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The Documentary Podcast Episodes

  1. Assignment - Chasing the Tax Cheats

    This week's Assignment looks at the much-vaunted crackdown on tax havens announced by...

  2. Assignment - Burma: the road to crisis

    The two week uprising in Burma has been ruthlessly put down by the Burmese military.

  3. Assignment - Burma Votes

    The people of Burma go to the polls on November 7th for the first time in 20 years.

  4. Assignment - Britain's gangmasters

    Assignment reports on the fate of thousands of migrants from eastern Europe, who come...

  5. Assignment - Bosnia's Heritage

    There's a crisis of culture in Bosnia Herzegovina. The guardians of the nation's - the...

  6. Assignment - Blackwater

    There are now as many private security contractors in Iraq as there are US soldiers.

  7. Assignment - Bhopal

    Twenty-five years ago, a gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal killed...

  8. Assignment - Beyond Mark Weil

    Last September, Mark Weil, the radical theatre director of the Ilkhom theatre in was a...

  9. Assignment - Australia's FIFO Workers

    Australia's mining boom is proving lucrative for its so called Fly in Fly Out (FIFO) a...

  10. Assignment - August Central America

    Linda Pressly follows the migrants heading north through Guatemala into Mexico – the...

  11. Assignment - American and Muslim

    With anti-Islamic sentiment on the rise in America, Claire Bolderson reports for on it...

  12. Assignment - America's Somali Bantu

    Hundreds of thousands of people have fled from Somalia since civil war broke out there...

  13. Assignment - America's Poor

    The BBC's Hilary Anderson examines what it means to be poor, in the richest country in...

  14. Assignment - Aids and the Caribbean

    Five years after doing a series of reports on HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean, Emma her...

  15. Assignment - African Footballers

    Millions of young African boys dream of following such football stars as Didier Drogba...

  16. Assignment - Afghanistan's war crimes

    Afghanistan's recent history has been a long list of human rights abuses and war - yet...

  17. Assignment - A Matter of Life and Death

    Jill McGivering reports from Pakistan where calls for debate about the country's laws...

  18. Assignment - A City Divided

    At the end of last year, violent clashes broke out in Jos in central Nigeria after a...

  19. Assignment - Zimbabwe's Migrant Children

    Mukul Devichand goes on the road with young children travelling alone on a journey of...

  20. Assignment - France Food Fights

    France has long been a country with a reputation for some of the best food in the world.

  21. Assignment

    The Commodities Bubble: Michael Robinson investigates and reveals how the commodities...

  22. Assignment

    Lucy Ash finds out if new trade deals and diplomatic dialogue with Libya can encourage...

  23. Assassination: When Delhi Burned

    When the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984 by her two Sikh...

  24. Asian-Americans

    A family discusses escaping Vietnam by boat and the reality of the American dream

  25. As the World Sees Britain: Germany and how it sees Britain

    Political and cultural figures in Germany on how they and their communities see Britain

  26. Artist Joan Eardley

    Scottish artist Joan Eardley produced monumental seascapes, landscapes, and portraits

  27. Arthur Ashe: More than a champion

    Marking the 50th anniversary of Arthur Ashe lifting the Wimbledon men's singles title

  28. Art for the Millions

    The Great Depression and how the US government used the arts to uplift national spirit

  29. Arming Angola

    Angola has also been described as one of the most corrupt countries in the world.

  30. Armenia’s Daredevils

    Why a group of Armenian war veterans who stormed a police station are seen as heroes.

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