Being Brazilian
As the World’s media prepares to descend on Brazil for the 2014 World Cup, Julia Carneiro presents the first programme which gets to the heart of Brazilian identity.
6 Maj 201426min
The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
After the humiliations of World War Two, France was insistent on reasserting itself as a world power. In their Vietnamese colony the nationalists led by Ho Chi Minh were just as determined to gain ind...
3 Maj 201450min
The Party of No
Mark Mardell examines America's Grand Old Party which has been engaged in a civil war; now the Establishment is fighting back against the Tea Party. Can the Republicans win again?
1 Maj 201426min
The Rise of the Arab Spring
Egyptian author Tarek Osman examines the build up to the Arab Spring. As with the previous experiments with liberalism, nationalism and Islamism, the region's presidential hard men seek to consolidate...
30 Apr 201427min
Massive Open Online Courses
How is technology transforming education, and what will the classroom of the future look like? Sarah Montague turns her attention to universities, in particular, to MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)...
29 Apr 201427min
Lighting Lagos
Neal Razzell spends days and nights in Lagos with the electricity teams who are working to literally bring power to the people.This programme was originally broadcast in October 2013.
24 Apr 201426min
The Rise of Islamism
Eyptian author Tarek Osman explores the events which converged and led to the rise of Islamism from the 1970s onwards, a force which came to fill the vacuum left by Arab Nationalism. He investigates t...
23 Apr 201427min
Learning with Videos and Video Games
How technology is transforming education. How do children learn best? And have traditional teaching methods outlived their usefulness?
22 Apr 201427min
