The Documentary Podcast Episodes Episode guide
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Assignment: Anger in Punjab Province
More than six million people in Pakistan now face the start of winter without adequate...
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Assignment: American mercenaries - killing in Yemen
Why former soldiers were hired to carry out assassinations in Yemen in 2015
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Assignment: America鈥檚 hidden histories
A new statue in Virginia shines a light on histories hidden in plain sight
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Assignment: Alzheimer's in Colombia
An extended family in Colombia struck by hereditary and very early onset Alzheimer's a...
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Assignment: Ageing without a safety net in Malaysia
How Malaysia failed to plan for its fast-growing elderly population
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Assignment: Afghanistan - Winning Hearts and Minds
According to US intelligence the Afghan president Hamid Karzai controls only 30 of the...
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Assignment: Afghanistan - our whole life is a secret
One young woman's story from Taliban controlled Afghanistan
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Assignment: A Taliban Class War?
In Pakistan, the Taliban are continuing to attract recruits, despite the fact that...
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Assignment: A slogan and a land, part two
Tim Whewell completes a trip across the West Bank and Israel, reaching the Mediterranean
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Assignment: A slogan and a land, part one
A journey through the contested land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea
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Assignment: Myanmar - Rise of the resistance
Quentin Sommerville reports from Myanmar on the rising resistance to the military junta
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Assignment Turkey's Dirty War
For twenty five years, Turkey fought a dirty war with Kurdish separatist insurgents.
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Assignment Turkey's Dirty War
For twenty five years, Turkey fought a dirty war with Kurdish separatist insurgents.
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Assignment Malvinas War Crimes
Twenty seven years after Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falklands, or the...
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Assignment Jacob Zuma: The Investigation
Jacob Zuma is one of the most powerful men in South Africa. He controls the ruling and...
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Assignment Ivory Coast: A family divided
Robyn Bresnahan reports on how politics is dividing families in Ivory Coast.
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Assignment Inside California's Porn Industry
California is the world's largest producer of commercial pornographic movies.
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Assignment In Exile
There are more than 10 million Palestinians living around the world, more than half of...
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Assignment Falling in Love with the Stasi
During the cold war, more than thirty west German women were prosecuted after been to...
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Assignment Falling in Love with the Stasi
During the cold war, more than thirty west German women were prosecuted after been to...
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Assignment Cholera in Haiti
A hard hitting Assignment from Mark Doyle who reports on the massive cholera outbreak...
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Assignment Calling for Change in Yemen
For months Yemen has been the scene of widespread unrest and anti-government protests.
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Assignment Bolivia on the Brink
And now Assignment asks whether Bolivia is on the brink of civil war. In the run-up to...
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Assignment Armenia: The cleverest nation on the planet
Every two years teams from all over the world compete with one another in the Chess...
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Assignment A Return to Helmand
Last year our correspondent Jill McGivering reported from Helmand Province in southern...
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Assignment - Zimbabwe's New Farmers
It's ten years since Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe initiated a land reform which...
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Assignment - Who Jails the Pirates?
Why are so few captured pirates brought to trial? Each year hundreds of ships are by...
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Assignment - What Happened to the Kurdish Spring
For Assignment Gabriel Gatehouse asks whether the autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq be...
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Assignment - Unknown Neighbours
Why are the British so scared of Islam? When the head of the Anglican church, Dr Rowan...
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Assignment - Three Strike Lifers
A life sentence for stealing a pair of socks. In California the tough 'three strikes'...
