BBC world programmes to record

15/08/2009 22:10:00

My Country: Afghanistan

25 Percent

This film focuses on female members of the Afghan parliament. Diana Saqeb follows six women as they try to balance their duties at home as wives and mothers, whilst attempting to fulfil their parliamentary responsibilities and assert their positions.

Dancing With The Devil In this weeks Our World Humphrey Hawksley retraces Graham Greene's journey across Liberia and Sierra Leone. Humphrey Hawksley retraces Graham Greene's journey across Liberia and Sierra Leone and finds that despite huge amounts of international aid the countries are still beset with a multitude of problems. He retraces the extraordinary journey undertaken on foot by the novelist from Sierra Leone across Liberia in 1935. How has West Africa changed? Is it better or worse than it was 70 years ago? From Wednesday 12th August on BBC World News, repeating at various times during the week.

BBC World News America is broadcast from the BBC's Washington DC bureau.

TB Vaccine Season 5 Episode 8

TB is a moving target. It’s a complex, mutating virus that is appearing in hundreds of different, drug-resistant strains. There are 16 different vaccines now undergoing trials – but how will we know which will quickly be made ineffective by TB’s extraordinary ability to change itself? After meeting a sufferer in London we journey to the TB frontline in South Africa.

• Air date 01 January 2007
• Produced for BBC World

BBC World commissioned a series entitled "Kill or Cure" through Rockhopper Productions in 2004.

12/08/2009 03:30:00

Kill Or Cure?

TB Vaccine

Kill or Cure? goes to the Gambia to investigate the latest vaccines being developed to fight TB - a complex disease which appears in many different drug-resistant strains.