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The Aid Trap
Do poor countries get caught in an "aid trap", a cycle of dependency and corruption?
BBC World Service
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Millennium Goals
A look at the reality of the United Nations' pledges to tackle world problems by 2015
BBC World Service
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Voting for Britain
Elections and political processes in the UK and around the world
BBC World Service
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Challenging Racism
Five programmes celebrating the World Conference against Racism
BBC World Service
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Inside the Ballot Box
Series looking at how elections work and how they differ around the world
BBC World Service
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Cooling Conflict
Short series looking at an academic course on conflict resolution
BBC World Service
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Spinning to Win
How British and American governments have managed information in times of war
BBC World Service
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The Hunt For Al-Qaeda
How counter terrorism agents uncovered Osama bin Laden's network around the world
BBC World Service
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Days of Darkness, Days of Light
Fergal Keane revisits post-genocide Rwanda and post-apartheid South Africa
BBC World Service
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The Sword and the Ocean
The effects of rising Hindu nationalism in India and abroad
BBC World Service
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Profit and Loss: The Story of African Oil
How oil wealth has failed to benefit millions of Africans
BBC World Service
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Islam's Furthest Frontier
How Islam in South East Asia is responding to the challenges of the modern world
BBC World Service
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The Friday Documentary
A collection of feature documentaries, retelling stories from across the world
BBC World Service
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The Diplomatic Jigsaw
Insiders talk about how events unfolded on 11 September 2001 and the following months
BBC World Service
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Children's Correspondents
Why the rights of children around the world need to be protected
BBC World Service
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Policing the Planet
What are police forces doing to meet the challenge of international crime?
BBC World Service
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Stepping Up To The Plate
American Congressional elections in the final hours before Election Day
BBC World Service
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Chat, Snaps and Videotape
Exploring how music, radio, film and photography reflects Nigerian society
BBC World Service
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Breaking the Silence
A look at life in Saudi Arabia and why so many young people are reverting to violence
BBC World Service
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Vietnam: At War and at Peace
Revisiting the Vietnam War and looking at the developments in the country made since 1975
BBC World Service
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China Uncovered
A history to provide explanations for China’s actions and for its attitudes today
BBC World Service
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When Wars End
How conflict resolution professionals are dealing with a world focused on war
BBC World Service
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Preventing AIDS
Examining how effective media and lobbying campaigns are in the fight against HIV/AIDS
BBC World Service
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The Summer War in Lebanon
Edward Stourton explores the Israeli-Lebanon conflict of 2006
BBC World Service
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Shakespeare on Tour
Our rich connections with William Shakespeare, and how his work has influenced the county.
BBC Radio Gloucestershire
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Seeing Iraq, Thinking Vietnam
The impact of the two conflicts on American society and politics
BBC World Service
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Uncovering Pakistan
A look at the political climate in Pakistan after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto
BBC World Service
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Rebuilding Southern Sudan
Challenges of peacetime and looking ahead to the elections
BBC World Service
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Young In The Arab World
What it's like for young people growing up in four capitals in the Arab world
BBC World Service
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Making Terror, Breaking Terror
If one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter, how should terrorism be defined?
BBC World Service
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United Nations - or Not
A look at the work of the UN from the inside as its faces some tough challenges
BBC World Service
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A Year in the Arab-Israeli Crisis
The story of one of the most momentous years in the Middle East
BBC World Service
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A World Of Corruption
How politicial and institutional corruption impacts on regimes around the world
BBC World Service
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Asian Diasporas
Why do Asians leave home? Following their stories around the world
BBC World Service