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: Why they're dying in the Congo - Part One- August 13, 2008 BBC World Affairs Correspondent Mark Doyle explores why over five million people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the past decade.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080813-1000.mp3 DocArchive: The Billion Dollar Election: Part 2 - Ambassadors- August 8, 2008 Prestigious job. Exotic location. Stately home, fine food and wine, and many other perks thrown in. Yours for only $200,000. The position a US ambassadorship. Around a third of all US ambassadors are not career diplomats; they're political appointees and almost all of them are major donors, wealthy businessmen. Is this really the way for the US to run its foreign policyhttp://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080808-1515.mp3 DocArchive: The Right to Know - Part 1- August 7, 2008 Freedom of information is well on the way to being seen as an essential prerequisite for a modern democracy. But there's almost always a backlash from politicians and officials.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080807-1328.mp3 DocArchive: Soft Jihad: Assignment- August 7, 2008 In the United States a small but increasingly vocal group of people believe that members of the country's Muslim community are working from within to turn America into an Islamic state. This group of right wing thinkers believe this so-called 'Soft Jihad' is being carried out in schools, universities and other institutions across the country and they want to put a stop to it. In Assignment, Pascale Harter travels to America to find out how this fear is finding a foothold in public opinion...http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080807-0906.mp3 DocArchive: The Trouble with Money - Part Two- August 6, 2008 Will there be a return to the dreaded days of "stagflation" with weak growth and rising inflation. Can economic policymakers find a way to deal with this double danger Or is further pain inevitablehttp://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080806-1115.mp3 DocArchive: The Billion Dollar Election - Part One - 527s- August 1, 2008 The United States is due to have the first billion-dollar election in its history. The BBC's Steve Evans presents this two-part investigation into election spending done in collaboration with the Centre for Public Integrity in Washington DC.http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20080801-1138.mp3 |