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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The Buffalo shooting
Sat 21 May 2022
Residents and hosts on US black-owned radio stations reflect on a mass shooting
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Don't log off: Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Wed 18 May 2022
Alan Dein talks to Anna, Verena and Roman and hears how their lives have been blown away
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Escape from the Taliban
Tue 17 May 2022
Sana Safi follows the stories of Afghan women judges trying to escape the Taliban.
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Cambodia: Returning the gods
Thu 12 May 2022
Cambodia wants its gods - stolen statues - returned from western museums and collectors
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Don't log off: Daria, love and war
Wed 11 May 2022
Daria in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, talks to Alan Dein about unexpectedly finding love at war
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Grenada: Confronting the past
Tue 10 May 2022
Laura Trevelyan discovers her family’s connection to the slave trade in Grenada
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Ukraine mine clearance
Sat 7 May 2022
Three Ukrainian women go to Kosovo to learn how to defuse bombs and help their country
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Mexico: The Yaqui fight back
Thu 5 May 2022
Resistance and division among Mexico’s indigenous Yaqui people
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The Grand Egyptian Museum
Tue 3 May 2022
Jonathan Glancey travels to Cairo to report on a truly remarkable construction project
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Ukrainian students
Sat 30 Apr 2022
What are the challenges of continuing your education during a war?
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War on Truth: Ukraine
Sat 30 Apr 2022
What is fake, what is real? Stories from the information war over Ukraine.
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Zelensky: The making of a president
Sat 30 Apr 2022
From political novice to Ukraine’s wartime leader - a profile of President Zelensky
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Hidden Sport: Korfball
Sat 30 Apr 2022
The fast-paced sport of korfball, which claims to be a fully gender-equal team sport
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The accordion wars of Lesotho
Thu 28 Apr 2022
Why has accordion music led to the killing of so many in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho?
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Shifting Cultures: From paddock to plate
Tue 26 Apr 2022
The sisters embracing the environment, and sustainability into Australia's cattle farming
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Ukrainian journalists
Sat 23 Apr 2022
We hear the experiences of three Ukrainian journalists who have been reporting on the war
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Ingenious II
Sat 23 Apr 2022
Delve into the weird and wonderful world of your genes with Dr Kat Arney
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Hidden Sport: Dambe boxing
Sat 23 Apr 2022
Why a centuries-old combat sport means so much to Nigeria's Hausa community
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Myanmar: Fighting the might of the junta
Thu 21 Apr 2022
A mother and a student have sacrificed everything to join a fight for Myanmar's future
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Saving our species
Tue 19 Apr 2022
Could paying farmers to conserve nature help save Australia’s unique wildlife?
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Saving Ukraine's children
Sat 16 Apr 2022
We hear from people in Ukraine working to evacuate orphaned children from conflict zones
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Who killed my grandfather?
Sat 16 Apr 2022
The unsolved murder of Yemen’s former foreign minister, Mohamed Noman, in 1974
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Russia's unwelcome new exiles
Thu 14 Apr 2022
Thousands of Russians fled to Georgia following the invasion of Ukraine
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Healing with fire on koala country
Tue 12 Apr 2022
In the land of the Yuin people, cultural burning is being reintroduced to revitalise land
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Helping Ukrainians
Sat 9 Apr 2022
We hear from people who have given up their time to help Ukrainian refugees
