharan Africa set off across the desert dreaming of a better life in Europe. Part two: Returning home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Assignment - African Footballers 24 Jan 2008 Millions of young African boys dream of following such football stars as Didier Drogba and Emmanuel Eboue to Europe to make their fortune. Only a handful succeed whilst many more fall into the hands of unscrupulous clubs and agents who exploit them. Henry Bonsu investigates the growth in what has been described as football slavery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: A Dollar A Day - Part 3 In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to live on one dollar a day. The third programme focuses on elder people in India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: Desperate Dreams - Part 2 The second in a three part series. Every year, thousands of young people from sub-Saharan Africa set off across the desert dreaming of a better life in Europe. Part two: The Journey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: Looted Art: Part II Charles Wheeler is on the trail of art seized by the Soviets at the end of World War II Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: Assignment - On the trail of spammers 17 Jan 2007 Simon Cox tries to track down the criminals who plague us with spam emails offering everything from get rich schemes to products to improve our sex lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Doc: A Dollar A Day - Part 2 In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to live on one dollar a day. The second programme focuses on Peru. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Desperate Dreams Part 1 Every year, thousands of young men and women from sub-Saharan Africa set off across the desert dreaming of a better life in Europe. Part one: George from Cameroon starts his journey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Friday Documentary - Looted Art: Part One At the end of World War Two, as Nazi Germany lay in ruins, millions of works of art were secrety shipped back to Russia by the Soviet Army. Charles Wheeler now investigates their fate and the political row that still surrounds them in Looted Art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - S Korea computer addiction 10 Jan 2008 Computer gaming has become a national obsession in South Korea but there is a dark side. Gaming, like gambling, can become an addiction that has even led to death. Julian Pettifer reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: A Dollar A Day - Part 1 In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to live on one dollar a day. The first programme focuses on Kenya. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Debt Threat Part 2 The dangers of the present crisis turning into a full scale recession, and at the seemingly desperate attempts of bankers, regulators and politicians to prevent that happening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Only One Bakira Bakira Hasecic is unrelenting in her pursuit of the war criminals of the Bosnian war. How does she and the members of the Association of Women Victims of War find the strength to talk about the rapes and other horrors they endured? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Taxi to the Dark Side 3 Jan 2008 American film-maker Alex Gibney tells the story of an Afghan taxi driver, tortured to death by American soldiers and military police in Bagram airbase. Were they rogue soldiers, or was the torture authorised at the highest levels of government? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Press For Freedom Part 4 In the final part of the series Roy Greenslade profiles the head of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Debt Threat The first programme will show how rapidly the shock wave of the credit crunch is spreading and why it is now moving far beyond the sub-prime homeowners where it began. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Blackwater 27 Dec 2007 There are now as many private security contractors in Iraq as there are US soldiers. To whom are they accountable when things go wrong? Steve Evans reports on the most controversial contractor, Blackwater, which has been criticised by the Iraqi government, American politicians and its own employees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Quest for a Cure Peter Day reports on whether the US Food and Drug Administration will licence the HIV/AIDS drug Maraviroc. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Global Account - Part 4 Allan Urry investigates links between the Pentagon, politicians and weapons manufacturers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Inside Uzbekistan Since the Uzbek government put down an uprising in Andijan in 2005, the country has become more and more isolated from the west. But ahead of the country�s first Presidential election since 2000, our Central Asia correspondent Natalia Antelava made a secret trip across the state, recording her impressions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Press for Freedom - part three Building democracy: What is the role of radio in building democracy? In Papua, a new radio station is being installed as part of Indonesia's 68H network. 68H has introduced electricity by building a dam to power the station in the village. How did 68H get around censorship under Suharto? And why is radio such a key player in building civil society? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Press for Freedom - part two Freedom of the internet:How do the motives of mainstream news websites compare with the agendas of blogs? In part two of 'Press for Freedom', we talk to Iraqi blogger Salam Pax and others who have delivered on-the-ground viewpoints in regions where the government would have otherwise silenced them. In Kuala Lumpur, we hear from the government-owned Bernama press, who also fund Nam News Network, supposedly the only unfiltered news wire in a non-aligned world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Citizen Journalists What is the future of news, when the internet may undermine the old-fashioned paternalistic precepts? BBC's Alan Little investigates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Press For Freedom Part 1 BBC's Roy Greenslade looks at how far reporting 'the truth' can be endangered by governments, corporations and the new wave of internet publishing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Making News Part 1 The BBC and other international broadcasters boast "objective" news and impartial window onto the world, but is such a thing really possible? Alan Little investigates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Leila's story 6 Dec 2007 Leila is a young woman in Iran, sold into prostitution by her family at the age of 9, later forced into a temporary marriage, and then sentenced to hang at the age of 18. She was finally reprieved, but what does her story tell us about Iran's ability to legally protect its own children. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Global Account Part 2 Africa's Cocaine Coast - Guinea-Bissau is awash with cocaine and is ranked by the United Nations as the fifth poorest country in the world. Grant Ferrett investigates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Seeing Iraq, Thinking Vietnam Part 2 Jonathan Marcus explores the impact of these two conflicts on the american political psyche. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Global Account - Part 1 Angus Stickler travels into the disputed "Red Zone" of Southern Thailand to discover the victims of a brutal and under-reported war. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Inside Gaza 28 Nov 2007 Six months ago, the radical Palestinian faction Hamas took total control of the Gaza Strip. Israel and Egypt responded by closing their borders with Gaza. Magdi Abdelhadi travelled to the Gaza Strip to see how the 1.5 million Palestinians living there are coping. