Saving the rainforest

Can the rainforest really be saved by forgiving debts?

BBC's Will Grant reports from Costa Rica on such an ambitious scheme and explores how effective these schemes are.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/one_planet.shtml

Story of a 'Mouse'

Charles Thacker was a scientist in the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre (known as Xerox PARC) in the 1970s and his group was one of the first to adopt the mouse technology.

To find out more about how it has developed over the years and what the future holds for us, visit

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/digital_planet.shtml

Sporting Scandals

All good sport needs drama, but there have been dramatic events over the years which sport could do without.

Stories of scandal, corruption and villains have brought sporting heroes to their knees.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/documentary_archive/6227573.stm

For Richer For Poorer

It seems that inequality is greater now than it has been since the 1920s. There is a New Guilded Age of the rich in ever bigger mansions and the poor looking in through the gates.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/documentary_archive/6656923.stm

Coming Out

Homosexuality is one of the world's biggest taboos.

It has led to riots in Russia, huge splits in the Anglican Church, and was a large factor in the re-election of President Bush. Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe famously proclaimed that homosexuals were "worse than pigs and dogs."

Now in the first of two programmes, Clare English explores what it is like to be gay and asks why some societies are more tolerant than others.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/documentary_archive/6246332.stm

Press For Freedom

Roy Greenslade presents this four-part documentary series on the freedom of the press.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2007/12/071204_press_for_freedom_one.shtml