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Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
Hearts And Lungs
The Battle for hearts and lungs
Are tobacco manufacturers taking advantage of lax regulation in developing countries?
The Legal World
An insider's view of legal battles being fought around the world
Episode 2
The lawyers trying to get justice and freedom amidst the chaos of Uganda's legal system
Zainab's Story
Zainab Bangura, Sierra Leones foreign minister, tells her own remarkable story
Seeking The Endgame
Will computers end the mystique of chess?
Chess fanatic Simon Terrington explores the allure of the game in today's world
The Mysteries of the Brain
How do our senses affect our ability to communicate and respond to the world around us?
World Stories
The Rollercoaster of Life in Kabul
Meena Baktash on Kabul's beauty, vibrant culture and inspiring people.
World Stories - A Widow's Journey
In 1989 Tamil leader Appapillai Amirthalingam was killed in Sri Lanka. His wife and son...
World Stories - Afghanistan's Dancing Boys
A controversial practise in Afghanistan's heartland.
World Stories - The Children of Pedro Pan
In the 1960's 14,000 Cuban children were sent to live in the USA, to seek a better life...
World Stories - Revolutions in Iran
In Iran, how does the spread of ideas shape world opinion?
The Magic Carpet Flight Manual
What does our desire to defy gravity tell us about ourselves?
Is the biggest challenge of the brain not to explain thinking but to understand movement?
Memory Wars - Part One - Ghosts of Europe
Can oral history challenge the official records of a nation's turbulent past?
01/10/2010
A former British colonial officer returns to Nigeria to meet a civil servant he trained...
Do the emotional mechanisms in the brain overpower reason?
Memory Wars - Part Two - Silent No Longer
The City That Sacked Its Staff
The story of a small Californian city that made a radical move to avoid bankruptcy.
Examining the link between the brain and consciousness
Nelson Mandela: In His Own Words
Can Nelson Mandela's writing help us understand the man behind the icon?
The Price of Bio Fuels - Part One
Can bio fuels provide a viable alternative energy source?
Listen to Mandela's thoughts on the night of his release from Robben Island
25/10/2010
Gerry Northam investigates claims that biofuels, rather than helping the world, may be ...
The Other Guantanamo
Polly Evans travels to Guantanamo to talk to Cubans about living next to the prison
Baghdad Boy
Seven years after a US rocket attack left him without arms, Ali Abbas returns to Baghdad
The Battle Of King Salmon
Reporting on the greatest wild salmon run on earth
The Battle of King Salmon - part two
Is mining threatening the world's greatest wild salmon run?
Return To White Horse
Carrie Gracie returns to China to see how 21st Century urbanisation is progressing