As Darcey Bussell takes her final curtain call, she reflects on nearly 20 years as principal dancer of the Royal Ballet in London. Bussell talks to Louise Mi... read more
As scientists warn that global warming could threaten the future of animals and people in the Arctic, Fergal Keane reports on the unique world of the Inuits ... read more
Ahead of the July 22nd parliamentary elections, BBC's Ben Hammersley travels across Turkey examining tensions between Ataturk's secular legacy and Islam.
BBC Correspondent Alastair Leithead spent three weeks with British troops and aid workers in southern Afghanistan. British forces are fighting a guerrilla wa... read more
It's only 40 years since the United States overturned the ban on interracial marriage. Sean Fletcher goes on a very personal journey to America, to look at t... read more
The Scouts are celebrating their 100th anniversary. Robert Hall reports from South Africa and the UK on how the biggest youth organisation in the world is fa... read more
Hostage-taking and bus bombs on the streets, insurgency and foreign troops struggling to keep the peace. John Simpson travels across Afghanistan to find out ... read more
Austria is waging a war on waste. Nearly 60 per cent of all rubbish there is recycled compared to seven per cent in Britain. Euro 2008 is set to be the green... read more
Two-and-a-half million children in Britain are overweight or obese. The government aims to halt the rise in childhood obesity by 2010. Jackie Long has been f... read more
Ninety per cent of the world's illegal opium production now comes from one country, Afghanistan. David Loyn sets out to discover whether the thriving illegal... read more
A report on the state of Zimbabwe. The BBC's Sue Lloyd-Roberts ventures into the country undercover, and finds a nation on the brink of catastrophe, with tho... read more
Amateur film-maker Josh Fortune gives a vivid insight into life on the frontline during his six months in Basra with the Territorial Army Parachute Regiment.
A doctor, his wife and their four children swapped the comforts of their UK home for the wilderness of north eastern Afghanistan. They're working to improve ... read more
It is estimated that unpaid carers save the economy 87 billion pounds a year. Many make extraordinary sacrifices to look after their friends and family. Thes... read more
Dominic Cotton travels to Namibia with young people from deprived parts of England. Visiting their international counterparts, they share ideas about how spo... read more
Villagers in White Horse Village in China are being moved from their homes as part of government plans to move 500 million people out of rural areas and into... read more
Britain has more video surveillance cameras than any other country. Since 9/11 the government has brought in new gadgets that let them track us more easily. ... read more
The battle against insurgents in Iraq. Paul Wood travelled from the US to Iraq with a squad of the 101st Airborne. This special report assesses the chances f... read more
Record melting caused by global warming cleared a direct route through the Arctic for the first time this summer. David Shukman joins a Canadian icebreaker a... read more
Nine years after Britain and other powers intervened against Serbia in Kosovo, the status of the Balkan province remains undecided. Humphrey Hawksley reports.
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After a violent insurgency forty years ago, British troops were finally pushed out of Aden, the last British colony in the Middle East. Brian Barron watched ... read more
One of Britain's top executives shocked the City this year by giving up his job to help the less well off in Africa. Hugh Pym travelled to Kenya to find out ... read more
This year Britain's best know ballerina, Darcey Bussell, took her final curtain call. Here's another chance to see Louise Minchin's revealing film, as Darcey... read more
BBC correspondent Andrew North has been reporting from Iraq since the invasion in 2003. He looks back on his time there and examines key events, such as the ... read more
A BBC team joins the first research mission to a vast new feature of the Arctic map. For 3,000 years the ice was attached to the Canadian coast, but it's now... read more
Royal Marine Rich Robertson has just returned from a 6 month tour of duty in Afghanistan. BBC News gave him a camera to capture his experiences, and his foot... read more
Royal Marine Rich Robertson has returned from Afghanistan. BBC News gave him a camera to capture his experiences on the frontline. Claire Marshall reports on... read more
In the Six Day War in June 1967, Israel smashed the armed forces of Egypt, Jordan and Syria, deepening the Arab Israeli conflict. Forty years later its legac... read more
The scramble for energy supplies and worries about global warming have led to a big come-back for the nuclear industry, with dozens of new power stations due... read more
In the mountains of eastern Congo a warlord's army has driven tens of thousands from their homes. His soldiers, accused of mass rape and murder, act under th... read more
Thirteen year-old Ashok Kumar has been a 'debt slave' since he was nine - defined by the UN as modern day slavery and against Indian and international law. D... read more
West Africa produces more than half the world's cocoa that goes into making chocolate. While our demand for chocolate is increasing, cocoa farmers are gettin... read more
Hundreds of people became refugees after an island vanished beneath the waves. Sea level rise and climate change take part of the blame. Roger Harrabin trave... read more