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: The My Lai Tapes - Part Two- April 29, 2008 Forty years ago, 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians were killed by US soldiers. It became known as The My Lai Massacre' and was covered up by the army for almost a year. In the second part of The My Lai Tapes, presented by Robert Hodierne, you can hear for the first time, the taped recordings of the US Armys internal inquiry into the massacre.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080429-1519.mp3 DocArchive: How Crime Took on the World: Part One- April 28, 2008 As part of his investigation into global crime, Misha Glenny is in Canada, where the wholesale production of marijuana is posing a challenge to the US-led 'War on Drugs'.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080428-1200.mp3 DocArchive: Policing the UN- April 28, 2008 The BBC's Africa editor Martin Plaut sets out to examine serious new allegations of corruption and wrongdoing within the United Nations' peacekeeping operations.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080428-0632.mp3 DocArchive: The Convict Streak- April 24, 2008 The resourcefulness and resilience of prisioners fighting for freedom that make Australians today proudly boast of their own inherited 'convict streak'http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080424-1026.mp3 DocArchive: Assignment - Granny Dumping- April 24, 2008 Abandonment, abuse and neglect of the elderly by their own children and grandchildren is at record levels in India. In a society where reverence and respect towards senior citizens has been a source of pride, Tinku Ray reports for Assignment on why things have changed in India.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080424-0906.mp3 DocArchive: The My Lai Tapes - Part One- April 22, 2008 Forty years ago in the village of My Lai in South Vietnam, a massacre took place. The victims were innocent Vietnamese civilians 504 mainly women, old men, children and babies. They were murdered, and in many cases, raped by US soldiers. This episode of the Vietnam War became known as 'The My Lai Massacre' and proved to be a turning point in the war. In the My Lai Tapes Robert Hodierne tells the story of what happened that day in interviews with the victims and the perpetraotors.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080422-1110.mp3 DocArchive: Strangers in Marseilles- April 21, 2008 Laurie Taylor explores Marseille's unique racial geography to find out what kept the peace during 2005 and 2007 when race riots tore at the fabric of French society.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080421-0930.mp3 DocArchive: Harare Festival- April 18, 2008 Manuel Bagorro, the director of the Harare International Festival of the Arts, describes his efforts to bring a cultural highlight in the midst of the election chaos in Zimbabwe.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080418-0930.mp3 DocArchive: Assignment: Inside Somalia's Insurgency- April 17, 2008 The last few weeks have seen an increase in violence in Somalia. Insurgents have stepped up attacks on the Ethiopian army and on the Somali transitional government it's backing. Ethiopia sent it's troops into Somalia at the end of 2006, to remove an Islamist movement - the Islamic Courts - from the capital. But now Ethiopia is bogged down and anger at its presence has boosted supported for the insurgents. In Assignment, Rob Walker goes in search of a radical Islamist movement which is playing..http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080417-0906.mp3 DocArchive: Elegy for the Tech- April 16, 2008 Award winning poet Fred DAguiar is head of creative writing at Virginia Tech, the scene of a mass shooting of students and staff one year ago. He lost a student in the tragedy and had, in the past taught the shooter. In this documentary Fred reflects on the events of that day and the poetry both he and his students have written since.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080416-0930.mp3 |