The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2012

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The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2012 episodes

July 25, 2012 Syria - The Road To Justice
The mass killings of civilians in Houla immediately led to calls for the ICC to investigate and for those responsible to be held to account.
But in cases like this, how likely is it that international justice will eventually be done?
24 min
July 24, 2012 An Unspeakable Act - Part One
In this powerful documentary, Will Storr examines a taboo that still reigns even in the most diabolical of conflicts.
The beautiful but incredibly violent Lake Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been dubbed the 'rape capital of the world'.
In the first part of a searing two-part documentary, award-winning writer and Guardian journalist Will Storr travels to the DRC to meet the women who are menaced daily by the escaped genocidaires from neighbouring Rwanda and by their own army.
He finds that they are desperate for the world to hear their harrowing stories.
24 min
July 23, 2012 Securing The Games
BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera talks to the people behind the largest security operation in peacetime, designed to ensure London's 2012 Olympic Games go ahead without interruption.
24 min
July 21, 2012 London Calling: No Greater Love
A powerful memorial to the bravery of an ordinary man Leigh Pitt, who saved a boy from drowning but did not himself survive.
24 min
July 19, 2012 Culture and Freedom in Benghazi
Nina Robinson explores newfound cultural freedoms in Libya’s second city Benghazi.
24 min
July 17, 2012 It Started With a Tweet - Part 2
Shanghai-based journalist Duncan Hewitt concludes his look at the burgeoning microblogging trend in China and the profound effect it is having on society and culture.
24 min
July 14, 2012 London Calling: The London Chronicles
Can a city retain a memory and if so what does it sound like? Francesca Panetta goes on an audio journey of London, away from the fanfare and voices of the Olympic venues, to listen to the city's murky and varied past.
28 min
July 14, 2012 The Business Of Personality - Part Two
How do people from different companies use psychological assessments in the workplace? Lucy Ash investigates.
24 min
July 12, 2012 Peru's Gold Rush
Assignment's Rob Walker reports on the frantic gold rush in Peru that is threatening the Peruvian rainforest.
24 min
July 10, 2012 It Started With a Tweet - Part 1
In the first of a two-part series, Duncan Hewitt investigates the impact of microblogging in China, where Sina's Weibo now has a greater membership than Twitter. He meets animal rights activists and mothers promoting breastfeeding as he finds out how social media is fostering a new civil society in China.
24 min