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.
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Mon, 29 Dec 08
Duration:
24 mins
As leaders in Europe and America struggle to re-write the rules of international finance following the credit crunch, we investigate the roots and role of risk.
Mon, 29 Dec 08
Duration:
24 mins
In Brand Cuba, Allan Little analyses some of the factors that have kept Cuba alive in the public imagination over such a long period.
Fri, 26 Dec 08
Duration:
24 mins
Throughout much of the Christian world Christmas is the time when Santa Claus dominates – a fat jolly chap who is our friend.
Thu, 25 Dec 08
Duration:
21 mins
There are more than 10 million Palestinians living around the world, more than half of whom are stateless. In this year when Israel has been marking its 60th anniversary many Palestinians have been reflecting on the event that for them meant exile. The 'naqba', or catastrophe, is how they describe the destruction of many of their villages and towns and their own dispersal following the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. For Assignment Paul Adams spoke to four Palestinians in exile.
Tue, 23 Dec 08
Duration:
24 mins
While China's economy has boomed over the past 30 years, many of its 700 million farmers have been stuck in poverty. Their only hope of a wage has been far from home in the factories and building sites of the boomtowns.
Fri, 19 Dec 08
Duration:
22 mins
In this four part series, using archive recordings and music from the time, Sir John Tusa examines what made 1968 such a climactic year. Programme four focuses on the Prague Spring and the subsequent Russian invasion, but also anti-communist rumblings in Poland and China.
Fri, 19 Dec 08
Duration:
24 mins
Timeline is the programme where the past sheds light on recent events though use of archive material.
Thu, 18 Dec 08
Duration:
23 mins
Last year our correspondent Jill McGivering reported from Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan on the constant violence and the struggle to bring development to the region. Now she's returned, one year on, to see if there's been any progress.
Wed, 17 Dec 08
Duration:
24 mins
While China's economy has boomed over the past 30 years, many of its 700 million farmers have been stuck in poverty.
Fri, 12 Dec 08
Duration:
24 mins
In this topical and lively series, contemporary stories and events are explored through the examination of archive material of events that have gone before.
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History as told by the people who were there.
Witness talks to people who lived through moments of history to bring you a personal perspective on world events.
Fri, 17 May 13
8 minutes
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, BBC Radio Ulster is running a two-week series of short readings. They feature letters written by people caught up in the disaster,…
Sun, 22 Apr 12
3 minutes
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