BBC World Service - The Documentary

The Mysteries of the Brain

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?

3/5 A controversial practise in Afghanistan's heartland.

2/2 The lawyers trying to get justice and freedom amidst the chaos of Uganda's legal system

2/2 Are tobacco manufacturers taking advantage of lax regulation in developing countries?

2/5 In 1989 Tamil leader Appapillai Amirthalingam was killed in Sri Lanka. His wife and son...

1/2 An insider's view of legal battles being fought around the world