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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....

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[ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:13:00 +0000 ]


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....

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[ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:30:00 +0000 ]


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....

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[ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:05:00 +0000 ]


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 Burma,...

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[ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:16:00 +0000 ]


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....

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[ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:06:00 +0000 ]


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....

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[ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:05:00 +0000 ]


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....

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[ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:27:00 +0000 ]


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....

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[ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:12:00 +0000 ]


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....

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[ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:06:00 +0000 ]


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....

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[ Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000 ]


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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'....

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[ Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:56:00 +0000 ]


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....

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[ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:05:00 +0000 ]


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....

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[ Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:06:00 +0000 ]


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....

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[ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:14:00 +0000 ]


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....

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[ Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:01:00 +0000 ]


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....

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[ Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:05:00 +0100 ]


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....

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[ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:06:00 +0100 ]


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?...

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[ Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:05:00 +0100 ]


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....

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[ Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:30:00 +0100 ]


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....

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[ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:06:00 +0100 ]


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....

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[ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:28:00 +0100 ]


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....

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[ Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:00:00 +0100 ]


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....

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[ Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:48:00 +0100 ]


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....

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[ Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:06:00 +0100 ]


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?...

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[ Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:00:00 +0100 ]


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?...

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[ Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:29:00 +0100 ]


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....

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[ Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:05:00 +0100 ]


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....

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[ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:06:00 +0100 ]


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....

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[ Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:20:00 +0100 ]


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....

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[ Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:46:00 +0100 ]

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