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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World debate: Re-engineering the future
Sat 27 Jun 2020
How can engineers re-imagine the everyday and make life safer across the globe?
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Kenya’s locust hunters
Thu 25 Jun 2020
As desert locusts swarm across East Africa, can Kenya’s locust hunters prevent a plague?
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New York Covid-19 diary
Tue 23 Jun 2020
Public health leader Dr Tom Frieden reflects on the global pandemic.
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Rethink: The edge of change
Mon 22 Jun 2020
How the coronavirus pandemic has created new opportunities to change our world
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Reporting Covid-19
Sun 21 Jun 2020
How local newspapers the Mumbai Mirror and the Courier Journal reported the pandemic
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Rethink: Class of Covid-19 - Should I go to university?
Sat 20 Jun 2020
With job cuts and falling salaries, does going to university still make financial sense?
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Coronavirus conversations: Another Beijing lockdown
Sat 20 Jun 2020
A new spike in China's capital, escaping a violent partner and reopening a business
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The 5G con that could make you sick
Thu 18 Jun 2020
Assignment investigates how bad science could be damaging people’s health
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My fake news whodunnit
Sun 14 Jun 2020
Who wrote a fake story that smeared a Senegalese politician in Michelle Madsen’s name?
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Coronavirus and Latin America
Sat 13 Jun 2020
The impact of Coronavirus on Latin America: how has it dealt with the pandemic?
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Conversations on race and change
Sat 13 Jun 2020
The debate surrounding the push for change by protests after the death of George Floyd
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The seafarers stranded on the high seas
Thu 11 Jun 2020
How thousands of seafarers are stuck working on vessels and unable to go home
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Lockdown: Tales from Panama and Brazil
Tue 9 Jun 2020
People across the world broadcast their experience of the coronavirus pandemic
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Killer Mike - The rapper turned speech maker
Sun 7 Jun 2020
Rapper Killer Mike made a plea for calm after George Floyd’s death
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In my present isolation
Sat 6 Jun 2020
Six authors on different continents convey their thoughts during their present isolation
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Conversations about race in America
Sat 6 Jun 2020
Powerful conversations about race and racism in America
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America beyond black and white
Sat 6 Jun 2020
How can America move beyond its history of racial discrimination?
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The Chechen blogger on the run
Thu 4 Jun 2020
Who is behind the wave of assassinations and attacks on Chechen asylum seekers in Europe?
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Abortion under lockdown
Tue 2 Jun 2020
What happened in Texas when coronavirus closed the abortion clinics?
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The Covid generation
Sun 31 May 2020
How the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the job prospects of the class of 2020
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Coronavirus Global Conversations: Life in lockdown with autism
Sun 31 May 2020
Parents of children with autism, Brazilian doctors and US obituary editors
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The Miracle of Istanbul
Sat 30 May 2020
Jerzy Dudek relives his star role in Liverpool's extraordinary 2005 Champions League win
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Don't log off - part eight
Sat 30 May 2020
Alan Dein connects with people experiencing sleepless nights during the pandemic
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Belarus: Masking the virus
Thu 28 May 2020
Carry on regardless says Belarus’s president in the face of the coronavirus pandemic
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The Death Row book club
Tue 26 May 2020
An inmate’s first-hand account of creating a book club on Death Row
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Coronavirus Global Conversations: Giving birth during a pandemic
Sun 24 May 2020
New mums, being pregnant in prison and Covid-19 survivors
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Recycling Chile, recycling Spain
Sat 23 May 2020
Why is Spain rubbish at recycling and Chile so much better? Leena Vuotovesi finds out
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Don't log off - part seven
Sat 23 May 2020
Alan Dein connects with individuals whose lives have shifted in the coronavirus pandemic.
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New York stories with Joe Pascal
Sat 23 May 2020
Homage to Harlem with poetry, music and the story of chef and resident Marcus Samuelsson
