The BBC World Service's wide range of documentaries from 2015.
Even by the sometimes-bizarre standards of modern Japanese culture, the annual love-your-wife shout-
Slum settlements have a strong visual identity. We are used to seeing TV footage of densely packed,
Last summer the deaths of four innocent teenagers in Israel, three Jewish and one Israeli Arab, heig
Germany's nascent anti-Islamisation movement, Pegida, is attracting a new middle aged following to i
For decades rubbish pickers crawled their way over the biggest rubbish dump in South America. Their
Machado de Assis was born in 1839 of mixed race, an epileptic with little formal education. Yet from
The protest by cleaners, laid off from tax offices and the Greek Finance Ministry, which has capture
The olive harvest in the West Bank is all about tradition. The first rains of the winter signal the
Allen Ginsberg arrived in early 1960s Calcutta to discover a collective of angry young poets whose a
In the 1950s and 1960s tens of thousands of migrants came to Britain from the Indian subcontinent. M
Former jihadi Aimen Dean gives a unique insight into the workings of Islamic State. Dean left school
James Fletcher travels to Japan to find out why they decided earlier this year not to ban graphic ca
Noor Inayat Khan was one of the most courageous, unusual secret agents of World War Two. She was det
We like to think of our romantic lives as pure and unbothered by the cold business of spreadsheets a
A year ago, we asked former Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill to identify the next big emerging ec
In Medellin there's a huge dump. Locals say it's where the truth is buried - they're talking about v
