Documentaries

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.

DocArchive: Mother's Mountain - August 30, 2007

In August 1986 Julie Tullis became the first British woman climber to reach the summit of K2. The tapes she recorded reveal her adventure.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20070831-0001.mp3

DocArchive: Heritage, The Balkans - Part Three: Bosnia - August 29, 2007

Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's cultural legacy.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20070829-1000.mp3

DocArchive: The Clinton Years - Part 1 - August 27, 2007

When William Jefferson Clinton was elected President of the United States on 3 November 1992, hope was in the air. Though the honeymoon did not last long, it was at moments of great adversity that his political skills were at their greatest.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20070827-0900.mp3

DocArchive: Sudan: The Lost Boy Returns - August 23, 2007

Jane Little follows one of the "Lost Boys of Sudan" who goes back to be reunited with his mother and to marry a girl from his own Dinka tribe.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20070824-0001.mp3

DocArchive: Heritage, The Balkans - Part Two: Dubrovnik, Croatia - August 22, 2007

Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's cultural legacy.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20070822-1230.mp3

DocArchive: Mexican Drugs: So Far From God - August 17, 2007

Nick Caistor investigates the causes and effects of drug violence in Mexico, which is reaching alarming proportions in parts of the country.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20070817-1150.mp3

DocArchive: Zimbabwe Out of Control - Part 2 - August 16, 2007

In the second of these two programmes, Paul Bakibinga considers how Zimbabwe might become prosperous one more.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20070816-1720.mp3

DocArchive: Malaria and Fake Drugs - August 16, 2007

Jill McGivering follows the trail of fake drugs, from the marginalised communities at risk, to the country accused of being the main source.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20070816-0900.mp3

DocArchive: Heritage, The Balkans - Part One: Kosovo - August 14, 2007

Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's cultural legacy.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20070814-1440.mp3

DocArchive: Maids: The Untold Story Part 1 - August 10, 2007

It reads like a soap opera, but this is not fiction: round-the-clock confinement, crippling illness, rape, escape, suicide and murder - women who go overseas to work as maids often encounter unforeseen terror and tragedy.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20070810-1630.mp3