Crime, Scene, Insects
Amoret Whitaker is a forensic entomologist. She is called in to help on cases where it is difficult to determine the time of death. How does the study of insects help to solve crimes?
11 Jun 201022min
Assignment: India's Maoist Insurgency
The Indian government is engaged in its biggest ever offensive against Maoist insurgents in Jharkand state in eastern India. Large swathes of the territory are under rebel control and access to the a...
10 Jun 201023min
South Africa's Path to Freedom - Part One
Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian author Wole Soyinka travels to South Africa to assess the past and present of the rainbow nation through the eyes of its finest writers. How has the post-Apartheid nation ...
9 Jun 201023min
The Power and the Passion - Part One
With the World Cup fast approaching many fans will be avidly debating the fate of their nations in the tournament, but it is at domestic level where football has the most support. Follow David Goldbla...
7 Jun 201023min
In the Shadow of the Stadium
What is the mood of South Africa ahead of the 2010 World Cup? Audrey Brown talks to those who cannot wait to welcome the world to South Africa, as well as others who are more skeptical.
4 Jun 201022min
Assignment: Thawil - the Red Shirt protestor
When Thai soldiers stormed an anti-government protest in Bangkok last month more than 80 people were killed. Thawil - a rice farmer from the northeast of the country - was one of them. Assignment te...
3 Jun 201024min
The Travelling Electric
In 1951, a black man named Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's travelling electric chair - the only one of its kind in the country. His granddaughter explores this lost episode in America's ear...
1 Jun 201023min
Thank You for My Freedom
Former Beirut hostage John McCarthy has never thanked Giandomenico Picco, the United Nations negotiator who arranged his release. In this documentary John at last travels to meet him and explores the ...
31 Mai 201023min
