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The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2011
Hosted by BBC World Service · ENGLISH
The BBC World Service's wide range of documentaries from 2011.
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Goodbye To Bush House: Part Two
Dec 31, 201100:23:28Tap to summarizeJohn Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, from 1941 to leaving Bush House in 2012.
Transcribe →Guangzhou - China's migrant metropolis
Dec 29, 201100:23:32Tap to summarizeChina's economy depends on a system regulating workers from around China and beyond. In Guangzhou, the migrant metropolis, Mukul Devichand hears stories of anger and reform.
Transcribe →Goodbye To Bush House: Part One
Dec 24, 201100:23:28Tap to summarizeJohn Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, from 1941 to leaving Bush House in 2012.
Transcribe →The Truth About NGOs - India
Dec 23, 201100:23:28Tap to summarizeAllan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in India. Who really benefits from the work of NGOs?
Transcribe →The Songs of Comrade Time
Dec 23, 201100:48:57Tap to summarizeThe Children's Choir of the USSR sang to their leaders, they sang to their people, and through their songs projected a bright, happy dream of the Soviet Union to the furthest reaches of the Red Empire. Then, in 1991, the world they had sung about ceased to exist and the Soviet Union passed into memory. Monica Whitlock goes in search of The Children's Choir of the USSR.
Transcribe →Assignment - France Food Fights
Dec 22, 201100:22:58Tap to summarizeFrance has long been a country with a reputation for some of the best food in the world. But in recent years, many critics have argued that French cuisine has lost its way. Now there's a new generation of food-lovers hoping to change that. But what do the traditionalists make of it all? Robyn Bresnahan reports.
Transcribe →Tales From The Arab Spring: Whose Tomorrow? (Syria)
Dec 21, 201100:23:16Tap to summarizeThe BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the Middle East and hears from those who witnessed events at first hand.
Transcribe →Tales From The Arab Spring: Counter Revolution (Libya)
Dec 21, 201100:26:57Tap to summarizeThe BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the Middle East and hears from those who witnessed events at first hand.
Transcribe →The Truth About NGOs - Malawi
Dec 20, 201100:23:19Tap to summarizeAllan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in Haiti, Malawi and India.
Transcribe →Tales From The Arab Spring: Revolution (Egypt)
Dec 20, 201100:26:57Tap to summarizeThe BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the Middle East and hears from those who witnessed events at first hand.
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