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: What Lies Beneath - Part two- August 29, 2008 Win Scutt finds out how the maritime treasure hunting industry has boomed in recent years.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080829-1235.mp3 DocArchive: Spain's Civil War - Breaking the Silence- August 28, 2008 Following recent legislation in Spain the government has agreed to offer support to families wishing to find the remains of their loved ones killed during the country's brutal civil war of the 1930s. For Assignment, Mike Williams travels to Spain to visit an exhumation of bodies and asks if the government's attempt to end the political silence of that period is working.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080828-0906.mp3 DocArchive: Al-Qaeda's Internal Debate- August 26, 2008 BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner talks to former allies of Osama bin Laden who are now engaged in countering the terrorist leader's agenda.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080826-1559.mp3 DocArchive: The Presidential Contenders- August 25, 2008 Barack Obama:the profile of one of the two individuals who are the presumptive nominees in the US presidential election.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080825-0900.mp3 DocArchive: What Lies Beneath - Part One- August 21, 2008 International seas are largely unregulated, meaning most underwater archaeological wealth can be retrieved and sold without any obstacle. Can a new UNESCO convention bring some orderhttp://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080821-1531.mp3 DocArchive: A young life of crime: Assignment- August 21, 2008 The experience of growing up in a socially deprived, inner city neighbourhood is a common one, no matter where you may live in the world. In Britain's main cities, police and politicians say a worrying trend has developed where some young people are now carrying and using both knives and guns at an ever younger age. The BBC's Nina Robinson takes a day out of the life of two youngsters in the English city of Birmingham to find out a little more about what it is that shapes their lives.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080821-0906.mp3 DocArchive: Why they're dying in the Congo - Part Two- August 20, 2008 BBC World Affairs correspondent Mark Doyle continues travelling from the west to the east of the DR Congo on a journey to find out why so many people have died and continue to die in that country.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080820-0930.mp3 DocArchive: Rehearsing for War- August 18, 2008 The extraordinary US military base at the heart of a vast shift in American military strategy, aiming for nation-building and peacekeeping.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080818-0800.mp3 DocArchive: Your Right to Know - Part 2- August 14, 2008 What do Freedom of Information laws actually achieve Are they sometimes more symbolic than practical in their impacthttp://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080814-1154.mp3 DocArchive: Secrets in the Family - Assignment- August 14, 2008 During Argentina's Dirty War of the seventies and eighties thousands of leftists and dissidents vanished after being abducted by the security forces. Many of the women detained gave birth in detention centres before being killed and their babies were given to military families to bring up. Now, as Daniel Schweimler reports for Assignment, those babies have come of age in Argentina and some are trying to seek justice for what happened to them.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080814-0906.mp3 |