The Documentary: Archive 2008

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Synopsis

The BBC World Service's wide range of documentaries from 2008.

Episodes

  • Desperate Dreams Part 3

    24/01/2008 Duration: 22min

    The final part of a three part series. Every year, thousands of young people from sub-Saharan Africa set off across the desert dreaming of a better life in Europe. Part two: Returning home.

  • Assignment - African Footballers

    24/01/2008 Duration: 22min

    Millions of young African boys dream of following such football stars as Didier Drogba and Emmanuel Eboue to Europe to make their fortune. Only a handful succeed whilst many more fall into the hands of unscrupulous clubs and agents who exploit them. Henry Bonsu investigates the growth in what has been described as football slavery.

  • A Dollar A Day - Part 3

    22/01/2008 Duration: 23min

    In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to live on one dollar a day. The third programme focuses on elder people in India.

  • Desperate Dreams - Part 2

    17/01/2008 Duration: 22min

    The second in a three part series. Every year, thousands of young people from sub-Saharan Africa set off across the desert dreaming of a better life in Europe. Part two: The Journey.

  • Looted Art: Part II

    17/01/2008 Duration: 22min

    Charles Wheeler is on the trail of art seized by the Soviets at the end of World War II

  • Assignment - On the trail of spammers

    17/01/2008 Duration: 22min

    Simon Cox tries to track down the criminals who plague us with spam emails offering everything from get rich schemes to products to improve our sex lives.

  • A Dollar A Day - Part 2

    15/01/2008 Duration: 23min

    In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to live on one dollar a day. The second programme focuses on Peru.

  • Desperate Dreams Part 1

    11/01/2008 Duration: 22min

    Every year, thousands of young men and women from sub-Saharan Africa set off across the desert dreaming of a better life in Europe. Part one: George from Cameroon starts his journey.

  • Friday Documentary - Looted Art: Part One

    10/01/2008 Duration: 22min

    At the end of World War Two, as Nazi Germany lay in ruins, millions of works of art were secrety shipped back to Russia by the Soviet Army. Charles Wheeler now investigates their fate and the political row that still surrounds them in Looted Art.

  • Assignment - S Korea computer addiction

    10/01/2008 Duration: 23min

    Computer gaming has become a national obsession in South Korea but there is a dark side. Gaming, like gambling, can become an addiction that has even led to death. Julian Pettifer reports.

  • A Dollar A Day - Part 1

    08/01/2008 Duration: 22min

    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 programme focuses on Kenya.

  • Debt Threat Part 2

    07/01/2008 Duration: 22min

    The dangers of the present crisis turning into a full scale recession, and at the seemingly desperate attempts of bankers, regulators and politicians to prevent that happening.

  • Only One Bakira

    04/01/2008 Duration: 18min

    Bakira Hasecic is unrelenting in her pursuit of the war criminals of the Bosnian war. How does she and the members of the Association of Women Victims of War find the strength to talk about the rapes and other horrors they endured?

  • Assignment - Taxi to the Dark Side

    03/01/2008 Duration: 22min

    American film-maker Alex Gibney tells the story of an Afghan taxi driver, tortured to death by American soldiers and military police in Bagram airbase. Were they rogue soldiers, or was the torture authorised at the highest levels of government?

  • Press For Freedom Part 4

    02/01/2008 Duration: 23min

    In the final part of the series Roy Greenslade profiles the head of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch.

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