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Seeing Iraq, Thinking Vietnam Part 1 Correspondent Jonathan Marcus compares the impact of the two conflicts on American society and politics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Jihad and the Petrodollar part 2 Roger Hardy follows the money trail and looks at the case of two prominent Saudi charities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - The internet chatroom murder 22 Nov 2007 This week on Assignment, a story of lust, deception and betrayal on the internet. It tells the extraordinary story of a middle-aged factory worker who undergoes a virtual and very real transformation after he goes online - a transformation which ends in murder. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Taxing Questions (part four) The final part of a four part series in which Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the black market have drastically undermined governments' ability to generate revenue in the form of tax. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Taxing Questions (part three) In the third of a four part series Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the black market have drastically undermined governments' ability to generate revenue in the form of tax. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Can America Go Green? - Programme 3 The BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its role as the planet's biggest polluter. In the final part of the series, Laura explores the degree to which Americans are speaking out and altering their lifestyles in the face of global warming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Taxing Questions (programme two) In the second of a four part series Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the black market have drastically undermined governments' ability to generate revenue in the form of tax. Maurice visits Zambia to examine what has happened to the money generated by the country's booming copper industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Jihad and the Petrodollar - part 1 Has Saudi Arabia fanned the flames of Muslim militancy by exporting its own puritanical form of Islam to every corner of the globe? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - The neglected thalidomiders 15 Nov 2007 Fifty years ago, the drug thalidomide was introduced as a treatment for pregnancy sickness. The results for unborn children were devastating. Many of those affected have been compensated - but not thalidomiders in Spain. Geoff Adams-Spink investigates why. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Taxing Questions (programme one) The first part of a four part series in which Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the black market have drastically undermined governments' ability to generate revenue in the form of tax. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Can America Go Green? - Programme 2 The BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its role as the planet's biggest polluter. In this episode: Laura reports on General Electric. Once pilloried as a polluter (and taken to court for dumping waste in the Hudson River), the industry giant, under the leadership of Jeffrey Immelt, has gone green and sees its future prosperity tied to developing green technologies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: In Search of a New Kyoto In a special BBC WS One Planet debate, we bring together four people at the heart of their governments' response to climate change � from the USA, Indonesia, Brazil and the UK. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Inside the Climate Change Talks (part 3) The final part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex web of negotiations to find a successor to the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Inside the Climate Change Talks (part 2) The second part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex web of negotiations to find a successor to the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Inside the Climate Change Talks (part 1) The first part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex web of negotiations to find a successor to the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Can America Go Green? - Programme 1 The BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its role as the planet's biggest polluter. In this episode: Laura finds out how the US could retreat from its role as the biggest polluter on the planet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Sexual violence in South Africa 1 Nov 2007 South Africa has one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world. There are more than 54,000 reported rapes every year - and most rapes go unreported. David Goldblatt investigates what's behind this violence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Wole Soyinka Returns to Biafra Part Two In this part, Wole Soyinka travels back on a route he first took in 1967 at the beginning of the Biafran War, and speaks to two of the main protagonists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Benazir Bhutto - The Investigation In Pakistan President Musharraf and the former Pakistani prime minister, Benazir Bhutto did a deal this month. She told her suppprters to support his bid for the Presidency. He in return dropped corrpution charges bought by his government against her. This paved the way to her return to Pakistan after almost a decade of self-imposed exile. In "Benazir Bhutto - The Investigation", Owen Bennett-Jones looks at the claims against her and whether she could still face corruption charges. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Benazir Bhutto - The Investigation We investigate the substance of the allegations against Benazir Bhutto and ask whether she could still face charges, despite the deal she has just struck with President Musharraf. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Wole Soyinka Returns to Biafra Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning author, Wole Sayinka travels back to Biafra and comes face to face with the military leader who imprisoned him 40 years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth 4 In the final part of this series Robin White visits Georgetown the capital of Guyana where he experiences the transport system and learns about the demise of the Amerindian culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth Robin White visits Maputo the capital city of Mozambique. After sixteen years of civil war how well is the city functioning? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth Robin White finds out about the disappearing Kweyol culture in St Lucia. Why is it too difficult to make Kweyol the island's official language? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: China's Long Arm 4 China has turned its attention to the US in its search for natural resources, even enabling the re-opening of an abandoned iron mine in Minnesota. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: China's Long Arm 3 Lucy Ash assesses the wider impact of China's insatiable appetite for natural resources, and focuses on the special relation with Angola and its oil. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: China's Long Arm 2 Maurice Walsh considers whether China might use its growing military power to reclaim Taiwan, possibly provoking a confrontation with the US. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: China's Long Arm 1 Maurice Walsh examines whether US government concerns about rising defence spending in China will fuel a new arms race in the Pacific. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth 1 Local broadcaster Eunis Taumomoa guides us through Papua New Guinea, a country that has more than 700 different languages and ethnic groups. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | DocArchive: Assignment - Afghanistan's war crimes 11 Oct 2007 Afghanistan's recent