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: Race and Reconciliation - Part Three- June 27, 2008 In the third part of this series, Audrey Brown travels to Atteridgeville, a township outside the capital, Pretoria, to explore what really lay behind the recent attacks by South Africans on foreigners.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080627-1653.mp3 DocArchive: Health for All- June 27, 2008 Is health for all a fact or just fiction Helen Sharp asks if the world has the will, people and money to deliver basic good health to everyone.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080627-0800.mp3 DocArchive: Burma - Reporting the Cyclone: Assignment- June 26, 2008 This week's Assignment tells the story of the Burmese cyclone through the eyes and ears of the few BBC journalists who managed to get into the country after the disaster. Hear the story of the cyclone unfold told by those who witnessed it first hand. That's Reporting The Cyclone, from Assignment this week.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080626-0906.mp3 DocArchive: Age of Terror - part 4- June 25, 2008 In 1998, a truck bomb exploded outside the American embassy in Nairobi. Over 200 people died and thousands were injured. It features an extraordinary interview with the FBI agent who tracked down and questioned a suspected al-Qaeda bomber. It was Osama Bin Laden's first major strike in his jihad against America.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080625-1005.mp3 DocArchive: Race and Reconciliation - Part Two- June 23, 2008 In the second part of this series, Audrey Brown travels to South Africa to explore how privilege and access to resources is increasingly being seen as an issue of colour.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080623-1017.mp3 DocArchive: Feeding the Spirit of New Orleans- June 20, 2008 Sheila Dillon reports on the work of restaurateurs, farmers, fishermen and activists to restore the culinary heritage of a devastated city.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080620-0800.mp3 DocArchive: The Baseball Factory- June 19, 2008 Baseball may be the United States' national sport - but this year, 2008, almost half of all its professional players come from overseas - and some 40 per cent of them from the Dominican Republic, which shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with Haiti. For Assignment David Goldblatt visits Haiti to report on what has become a significant export industry for this country of nine million people.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080619-0906.mp3 DocArchive: Age of Terror - Part 3- June 18, 2008 In the third part of this series, Peter Taylor investigates The Paris Plot, the hijacking of a plane in Algiers on its way to Paris; a plan to use a plane as a weapon of mass destruction.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080618-1000.mp3 DocArchive: Race and Reconciliation - Part One- June 13, 2008 Fourteen years after liberation and 60 years since the beginning of what was then 'apartheid', Audrey Brown explores and uncovers the extent to which race still plays a part in everyday life for those living in South Africa.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080613-1110.mp3 DocArchive: Bomb Hunters- June 12, 2008 More than 30 years after the end of the Vietnam War, Bomb Hunters, tells the stories of the people living in Xieng Khuang in Laos and how they survive in a land still littered with unexploded ordnance.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080612-1406.mp3 |