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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The Missing in Kashmir
Thu 1 Dec 2011
A dark secret lies beneath the earth in Indian Kashmir. Bodies - thousands of them.
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Out In The World: Part One
Tue 29 Nov 2011
Richard Coles confronts accusations that the West is attempting to force gay rights on...
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The Trouble With Condoms
Mon 28 Nov 2011
Around one million people around the world are infected with a sexually transmitted...
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A New Global Economics: Radical Economics - Part One
Sat 26 Nov 2011
Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with the system rather than a...
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Assignment - Roubles & Radicals in Dagestan
Thu 24 Nov 2011
A Dagestani billionaire, Suleiman Kerimov is bankrolling a football club and building...
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New Global Economics: The Shock & the Shift
Tue 22 Nov 2011
Martin Wolf, Chief Economic Commentator of The Financial Times, examines how the world...
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The Boy With The Violin
Fri 18 Nov 2011
The BBC's Priyath Liyanage searches for a boy who was carrying a violin case when he a...
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Upsetting The Apple Cart - The Genius of Steve Jobs
Thu 17 Nov 2011
Mark Gregory examines the legacy of Steve Jobs. How will he be compared to the great a...
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Assignment - India's Whistleblowers
Thu 17 Nov 2011
Rupa Jha reports for Assignment on India's whistleblowers - the people who find on the...
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A Short History Of Story: Part Two
Fri 11 Nov 2011
Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths...
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The Dark Side Of Diplomacy: Part Two
Tue 8 Nov 2011
Diplomacy is often presented as an artform, the peak of civilisation in a barren world...
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The state of Israel
Tue 8 Nov 2011
Tim Franks reports from Israel for Assignment on how the country now sees itself as in...
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A Short History Of Story: Part one
Sat 5 Nov 2011
Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths...
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Assignment: Spain's Stolen Babies
Thu 3 Nov 2011
Katya meets the heartbroken families in Spain searching for their children and the now...
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The Dark Side Of Diplomacy: Part One
Tue 1 Nov 2011
Diplomacy is often presented as an artform, the peak of civilisation in a barren world...
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After The Dictators
Sat 29 Oct 2011
As Libyans absorb the impact of the death of Gaddafi, Owen Bennett-Jones presents a...
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Musical Migrants: Zanzibar
Sat 29 Oct 2011
Meet Yusuf Mahmoud, who swapped Cheltenham for Zanzibar because of his love of African...
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One Day In Syria
Thu 27 Oct 2011
For Assignment, Bill Law paints a portrait of one day in the Syrian revolution, via to...
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The British Establishment: Who For? - Part Two
Tue 25 Oct 2011
Why does Britain's narrow and elite establishment keep stumbling from crisis to crisis?
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Musical Migrants: Nashville - Episode 2
Mon 24 Oct 2011
Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music.
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Musical Migrants: Milan - Episode 1
Fri 21 Oct 2011
Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music.
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Assignment Ivory Coast: A family divided
Thu 20 Oct 2011
Robyn Bresnahan reports on how politics is dividing families in Ivory Coast.
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The British Establishment: Who For? - Part One
Tue 18 Oct 2011
Michael Goldfarb looks at why Britain's narrow and elite establishment keeps stumbling...
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Lives In Landscape
Fri 14 Oct 2011
Alan Dein explores the impact of last summer's riots on a London man and his friends...
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Defining Hezbollah
Thu 13 Oct 2011
In Lebanon many people fear that another war between Hezbollah and Israel is just over...
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Controlling People: Part Three
Tue 11 Oct 2011
The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a...
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Down and Out in Paris and London
Fri 7 Oct 2011
Some 80 years after George Orwell chronicled the lives of the hard-up and destitute in...
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Fading Voices
Thu 6 Oct 2011
Facing old age presents its challenges where ever you come from. Nina Robinson travels...
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Controlling People: Part Two
Tue 4 Oct 2011
The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a...
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Listening Post - Episode Two
Fri 30 Sep 2011
A series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals.
