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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Seeking the Endgame - Part One
Fri 10 Sep 2010
Self-confessed chess fanatic Simon Terrington assesses how computer technology has at...
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Assignment - Commonwealth Games
Thu 9 Sep 2010
There are frantic preparations underway in India's capital city, Delhi, for the Games...
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World Stories: Afghanistan's Dancing Boys
Wed 8 Sep 2010
In Afghanistan women are not allowed to dance in public, but boys can be made to dance...
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The Legal World - Part Two
Mon 6 Sep 2010
Incompetence and corruption in Uganda's justice system is leading to countless numbers...
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The Battle for Hearts and Lungs - Part Two
Fri 3 Sep 2010
Sue Armstrong looks at the Malawi's growing dependence on tobacco growing.
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Assignment - Happy Birthday Mr President
Thu 2 Sep 2010
President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia is one of West Africa's longest serving leaders.
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A Widow's Journey
Wed 1 Sep 2010
In 1989, Appapillai Amirthalingam - the most prominent political figure of the Tamil -...
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The Legal World - Part One
Tue 31 Aug 2010
It is claimed that thousands of people of Haitian descent are suffering systematic by...
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The Battle for Hearts and Lungs - Part One
Fri 27 Aug 2010
Sue Armstrong investigates the growing pressure on developing countries as tobacco for...
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Assignment - Cutting the Lifeline in Honduras
Thu 26 Aug 2010
Money sent home by migrant workers provides a lifeline for millions of the world's...
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World Stories: The Rollercoaster of Life in Kabul
Wed 25 Aug 2010
"Why doesn't grandad smile?" Meena Baktash takes a personal look at the Kabul of her...
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The Brotherhood - Part two
Mon 23 Aug 2010
Despite an official ban and regular crack downs the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has to...
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The Wireless World of Gerry Wells
Fri 20 Aug 2010
Guru, boffin, eccentric and genius, Gerry Wells is obsessed with radio - tinkering and...
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Assignment - On the Run in Sweden
Thu 19 Aug 2010
Sweden has garnered respect around the world for the welcome it offered to thousands...
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The Brotherhood - Part one
Mon 16 Aug 2010
"No taxi driver in Cairo knows how to find the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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The Muslim Superstar
Fri 13 Aug 2010
Singer Sami Yusuf is one of the biggest superstars in the Muslim world.
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Assignment - Proud to be Georgian
Thu 12 Aug 2010
How do you train someone to love their country? Two years ago Russia and Georgia a war...
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Useful Idiots - Part Two
Wed 11 Aug 2010
In this two part series, the BBC takes a look at the intellectuals - or Lenin's - who...
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The Mossad
Mon 9 Aug 2010
"They teach you how to steal and they teach you how to kill and they teach you to do...
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Korea's lost children
Fri 6 Aug 2010
Korea's overseas adoption programme began in the 1950s as the impoverished answer to...
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Assignment - Politics in Rwanda
Thu 5 Aug 2010
Days before Rwanda's presidential election, the government has issued a strongly any...
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Useful Idiots
Wed 4 Aug 2010
“That’s what my role was. I was taken around and shown things as a useful idiot.
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Shaking the World - Part Four
Mon 2 Aug 2010
"This culture inhibits the evolution of new ideas," says Professor Guosong Liu of the...
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Spanning the World - Part Four
Fri 30 Jul 2010
London Bridge has served as a crossing, a shopping district, a housing settlement and...
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Listening Post - Part Two
Wed 28 Jul 2010
The Listening Post is a new series that invites close, unhurried listening to the of...
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Shaking the World - Part Three
Mon 26 Jul 2010
China's social tensions may threaten the growth upon which much of the rest of the now...
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Spanning the World - Part Three
Fri 23 Jul 2010
What personal stories can a bridge reveal? When the he Oresund Bridge-Tunnel opened it...
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Assignment - Who Jails the Pirates?
Thu 22 Jul 2010
Why are so few captured pirates brought to trial? Each year hundreds of ships are by...
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Listening Post - Part One
Wed 21 Jul 2010
Mary Thida Lun works is a civil servant. She has had postings in Sudan and Iraq.
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Shaking the World - Part Two
Mon 19 Jul 2010
Part Two of this series looks outwards at the potentially world-shaking clash of China...
