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Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
23/12/2009
Nick Baker embarks on a global journey - an ambitious project to draw a map round the w...
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.
Episode 1
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?
05/02/2010
Nick Baker goes in search of China's seafaring legend Zheng He.
Opposing Obama
Gary Younge meets people who think Barack Obama's presidency is nothing but bad news.
12/02/2010
The stories and history of the bizarre phenomenon of sending messages in bottles across...
15/02/2010
Maurice Walsh reports on the changing face of religion in New York, as Hispanics are ta...
19/02/2010
Iranian Kazem Ariaiwand runs the most northerly kebab shop on the planet. This is his e...