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.
Episodes to download
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Policing the Poppy Fields Part Two
Fri 11 Jul 2008
In the second part of this series, Kate Clark reports from those provinces where an is...
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Congo's Contract of the Century
Thu 10 Jul 2008
In a multi billion dollar deal China has promised to rebuild DR Congo's crumbling in a...
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Countdown to the Olympics Part Two
Wed 9 Jul 2008
China says hosting the Olympics has accelerated national reforms, technological and...
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Policing the Poppy Fields Part One
Mon 7 Jul 2008
Kate Clark gains rare access to the fight against the Afghan opium trade and asks how...
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Health for All
Fri 4 Jul 2008
Campaigners for improving maternal health have been lobbying the G8 to get the topic...
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Countdown to the Olympics Part One
Wed 2 Jul 2008
As the world counts down to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Gerry Northam investigates...
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Health for All
Fri 27 Jun 2008
Is health for all a fact or just fiction? Helen Sharp asks if the world has the will,...
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Race and Reconciliation Part Three
Fri 27 Jun 2008
In the third part of this series, Audrey Brown travels to Atteridgeville, a township...
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Burma Reporting the Cyclone: Assignment
Thu 26 Jun 2008
This week's Assignment tells the story of the Burmese cyclone through the eyes and of...
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Race and Reconciliation Part Two
Mon 23 Jun 2008
In the second part of this series, Audrey Brown travels to South Africa to explore how...
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Feeding the Spirit of New Orleans
Fri 20 Jun 2008
Sheila Dillon reports on the work of restaurateurs, farmers, fishermen and activists a...
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The Baseball Factory
Thu 19 Jun 2008
Baseball may be the United States' national sport - but this year, 2008, almost half -...
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Age of Terror Part 3
Wed 18 Jun 2008
In the third part of this series, Peter Taylor investigates The Paris Plot, the of a a...
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Race and Reconciliation Part One
Fri 13 Jun 2008
Fourteen years after liberation and 60 years since the beginning of what was then and...
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Rome's New Wolf Assignment
Thu 12 Jun 2008
The new mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno was once a so-called neo-fascist - a supporter...
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Bomb Hunters
Thu 12 Jun 2008
More than 30 years after the end of the Vietnam War, Bomb Hunters, tells the stories a...
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Age of Terror part 2
Wed 11 Jun 2008
In the second part of this series, Peter Taylor investigates how two events in 1987 to...
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Leila's Story
Fri 6 Jun 2008
The powerful story of a young Iranian woman called Leila, sold into prostitution at of...
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Argentina; Dancing To The Music Of The Mind
Thu 5 Jun 2008
Argentinian film director, writer and tango enthusiast, Edgardo Cozarinsky, talks to a...
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Kidnapped - part two
Fri 30 May 2008
Dr Thomas Hargrove, an American scientist kidnapped by FARC, is reunited with the who...
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Taxi to the Dark Side
Fri 30 May 2008
In Taxi To The Dark Side, American film-maker Alex Gibney reports on the use of by in...
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Assignment
Thu 29 May 2008
Lucy Ash finds out if new trade deals and diplomatic dialogue with Libya can encourage...
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What Next For Kenya? - Part Two
Tue 27 May 2008
In this two-part series, former BBC East Africa Correspondent Mike Wooldridge travels...
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Failure at the Central Bank
Fri 23 May 2008
For the last six decades, central bankers have run the international financial system...
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Kidnapped: Part One
Fri 23 May 2008
Presenter Ritula Shah reunites former hostage Norman Kember - kidnapped in Iraq - with...
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Assignment
Thu 22 May 2008
The Commodities Bubble: Michael Robinson investigates and reveals how the commodities...
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What Next For Kenya? - Part One
Tue 20 May 2008
In this two-part series, former BBC East Africa Correspondent Mike Wooldridge travels...
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How Crime Took on the World
Fri 16 May 2008
Cyber-crime is the fastest-growing sector of global-organised crime, worth about a...
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Escape from Time
Thu 15 May 2008
Who wouldn't like to escape the relentless march of time? Find out about the routes to...
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Assignment - Beyond Mark Weil
Thu 15 May 2008
Last September, Mark Weil, the radical theatre director of the Ilkhom theatre in was a...
