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Documentaries

Summary: 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.

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 DocArchive: Assignment - Roubles & Radicals in Dagestan | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 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.

 DocArchive: New Global Economics: The Shock & the Shift: 22 Nov 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 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.

 DocArchive: The Boy With The Violin | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 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.

 DocArchive: Upsetting The Apple Cart - The Genius of Steve Jobs | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 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?

 DocArchive: Assignment - India's Whistleblowers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 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.

 DocArchive: A Short History Of Story: Part Two: 11 Nov 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 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.

 DocArchive: The Dark Side Of Diplomacy: Part Two: 08 Nov 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 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.

 DocArchive: The state of Israel | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 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.

 DocArchive: A Short History Of Story: Part one: 05 Nov 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 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.

 DocArchive: Assignment: Spain's Stolen Babies: 03 Nov 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 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.

 DocArchive: The Dark Side Of Diplomacy: Part One: 01 Nov 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 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.

 DocArchive: After The Dictators: 29 Oct 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 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.

 DocArchive: Musical Migrants: Zanzibar | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:14

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

 DocArchive: One Day In Syria | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 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.

 DocArchive: The British Establishment: Who For? - Part Two: 25 Oct 11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:20

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

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