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 World's Shifting Balance- July 10, 2008 The dynamics of the old world and the new world are changing and the balance of economic systems is shifting. Martin Wolf of the Financial Times asks leading economists how important is the American financial cycle to the rest of the world nowhttp://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080710-1745.mp3 DocArchive: Congo's Contract of the Century- July 10, 2008 In a multi billion dollar deal China has promised to rebuild DR Congo's crumbling infrastructure in exchange for a valuable slice of Congo's vast mineral wealth. What's being called the Contract of the Century was negotiated in secret and has left some people in the country wondering who stands to benefit most from the deal - for Assignment Tim Whewell travels to the DR Congo to find out.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080710-0906.mp3 DocArchive: Countdown to the Olympics: Part Two- July 9, 2008 China says hosting the Olympics has accelerated national reforms, technological advances and greater freedoms overall but Gerry Northam investigates claims that life has gotten worse for China's poor.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080709-0939.mp3 DocArchive: Policing the Poppy Fields - Part One- July 7, 2008 Kate Clark gains rare access to the fight against the Afghan opium trade and asks how effective attempts to control it have been.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080707-0955.mp3 DocArchive: Health for All- July 4, 2008 Campaigners for improving maternal health have been lobbying the G8 to get the topic on the agenda for the next meeting in Japan. In programme two of the series Health for All, Uduak Amimo asks is there enough political will to combat maternal mortalityhttp://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080704-1014.mp3 DocArchive: Countdown to the Olympics: Part One- July 2, 2008 As the world counts down to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Gerry Northam investigates China's claims of 'vigorous growth in the public practice of religion' but he discovers people are still being persecuted and oppressed for practising religion.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080702-1000.mp3 |