The Documentary Episodes Episode guide
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China’s global spending spree
Celia Hatton reveals the breathtaking scale of China’s state-backed overseas spending
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The great hunger: Stalin's famine in Kazakhstan
The Kazakhs who came through one of the worst man-made famines the world has seen
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Striking gas in Bolivia
A huge gas find reignites old debates over Bolivia’s energy and environmental future
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In the shadow of the railway
Will the US-led Lobito Corridor project deliver a brighter future for Angola?
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The last cowboys
A long-haul view of the life of modern truckers in Europe
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A people’s history of Gaza
An oral history of Gaza
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G-land: Surf and spirits
G-land where spiritual beliefs protect waves and jungle of myth and legend
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Brazil's Miracle: An indigenous disaster
Do Indigenous people in Brazil still suffer the impacts of the military dictatorship?
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Fighting on two fronts
Meet the Ukrainian polar scientists who lead extraordinary dual lives
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Global dancefloor: Saigon
What does Vietnamese alternative culture looks and sounds like today?
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Powering Nigeria
Can Nigeria solve its electricity crisis and power a more reliable future?
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Gaza Conflict: Two years on
A special episode to reflect on the war in Gaza and the future of the Middle East
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Kharkiv: Love in a War Zone
Why one woman chose to live under fire in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv for love.
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Digital Dolittles: Talking to the animals?
Could new technologies help us to communicate with some animals?
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The second map: The battered suitcase
Key moments in the attack on Pearl Harbour and atomic bombing of Japan in World War Two
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The social lives of bacteria
The microscopic dramas of bacterial loners, crowd-lovers, backstabbers and do-gooders
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The second map
Key moments in the attack on Pearl Harbour and atomic bombing of Japan in World War Two
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Tequila with the bat man
One conservationist's mission to protect bats and Mexico’s iconic tequila and mezcal
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Xi, Kim and Putin: A new world alliance?
Celia Hatton explores the unprecedented show of unity from China, North Korea and Russia
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The second map
Key moments in the attack on Pearl Harbour and atomic bombing of Japan in World War Two
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Germany's timber detectives
A group of German scientists tackling illegal deforestation
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Paul McCartney: Beatles and beyond
The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs celebrates the life and legacy of Sir Paul McCartney
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The second map
Key moments in the attack on Pearl Harbour and atomic bombing of Japan in World War Two
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The second map
Key moments in the attack on Pearl Harbour and atomic bombing of Japan in World War Two
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White coats v the White House
How cuts, reorganisations and political strong-arming of US science may affect us all
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Ghost cities FC
The story of two refugee football clubs who once played in the same Soviet league.
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Birding the gender gap
How studying female birds is reshaping our understanding of nature
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The Engineers: Exploring the human
'Psychic' communication, blood-bubble drug delivery and ingestible electronics
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New Zealand: Heading across the ditch
What will New Zealand's rapidly changing demographics mean for the country's future?
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Controlling nature's data
Could AI cure cancer using nature's DNA? A London tech firm creates a genome database.