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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Taxing Questions (part four)
Wed 21 Nov 2007
The final part of a four part series in which Maurice Walsh discovers why and the have...
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Taxing Questions (part three)
Tue 20 Nov 2007
In the third of a four part series Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the...
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Can America Go Green? - Programme 3
Mon 19 Nov 2007
The BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its...
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Jihad and the Petrodollar - part 1
Fri 16 Nov 2007
Has Saudi Arabia fanned the flames of Muslim militancy by exporting its own form of to...
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Taxing Questions (programme two)
Fri 16 Nov 2007
In the second of a four part series Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the...
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Assignment - The neglected thalidomiders
Thu 15 Nov 2007
Fifty years ago, the drug thalidomide was introduced as a treatment for pregnancy...
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Can America Go Green? - Programme 2
Mon 12 Nov 2007
The BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its...
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Taxing Questions (programme one)
Mon 12 Nov 2007
The first part of a four part series in which Maurice Walsh discovers why and the have...
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In Search of a New Kyoto
Fri 9 Nov 2007
In a special BBC WS One Planet debate, we bring together four people at the heart of...
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Inside the Climate Change Talks (part 3)
Wed 7 Nov 2007
The final part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex web...
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Inside the Climate Change Talks (part 2)
Mon 5 Nov 2007
The second part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex web...
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Can America Go Green? - Programme 1
Mon 5 Nov 2007
The BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its...
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Inside the Climate Change Talks (part 1)
Mon 5 Nov 2007
The first part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex web...
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Assignment - Sexual violence in South Africa
Thu 1 Nov 2007
South Africa has one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world.
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Wole Soyinka Returns to Biafra Part Two
Wed 31 Oct 2007
In this part, Wole Soyinka travels back on a route he first took in 1967 at the of the...
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Benazir Bhutto - The Investigation
Mon 29 Oct 2007
In Pakistan President Musharraf and the former Pakistani prime minister, Benazir did a...
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Benazir Bhutto - The Investigation
Mon 29 Oct 2007
We investigate the substance of the allegations against Benazir Bhutto and ask whether...
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Wole Soyinka Returns to Biafra
Wed 24 Oct 2007
Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning author, Wole Sayinka travels back to Biafra and comes to...
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Tales from the Commonwealth
Fri 19 Oct 2007
Robin White finds out about the disappearing Kweyol culture in St Lucia.
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Tales from the Commonwealth
Fri 19 Oct 2007
Robin White visits Maputo the capital city of Mozambique. After sixteen years of civil...
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Tales from the Commonwealth 4
Fri 19 Oct 2007
In the final part of this series Robin White visits Georgetown the capital of Guyana...
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China's Long Arm 4
Thu 18 Oct 2007
China has turned its attention to the US in its search for natural resources, even the...
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China's Long Arm 3
Wed 17 Oct 2007
Lucy Ash assesses the wider impact of China's insatiable appetite for natural and on...
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China's Long Arm 2
Tue 16 Oct 2007
Maurice Walsh considers whether China might use its growing military power to reclaim...
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China's Long Arm 1
Mon 15 Oct 2007
Maurice Walsh examines whether US government concerns about rising defence spending in...
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Tales from the Commonwealth 1
Fri 12 Oct 2007
Local broadcaster Eunis Taumomoa guides us through Papua New Guinea, a country that...
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Assignment - Afghanistan's war crimes
Thu 11 Oct 2007
Afghanistan's recent history has been a long list of human rights abuses and war - yet...
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Stem Cell Bazaar - Part 2
Wed 10 Oct 2007
Meet the doctors who are trying to introduce regulation of stem cell therapies in so...
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The Land of the Mobile Millionaires
Mon 8 Oct 2007
Matthew Sweet presents the extraordinary story of Finland's Nokia Millionaires, and a...
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Life After Vietnam
Fri 5 Oct 2007
Lance Corporal Baronowski's personal recordings, made in Vietnam shortly before he was...
