Episodes
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?
Published 11/17/11
Rupa Jha reports for Assignment on India's whistleblowers - the people who find themselves on the frontline of the country's anti-corruption struggle.
Published 11/17/11
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.
Published 11/11/11
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.
Published 11/08/11
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.
Published 11/08/11
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.
Published 11/05/11
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.
Published 11/03/11
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.
Published 11/01/11
As Libyans absorb the impact of the death of Gaddafi, Owen Bennett-Jones presents a special programme exploring what happens after dictators leave power.
Published 10/29/11
Meet Yusuf Mahmoud, who swapped Cheltenham for Zanzibar because of his love of African music.
Published 10/29/11
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.
Published 10/27/11
Why does Britain's narrow and elite establishment keep stumbling from crisis to crisis?
Published 10/25/11
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.
Published 10/24/11
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.
Published 10/21/11
Robyn Bresnahan reports on how politics is dividing families in Ivory Coast.
Published 10/20/11
Michael Goldfarb looks at why Britain's narrow and elite establishment keeps stumbling from crisis to crisis.
Published 10/18/11
Alan Dein explores the impact of last summer's riots on a London man and his friends in the immediate aftermath of the rioting.
Published 10/14/11
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.
Published 10/13/11
The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals.
Published 10/11/11
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.
Published 10/07/11
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.
Published 10/06/11
The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals.
Published 10/04/11
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.
Published 09/30/11
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.
Published 09/29/11
The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals.
Published 09/27/11