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An unprecedented look inside Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, MI6.
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Cathy FitzGerald explores the past, present, and very real future of the magic carpet and wonders what our desire to defy gravity tells us about ourselves.
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A two-part documentary exploring Nelson Mandela's extraordinary life through his personal diaries, speeches, notebooks and letters.
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In this exclusive two-part documentary, Mike Costello travels to the Philippines to meet boxing legend, record-breaking eight times world champion, politician and national hero, Manny Pacquiao.
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Tracing the history of the march as a force for change
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In this two-part documentary, Michael Goldfarb examines the protest march as a force for change.
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The poignant objects people take as they flee their homes and come to Britain.
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In this two-part documentary, Alan Dein asks if oral history can challenge or alter the official past of a nation still coming to terms with its history?
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Dr Anne Marie Brady investigates why the communist party in China has decided to modernise its propaganda system.
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In the middle of the Gulf of Mexico an island has gone missing and nobody knows where it is. BBC Mundo's David Cuen is in search.
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The BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera talks to the world's most feared and fabled security services.
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The BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera talks to the world's most feared and fabled security services.
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After 28 years in power, President Mubarak's promise of shepherding his country into a stable democracy has all but dissipated. Is this stable, undemocratic, but functioning Egypt a good enough legacy?
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Musical Migrants traces journeys across borders, driven by a passion for the music of a foreign land.
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Can Muslim singer Sami Yusuf navigate a path to celebrity in the West, without compromising his religious convictions?
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Mark Dummett asks the questions behind the military revolt in Bangladesh six months ago that threatened the country's stability
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Robert Hodierne reveals the truth about the infamous My Lai massacre of 16th March 1968, based on the audio testimony made during a Pentagon inquiry.
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We know the two US presidential candidates and what they would do in office - but what does the electorate itself want? Robin Lustig travels to the candidates' home states to meet four Americans to find out what issues have determined their choices.
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The story of Dr Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain scientist who suffered a massive stroke 13 years ago.
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The story of Kades, who has only ever seen one way to escape from the Majengo slums of Nairobi, through his poetry.
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The extraordinary story of Thailand's leading forensic scientist.
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Gemma Tracee Apiku a former refugee who spent her teenage years in the camps of Sudan, returns to Africa to become a relief worker.
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Vivek Kumar, a man sustaining a successful business out of marital strife - runs India's number one detective agency from a small office in Mumbai.
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The Library Cart focuses on a day in the life of Cartegena's Martin Murrillo, a mobile cart librarian and self-taught teacher.
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Barry Smith looks at the mysteries of human consciousness.