The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2010

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The Brotherhood - Part one Aug 16, 2010

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"No taxi driver in Cairo knows how to find the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood. The brothers may be everywhere but the organisation is nowhere to be seen." The BBC's Magdi Abdelhadi investigates Egypt's oldest Islamist organisation.

The Muslim Superstar Aug 13, 2010

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Singer Sami Yusuf is one of the biggest superstars in the Muslim world. He's eyeing up success in the mainstream market, but how can he compete in an industry that makes its profit from outrageous stars like Lady Gaga?

Assignment - Proud to be Georgian Aug 12, 2010

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How do you train someone to love their country? Two years ago Russia and Georgia fought a brief war over the little known territory of South Ossetia. Russia sent its tanks deep into Georgian territory. In Georgia, the war led to an outbreak of patriotic fervour. In this week’s Assignment, Tom Esslemont has been to visit a government-run “patriotic” summer camp - where young Georgians learn to develop a sense of national pride.

Useful Idiots - Part Two Aug 11, 2010

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In this two part series, the BBC takes a look at the intellectuals - or Lenin's ‘useful idiots’ - who have praised tyrants, and rewritten history. How was it that so many supposedly intelligent people were manipulated by dictators over the 20th Century into saying good things about bad regimes?

The Mossad Aug 09, 2010

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"They teach you how to steal and they teach you how to kill and they teach you to do things which normal people don't do." Security Correspondent Gordon Corera reveals the story behind Israel's secret service.

Korea's lost children Aug 06, 2010

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Korea's overseas adoption programme began in the 1950s as the impoverished government's answer to the masses of mixed-race orphans from the Korean war. All told, around 200,000 Korean children have been adopted overseas over the past 60 years. About 300 of them have since returned to live in Korea and many are now involved in trying to change the adoption laws. In this programme, the BBC's Ellen Otzen meets Jane Trenka and Suki Leith, both of whom were adopted by American families, to explore the impact foreign adoption has had on them.

Assignment - Politics in Rwanda Aug 05, 2010

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Days before Rwanda's presidential election, the government has issued a strongly worded statement denying any involvement in the killing of political opponents. Rob Walker has been investigating the allegations for Assignment.

Useful Idiots Aug 04, 2010

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“That’s what my role was. I was taken around and shown things as a useful idiot.” – Doris Lessing In this two part series, the BBC takes a look at the intellectuals - or Lenin's ‘useful idiots’ - who have praised tyrants, and rewritten history. How was it that so many supposedly intelligent people were manipulated by dictators over the 20th Century into saying good things about bad regimes?

Shaking the World - Part Four Aug 02, 2010

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"This culture inhibits the evolution of new ideas," says Professor Guosong Liu of the deferntial culture of China. Will this deferential culture keep China behind the West in the race to create the next big thing? Michael Robinson looks at whether the political model which has delivered China's fantastic economic growth over the last 30 years is the same model that will deliver growth over the next 30 years.

Spanning the World - Part Four Jul 30, 2010

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London Bridge has served as a crossing, a shopping district, a housing settlement and a platform for the grotesque display of criminal's heads. It crosses the river Thames. How did it end up in Arizona?

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