The Documentary Podcast Podcast
Hear the voices at the heart of global stories. Where curious minds can uncover hidden truths and make sense of the world. Documentary storytelling from the BBC World Service.
Hear the voices at the heart of global stories. Where curious minds can uncover hidden truths and make sense of the world. The best of documentary storytelling from the BBC World Service.
From conflict in the Middle East to the advance of AI, to the front line of the climate emergency, we go beyond the headlines. Each week we dive into the minds of the world’s most creative people, take personal journeys into spirituality and connect people from across the globe to share how news stories are shaping their lives.
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Tunisia’s Harlem Shake
Thu 21 Mar 2013
How an internet dance craze has become a sometimes violent battleground between and in...
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What If... The Best Education
Tue 19 Mar 2013
Will a sophisticated revolution in online teaching - from the best universities on the...
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What if... The Next Tech Billionaires
Sat 16 Mar 2013
People with ideas flock to Silicon Valley, where innovation and invention are and are...
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Nepal: Getting Away With Murder
Thu 14 Mar 2013
The families of those who disappeared during Nepal’s civil war demand answers and...
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After Saddam
Tue 12 Mar 2013
Hugh Sykes visits the Marsh Arabs and Basra, occupied by British forces for six years.
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Red Dirt Dreaming - Part Two
Sat 9 Mar 2013
Neil Trevithick and Kirsti Melville drive south from the Kimberley into the area of 50...
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What If... We Could Shape our Lives
Sat 9 Mar 2013
As the future world faces huge changes in everything from family size to opportunities...
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What If... Women Ruled the World?
Fri 8 Mar 2013
Dee Dee Myers, former White House Press Secretary to Bill Clinton, looks at the US –...
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Escape from Sinai
Thu 7 Mar 2013
Every year thousands of young men and women make the treacherous journey from Eritrea...
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After Saddam - Part 1
Tue 5 Mar 2013
How have Iraqis' lives changed in the 10 years since an invasion toppled Saddam Hugh...
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In My Mother's Image
Sun 3 Mar 2013
The story of a photograph, a mother who died young and the desire to honour those and...
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Red Dirt Dreaming - Part One
Sat 2 Mar 2013
Neil Trevithick and Kirsti Melville journey across Western Australia to a pristine of...
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The Struggle for Land on Kenya’s Coast
Thu 28 Feb 2013
A separatist group on Kenya’s coast is calling on voters there to boycott the...
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The Drowning City
Tue 26 Feb 2013
How Hurricane Sandy prompted New York and other coastal cities to face the reality of...
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Rosa Parks - Quiet Revolutionary
Sat 23 Feb 2013
February marks the centenary of the birth of Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her...
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Italian Connection
Thu 21 Feb 2013
The family may be central to Italian business life, but many economists believe that...
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When Assisted Death is Legal - Part Two
Wed 20 Feb 2013
How does it feel to be part of ending someone's life? Liz Carr talks to the doctors to...
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When Assisted Death is Legal - Part One
Tue 19 Feb 2013
It is possible to balance the right of the individual who wants to die with the of to...
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Girls' Night Out
Mon 18 Feb 2013
How do men treat women when they are out for a night? Five young women compare in Rio,...
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What If We Fall In Love In The Future
Sat 16 Feb 2013
Nine short stories from around the world, looking at who we fall in love with, the way...
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The Next Pope
Fri 15 Feb 2013
What kind of Pope does the Catholic Church need? A conservative or a reformer? Dan and...
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Murder in Corsica
Thu 14 Feb 2013
Tom Esslemont investigates why assassinations are happening in Corsica and why so few...
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The Silent Epidemic
Tue 12 Feb 2013
Drowning is the cause of a quarter of a million child fatalities every year.
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Hillary Clinton's Journey
Sat 9 Feb 2013
Kim Ghattas analyses Hillary Clinton’s record as America’s chief diplomat and an...
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India's Uterus Scam
Thu 7 Feb 2013
Jill McGivering investigates health clinics in rural India where thousands of private...
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Phelophepa
Tue 5 Feb 2013
A mobile health clinic called Phelophepa (meaning good, clean health) is a permanently...
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What If Chicken Conquers the World?
Sat 2 Feb 2013
Could test tube or laboratory-reared chicken ever replace meat from birds? And how to...
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Roma Children in Care
Thu 31 Jan 2013
Why are so many children from Europe’s biggest ethnic minority – the Roma – into...
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The Path to English
Tue 29 Jan 2013
Meet the people learning English from scratch in the UK. Many of them are immigrants...
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What If... Chicken Conquers the World?
Sun 27 Jan 2013
Chicken farming dates back 10,000 years and produces 50 billion chickens to eat each year.
