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Public Places, Private Lives - Part One
People who come to a famous spot for work or for their own private reasons.
Episode 2
Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
Episode 1
31/10/2009
Portraits of grand places from the everyday perspective of the people who call them home.
Youssou N’Dour at 50
Youssou N’Dour, the man who makes music to benefit Africa.
07/11/2009
Lucy Ash looks at Russia's 3 all-female regiments that flew more than 30,000 missions o...
Episode 3
Africa's Forgotten Soldiers
Martin Plaut hears from the African troops who participated in WWII.
Shortchanging the Planet
Will mistrust over financial pledges prevent a climate change deal at Copenhagen?
28/11/2009
StoryCorps, the US oral history project, is an organisation that gives Americans a chan...
Episode 4
Can China Go Green?
Amidst China's toxic power stations we find some extraordinary green solutions.
Jonathon Porritt is in China, where he finds pioneering green solutions.
05/12/2009
16/12/2009
Nick Baker embarks on a global journey - an ambitious project to draw a map round the w...
23/12/2009
State Secrets
State Secrets - Part two
Oana Lungescu investigates the secret files kept hidden after the fall of communism.
Defining the Decade: A Googling We Go
Google's mighty impact on our lives and the world wide web.
John Simpson Returns To 1989
John Simpson tells the story of 20 years of post-communist life.
John Simpson returns to Prague to speak to those who lived through the Velvet Revolution
John Simpson Returns To 1989 3
John Simpson brings himself back to the Romanian revolution.
Defining the Decade: The Heat Is On
Edward Stourton explores how, in the past 10 years, the world woke up to climate change.
30/12/2009
We delve into Tulsa's tough underworld in the company of two police officers who have d...
06/01/2010
Rob Walker tells the story of how 'Angolagate', one of the biggest arms deal scandals o...
