Assignment - Proud to be Georgian
How do you train someone to love their country? Two years ago Russia and Georgia fought a brief war over the little known territory of South Ossetia. Russia sent its tanks deep into Georgian territo...
12 Aug 201023min
Useful Idiots - Part Two
In this two part series, the BBC takes a look at the intellectuals - or Lenin's ‘useful idiots’ - who have praised tyrants, and rewritten history. How was it that so many supposedly intelligent people...
11 Aug 201022min
The Mossad
"They teach you how to steal and they teach you how to kill and they teach you to do things which normal people don't do." Security Correspondent Gordon Corera reveals the story behind Israel's secret...
9 Aug 201023min
Korea's lost children
Korea's overseas adoption programme began in the 1950s as the impoverished government's answer to the masses of mixed-race orphans from the Korean war. All told, around 200,000 Korean children have be...
6 Aug 201023min
Assignment - Politics in Rwanda
Days before Rwanda's presidential election, the government has issued a strongly worded statement denying any involvement in the killing of political opponents. Rob Walker has been investigating the a...
5 Aug 201023min
Useful Idiots
“That’s what my role was. I was taken around and shown things as a useful idiot.” – Doris Lessing In this two part series, the BBC takes a look at the intellectuals - or Lenin's ‘useful idiots’ - who...
4 Aug 201023min
Shaking the World - Part Four
"This culture inhibits the evolution of new ideas," says Professor Guosong Liu of the deferntial culture of China. Will this deferential culture keep China behind the West in the race to create the ne...
2 Aug 201023min
Spanning the World - Part Four
London Bridge has served as a crossing, a shopping district, a housing settlement and a platform for the grotesque display of criminal's heads. It crosses the river Thames. How did it end up in Arizon...
30 Juli 201023min
