DocumentariesThroughout 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.DocArchive: Wole Soyinka Returns to Biafra Part Two- October 31, 2007 In this part, Wole Soyinka travels back on a route he first took in 1967 at the beginning of the Biafran War, and speaks to two of the main protagonists.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071031-1032.mp3 Benazir Bhutto - The Investigation- October 29, 2007 In Pakistan President Musharraf and the former Pakistani prime minister, Benazir Bhutto did a deal this month. She told her suppprters to support his bid for the Presidency. He in return dropped corrpution charges bought by his government against her. This paved the way to her return to Pakistan after almost a decade of self-imposed exile. In "Benazir Bhutto - The Investigation", Owen Bennett-Jones looks at the claims against her and whether she could still face corruption charges.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071029-2306.mp3 DocArchive: Benazir Bhutto - The Investigation- October 29, 2007 We investigate the substance of the allegations against Benazir Bhutto and ask whether she could still face charges, despite the deal she has just struck with President Musharraf.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071029-0954.mp3 DocArchive: Wole Soyinka Returns to Biafra- October 24, 2007 Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning author, Wole Sayinka travels back to Biafra and comes face to face with the military leader who imprisoned him 40 years ago.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071024-0956.mp3 DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth 4- October 19, 2007 In the final part of this series Robin White visits Georgetown the capital of Guyana where he experiences the transport system and learns about the demise of the Amerindian culture.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071019-1138.mp3 DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth- October 19, 2007 Robin White visits Maputo the capital city of Mozambique. After sixteen years of civil war how well is the city functioninghttp://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071019-1128.mp3 DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth- October 19, 2007 Robin White finds out about the disappearing Kweyol culture in St Lucia. Why is it too difficult to make Kweyol the island's official languagehttp://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071019-1011.mp3 DocArchive: China's Long Arm 4- October 18, 2007 China has turned its attention to the US in its search for natural resources, even enabling the re-opening of an abandoned iron mine in Minnesota.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071018-0106.mp3 DocArchive: China's Long Arm 3- October 17, 2007 Lucy Ash assesses the wider impact of China's insatiable appetite for natural resources, and focuses on the special relation with Angola and its oil.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071017-0106.mp3 DocArchive: China's Long Arm 2- October 16, 2007 Maurice Walsh considers whether China might use its growing military power to reclaim Taiwan, possibly provoking a confrontation with the US.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071016-0106.mp3 |