Documentaries

Documentaries

Throughout the week BBC World Service offers a wide range of documentaries and other factual programmes. This podcast offers you the chance to access landmark series from our archive.

Thu Aug 28 04:06:00 EDT 2008

Following recent legislation in Spain the government has agreed to offer support to families wishing to find the remains o... more

Tue Aug 26 10:59:00 EDT 2008

BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner talks to former allies of Osama bin Laden who are now engaged in countering the t... more

Mon Aug 25 04:00:00 EDT 2008

Barack Obama:the profile of one of the two individuals who are the presumptive nominees in the US presidential election. more

Thu Aug 21 04:06:00 EDT 2008

The experience of growing up in a socially deprived, inner city neighbourhood is a common one, no matter where you may liv... more

Thu Aug 21 10:31:00 EDT 2008

International seas are largely unregulated, meaning most underwater archaeological wealth can be retrieved and sold withou... more

Wed Aug 20 04:30:00 EDT 2008

BBC World Affairs correspondent Mark Doyle continues travelling from the west to the east of the DR Congo on a journey to ... more

Mon Aug 18 03:00:00 EDT 2008

The extraordinary US military base at the heart of a vast shift in American military strategy, aiming for nation-building ... more

Thu Aug 14 06:54:00 EDT 2008

What do Freedom of Information laws actually achieve? Are they sometimes more symbolic than practical in their impact? more

Thu Aug 14 04:06:00 EDT 2008

During Argentina's Dirty War of the seventies and eighties thousands of leftists and dissidents vanished after being abduc... more

Wed Aug 13 05:00:00 EDT 2008

BBC World Affairs Correspondent Mark Doyle explores why over five million people have died in the Democratic Republic of C... more

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