The BBC World Service's wide range of documentaries from 2015.
In the West we are used to stand-up comics but in Japan they have sit-down comedy. Chie Kobayashi in
Hugh Sykes travels to Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous archepelago in Tanzania, to investigate the religi
Profiles of the Buddha; Mahavira Jain; Ashoka and Aryabhata. Rupa Jha introduces four portraits of e
In Paraguay, two girls under 14 give birth every day. It’s been called an epidemic. So why are Par
Stories of change from Ethiopia, Mozambique, Tanzania and South Africa. Hugh Sykes meets those bring
A young man vanishes on a night out in Antwerp. His disappearance triggers a massive campaign to fin
Hip hop, since its inception has been seen by many as the musical voice of modern revolutions. In th
Coastal erosion is washing away a football field of land every hour. Meet one community facing the r
Could recent developments in 3D printing benefit the natural world or bring extinct species back to
Britain’s former mould-breaking ambassador to Lebanon, Tom Fletcher., Tom Fletcher. Appointed at onl
Lucy Ash meets the Harragas of Algeria - the young people who burn their identity papers and head no
Trista Goldberg looks at the story of Vietnamese Amerasians - children fathered by American servicem
An interview with one of Iran's vice presidents, Masoumeh Ebtekar, in Tehran.Tehran is a modern city
In early 2002, following the fall of the Talban, Osama Bin Laden's abandoned compound in the Afghan
Will Grant takes a ride in Cuba to discover how people get around and whether the thaw in relations
The gun attack on the beach resort of Sousse that killed 38 tourists, deterred many holiday-makers f
Peter Oborne investigates why bank accounts of some British Muslims were closed.
China has become a top maker and taker of underground ketamine. Celia Hatton sees the impact of the
Farkhunda, a 28-year-old Afghan woman and religious scholar, was beaten to death in the streets of K
Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died in a London hospital in 2006, after drinking tea poison
