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DocArchive: Dead by Christmas
Thu, Nov 20
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The Neapolitan crime syndicate, the Camorra, has said it wants a young writer dead by Christmas, because he has exposed how they really do business. Increasingly it's brave individuals - not the Italian state - who are taking on the Camorra, by breaking the code of silence and stripping away the glamour that surrounds organised crime in Italy. For Assignment, Pascale Harter travels to southern Italy to talk to the people caught up in the deadly battle against the Camorra.
DocArchive: Street Art - Part One
Thu, Nov 20
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This series looks at street art in two very different cities: New York and Sao Paulo. Each episode profiles a rising artist, and speaks to people on the street to discover how attitudes to graffiti and street art vary from city to city. Episode 1 looks at New York through the eyes of Elbow-Toe.
DocArchive: Giving up the gun in Kashmir
Tue, Nov 18
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Rupa Jha talks to former militants in Kashmir and their families about why they took up arms and the reasons behind giving up violence. What are the challenges of returning to normal society?
DocArchive: The world without...copper
Fri, Nov 14
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You might think that copper is just another metal, but in fact it is a vital substance. Discover why, without this metal, even the evolution of life itself would be radically different.
DocArchive: Toxic Trailers - Assignment
Thu, Nov 13
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Hundreds of thousands of people were made homeless when Hurricane Katrina devastated parts of the southern coast of the United States in 2005. Many survivors were rehoused by the federal government in travel trailers which they claim made them sick. For Assignment, Rob Walker travels to Mississippi to hear their story.
DocArchive: Hard lessons from Afghanistan - Part Two
Wed, Nov 12
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Former Kabul correspondent Alan Johnston reflects on decades of turmoil in Afghanistan, from the Soviet invasion in 1979 to the intervention by the West.
DocArchive: Animal Migration in a Climate of Change - Part Two
Mon, Nov 10
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Animal Migration in a Climate of Change is a special four-part series that explores the way environmental change is affecting the natural movement of animals all around the world. In Part Two, Silent Landscapes, focuses on how environmental change is affecting some popular bird species.
DocArchive: Animal Migration in a Climate of Change - Part Three
Mon, Nov 10
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Animal Migration in a Climate of Change is a special four-part series that explores the way environmental change is affecting the natural movement of animals all around the world. In Part Three, The Elephant's Journey, Brett Westwood looks at African elephant migration.
DocArchive: Animal Migration in a Climate of Change - Part Four
Mon, Nov 10
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Animal Migration in a Climate of Change is a special four-part series that explores the way environmental change is affecting the natural movement of animals all around the world. In Part Four, In A Wild Goose Chase, the focus is on wild geese.
DocArchive: The world without...cows
Fri, Nov 7
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Discover just how important cows have been civilisation, all around the world.
DocArchive: Hard Lessons from Afghanistan - Part One
Wed, Nov 5
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Former Kabul correspondent Alan Johnston reflects on decades of turmoil in Afghanistan, from the Soviet invasion in 1979 to the intervention by the West.
DocArchive: The PR battle for the Caucasus
Mon, Nov 3
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The South Ossetian conflict not only sparked a military war between Russia and Georgia, but a propaganda battle. James Rodgers examines this ongoing media war between Georgia and Russia - featuring archive clips of key events and interviews.
DocArchive: Rat Attack
Fri, Oct 31
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Neil McCarthy pieces together a story of rats, famine and insurrection from the 1950's to present day, in remote hills of North East India.
DocArchive: The Lost Veterans
Wed, Oct 29
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Andrew Purcell investigates the growing homelessness crisis among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in the United States. The programme looks at how these 'lost veterans' struggle to reintegrate into civilian society, and how they feel abandoned by the US military.
DocArchive: America’s First Principles
Mon, Oct 27
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Allan Little presents an appraisal of the man described as America's Apostle of Freedom: Thomas Jefferson, author of the founding document of the American Republic.
DocArchive: Failure or Fraud
Fri, Oct 24
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As the global banking crisis deepens, a flood of multi-million dollar lawsuits is beginning to shed light into some of the darkest corners of international finance. The BBC's Michael Robinson investigates these cases and what they reveal about the present disaster.
DocArchive: My Lai Tapes - Part Two
Tue, Oct 21
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Robert Hodierne looks at 'The Peers Inquiry', which was the US Army's own investigation into what really happened in the village of My Lai during the Vietnam war.
DocArchive: Is al-Qaeda winning? Part Four
Mon, Oct 20
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The Saudi Interior Ministry and the US Military in Iraq have offered al - Qaeda sympathisers and detainees therapy and job training. Owen Bennett-Jones asks if this can really prevent someone from supporting al-Qaeda.
DocArchive: Out of the Ghetto
Fri, Oct 17
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This special documentary exploring life in Chicago's inner city is based on Ghetto Life 101, an acclaimed 1993 documentary featuring LeAlan Jones and LLoyd Newman, two teenagers who brought US radio listeners face to face with life in of one of Chicago's worst housing projects. Jones has revisited the area to see how it has changed.
DocArchive: The View from Kashmir - Assignment
Thu, Oct 16
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A series of protests against Indian rule in Kashmir has left more than 30 people dead since August. Thousands of people have died in the violence there since 1989. For Assignment George Arney travels to Kashmir to speak to young people caught up in the protests and discovers that for the first time the Muslim separatist struggle is embracing non-violence.
DocArchive: My Lai Tapes - Part One
Wed, Oct 15
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Robert Hodierne reports on the recordings revealing the extent of the US Military's cover up of the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
DocArchive: The Italian Patient
Fri, Oct 10
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What is the state of health of the Italian nation today? Is Italy in crisis or undergoing a new Renaissance? Italian journalist Annalisa Piras returns home to find out.
DocArchive: Is al-Qaeda Winning? Part Three
Fri, Oct 10
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Owen Bennett-Jones tests the big promises governments have made about the financial war on terror.
DocArchive: In the Shadow of the Cartel : Assignment
Thu, Oct 9
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In Mexico, the government has deployed thousands of troops in an attempt to break up the powerful drug cartels operating in the country. Emilio San Pedro travels to the border city of Tijuana and profiles a community under pressure from one of Mexico's most violent gangs.
DocArchive: Children of the Revolution - Part two
Wed, Oct 8
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In Iran, the constant drugs crisis and loss of skilled workers contrast with a lively internet scene which harbours poets, political dissidents and religious leaders.
DocArchive: Is al Qaeda Winning? - part two
Fri, Oct 3
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Owen Bennett-Jones looks at al Qaeda's hard power and military capabilities in its chosen key battlegrounds: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
DocArchive: Africa's Guantanamo - Assignment
Thu, Oct 2
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In Assignment, Robert Walker travels to East Africa to investigate a secret detention programme - involving the transfer of suspected terrorists across three countries: Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.
DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth - Part Four
Thu, Oct 2
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The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Mauritius are all popular tourist destinations. Robin White tells the stories behind the tourist facades, visiting Mauritius for part four of this series.
DocArchive: Children of the revolution - Part one
Wed, Oct 1
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This series explores what life offers to Iran's burgeoning young population who are trapped by conservatism and an ailing economy. In the first programme, we hear how the war with Iraq acted as a continuation of the Revolution.
DocArchive: Is al Qaeda Winning? Part one
Mon, Sep 29
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Seven years into the global war on terror, is al-Qaeda winning? It's a deceptively simple question, one Owen Bennett-Jones asked in Riyadh, Peshawar and Baghdad, as well as London, Brussels and Washington for this series in four parts.
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