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: Rome's New Wolf - Assignment- June 12, 2008 The new mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno was once a so-called neo-fascist - a supporter of anti-democratic, right wing radicalism. And his election has come at a time of mounting ethnic tension in Italy. As Christian Fraser now discovers in Assignment, there are fears that Rome could be about to suffer the return of hard right, authoritarian rule.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080612-0906.mp3 DocArchive: Age of Terror - part 2- June 11, 2008 In the second part of this series, Peter Taylor investigates how two events in 1987 contributed to the beginnings of the road to peace in Northern Ireland.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080611-1000.mp3 DocArchive: Leila's Story- June 6, 2008 The powerful story of a young Iranian woman called Leila, sold into prostitution at the age of nine by her own family and sentenced to hang aged 18.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080606-1301.mp3 DocArchive: Argentina Dancing To The Music Of The Mind- June 5, 2008 Argentinian film director, writer and tango enthusiast, Edgardo Cozarinsky, talks to artists, dancers, novelists and other Argentinians about why psychotherapy and tango have such a pervasive hold on the Argentine mind and soul.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080605-1531.mp3 DocArchive: Auroville - Assignment- June 5, 2008 The town of Auroville in southern India was built in 1968 on the basis of a utopian ideal - that a community could live in peace and harmony without having to worry about food and shelter. But forty years on there are unsettling allegations of abuse emerging from the City of Dawn. For Assignment Rachel Wright visits Auroville and tells the disturbing story of a dream gone wrong.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080605-0906.mp3 DocArchive: Age of Terror Part 1- June 4, 2008 In the first part of this series, Peter Taylor reveals how events unfolded in the 1976 hijacking of an Air France plane on a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris which ends with a bid to rescue hostages from Idi Amin's Ugandahttp://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080604-1005.mp3 |