The BBC World Service's wide range of documentaries from 2015.
Maria Margaronis explores the debris of Albania's past —the prisons, concrete bunkers and secret pol
James Fletcher travels to one of America’s poorest cities to meet a passionate group of people worki
So often climate conferences have ended in chaos and dispute but in the run up to Paris there has be
Greek cemeteries have run out of space so the dead are exhumed after just three years. In the only E
Roger Harrabin looks at the solutions to the emissions problem. He travels to Malawi, one of the wor
The story of Peru's drug 'mules' - the youngsters who hike cocaine from a tropical valley up to high
Roger Harrabin examines the science behind climate change. Predicting the future climate is a pretty
Pope Francis has brought together nearly 300 bishops from all over the world for a special Synod on
Aasmah Mir hosts an intimate and revealing discussion between three women from the Bangladeshi diasp
In Norway, the sacking of a newspaper editor, allegedly after pressure from Russia, has caused a pol
Why are children hooked on the game Minecraft? Even when they are not playing the game themselves, m
Known by many simply as 'The Lady', Aung San Suu Kyi has become one of the world's most famous polit
Lyse Doucet visits Cairo’s presidential palace for an exclusive interview with Egypt’s new strongman
The US Commonwealth of Puerto Rico could be slipping into an economic “death spiral”, according to i
Musician Philip Glass revisits his parallel lives in 1970s New York - as a taxi driver and an emergi
Pope Francis has opened up debate about his Church’s most controversial teachings - on sex and the f
Stories of the pioneers who came to post war Britain from the Indian subcontinent. By the early 1970
Tim Franks travels to South Sudan to find out why the world's youngest nation has failed to deliver
During the conflict in Syria, it seems incredible that there are still writers expressing their expe
