Assignment Episodes Episode guide
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21/01/2025 GMT
Investigations and journeys into the heart of global events from Â鶹ԼÅÄ correspondents.
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14/01/2025 GMT
Investigations and journeys into the heart of global events from Â鶹ԼÅÄ correspondents.
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Assignment
Investigations and journeys into the heart of global events from Â鶹ԼÅÄ correspondents.
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The human cost of developing Cambodia's Angkor wonder
Changing the temple complex of Cambodia's '8th wonder of the world'
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Assignment
Investigations and journeys into the heart of global events from Â鶹ԼÅÄ correspondents.
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Argentina - Milei's Chainsaw
President Milei promised to hack Argentina's state and budget, what's the impact?
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Mining the Pacific: Future proofing or fool’s gold?
The Cook Islands and the plan to harvest the bottom of the sea
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France: Trouble on the vine
Low harvests, economic and climate batterings, changing tastes. Is French wine in crisis?
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Afghanistan: Our whole life is a secret
One young woman's story from Taliban controlled Afghanistan
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Plastic recycling’s dirty secrets
Malaysia; the global hub for recycling plastic waste
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Denmark’s weight loss boom town
Assignment visits the small Danish manufacturing town making the weight loss drug Wegovy
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Choosing race
Stories of people fighting to claim their racial identity, and those looking to police it
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Singing in Gaza
Why children in Gaza are learning music, despite the war
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Singapore: Drugs, rehab, execution, part 2
Singapore’s use of the death penalty for drug trafficking offences
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Singapore: Drugs, rehab, execution, part 1
Inside Singapore’s compulsory Drug Rehabilitation Centre
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Panama’s water fights
Panama’s fight for water in one of the world’s wettest countries
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Reproductive rights: A divided flock
How the debate over abortion and IVF has divided evangelical Christians in the US
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Ageing without a safety net in Malaysia
How Malaysia failed to plan for its fast-growing elderly population
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Ivory Coast's cocoa crisis
The journey from cocoa to chocolate in Ivory Coast
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The 'ghost city' of Cyprus
The beach resort frozen in time by 50 years of conflict, and the struggle over its future
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The struggle for Jerusalem’s Old City
Why Armenians in Jerusalem say they are fighting an existential battle
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Ukraine: On the front line
Drone technology is transforming the battlefield in Ukraine
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Rejecting Public Education in Arizona
‘School choice’: Why are parents opting out of public education for their children?
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The Italian town where praying is a political issue
Monfalcone’s mayor has effectively tried to ban collective Muslim prayer in her town
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A slogan and a land: Part two
Tim Whewell completes a trip across the West Bank and Israel, reaching the Mediterranean
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A slogan and a land: Part one
A journey through the contested land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea
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The child rescue con
Exposed: the charity which claims to save children from trafficking and abuse
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Cry witch: Take my land, take my life
Why one elderly person is killed every week in eastern Kenya - in the name of witchcraft
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Loving, living and dying together in the Netherlands
The story of Jan and Els who opted for euthanasia, and died together in the Netherlands
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Germany’s AI detectives
How German podcasters tracked down a terrorist suspect with an AI facial recognition tool