It's always worth having a dig around on the BBC World Service site. There are some excellent documentaries there, and they tend not to expire. So I can just point to their MP3 here. This is a show from August 2008 about Medina Wasl - a large scale recreation of a set of Middle Eastern villages, built by the US military in California, for practising fighting and peace-keeping amongst civilian populations.
You can't beat a radio programme about a legendary chinook helicopter. Not all chinook's, a specific one - Bravo November. The jargon, the bravery, the incident, the relationships makes for great, dramatic documentary, but it was the sound that really made me love this programme; the bleeps, the sirens, the engines. Even the chinook's nickname - wokka - is a great sound. You couldn't do this with any other medium. MP3 here.
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