BBC World Service - The Documentary

01/10/2010

A former British colonial officer returns to Nigeria to meet a civil servant he trained...

Can oral history challenge the official records of a nation's turbulent past?

Is the biggest challenge of the brain not to explain thinking but to understand movement?

What does our desire to defy gravity tell us about ourselves?

5/5 In Iran, how does the spread of ideas shape world opinion?

How do our senses affect our ability to communicate and respond to the world around us?

2/2 Chess fanatic Simon Terrington explores the allure of the game in today's world

4/5 In the 1960's 14,000 Cuban children were sent to live in the USA, to seek a better life...

Zainab Bangura, Sierra Leones foreign minister, tells her own remarkable story

1/2 Will computers end the mystique of chess?