An indepth look at stories and issues from around the world. This podcast offers you the chance to access landmark series from our archive.
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Wed, 4 Feb 15
Duration:
28 mins
A Vietnamese woman's perspective of the Vietnam War. Her memoirs have inspired film director Oliver Stone and given an essential insight into the conflict between Vietnam and the US.
Tue, 3 Feb 15
Duration:
28 mins
Tata is the biggest industrial employer in the UK, owning Jaguar, Land Rover & Tetley. Now, the Tata family no longer controls the companies which bear its name. Can this powerful organisation hold onto its historic values in a world of the ruthless multinationals?
Sat, 31 Jan 15
Duration:
27 mins
The testimonies of twins who survived the brutal medical experiments of Dr Josef Mengele during the second world war in Auschwitz.
Fri, 30 Jan 15
Duration:
50 mins
World renowned DJ and BBC 1Xtra presenter DJ Edu is on a journey to find the best nightclub in Africa. This programme is part of the BBC’s Richer World season
Thu, 29 Jan 15
Duration:
27 mins
In the wake of the recent attacks in Paris, do France’s Muslims feel there’s a place for them in the strongly secular Republic?
Wed, 28 Jan 15
Duration:
27 mins
British actor Lenny Henry traces the life and works of August Wilson, the great black playwright, whose work brought the lives of working-class, Pittsburgh African-Americans to Broadway and across the United States.
Tue, 27 Jan 15
Duration:
27 mins
Even by the sometimes-bizarre standards of modern Japanese culture, the annual love-your-wife shout-out is one of the stranger rituals to have emerged in recent years. But what does it tell us about love and life in Japan today?
Sun, 25 Jan 15
Duration:
51 mins
Slum settlements have a strong visual identity. We are used to seeing TV footage of densely packed, ramshackle homes squeezed onto strips of land in inner cities. Dr Tom Rice, a sound anthropologist, takes an alternative perspective and explores what a slum sounds like and how this embodies and reflects the local culture. Tom meets up with Dr Tripta Chandola, an urban researcher, who for 10 years has studied the slums of Govindpuri in India’s capital, Delhi.
Fri, 23 Jan 15
Duration:
51 mins
Last summer the deaths of four innocent teenagers in Israel, three Jewish and one Israeli Arab, heightened tensions leading to the start of the 2014 Gaza war. Mike Thomson travels to Israel to speak with the friends and family of Naftali Fraenkel, one of the murdered Jewish schoolboys and those of Mohammed Abu Khdeir.
Thu, 22 Jan 15
Duration:
27 mins
Germany's nascent anti-Islamisation movement, Pegida, is attracting a new middle aged following to its weekly marches around the country. Catrin Nye meets its leader.
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Throughout the week BBC World Service offers a wide range of documentaries and other factual programmes. This podcast offers you the chance to access landmark series from our archive.
Wed, 30 Dec 09
23 minutes
Making History explores ordinary people's links with the past. The programme is presented by Helen Castor and Tom Holland. You can email the show at making.history@bbc.co.uk
Wed, 4 Feb 15
27 minutes
