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Justa is destitute, surviving on the meagre remittences that her daughter can send her. What keeps a billion people trapped in the most persistent poverty?
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The Venezuelan sistema - an intensive orchestral training for children - does more for young people than give them music.
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Farayi Mungazi, the voice of African Sport on BBC World Service’s Fast Track, crosses the continent to tell the story of football.
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In this documentary we hear first hand from the African troops who participated in the war – and who played a critical part in freeing the world from the threat of fascism. Martin Plaut reports.
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Martin Sixsmith gets under the skin of Russia's secret service, the fastest growing and arguably most politically influential secret service in the world.
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The 1976 hijacking of an Air France plane on a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris.
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BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner talks to former allies of Osama bin Laden who are now engaged in countering the terrorist leader's agenda.
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Alert Bay - My Life So Far, is the first of the Global Perspective series which features six documentaries from around the world, giving a local perspective on a shared chosen theme. The theme for 2009 is Islands.
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Allan Little presents an appraisal of Thomas Jefferson that will consider some of the key "Jeffersonian principles" and look at what they show us how his vision continues to define the continent of America and its relationship with the world today.
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Tracing the profound physical and emotional toll on all those involved in the wake of a single collision on a road.
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Brett Westwood presents four special programmes looking at how environmental change is affecting the movement of animals. In the first programme, he explores how sustainable forestry can help to preserve the Orange Monarch butterfly.
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One Planet hears a very personal view of how humans exploit other species.
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Argentinian film director, writer and tango enthusiast, Edgardo Cozarinsky, talks to artists, dancers and novelists about why psychotherapy and tango have such a pervasive hold on the Argentine mind and soul.
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Evidence of police atrocities - kidnappings, forced disappearances, and extra-judicial killings - during Guatemala’s 36 year-long civil war.