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World Service,·1881 episodes
Nick Rankin investigates the value of gold - and its true cost.
A rebel group of 100 men who are fighting back against the 400,000 strong Burmese army.
Mukul Devichand investigates the attempt to persuade China's middle class to buy Europe...
Physicist Richard Feyman discovered remote Russian region of Tuva through his stamp col...
Navid Akhtar takes a look at the influence of Islamic design on William Morris.
Alert Bay - My Life So Far
Teenagers on a remote Canadian island talk about preserving their native culture.
Global Perspective: Islands Of Security
Islands of Security looks at the impact of South Africa's gated communities.
Global Perspective: Death Diminishes Me
The isolation of living with HIV in New Zealand.
Global Perspective: Across The Waters
How Fair Isle, one of Britain's most remote island communities, is keeping its numbers up.
Global Perspective: Chung King Mansions
A slice of life in the shabby tenement building in Hong Kong's busy commercial district.
Global Perspective: Traffic Islands
Traffic Islands explores lives drawn to the public traffic grid.
Julian O'Halloran finds out if swine flu is linked to intensive pig farming in the US.
Delphine Jaudeau examines terrorism, including the Hezbollah kidnappings of westerners ...
Dai Richards looks at the first decade after Iran's Islamic revolution.
In June, after 7 years locked up at Guantanamo Bay, 4 Uyghur men were released & sent t...
The Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú takes a closer look at former general Hosni Mubarek and the institution that ha...
When the dried blood of Naples' patron saint fails to liquefy, will tragedy avail?
Thembi Ngubane dared to talk openly about AIDS in South Africa. This is a tribute to a ...