The Documentary: Archive 2007

  • Autor: Vários
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  • Editora: Podcast
  • Duração: 29:38:08
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The BBC World Service's wide range of documentaries from 2007.

Episódios

  • Debt Threat

    31/12/2007 Duração: 22min

    The first programme will show how rapidly the shock wave of the credit crunch is spreading and why it is now moving far beyond the sub-prime homeowners where it began.

  • Assignment - Blackwater

    27/12/2007 Duração: 22min

    There are now as many private security contractors in Iraq as there are US soldiers. To whom are they accountable when things go wrong? Steve Evans reports on the most controversial contractor, Blackwater, which has been criticised by the Iraqi government, American politicians and its own employees.

  • Quest for a Cure

    21/12/2007 Duração: 23min

    Peter Day reports on whether the US Food and Drug Administration will licence the HIV/AIDS drug Maraviroc.

  • Global Account - Part 4

    20/12/2007 Duração: 22min

    Allan Urry investigates links between the Pentagon, politicians and weapons manufacturers.

  • Assignment - Inside Uzbekistan

    19/12/2007 Duração: 22min

    Since the Uzbek government put down an uprising in Andijan in 2005, the country has become more and more isolated from the west. But ahead of the country’s first Presidential election since 2000, our Central Asia correspondent Natalia Antelava made a secret trip across the state, recording her impressions.

  • Press for Freedom - part three

    19/12/2007 Duração: 23min

    Building democracy: What is the role of radio in building democracy? In Papua, a new radio station is being installed as part of Indonesia's 68H network. 68H has introduced electricity by building a dam to power the station in the village. How did 68H get around censorship under Suharto? And why is radio such a key player in building civil society?

  • Press for Freedom - part two

    19/12/2007 Duração: 23min

    Freedom of the internet:How do the motives of mainstream news websites compare with the agendas of blogs? In part two of 'Press for Freedom', we talk to Iraqi blogger Salam Pax and others who have delivered on-the-ground viewpoints in regions where the government would have otherwise silenced them. In Kuala Lumpur, we hear from the government-owned Bernama press, who also fund Nam News Network, supposedly the only unfiltered news wire in a non-aligned world.

  • Citizen Journalists

    17/12/2007 Duração: 22min

    What is the future of news, when the internet may undermine the old-fashioned paternalistic precepts? BBC's Alan Little investigates.

  • Press For Freedom Part 1

    12/12/2007 Duração: 22min

    BBC's Roy Greenslade looks at how far reporting 'the truth' can be endangered by governments, corporations and the new wave of internet publishing.

  • Making News Part 1

    10/12/2007 Duração: 22min

    The BBC and other international broadcasters boast "objective" news and impartial window onto the world, but is such a thing really possible? Alan Little investigates.

  • Assignment - Leila's story

    07/12/2007 Duração: 22min

    Leila is a young woman in Iran, sold into prostitution by her family at the age of 9, later forced into a temporary marriage, and then sentenced to hang at the age of 18. She was finally reprieved, but what does her story tell us about Iran's ability to legally protect its own children.

  • Global Account Part 2

    07/12/2007 Duração: 22min

    Africa's Cocaine Coast - Guinea-Bissau is awash with cocaine and is ranked by the United Nations as the fifth poorest country in the world. Grant Ferrett investigates.

  • Seeing Iraq, Thinking Vietnam Part 2

    03/12/2007 Duração: 22min

    Jonathan Marcus explores the impact of these two conflicts on the american political psyche.

  • Global Account - Part 1

    29/11/2007 Duração: 22min

    Angus Stickler travels into the disputed "Red Zone" of Southern Thailand to discover the victims of a brutal and under-reported war.

  • Assignment - Inside Gaza

    29/11/2007 Duração: 22min

    Six months ago, the radical Palestinian faction Hamas took total control of the Gaza Strip. Israel and Egypt responded by closing their borders with Gaza. Magdi Abdelhadi travelled to the Gaza Strip to see how the 1.5 million Palestinians living there are coping.

  • Seeing Iraq, Thinking Vietnam Part 1

    26/11/2007 Duração: 22min

    Correspondent Jonathan Marcus compares the impact of the two conflicts on American society and politics.

  • Jihad and the Petrodollar part 2

    23/11/2007 Duração: 22min

    Roger Hardy follows the money trail and looks at the case of two prominent Saudi charities.

  • Assignment - The internet chatroom murder

    22/11/2007 Duração: 22min

    This week on Assignment, a story of lust, deception and betrayal on the internet. It tells the extraordinary story of a middle-aged factory worker who undergoes a virtual and very real transformation after he goes online - a transformation which ends in murder.

  • Taxing Questions (part four)

    21/11/2007 Duração: 23min

    The final part of a four part series in which Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the black market have drastically undermined governments' ability to generate revenue in the form of tax.

  • Taxing Questions (part three)

    20/11/2007 Duração: 23min

    In the third of a four part series Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the black market have drastically undermined governments' ability to generate revenue in the form of tax.

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