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The Wednesday Documentary

Documenting the lives of ordinary people

World Service,64 episodes

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What Next for Kenya? Part One
What will it take for Kenya to recover from the violence of 2008?
22 mins21 May 2008
What Next for Kenya, Part Two
The shock of killings, destruction and displacement of Kenyan people
22 mins28 May 2008
Age of Terror - Part One
1st of 4 programmes exploring terrorist attacks from the last 30 years
22 mins04 Jun 2008
Age of Terror - Part Two
The two events which marked the beginning of the road to peace in Northern Ireland
22 mins11 Jun 2008
Age of Terror - Part Three
7 years before 9/11 there was a plan to explode a plane over the heart of Paris
22 mins18 Jun 2008
Age of Terror - Part Four
The story of Osama Bin Laden's declaration of war on the West
22 mins25 Jun 2008
Countdown to the Olympics - Religion in China
How well is China fulfilling its commitment to improvements in religious freedom?
22 mins02 Jul 2008
Countdown to the Olympics - Human Rights
What effect will hosting the Olympic Games in China have on human rights there?
22 mins09 Jul 2008
Building Better Health - Part One
A look at health care systems across the world, starting with the British NHS
22 mins16 Jul 2008
Building Better Health - Part Two
A look at how China provides healthcare for 1.3 billion people
22 mins23 Jul 2008
The Trouble with Money - Part One
How serious is the situation in the US housing sub-prime mortgage crisis?
22 mins30 Jul 2008
The Trouble with Money - Part Two
2/2 programmes on the deepening crisis in the American housing market
22 mins06 Aug 2008
The Priest of Para
A look at the life and faith of Father Henri Des Roziers, a priest and Human Rights Lawyer
22 mins02 Dec 2008
Return to White Horse Village - One
The upheaval as a rural community in the mountains of China is transformed into a city
22 mins09 Dec 2008
Return to White Horse Village - Part Two
How easy is it to turn a community of subsistence farmers into city people in China?
22 mins16 Dec 2008
Return to White Horse Village - Part Three
3/3 programmes looking at the transformation of White Horse village in China into a city
22 mins23 Dec 2008
Obama: Professor President
How smart is Barack Obama? A look at the US president's intellectual credentials
22 mins13 Jan 2009
Indonesian Journeys - Jakarta
A visit to Jakarta, Indonesia as it prepares for elections after 32 years of dictatorship
22 mins24 Feb 2009
Indonesian Journeys - Acheh
Acheh is the second of four stops on a pre-election journey through Indonesia
22 mins03 Mar 2009
Indonesian Journeys - West Timor
West Timor is the third of four stops on a pre-election journey through Indonesia
22 mins10 Mar 2009
Indonesian Journeys - Bali
Bali is the final stop on a pre-election journey through Indonesia
22 mins17 Mar 2009
Chinua Achebe: A Hero Returns
Travelling with Chinua Achebe, author of 'Things Fall Apart', as he returns to Nigeria
22 mins24 Mar 2009
The Secret Scientists - Part One
The Islamic scientists who flourished during Western Europe's 'Dark Ages'
22 mins15 Apr 2009
The Secret Scientists - Part Two
2/3 programmes uncovering the scholars of the 'Golden Age' of Islam
22 mins22 Apr 2009
The Secret Scientists - Part Three
3/3 programmes uncovering the scholars of the 'Golden Age' of Islam
22 mins29 Apr 2009
On the Brink - Part One
How will Europe and US financial bail-out packages hit newly emerging nations?
21 mins06 May 2009
On the Brink - Part Two
A look at the effects of the global recession in Japan
22 mins13 May 2009
The Lost Voices of Tiananmen Square - One
A look back at one of the 'biggest popular revolts in the history of communism'
22 mins20 May 2009
The Lost Voices of Tiananman Square - Two
2/2 programmes looking back at the pro-democracy protests in China's Tiananamen Square
22 mins27 May 2009
Farm Swap - Part One
What can farmers from different countries learn from each other?
22 mins17 Jun 2009