Escape to New Zealand
Environmental refugees seek a home somewhere in the planet where the predicted global changes can, perhaps, be weathered.
2 Maj 200822min
Assignment: Football in the Holy City
In this week's Assignment David Goldblatt travels to Israel to meet the fans of Beitar Jerusalem football club. As you'll hear in this programme the fans pride themselves on their extreme nationali...
1 Maj 200822min
The My Lai Tapes - Part Two
Forty years ago, 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians were killed by US soldiers. It became known as ‘The My Lai Massacre' and was covered up by the army for almost a year. In the second part of ‘The My L...
29 Apr 200823min
How Crime Took on the World: Part One
As part of his investigation into global crime, Misha Glenny is in Canada, where the wholesale production of marijuana is posing a challenge to the US-led 'War on Drugs'.
28 Apr 200823min
Policing the UN
The BBC's Africa editor Martin Plaut sets out to examine serious new allegations of corruption and wrongdoing within the United Nations' peacekeeping operations.
28 Apr 200826min
The Convict Streak
The resourcefulness and resilience of prisioners fighting for freedom that make Australians today proudly boast of their own inherited 'convict streak'
24 Apr 200824min
Assignment - Granny Dumping
Abandonment, abuse and neglect of the elderly by their own children and grandchildren is at record levels in India. In a society where reverence and respect towards senior citizens has been a source o...
24 Apr 200822min
The My Lai Tapes - Part One
Forty years ago in the village of My Lai in South Vietnam, a massacre took place. The victims were innocent Vietnamese civilians – 504 mainly women, old men, children and babies. They were murdered, a...
22 Apr 200821min
