BBC World Service - The Documentary

Episode 2—The Dark Side Of Diplomacy

2/2 How should diplomats engage with brutal regimes?

1/2 Noah Richler asks why humans from the earliest times have felt the need to tell stories.

1/2 Is engagement always better than isolation in the case of tyrannical regimes?

With Gaddafi dead, Owen Bennett-Jones explores what happens after dictators fall.

2/2 Meet Yusuf Mahmoud, who swapped Cheltenham for Zanzibar in his love of African music.

2/2 Why does Britain's narrow and elite establishment keep stumbling from crisis to crisis?

1/2 Meet Venezuelan Padro Carrillo, who moved to the birthplaceof opera to pursue his career.

1/2 Why does Britain's narrow and elite establishment keep stumbling from crisis to crisis?

Alan Dein explores the impact of the recent riots in England on one London man

3/3 Matthew Connelly looks at the consequences of India's methods to control its population.