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: Assignment - Beyond Mark Weil- May 15, 2008 Last September, Mark Weil, the radical theatre director of the Ilkhom theatre in Uzbekistan, was stabbed to death while returning home from a rehearsal. As the regime in Tashkent hardened it's line Mark Weil continued to challenge the authorities with his work. For Assignment Natalya Antelava asks whether this radical endeavour can survive without its director in an environment that is becoming more and more repressive.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080515-0906.mp3 DocArchive: Living With Chico Mendes- May 13, 2008 To mark the 20th anniversary of his assassination, Nick Maes looks at the life of Chico Mendes, the highly significant green activist who helped to galvanise the race to preserve the Amazon. Nick investigates what Chico Mendes achieved and gains exclusive access to his family.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080513-1530.mp3 DocArchive: How Crime Took on the World: Part Three- May 12, 2008 In the third part of this series on international crime, Misha Glenny is in South Africa where since the end of Apartheid, personal security has become almost a national obsession; the number of private security firms has mushroomed.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080512-0931.mp3 DocArchive: Where the Buffalo Roam- May 9, 2008 How have non-native creatures - from birds to bovines, reptiles to rhesus monkeys - become unlikely, but permanent, residents of Hong Konghttp://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080509-0800.mp3 DocArchive: Philosophy in the Streets- May 6, 2008 Nick Fraser looks at the intellectual revolution that spread from Paris throughout the world, particularly to America and then to Britain, in 1968.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080506-1218.mp3 DocArchive: How crime took on the world: Part two- May 5, 2008 In the second of this series which charts the explosion of international organised crime, Misha Glenny goes to the Balkans to follow the trail of smuggled cigarettes.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080505-0925.mp3 DocArchive: Escape to New Zealand- May 2, 2008 Environmental refugees seek a home somewhere in the planet where the predicted global changes can, perhaps, be weathered.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080502-0955.mp3 DocArchive: Assignment: Football in the Holy City- May 1, 2008 In this week's Assignment David Goldblatt travels to Israel to meet the fans of Beitar Jerusalem football club. As you'll hear in this programme the fans pride themselves on their extreme nationalist views and anti-arab chanting at matches. Beitar fans boast that an Arab never has and never will play for the club. Now under the ownership of flamboyant Russian Billionaire Arkadi Gaydamak Beitar is top of the Israeli league, but the behaviour of its hard-core fans continues to cause trouble...http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080501-0906.mp3 |