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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Riding the Motel 22: Homeless in California
Thu 20 Feb 2020
California’s homeless take a ride on the ‘Motel 22’
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Don't log off: Part one
Wed 19 Feb 2020
Using social media, Alan Dein connects with strangers across the world seeking fulfilment
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Crossing Divides: The exchange
Tue 18 Feb 2020
Cattle farmers from the USA and South Africa share perspectives
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Gospel meets hip-hop
Sun 16 Feb 2020
Award-winning UK rapper Guvna B explores the ‘gospel hip-hop’ music genre
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Reinventing Miss America
Sat 15 Feb 2020
How can beauty pageants adapt in the wake of the #MeToo movement?
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El Salvador: the story of Karla Turcios
Thu 13 Feb 2020
A woman is murdered in El Salvador every 3 days. Karla Turcios was one of them
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Life on the line
Sun 9 Feb 2020
What is life like for the billions of people who live along earthquake fault lines?
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Tony's Freehold Grill: Politics on the side
Sat 8 Feb 2020
The 2020 US Presidential campaign as it unfolds over the countertop of a New Jersey diner
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Panic in Bulgaria
Thu 6 Feb 2020
“They’re coming for our children”: How fear of social workers has gripped Bulgaria
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Vanuatu’s stolen generation
Wed 5 Feb 2020
Thousands of boys and young men were kidnapped and taken to work on sugar plantations
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Polygamous marriage in modern Malaysia
Tue 4 Feb 2020
All sorts of Muslims, some very dynamic and modern, are embracing polygamy in Malaysia
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Colombia’s new cocaine war
Thu 30 Jan 2020
Michael Buchanan gets rare access to Colombia’s cocaine producers and smugglers
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Survival and revival in the Torres Strait
Wed 29 Jan 2020
The islanders fighting to save their home and their language
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South Korea’s hope in hell
Tue 28 Jan 2020
The personal stories of students and young people struggling with the pressure to succeed
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The remarkable resistance of Lilo
Sun 26 Jan 2020
Lilo and Erich Gloeden hid Jews from the Nazis in wartime Berlin
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Finland's race to go carbon neutral
Thu 23 Jan 2020
The Finnish fisherman who believes he has a solution to climate change
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Greenland: Why music matters
Sun 19 Jan 2020
Kate Molleson explores music’s place on the world’s largest island
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Ayahuasca: Fear and healing in the Amazon
Thu 16 Jan 2020
Psychedelic plants, the spiritual tourism backlash - and sexual abuse
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Germany: Justice and memory
Sun 12 Jan 2020
How has Germany tried to come to terms with the legacy of its Nazi past?
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Belarus: The wild world of Chernobyl
Thu 9 Jan 2020
'We lived with wolves' says 90-year-old Galina - a witness to life before Chernobyl
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The world turned upside down
Fri 3 Jan 2020
What will the end of the world’s dependence on oil mean for geopolitics?
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Disappeared in Thailand
Thu 2 Jan 2020
A grisly discovery in a murder investigation in Thailand may lead to significant change
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Hey Sisters, Sew Sisters
Tue 31 Dec 2019
The seamstresses who sewed soft goods components for space craft and space suits
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Time has chosen us
Sun 29 Dec 2019
The Soviet War in Afghanistan told through its teenage soldiers and their music
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Iceland: The great thaw
Boxing Day 2019
Iceland's glaciers are melting and scientists predict they could be gone in 200 years.
