Episodes
John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, from 1941 to leaving Bush House in 2012.
Published 12/31/11
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.
Published 12/29/11
John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, from 1941 to leaving Bush House in 2012.
Published 12/24/11
Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in India. Who really benefits from the work of NGOs?
Published 12/23/11
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.
Published 12/23/11
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.
Published 12/22/11
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.
Published 12/21/11
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.
Published 12/21/11
Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in Haiti, Malawi and India.
Published 12/20/11
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.
Published 12/20/11
Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan.
Published 12/17/11
A hard hitting Assignment from Mark Doyle who reports on the massive cholera outbreak in Haiti and the controversy that surrounds it.
Published 12/15/11
Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan.
Published 12/09/11
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.
Published 12/08/11
Richard Coles confronts accusations that the West is attempting to force gay rights on Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Published 12/06/11
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.
Published 12/03/11
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.
Published 12/02/11
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.
Published 12/01/11
Richard Coles confronts accusations that the West is attempting to force gay rights on Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Published 11/29/11
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.
Published 11/26/11
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.
Published 11/26/11
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.
Published 11/24/11
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.
Published 11/22/11
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.
Published 11/18/11