Policing the Poppy Fields Part One
Kate Clark gains rare access to the fight against the Afghan opium trade and asks how effective attempts to control it have been.
7 Jul 200823min
Health for All
Campaigners for improving maternal health have been lobbying the G8 to get the topic on the agenda for the next meeting in Japan. In programme two of the series Health for All, Uduak Amimo asks is the...
4 Jul 200823min
Countdown to the Olympics Part One
As the world counts down to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Gerry Northam investigates China's claims of 'vigorous growth in the public practice of religion' but he discovers people are still being pers...
2 Jul 200823min
Race and Reconciliation Part Three
In the third part of this series, Audrey Brown travels to Atteridgeville, a township outside the capital, Pretoria, to explore what really lay behind the recent attacks by South Africans on foreigners...
27 Jun 200823min
Health for All
Is health for all a fact or just fiction? Helen Sharp asks if the world has the will, people and money to deliver basic good health to everyone.
27 Jun 200823min
Burma Reporting the Cyclone: Assignment
This week's Assignment tells the story of the Burmese cyclone through the eyes and ears of the few BBC journalists who managed to get into the country after the disaster. Hear the story of the cyclone...
26 Jun 200826min
Race and Reconciliation Part Two
In the second part of this series, Audrey Brown travels to South Africa to explore how privilege and access to resources is increasingly being seen as an issue of colour.
23 Jun 200823min
Feeding the Spirit of New Orleans
Sheila Dillon reports on the work of restaurateurs, farmers, fishermen and activists to restore the culinary heritage of a devastated city.
20 Jun 200823min
