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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Global Perspectives: Chatsworth - A Chance For Change
Sat 14 Apr 2012
'Sugars' addiction in the township of Chatsworth near Durban and the hallucinogenic to...
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Assignment - Forcible Sterilisation In Uzbekistan
Thu 12 Apr 2012
Natalia Antelava uncovers evidence that women are being sterilised, often without in...
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The School To Prison Pipeline
Tue 10 Apr 2012
Nina Robinson reports from Texas on how the heavy hand of the law in some US schools...
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Assignment - Forty Years In Solitary, Louisana Style
Thu 5 Apr 2012
Tim Franks looks at the case of two US inmates who have been held in solitary in for...
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Neon Cowboy
Sat 31 Mar 2012
Writer Bart Bull explores the extraordinary story of the Neon Cowboy at the Round Up...
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Canada's Prescripton Drug Crisis
Thu 29 Mar 2012
Assignment investigates prescription drug abuse among Canada's First Nation communities.
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The Pink Certificate
Tue 27 Mar 2012
Military service is mandatory for all Turkish men - they can only escape it if they or...
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The Secret Policemen
Sat 24 Mar 2012
Why secrecy for Catholic police officers in Northern Ireland can be the difference and...
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Assignment - Facing the Future in Greece
Thu 22 Mar 2012
What's it like to be a graduate in Greece contemplating the future? Chloe Hadjimatheou...
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Europe's Choice - Part Three
Tue 20 Mar 2012
Allan Little looks at key moments and issues that brought the European Union to the...
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Torture By Music
Sat 17 Mar 2012
British citizen, Ruhal Ahmed, spent two years in Guantanamo Bay. After his release he...
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Assignment - Syrian Stories
Thu 15 Mar 2012
Divided by conflict. The human stories behind Syria's uprising. Owen Bennett Jones for...
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Europe's Choice - Part Two
Mon 12 Mar 2012
Allan Little looks at key moments and issues that brought the European Union to the...
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Gaza - The World's Strangest Marathon
Thu 8 Mar 2012
Jon Donnison travels to Gaza for Assignment to witness the world's strangest marathon.
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Europe's Choice - Part One
Tue 6 Mar 2012
Allan Little looks at key moments and issues that brought the European Union to the...
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African Perspective - The Dream Home
Sat 3 Mar 2012
We meet an ordinary Kenyan woman who has done an extraordinary thing and opened her to...
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The War Over Syria
Sat 3 Mar 2012
Barbara Plett investigates how the conflict in Syria, and the future of the Assads,...
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Assignment - Favela Pacified
Thu 1 Mar 2012
The BBC's Nina Robinson reports for Assignment from one of Rio de Janeiro's biggest or...
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The Battle for Egypt
Tue 28 Feb 2012
A year after the fall of President Mubarak of Egypt, the army is still in charge of on...
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Life In Many Voices
Sat 25 Feb 2012
In the occupied Palestinian territories the rate of blindness is as high as ten times...
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Assignment - Bosnia's Heritage
Thu 23 Feb 2012
There's a crisis of culture in Bosnia Herzegovina. The guardians of the nation's - the...
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English In The East: Part Two
Tue 21 Feb 2012
English has been the dominant global language for a century, but is it the language of...
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A Family Business
Sat 18 Feb 2012
Mair Bosworth looks at conflict between generations in a small family business in London.
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Assignment - America's Poor
Thu 16 Feb 2012
The BBC's Hilary Anderson examines what it means to be poor, in the richest country in...
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English In The East: Part One
Tue 14 Feb 2012
English has been the dominant global language for a century, but is it the language of...
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The Bombardment of Homs
Sun 12 Feb 2012
The Syrian city of Homs has seen some of the worst violence in the government's and in...
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Lisdoonvarna – Ireland’s Love Capital
Sat 11 Feb 2012
Alison Finch meets one of Ireland's last traditional matchmakers as he reigns over the...
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Assignment - Equatorial Guinea
Thu 9 Feb 2012
Rob Walker investigates what’s happened to billions of dollars in oil revenues paid...
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Dickens And India - Mutual Friends
Tue 7 Feb 2012
To celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens' birth, Indian writer Ayeesha Menon...
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Dreaming Dickens: Feb 03 12
Fri 3 Feb 2012
In this documentary-fantasy we bring the danger back to Dickens. Slipping in and out...
