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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My Africa - Rwanda
Tue 17 Feb 2015
As part of the BBC's Richer World season, Alan Kasujja travels to three countries in a...
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The Palace of Shame
Mon 16 Feb 2015
The imperial summer palace in Beijing was looted and destroyed by French and British...
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Ukraine: The Untold Story of the Maidan Killings
Thu 12 Feb 2015
One year on from the massacre in Kiev’s Maidan square, when more than fifty...
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Digitising Stalin
Wed 11 Feb 2015
For Stalin, privacy was key. So how would he feel about his secrets being revealed? to...
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Egypt - Searching for Justice
Wed 11 Feb 2015
Claire Read has spent the last six months following a court case in Egypt and trying...
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My Africa - Uganda
Tue 10 Feb 2015
My Africa offers a series of inspiring snapshots of a continent working towards future...
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Heaven and Earth: Le Ly Hayslip
Wed 4 Feb 2015
A Vietnamese woman's perspective of the Vietnam War. Her memoirs have inspired film an...
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Tata: India's Global Giant
Tue 3 Feb 2015
Tata is the biggest industrial employer in the UK, owning Jaguar, Land Rover & Tetley.
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The Mengele Twins
Sat 31 Jan 2015
The testimonies of twins who survived the brutal medical experiments of Dr Josef the...
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French, Republican and Muslim, Insha'Allah
Thu 29 Jan 2015
In the wake of the recent attacks in Paris, do France’s Muslims feel there’s a for...
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August Shines
Wed 28 Jan 2015
British actor Lenny Henry traces the life and works of August Wilson, the great black...
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Love Your Wife Day
Tue 27 Jan 2015
Even by the sometimes-bizarre standards of modern Japanese culture, the annual is one...
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Govindpuri Sound
Sun 25 Jan 2015
Slum settlements have a strong visual identity. We are used to seeing TV footage of of...
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The Lives and Deaths of Naftali and Mohammed
Fri 23 Jan 2015
Last summer the deaths of four innocent teenagers in Israel, three Jewish and one to...
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Germany, Islam and the new Right
Thu 22 Jan 2015
Germany's nascent anti-Islamisation movement, Pegida, is attracting a new middle aged...
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The Best Nightclub in Africa
Wed 21 Jan 2015
World renowned DJ and BBC 1Xtra presenter DJ Edu is on a journey to find the best in...
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Your Rubbish, Our Hope
Wed 21 Jan 2015
For decades rubbish pickers crawled their way over the biggest rubbish dump in South...
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Remembering Rio
Tue 20 Jan 2015
Machado de Assis was born in 1839 of mixed race, an epileptic with little formal...
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Greece - The Rubber Glove Rebellion
Thu 15 Jan 2015
The protest by cleaners, laid off from tax offices and the Greek Finance Ministry, has...
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Olive Wars
Wed 14 Jan 2015
The olive harvest in the West Bank is all about tradition. The first rains of the the...
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India's Beats: The Hungry Generation
Tue 13 Jan 2015
Allen Ginsberg arrived in early 1960s Calcutta to discover a collective of angry young...
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Three Pounds in my Pocket
Sun 11 Jan 2015
In the 1950s and 1960s tens of thousands of migrants came to Britain from the Indian...
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Bureaucracy and Brutality
Sat 10 Jan 2015
Former jihadi Aimen Dean gives a unique insight into the workings of Islamic State.
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Codename: Madeleine
Wed 7 Jan 2015
Noor Inayat Khan was one of the most courageous, unusual secret agents of World War Two.
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Death, Sex and Money
Tue 6 Jan 2015
We like to think of our romantic lives as pure and unbothered by the cold business of...
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MINT - One Year On
New Year's Day 2015
A year ago, we asked former Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill to identify the next -...
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Colombia – Where the Truth Lies Buried
New Year's Day 2015
In Medellin there's a huge dump. Locals say it's where the truth is buried - they're...
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Tupac Shakur: Hip Hop Immortal
Wed 31 Dec 2014
Tupac Shakur trained as an actor, posed as a street thug and became a best selling but...
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Musa's Money
Tue 30 Dec 2014
The richest man of all time was 14th Century monarch King Mansa Musa, who reigned over...
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The Lipinski
Sun 28 Dec 2014
A startling 300-year journey of a Stradivarius violin through the lives of geniuses,...
