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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Training to save the treasures of Iraq
Sun 23 Jun 2019
Eight female archaeologists from Mosul travel to London to train with the British Museum
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Dying from mistrust in Ukraine
Thu 20 Jun 2019
How mistrust of vaccine has brought a forgotten disease back to Europe
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Vaccination: The global picture
Wed 19 Jun 2019
Why do people hesitate over vaccinations around the world?
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Destination education
Tue 18 Jun 2019
Liyang Liu talks to Chinese school students studying in the UK
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Remembering Afghanistan's Elvis
Sun 16 Jun 2019
Ahmad Zahir died in 1979 yet his music still unites generations of Afghans
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Ticket to a new life
Sun 9 Jun 2019
Many Pacific Islanders enter New Zealand’s visa lottery. What happens to the winners?
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Praying for petrol
Sat 8 Jun 2019
How Mexico’s illegal petrol trade is creating a new culture through film, song and prayer
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Turkey’s political football
Thu 6 Jun 2019
How has rivalry on the football field reflected the political divisions in Turkey?
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Don't hide my son
Tue 4 Jun 2019
The Tanzanian mothers forced to hide their children with Down syndrome due to stigma
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Sudan’s white-coated uprising
Thu 30 May 2019
Sudan’s doctors on the frontline. The white-coated men and women who defied a president
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After the boats
Wed 29 May 2019
What happened to the Nigerian women trafficked to Europe during the migrant crisis?
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Beyond Borders: Seeking safety in Sweden and Germany
Sun 26 May 2019
The stories of six Syrian refugees across the world, followed over five years
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Amar: Alone in the world
Sat 25 May 2019
Amar was orphaned in an Iraqi bombing so who is the woman claiming he is her son?
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The undercover migrant
Thu 23 May 2019
The extraordinary story of a young man from Ghana going undercover on the migrant trail
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Beyond Borders: Seeking safety in Canada and Lebanon
Sun 19 May 2019
How Syrian refugees have found new lives in Canada and Lebanon
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Me, the refugee
Sun 19 May 2019
The story of a 12-year-old girl seeking asylum in a strange county – told from the inside
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Bolivia’s Mennonites, Justice and Renewal
Thu 16 May 2019
In 2009, Mennonite women in a far-flung Bolivian colony reported mass rape.
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Slavery's untold story
Tue 14 May 2019
Tayo Popoola discovers the story of the slaves owned by the Cherokee Indian tribe
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Left behind
Sun 12 May 2019
Migrants make headlines all the time, but what about those they leave behind?
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Guyana - bracing for the oil boom
Wed 8 May 2019
South America’s second poorest nation is about to get very rich
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The populist curtain: Austria and Italy
Wed 8 May 2019
The coalition of centre-right and far-right parties that are running Austria and Italy
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When the things start to talk
Tue 7 May 2019
An internet of things insider reflects on the implications of ‘things’ that talk
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The crossing
Thu 2 May 2019
The British gangs making big money smuggling migrants across the English Channel.
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The populist curtain: Poland and Hungary
Wed 1 May 2019
The populists governing European nations along the former Iron Curtain’s route
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Dark fibres and the frozen north
Tue 30 Apr 2019
If data is the new oil, are data centres the new oil rigs?
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Flat 113 at Grenfell Tower
Sun 28 Apr 2019
What went wrong in flat 113 at Grenfell Tower? Katie Razzell pieces together the evidence
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Bangladesh versus Yaba
Thu 25 Apr 2019
Thousands of Bangladeshi addicts are hooked on Yaba, a methamphetamine and caffeine mix
