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Documentaries BBC World Service
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Descripción del podcast de Documentaries BBC World Service: 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.



DocArchive: Assignment Calling for Change in Yemen
En el Podcast  Documentaries BBC World Serv.  en  Política, economía y opinión
23:04 min | hace 1 año
For months Yemen has been the scene of widespread unrest and anti-government protests. President Ali Abdullah Saleh has warned t hat if he stands down the country risks falling into the hands of extremists groups like al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. For Assignment, Natalia Antelava reports from the capital Sana'a, on how warnings like these feed into the very fear that shapes US counter-terrorism policy in Yemen.
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DocArchive: Wars of Diplomacy: Part Two: 17 May 11
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23:37 min | hace 1 año
In the space of just over ten days in March 2011, the United Nations Security Council passed two of its most significant, emphatic and far-reaching resolutions in decades. Claire Bolderson looks at how the world body used a new-found strength to intervene militarily in Libya and Ivory Coast and assesses how the decisions have changed the course of these two brutal conflicts.
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DocArchive: Assignment - The Pakistan Connection
En el Podcast  Documentaries BBC World Serv.  en  Política, economía y opinión
27:06 min | hace 1 año
The killing of Osama bin Laden has stirred deep suspicions about whether the Pakistani authorities knew the world's most wanted ma n was living quietly in Abbotabad. For Assignment, Owen Bennett-Jones explores allegations of a web of links between Pakistan's security forces and militant jihadists. Does Pakistan consider some extremists to be useful allies? And does it turn a blind eye when the courts allow notorious killers to walk free?
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DocArchive: Wars Of Diplomacy: Part One: 10 May 11
En el Podcast  Documentaries BBC World Serv.  en  Política, economía y opinión
23:04 min | hace 1 año
In the space of just over ten days in March 2011, the United Nations Security Council passed two of its most significant, emphatic and far-reaching resolutions in decades. Claire Bolderson looks at how the world body used a new-found strength to intervene militarily in Libya and Ivory Coast and assesses how the decisions have changed the course of these two brutal conflicts.
Género: Podcasting
Canal: BBC ... ver+
DocArchive: Building on Sand: Part Two: 7 May 11
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23:21 min | hace 1 año
Jonathan Glancey looks at whether Dubai has a sustainable policy towards building in one of the harshest environments on earth. Ho w does the city compare to neighbouring Doha?
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Canal: BBC ... ver+
DocArchive: Assignment - Mission Bin laden
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26:26 min | hace 1 año
On a moonless night on Sunday May 1st, four American military helicopters descended on a compound in the quiet town of Abbottabad in north-west Pakistan. Their mission to capture and if need be, kill, United States Enemy Number One - Osama Bin Laden. They succeeded and America's most exasperating manhunt was over. But how did the risky operation unfold both in Washington and in Pakistan? Rob Walker reports for Assignment.
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DocArchive: Alive In Chernobyl: Part Two: 3 May 2011
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23:30 min | hace 1 año
On the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant, presenter Olga Betko travels to Chernobyl - in her n ative Ukraine - to find the people who are living in what is known as the "dead zone".
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DocArchive: Building on Sand: Part One: 30 Apr 11
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23:00 min | hace 1 año
Jonathan Glancey looks at whether Dubai has a sustainable policy towards building in one of the harshest environments on earth.
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Canal: BBC ... ver+
DocArchive: Assignment - A Matter of Life and Death
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26:34 min | hace 1 año
Jill McGivering reports from Pakistan where calls for debate about the country's controversial blasphemy laws have been almost sil enced by death threats and violence. The laws stipulate the death penalty if blasphemy is proven but critics say the laws are frequently being used to target innocent people. For Assignment Jill goes in search of the accused and their accusers.
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DocArchive: Alive In Chernobyl: Part One: 26 April 2011
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23:24 min | hace 1 año
On the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant, presenter Olga Betko travels to Chernobyl - in her n ative Ukraine - to find the people who are living in what is known as the "dead zone".
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Canal: BBC ... ver+
DocArchive: After the Crash - Part Two
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23:43 min | hace 1 año
On the anniversary of the Smolensk air crash, writer and historian Adam Zamoyski examines how Polish politics and society have bee n affected by the events of 10 April 2010, a day on which Poland lost its President and 95 others, which included many talented public servants and dignitaries. For Part Two, Zamoyski travels to Warsaw to examine how the legacy of the crash has impacted on a year of Polish politics.
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DocArchive: Assignment: Trafficked from Uganda to Iraq
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26:35 min | hace 1 año
Anna Cavell tells the extraordinary story of a rescue of a group of Ugandan women who were trafficked into Iraq. They were told th ey would get decent jobs but instead found themselves working as slaves and subject to violence and even rape. They were saved by an unlikely pair of heroes – a Ugandan security guard and an American military officer.
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DocArchive: Who Says I Can't Fish?
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23:28 min | hace 1 año
Restrictions on commercial fishing in Europe were put in place to aid sustainability, but are they still appropriate? Charlotte Sm ith reports on the British perspective from the northen English town of Scarborough.
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DocArchive: After the Crash - Part One
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23:31 min | hace 1 año
One year on from the Smolensk air crash, writer and historian Adam Zamoyski examines how Polish politics and society have been aff ected by loss of its President and other dignitaries.
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DocArchive: Assignment - Louisiana Deep Water
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26:34 min | hace 1 año
A year ago, the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico creating a huge oil spill. In the aftermath, the BBC's Robyn Bresnahan spent a month in the American state of Louisiana with fishing families to see how they were affected. She found many communities on the brink, with fishermen fearing they would never fish again. One year on, she has returned to meet with some of the same families.
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DocArchive: Pomp and Matrimony: 12 Apr 2011
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23:17 min | hace 1 año
From the news coverage of the 1923 wedding of the future King George VI to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, to the moment Lady Diana Spencer stepped out of the glass coach, we look back to the glamour and gossip, the spectacle and romance of British Royal weddings.
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DocArchive: Great Expectations: 08 Apr 2011
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23:38 min | hace 1 año
In dense blocks of flats and social housing, just 10 minutes away from the Olympics Park, young people with nothing much else to d o, are at risk of getting involved with gangs. The BBC's Nina Robinson explores the problem of crime for those affected.
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DocArchive: Assignment - Jos: A City Still Divided
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23:37 min | hace 1 año
Assignment reports on the shocking sectarian violence in the Nigerian city of Jos. But Rob Walker finds one neighbourhood where Ch ristians and Muslims have come together to prevent the violence. This programme contains graphic descriptions of violence.
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DocArchive: For King or Country? Part Two - America
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23:10 min | hace 1 año
A committed republican and ardent monarchist examine the case for and against monarchy as a form of government. Part two looks at America - whose very creation involved rejecting kingship - and those who prefer a crown to a republican constitution.
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DocArchive: Great Expectations: 02 Apr 2011
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23:33 min | hace 1 año
Great Expectations follows the lives of people who live in the diverse ethnic mix of east London, on the doorstep of the 2012 Olym pic Games. It looks at their view of the changes and money being spent around them from where they live - in a deprived part of the inner city, in dense blocks of flats and social housing - known as an estate in the UK. The BBC's Nina Robinson reports in the first of two programmes on the incidence of poverty in the area and how this is reflected in the lives of residents.
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