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Down and Out in Paris and London

We retrace George Orwell's account of poverty in Paris and London, 80 years on.

• 25 mins

Controlling People

Episode 1

Matthew Connelly examines India's tragic history to control its population.

• 23 mins

Controlling People

Episode 2

Matthew Connelly examines India's mass sterilisation campaign to control its population.

• 23 mins

Controlling People

Episode 3

Matthew Connelly looks at the consequences of India's methods to control its population.

• 23 mins

Lives In Landscape

Alan Dein explores the impact of the recent riots in England on one London man

• 25 mins

The British Establishment: Who For?

Episode 1

Why does Britain's narrow and elite establishment keep stumbling from crisis to crisis?

• 23 mins

The British Establishment: Who For?

Episode 2

Why does Britain's narrow and elite establishment keep stumbling from crisis to crisis?

• 23 mins

Musical Migrants

Milan

Meet Venezuelan Padro Carrillo, who moved to the birthplaceof opera to pursue his career.

• 25 mins

Musical Migrants

Zanzibar

Meet Yusuf Mahmoud, who swapped Cheltenham for Zanzibar in his love of African music.

• 25 mins

29/10/2011

With Gaddafi dead, Owen Bennett-Jones explores what happens after dictators fall.

• 55 mins

Upsetting The Apple Cart: The Genius of Steve Jobs

Mark Gregory examines the legacy of Steve Jobs. Did he invent a new way of doing business?

• 49 mins

The Dark Side Of Diplomacy

Episode 1

Is engagement always better than isolation in the case of tyrannical regimes?

• 23 mins

The Dark Side Of Diplomacy

Episode 2

How should diplomats engage with brutal regimes?

• 23 mins

A Short History Of Story

Episode 1

Noah Richler asks why humans from the earliest times have felt the need to tell stories.

• 25 mins

A Short History Of Story

Episode 2

Noah Richler asks why humans from the earliest times have felt the need to tell stories.

• 25 mins

New Global Economics: The Shock and the Shift

Martin Wolf examines how the world has changed since the financial crisis four years ago.

• 49 mins

The Boy With The Violin

Priyath Liyanage goes to Sri Lanka in search of the boy with the violin.

• 25 mins

The Trouble With Condoms

Frank and intimate personal stories of why the safe sex message is still so often ignored.

• 25 mins

Radical Economics

Episode 1

Why free market Austrian economics have inspired a rap video and attracted new fans

• 28 mins

Radical Economics

Episode 2

Paul Mason asks whether the expansion of credit created a new form of worker exploitation.

• 28 mins

Knitting In Tripoli

An intimate story of life during the Libyan war.

• 55 mins

Out In The World

Episode 1

Is the West attempting to force gay rights on Africa, Asia and the Middle East?

• 23 mins

Out In The World

Episode 2

Is the West attempting to force gay rights on Africa, Asia and the Middle East?

• 23 mins

DotCom Camps

12/12/2011 GMT

Ruth Evans reports on a unique dot.com venture providing jobs for the poor.

• 23 mins

Boundaries Of Blood

Episode 1

Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan.

• 25 mins

Boundaries Of Blood

Episode 2

Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan.

• 25 mins

Tales From The Arab Spring

Revolution (Egypt)

Stories from the year that changed the face of the Middle East with the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Jeremy Bowen

• 28 mins

Tales From The Arab Spring

Counter Revolution (Libya)

Stories from the year that changed the face of the Middle East with the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Jeremy Bowen

• 28 mins

Tales From The Arab Spring

Whose Tomorrow? (Syria)

Stories from the year that changed the face of the Middle East with the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Jeremy Bowen

• 28 mins

The Songs of Comrade Time

Monica Whitlock goes in search of The Children's Choir of the USSR.

• 55 mins