The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2007

In the second of these two programmes, Paul Bakibinga considers how Zimbabwe might become prosperous one more.

Jill McGivering follows the trail of fake drugs, from the marginalised communities at risk, to the country accused of being the main source.

Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's cultural legacy.

It reads like a soap opera, but this is not fiction: round-the-clock confinement, crippling illness, rape, escape, suicide and murder - women who go overseas to work as maids often encounter unforeseen terror and tragedy.

In the first of two programmes, Paul Bakibinga considers the causes behind the collapse of the once prosperous Zimbabwe.

Gabby O'Donnell goes to Ghana to meet some convicted drugs mules, and hears how they, as much as the users, can end up being the biggest victims in the multi-billion dollar drug trade.

In the second programme, Judith Kampfner looks at women who work as maids in their own countries.

In South Africa, equality - on the basis of race, language, culture and sexual orientation - are central to the country's constitution.

Owen Bennett-Jones chairs a unique debate with some of the most senior and influential military figures responsible for the planning and execution of the war in Iraq.