Seeking the Endgame - Part One
Self-confessed chess fanatic Simon Terrington assesses how computer technology has affected chess at the highest level and what this means for its future. He looks at the moment when chess champion Ga...
10 Sep 201022min
Assignment - Commonwealth Games
There are frantic preparations underway in India's capital city, Delhi, for the Commonwealth Games which start next month. But as Rupa Jha reports for Assignment, the work is bringing out both the bes...
9 Sep 201023min
World Stories: Afghanistan's Dancing Boys
In Afghanistan women are not allowed to dance in public, but boys can be made to dance in women's clothing - and they are often sexually abused. In part three of the World Stories series, Rustam Qobil...
8 Sep 201023min
The Legal World - Part Two
Incompetence and corruption in Uganda's justice system is leading to countless numbers of prisoners being left to rot, and even die in Ugandan jails before their cases come to court. Meet the lawyers ...
6 Sep 201023min
The Battle for Hearts and Lungs - Part Two
Sue Armstrong looks at the Malawi's growing dependence on tobacco growing. She also asks whether cigarette manufacturers are trying to take advantage of poor regulation to build up new markets in Afri...
3 Sep 201023min
Assignment - Happy Birthday Mr President
President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia is one of West Africa's longest serving leaders. He's maintained a firm grip on power since taking over in a military coup in 1994. He professes to have invented a cur...
2 Sep 201022min
A Widow's Journey
In 1989, Appapillai Amirthalingam - the most prominent political figure of the Tamil community - was assassinated at his home in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo. Twenty years on, the Tamil Tigers have...
1 Sep 201023min
The Legal World - Part One
It is claimed that thousands of people of Haitian descent are suffering systematic discrimination by authorities in the Dominican Republic. Brian King meets the local lawyers who are fighting individu...
31 Aug 201023min
