The Documentary: Archive 2007

We report on a miscarriage of justice in Japan - a case which has opened a debate about how the police question suspects, and why more than 99 per cent of those charged with a crime are then found guilty.

Education matters - Owen Bennett-Jones visits educational establishments which have been judged to be the bes. This week he visits Finland which has been judged to have the best educational system in the world.

Having won a second term, Clinton found new confidence when dealing with foreign policy. But then came revelations about Monica Lewinsky. How did events unfold?

Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's cultural legacy.

From authorising emergency bailout during the Mexican economic collapse to balancing the budget, Clinton's strategic use of the Presidential veto would enable his White House to start working again.

In August 1986 Julie Tullis became the first British woman climber to reach the summit of K2. The tapes she recorded reveal her adventure.

Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's cultural legacy.

When William Jefferson Clinton was elected President of the United States on 3 November 1992, hope was in the air. Though the honeymoon did not last long, it was at moments of great adversity that his political skills were at their greatest.

Jane Little follows one of the "Lost Boys of Sudan" who goes back to be reunited with his mother and to marry a girl from his own Dinka tribe.

Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's cultural legacy.

In the second of these two programmes, Paul Bakibinga considers how Zimbabwe might become prosperous one more.

Jill McGivering follows the trail of fake drugs, from the marginalised communities at risk, to the country accused of being the main source.

Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's cultural legacy.

It reads like a soap opera, but this is not fiction: round-the-clock confinement, crippling illness, rape, escape, suicide and murder - women who go overseas to work as maids often encounter unforeseen terror and tragedy.

In the first of two programmes, Paul Bakibinga considers the causes behind the collapse of the once prosperous Zimbabwe.

Gabby O'Donnell goes to Ghana to meet some convicted drugs mules, and hears how they, as much as the users, can end up being the biggest victims in the multi-billion dollar drug trade.

In the second programme, Judith Kampfner looks at women who work as maids in their own countries. Children, sometimes as young as ten years old, are sent from villages to distant towns to be shut in as domestic servants.

In South Africa, equality - on the basis of race, language, culture and sexual orientation - are central to the country's constitution.

Owen Bennett-Jones chairs a unique debate with some of the most senior and influential military figures responsible for the planning and execution of the war in Iraq.