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Goodbye To Bush House: Part Two

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2011 23:28


John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, from 1941 to leaving Bush House in 2012.

Guangzhou - China's migrant metropolis

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2011 23:32


China's economy depends on a system regulating workers from around China and beyond. In Guangzhou, the migrant metropolis, Mukul Devichand hears stories of anger and reform.

Goodbye To Bush House: Part One

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2011 23:28


John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, from 1941 to leaving Bush House in 2012.

The Truth About NGOs - India

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2011 23:28


Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in India. Who really benefits from the work of NGOs?

The Songs of Comrade Time

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2011 48:57


The Children's Choir of the USSR sang to their leaders, they sang to their people, and through their songs projected a bright, happy dream of the Soviet Union to the furthest reaches of the Red Empire. Then, in 1991, the world they had sung about ceased to exist and the Soviet Union passed into memory. Monica Whitlock goes in search of The Children's Choir of the USSR.

Assignment - France Food Fights

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2011 22:58


France has long been a country with a reputation for some of the best food in the world. But in recent years, many critics have argued that French cuisine has lost its way. Now there's a new generation of food-lovers hoping to change that. But what do the traditionalists make of it all? Robyn Bresnahan reports.

Tales From The Arab Spring: Whose Tomorrow? (Syria)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2011 23:16


The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the Middle East and hears from those who witnessed events at first hand.

Tales From The Arab Spring: Counter Revolution (Libya)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2011 26:57


The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the Middle East and hears from those who witnessed events at first hand.

The Truth About NGOs - Malawi

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 23:19


Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in Haiti, Malawi and India.

Tales From The Arab Spring: Revolution (Egypt)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2011 26:57


The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the Middle East and hears from those who witnessed events at first hand.

Boundaries Of Blood: Part Two

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2011 23:30


Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan.

Assignment Cholera in Haiti

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2011 23:41


A hard hitting Assignment from Mark Doyle who reports on the massive cholera outbreak in Haiti and the controversy that surrounds it.

Boundaries Of Blood: Part One

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2011 23:30


Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan.

Exposing Bali's Orphanages

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2011 23:27


In Assignment Ed Butler investigates reports that some orphanages in Bali are being run as commercial rackets and that children there are being exploited for the owners' benefit.

Out In The World: Part Two

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2011 23:30


Richard Coles confronts accusations that the West is attempting to force gay rights on Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Knitting In Tripoli

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2011 49:54


Knitting in Tripoli tells an intimate story of life during the Libyan war through the eyes of people who battled their own fears to step out of Gaddafi's dark shadow. Rana Jawad became the BBC website's Tripoli Witness and took up knitting and baking to cope with the strains of living in hiding and secretly gathering information.

A New Global Economics: Radical Economics - Part Two

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2011 26:55


Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with the system rather than a mere failure of policy? This two-part series investigates two schools of economics with radical solutions. In part two Paul Mason asks whether the expansion of credit created a new form of worker exploitation.

The Missing in Kashmir

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2011 23:46


A dark secret lies beneath the earth in Indian Kashmir. Bodies - thousands of them. Who are they and how did they die? Jill McGivering reports for Assignment.

Out In The World: Part One

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2011 23:28


Richard Coles confronts accusations that the West is attempting to force gay rights on Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

The Trouble With Condoms

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2011 23:30


Around one million people around the world are infected with a sexually transmitted disease every single day. Yet even those with easy access to condoms often choose not to use them. Paul Bakibinga sets out to discover why.

A New Global Economics: Radical Economics - Part One

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2011 27:00


Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with the system rather than a mere failure of policy? This two-part series investigates two schools of economics with radical solutions. In part one, Jamie Whyte looks at the free market Austrian School of F.A. Hayek.

Assignment - Roubles & Radicals in Dagestan

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2011 23:00


A Dagestani billionaire, Suleiman Kerimov is bankrolling a football club and building new sports facilities across the country in the hope of encouraging the young to turn away from militant Islam. Lucy Ash reports.

New Global Economics: The Shock & the Shift

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2011 50:12


Martin Wolf, Chief Economic Commentator of The Financial Times, examines how the world has changed since the beginning of the financial crisis four years ago, and asks if the pre-2007 era might be the high point for free market capitalism.

The Boy With The Violin

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2011 23:28


The BBC's Priyath Liyanage searches for a boy who was carrying a violin case when he was used as a human shield by the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka.

Upsetting The Apple Cart - The Genius of Steve Jobs

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2011 49:50


Mark Gregory examines the legacy of Steve Jobs. How will he be compared to the great American entrepreneurs of the past, such as Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie?Did he invent a new way of doing business?

Assignment - India's Whistleblowers

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2011 23:30


Rupa Jha reports for Assignment on India's whistleblowers - the people who find themselves on the frontline of the country's anti-corruption struggle.

