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Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
Can China Go Green?
Amidst China's toxic power stations we find some extraordinary green solutions.
Jonathon Porritt is in China, where he finds pioneering green solutions.
05/12/2009
StoryCorps, the US oral history project, is an organisation that gives Americans a chan...
Episode 1
16/12/2009
Nick Baker embarks on a global journey - an ambitious project to draw a map round the w...
Episode 2
23/12/2009
State Secrets
State Secrets - Part two
Oana Lungescu investigates the secret files kept hidden after the fall of communism.
Defining the Decade: A Googling We Go
Google's mighty impact on our lives and the world wide web.
John Simpson Returns To 1989
John Simpson tells the story of 20 years of post-communist life.
John Simpson returns to Prague to speak to those who lived through the Velvet Revolution
John Simpson Returns To 1989 3
John Simpson brings himself back to the Romanian revolution.
Defining the Decade: The Heat Is On
Edward Stourton explores how, in the past 10 years, the world woke up to climate change.
30/12/2009
We delve into Tulsa's tough underworld in the company of two police officers who have d...
06/01/2010
Rob Walker tells the story of how 'Angolagate', one of the biggest arms deal scandals o...
01/01/2010
How a very special school in Finland is helping visually impaired children.
Defining the Decade: Mission Accomplished
After 9/11, the new global world order and China's economic rise.
11/01/2010
Prof Jim Al-Khalili, brings alive the stories of the great forgotten Arabic thinkers an...
18/01/2010
Episode 3
25/01/2010
Africa Kicks
Africa Kicks - Part four
South Africa will host the 2010 World Cup but can football unite the nation?