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DocArchive: Assignment - Equatorial Guinea
Posted: February 2012Rob Walker investigates what’s happened to billions of dollars in oil revenues paid to the government of Equatorial Guinea.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Docs: Dickens And India - Mutual Friends 07 Feb 12
Posted: February 2012To celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens' birth, Indian writer Ayeesha Menon explores India's love affair with Dickens.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Docs: Dreaming Dickens: Feb 03 12
Posted: February 2012In this documentary-fantasy we bring the danger back to Dickens. Slipping in and out of his weird and brilliant imagination, we see modern London as he might have done, travelling through the city's streets at night to crack dens and strip-joints as the police sirens wail. We meet characters from his novels and characters who would be in his novels if he were still alive today.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.DocArchive: Assignment: Opposing Syria's President Assad
Posted: February 2012Undercover in Damascus for Assignment. Tim Whewell enters the dangerous world of the Syrian opposition to find out how strong they are – and what they really want.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Docs: Great Expectations: Part Eight - 27 Jan 12
Posted: January 2012Nina Robinson reports from two Olympic cities - Beijing who were hosts in 2008 and Rio de Janeiro, who will be hosts in 2016.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.DocArchive: Assignment - Australia's FIFO Workers
Posted: January 2012Australia's mining boom is proving lucrative for its so called Fly in Fly Out (FIFO) workers but as James Fletcher reports in Assignment, it can come at a cost.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Docs: The Wealth Gap – The View from London: Part Two 24 Jan 12
Posted: January 2012The gap between the super-rich and the rest has grown sharply around the world. Michael Robinson examines its effects on London.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Dos: Great Expectations: Part Seven - 21 Jan 12
Posted: January 2012Nina Robinson reports from two Olympic cities - Beijing who were hosts in 2008 and Rio de Janeiro, who will be hosts in 2016.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.DocArchive: The Toughest Guys On Ice
Posted: January 2012Assignment goes inside the fast and furious world of North American ice hockey. Alex Capstick reports.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Docs: The Wealth Gap – The View from London: Part One 17 Jan 12
Posted: January 2012The gap between the super-rich and the rest has grown sharply around the world. Michael Robinson examines its effects on London.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Docs: The Antartic Explorer
Posted: January 2012Karen Bowerman retraces the route of Antarctic explorer Frank Wild - Sir Ernest Shackleton's second-in-command - as Wild's ashes are taken to South Georgia for burial next to Shackleton.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.DocArchive: Assignment - What Happened to the Kurdish Spring
Posted: January 2012For Assignment Gabriel Gatehouse asks whether the autonomous Kurdish region in Northern Iraq should be a model for the Middle East to follow or avoid?
An audio podcast in MP3 format.
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Whilst all the podcasts listed in this directory are selected in line with our criteria, we do strongly recommend educators that the contents of all podcasts, podcast feeds and channels are regularly auditioned to ensure that they are suitable and appropriate for the age range of the children and young people.
Friday, 10th February 2012
