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Newest Episode: Thu February 09, 2012. 02:00 AM
Throughout the week BBC World Service offers a wide range of documentaries and other factual programmes. This podcast offers you the chance to access landmark series from our archive.
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Thu February 09, 2012. 02:00 AM
Rob Walker investigates what’s happened to billions of dollars in oil revenues paid to the government of Equatorial Guinea.
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Tue February 07, 2012. 09:05 AM
To celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens' birth, Indian writer Ayeesha Menon explores India's love affair with Dickens.
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Fri February 03, 2012. 03:04 PM
In this documentary-fantasy we bring the danger back to Dickens. Slipping in and out of his weird and brilliant imagination, we see modern London as he might have done, travelling through the city's streets at night to crack dens and strip-joints as the police sirens wail. We meet characters from his novels and characters who would be in his novels if he were still alive today.
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Thu February 02, 2012. 02:00 AM
Undercover in Damascus for Assignment. Tim Whewell enters the dangerous world of the Syrian opposition to find out how strong they are – and what they really want.
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Fri January 27, 2012. 12:32 PM
Nina Robinson reports from two Olympic cities - Beijing who were hosts in 2008 and Rio de Janeiro, who will be hosts in 2016.
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Thu January 26, 2012. 02:00 AM
Australia's mining boom is proving lucrative for it's so called Fly in Fly Out (FIFO) workers but as James Fletcher reports in Assignment, it can come at a cost.
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Tue January 24, 2012. 09:05 AM
The gap between the super-rich and the rest has grown sharply around the world. Michael Robinson examines its effects on London.
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Fri January 20, 2012. 04:26 PM
Nina Robinson reports from two Olympic cities - Beijing who were hosts in 2008 and Rio de Janeiro, who will be hosts in 2016.
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Thu January 19, 2012. 01:00 AM
Assignment goes inside the fast and furious world of North American ice hockey. Alex Capstick reports.
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Tue January 17, 2012. 09:05 AM
The gap between the super-rich and the rest has grown sharply around the world. Michael Robinson examines its effects on London.
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Fri January 13, 2012. 10:44 AM
Karen Bowerman retraces the route of Antarctic explorer Frank Wild - Sir Ernest Shackleton's second-in-command - as Wild's ashes are taken to South Georgia for burial next to Shackleton.
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Thu January 12, 2012. 05:00 AM
For Assignment Gabriel Gatehouse asks whether the autonomous Kurdish region in Northern Iraq should be a model for the Middle East to follow or avoid?
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Tue January 10, 2012. 12:23 PM
Farayi Mungazi looks at the role of sport in shaping the country's national identity and asks whether sporting success will always be part of Australia's soft power.
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Fri January 06, 2012. 03:02 PM
Women were at the forefront of the revolution in Egypt. Hanan Razek discovers why many are disappointed and angry at the Egyptian revolution's failures.
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Thu January 05, 2012. 09:05 AM
Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in Haiti. Why, despite the vast effort and resources that flowed after the earthquake two years ago, are people still living in tents without basic amenities?
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Tue January 03, 2012. 10:32 AM
Farayi Mungazi explores the power of basketball to create a national identity in newly independent South Sudan, as well as give its people a sense of dignity and pride.
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Sat December 31, 2011. 07:05 PM
John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, from 1941 to leaving Bush House in 2012.
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Thu December 29, 2011. 05:00 AM
China's economy depends on a system regulating workers from around China and beyond. In Guangzhou, the migrant metropolis, Mukul Devichand hears stories of anger and reform.
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Sat December 24, 2011. 07:05 PM
John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, from 1941 to leaving Bush House in 2012.
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Fri December 23, 2011. 04:31 PM
Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in India. Who really benefits from the work of NGOs?
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