How Crime Took on the World
Cyber-crime is the fastest-growing sector of global-organised crime, worth about US$100 billion a year. Misha Glenny travels to Sao Paulo to find out why Brazil is the cyber-crime capital of the world...
16 Maj 200823min
Escape from Time
Who wouldn't like to escape the relentless march of time? Find out about the routes from those who attempt to escape the tyranny of time.
15 Maj 200824min
Assignment - Beyond Mark Weil
Last September, Mark Weil, the radical theatre director of the Ilkhom theatre in Uzbekistan, was stabbed to death while returning home from a rehearsal. As the regime in Tashkent hardened it's line Ma...
15 Maj 200822min
Living With Chico Mendes
To mark the 20th anniversary of his assassination, Nick Maes looks at the life of Chico Mendes, the highly significant green activist who helped to galvanise the race to preserve the Amazon. Nick inve...
13 Maj 200822min
How Crime Took on the World: Part Three
In the third part of this series on international crime, Misha Glenny is in South Africa where since the end of Apartheid, personal security has become almost a national obsession; the number of priva...
12 Maj 200823min
Where the Buffalo Roam
How have non-native creatures - from birds to bovines, reptiles to rhesus monkeys - become unlikely, but permanent, residents of Hong Kong?
9 Maj 200823min
Philosophy in the Streets
Nick Fraser looks at the intellectual revolution that spread from Paris throughout the world, particularly to America and then to Britain, in 1968.
6 Maj 200828min
How crime took on the world: Part two
In the second of this series which charts the explosion of international organised crime, Misha Glenny goes to the Balkans to follow the trail of smuggled cigarettes.
5 Maj 200823min
