The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2008

Mukhul Devichand finds out how the Marwari trading caste from India's western deserts has become a major global economic... Read more

Cyber-crime is the fastest-growing sector of global-organised crime, worth about US$100 billion a year. Misha Glenny tra... Read more

The final part of a three part series. Every year, thousands of young people from sub-Saharan Africa set off across the ... Read more

In this two-part investigation, Matt McGrath sets out to expose corruption, drug use and cover-ups at the highest levels... Read more

In this four part series, using archive recordings and music from the time, Sir John Tusa examines what made 1968 such a... Read more

Will there be a return to the dreaded days of "stagflation" with weak growth and rising inflation. Can economic policyma... Read more

Kate Clark gains rare access to the fight against the Afghan opium trade and asks how effective attempts to control it h... Read more

At the end of World War Two, as Nazi Germany lay in ruins, millions of works of art were secrety shipped back to Russia ... Read more

Russia has made more enemies than friends recently. Tim Whewell finds out where this new East, West confrontation is lea... Read more

Following recent legislation in Spain the government has agreed to offer support to families wishing to find the remains... Read more

Bakira Hasecic is unrelenting in her pursuit of the war criminals of the Bosnian war. How does she and the members of th... Read more

Timeline is the programme where the past sheds light on recent events though use of archive material.

Computer gaming has become a national obsession in South Korea but there is a dark side. Gaming, like gambling, can bec... Read more

In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to live on one dollar a day. The first ... Read more

With the world's economy now threatened by what some believe is the most dangerous crisis since the depression of the 19... Read more

The number of Moroccan story-tellers, known as halakis, is dwindling. Why is their art dying out?

After the ending of apartheid in South Africa, the transfer of land from white to black was a key ANC promise - a proud ... Read more

Seven years into the global war on terror, is al-Qaeda winning? It's a deceptively simple question, one Owen Bennett-Jon... Read more

The extraordinary US military base at the heart of a vast shift in American military strategy, aiming for nation-buildin... Read more

The dangers of the present crisis turning into a full scale recession, and at the seemingly desperate attempts of banker... Read more