A Short History Of Story: Part Two

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2011 23:16


Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths through to today's online gaming and the recording of our personal lives by way of social media.

The Dark Side Of Diplomacy: Part Two

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2011 23:26


Diplomacy is often presented as an artform, the peak of civilisation in a barren political world. But what happens when it is conducted with torturers, murderers and serial human rights abusers? Lyse Doucet asks diplomats, politicians and activists how we should engage with brutal regimes.

The state of Israel

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2011 22:58


Tim Franks reports from Israel for Assignment on how the country now sees itself as political upheaval in neighbouring countries continues to change long held perceptions and alliances.

A Short History Of Story: Part one

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2011 23:21


Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths through to today's online gaming and the recording of our personal lives by way of social media.

Assignment: Spain's Stolen Babies

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2011 23:30


Katya meets the heartbroken families in Spain searching for their children and the trafficked babies, now grown up, searching for their biological relatives and their true identities.

The Dark Side Of Diplomacy: Part One

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2011 23:29


Diplomacy is often presented as an artform, the peak of civilisation in a barren political world. But what happens when it is conducted with torturers, murderers and serial human rights abusers? Lyse Doucet asks diplomats, politicians and activists how we should engage with brutal regimes.

After The Dictators

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2011 50:10


As Libyans absorb the impact of the death of Gaddafi, Owen Bennett-Jones presents a special programme exploring what happens after dictators leave power.

Musical Migrants: Zanzibar

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2011 23:14


Meet Yusuf Mahmoud, who swapped Cheltenham for Zanzibar because of his love of African music.

One Day In Syria

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2011 27:00


For Assignment, Bill Law paints a portrait of one day in the Syrian revolution, talking via the internet and phone to people across the country.

The British Establishment: Who For? - Part Two

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2011 23:20


Why does Britain's narrow and elite establishment keep stumbling from crisis to crisis?

Musical Migrants: Nashville - Episode 2

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2011 23:05


Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music. In part two, Jesse Lee Jones explains how his love of country music took him from Brazil to Nashville.

Musical Migrants: Milan - Episode 1

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2011 23:12


Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music. In part one Pedro Carrillo from Venezuela fell in love with Italian opera and moved to Milan.

Assignment Ivory Coast: A family divided

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2011 26:29


Robyn Bresnahan reports on how politics is dividing families in Ivory Coast.

The British Establishment: Who For? - Part One

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2011 23:21


Michael Goldfarb looks at why Britain's narrow and elite establishment keeps stumbling from crisis to crisis.

Lives In Landscape

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2011 28:32


Alan Dein explores the impact of last summer's riots on a London man and his friends in the immediate aftermath of the rioting.

Defining Hezbollah

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2011 26:28


In Lebanon many people fear that another war between Hezbollah and Israel is just over the horizon. But what exactly is Hezbollah and why do people support it? For Assignment Owen Bennett Jones reports from southern Lebanon on the nature and structure of the Shia movement that is so difficult to define.

Controlling People: Part Three

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2011 23:12


The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals.

Down and Out in Paris and London

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2011 30:42


Some 80 years after George Orwell chronicled the lives of the hard-up and destitute in his book Down and Out in Paris and London, what has changed? Retracing the writer's footsteps, Emma Jane Kirby finds the hallmarks of poverty identified by Orwell - addiction, exhaustion and, often, a quiet dignity - are as apparent now as they were then.

Fading Voices

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2011 26:28


Facing old age presents its challenges where ever you come from. Nina Robinson travels to Wales in the United Kingdom to talk to members of an all male choir as their numbers decline and their voices fade.

Controlling People: Part Two

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2011 22:58


The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals.

Listening Post - Episode Two

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2011 23:41


A series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals. In part two, we hear the story of 84 year-old Sybil Phoenix, who 50 years ago started fostering. She has cared for countless children and was awarded an MBE in 1973 for her involvement in community relations - making her the first black female recipient.

Assignment - Supporting Fenerbahce

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2011 26:28


Fenerbahce fans are angry. Their club is at the centre of a match fixing scandal and they've suffered the humiliation of being banned from the first game of the season. Tim Mansel went to meet them.

Controlling People: Part One

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2011 23:15


The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals.

Listening Post - Episode One

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2011 23:16


A series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals. In part one we hear the story of Yusef Shakur, who in 1992 at 19 was about to start a prison sentence of five to 15 years. Now almost two decades on, he has managed to turn his life around.

Assignment - Rangers v Celtic

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2011 26:29


Strong views and language from the fans of Scotland's top football clubs - Rangers and Celtic. But how sectarian is their rivalry? Rob Walker reports for Assignment.

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