The BBC World Service's wide range of documentaries from 2014.
Women abused in institutions run by the Catholic Church are demanding answers from religious authori
Ebola is now regarded as an international threat to peace and security, according to the World Healt
Texas is crucial in the race for national power. Gary O’Donoghue travels to the Lone Star State to f
Music from the rising stars of Africa, including wordsmiths M.Anifest from Ghana and Tumi from Sout
Tim Whewell is one of the few foreign reporters who’ve made it to Tobruk, last toehold of Libya’s el
India is falling in love with Western classical music. In his home-city Mumbai, Zareer Masani encoun
Everything's bigger in Texas and that goes for the personalities who run for election there. While t
Linda Pressly travels to Kosovo and meets the sister of ISIS’ first suicide-bomber from the Balkans.
In recent years, sperm has been shipped out of Denmark at an astonishing rate, producing thousands o
Orania, South Africa, remains a 'whites only' town despite the end of apartheid 20 years ago. BBC re
Neal Razzell goes to work with Copenhagen’s hot dog vendors who tell how the humble sausage is a bar
Since the 18th Century, Tamil fishermen have claimed to navigate by the mysterious music of the sing
The rockets and missiles fly, from Israel into Gaza, from Gaza into Israel. It is the latest iterati
Tim Mansel on the lives of people in Sierra Leone as they face a three day "lock-down" designed to c
In the late 1930's a young Mildred Cummings from Dayton, Ohio is barefoot, standing in the spotlight
Music from the most promising bands of the Mexican music scene. Hear rapper Eptos One, the rock anth
In Ivory Coast, men are going back to the classroom. It's an innovative project dubbed the 'school f
The legacy of jazz pianist James Booker. Classically trained in piano and a child prodigy, Booker to
After becoming a Paralympics champion, Oscar Pistorius rose to fame as the first double amputee to c
Hilary Andersson investigates the more than one million mentally ill prisoners held in US jails and
