BBC World Service - The Documentary

The Boy With The Violin

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

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

2/2 Noah Richler asks why humans from the earliest times have felt the need to tell stories.

2/2 How should diplomats engage with brutal regimes?

1/2 Noah Richler asks why humans from the earliest times have felt the need to tell stories.

1/2 Is engagement always better than isolation in the case of tyrannical regimes?

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

2/2 Meet Yusuf Mahmoud, who swapped Cheltenham for Zanzibar in his love of African music.

2/2 Why does Britain's narrow and elite establishment keep stumbling from crisis to crisis?

1/2 Meet Venezuelan Padro Carrillo, who moved to the birthplaceof opera to pursue his career.