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: Debt Threat- December 31, 2007 The first programme will show how rapidly the shock wave of the credit crunch is spreading and why it is now moving far beyond the sub-prime homeowners where it began.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071231-1037.mp3 DocArchive: Assignment - Blackwater 27 Dec 2007- December 27, 2007 There are now as many private security contractors in Iraq as there are US soldiers. To whom are they accountable when things go wrong Steve Evans reports on the most controversial contractor, Blackwater, which has been criticised by the Iraqi government, American politicians and its own employees.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071227-1130.mp3 DocArchive: Quest for a Cure- December 21, 2007 Peter Day reports on whether the US Food and Drug Administration will licence the HIVAIDS drug Maraviroc.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071221-1253.mp3 DocArchive: Global Account - Part 4- December 20, 2007 Allan Urry investigates links between the Pentagon, politicians and weapons manufacturers.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071220-1517.mp3 DocArchive: Assignment - Inside Uzbekistan- December 19, 2007 Since the Uzbek government put down an uprising in Andijan in 2005, the country has become more and more isolated from the west. But ahead of the countrys first Presidential election since 2000, our Central Asia correspondent Natalia Antelava made a secret trip across the state, recording her impressions.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071219-1517.mp3 DocArchive: Press for Freedom - part three- December 19, 2007 Building democracy: What is the role of radio in building democracy In Papua, a new radio station is being installed as part of Indonesia's 68H network. 68H has introduced electricity by building a dam to power the station in the village. How did 68H get around censorship under Suharto And why is radio such a key player in building civil societyhttp://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071219-1139.mp3 DocArchive: Press for Freedom - part two- December 19, 2007 Freedom of the internet:How do the motives of mainstream news websites compare with the agendas of blogs In part two of 'Press for Freedom', we talk to Iraqi blogger Salam Pax and others who have delivered on-the-ground viewpoints in regions where the government would have otherwise silenced them. In Kuala Lumpur, we hear from the government-owned Bernama press, who also fund Nam News Network, supposedly the only unfiltered news wire in a non-aligned world.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071219-1124.mp3 DocArchive:- December 17, 2007 What is the future of news when the internet may undermine the old-fashioned paternalistic precepts BBC's Alan Little investigates.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071217-0953.mp3 DocArchive: Press For Freedom Part 1- December 12, 2007 BBC's Roy Greenslade looks at how far reporting 'the truth' can be endangered by governments, corporations and the new wave of internet publishing.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071212-0947.mp3 DocArchive: Making News Part 1- December 10, 2007 The BBC and other international broadcasters boast "objective" news and impartial window onto the world, but is such a thing really possible Alan Little investigates.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20071210-1044.mp3 |