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Jan 21, 2012 · 28 min
Jan 21, 2012
BBC correspondents don't often go out gardening -- perhaps that's because it gives a...
Jan 19, 2012 · 27 min
Jan 19, 2012
The women are in charge - and the men don't seem to be doing much about it.
Jan 14, 2012 · 27 min
Jan 14, 2012
The Afghan women still suffering in silence - ten years after the fall of the Taliban.
Jan 7, 2012 · 27 min
Jan 07, 2012
Can international pressure on the military-backed government in Burma be relaxed now a...
Dec 31, 2011 · 28 min
Dec 31, 2011
Kate Adie on the months of the Libyan revolution which led up to the death of Colonel...
Dec 30, 2011 · 8 min
BBC World Service FOOC
An American Dream: New Hampshire, 1996 Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive by...
Dec 29, 2011 · 9 min
BBC World Service FOOC
Prisoners of Norilsk - a city frozen in time "A history of Soviet failure written in a...
Dec 28, 2011 · 9 min
BBC World Service FOOC
The Truth is Our Currency Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from 1997...
Dec 27, 2011 · 9 min
BBC World Service FOOC
The Road to Mandalay Owen Bennett Jones introduces an archive despatch from 1984.
Dec 26, 2011 · 9 min
BBC World Service FOOC
"The army was rotten to the core and could not put up a fight" - Kinshasa, May 1997 an...
Dec 24, 2011 · 28 min
Dec 24, 2011
A dead man's suitcase in Cape Town transports Tim Butcher from today's Africa via War...
Dec 17, 2011 · 28 min
Dec 17, 2011
The polar bear's back in the news - this time it's at the centre of controversy in a...
Dec 10, 2011 · 28 min
Dec 10, 2011
'A political system which had considered itself as solid as rock has started to show...
Dec 3, 2011 · 28 min
Dec 3, 2011
Being Italian is bad for your health! That's the contention from Bologna where winter...
Nov 26, 2011 · 28 min
Nov 26, 2011
'But of course there will be violence,' says one seasoned observer to Andrew Harding a...
Nov 19, 2011 · 28 min
Nov 19, 2011
Are the generals in Egypt really about to relinquish power? Stephen Sackur in Cairo a...
Nov 12, 2011 · 28 min
Nov 12, 2011
"That's nobody's business but the Turks'. " A quote from one of several songs which are...
Nov 10, 2011 · 28 min
Nov 10, 2011
'Prosperity for all!' That was the Ugandan president's promise as he stood for but as...
Nov 5, 2011 · 28 min
Nov 05, 2011
America has the Wild West, Russia has its Wild East. And Reggie Nadelson's there, in...
Nov 3, 2011 · 28 min
Nov 03, 2011
Silvio Berlusconi attends the G20 meeting in Cannes amid mounting alarm in Italy about...