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.
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The Great War Diaries
Christmas Day 2014
How ordinary people – soldiers, mothers, nurses, even children – experienced World...
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Abdi and the Golden Ticket
Christmas Day 2014
Assignment follows Abdi Nor, a winner of the annual US green card lottery, as he to a...
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Karaoke as Art?
Christmas Eve 2014
Is karaoke now an art form? Music critic Katie Puckrik hits the clubs in Portland, to...
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The Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra
Tue 23 Dec 2014
The Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste or Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra, is the only in...
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Global Beats: Lisbon
Sun 21 Dec 2014
Music pulsates in Lisbon, from the traditional and dramatic Fado to the contemporary a...
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Mothers of Jihadists
Sun 21 Dec 2014
An international NGO, Women without Borders, based in Vienna, with years of experience...
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The Knights of New Russia
Thu 18 Dec 2014
Tim Whewell gains rare access to the shadowy world of Russia's radical nationalists in...
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Afghan Women: Speaking Out, Losing Lives
Wed 17 Dec 2014
A vivid portrait of the everyday lives of girls and women at a turning point in Afghan...
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Greyhound 100
Tue 16 Dec 2014
For 100 years, an intriguing mix of people have been criss-crossing the US by bus...
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Washington Redskins
Thu 11 Dec 2014
Mike Wendling explores the controversy surrounding the Washington Redskins.
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Reclaiming the Swastika
Wed 10 Dec 2014
For most people in the West, the swastika remains inextricably linked to the committed...
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MINT - Turkey
Tue 9 Dec 2014
For centuries, Turkish traders have exploited their location on the historic Silk Road...
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Number Crunched
Tue 9 Dec 2014
In the wake of the global economic crisis, what does capitalism mean to us today? Colm...
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The World’s Most Dangerous Hospital
Thu 4 Dec 2014
For Assignment, Chris Rogers goes undercover to reveal the hidden shame of hospital...
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Graffiti: Kings on a Mission
Wed 3 Dec 2014
In 1974, New York City became the canvas for a new generation of Graffiti pioneers.
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The Cult of Pablo Escobar
Tue 2 Dec 2014
Two decades after the death of notorious drug baron Pablo Escobar in 1993, he still in...
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The Lost Tapes of Orson Welles
Sun 30 Nov 2014
Director Orson Welles was asked to write his life story in his later years.
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Searching for Annie in Liberia
Thu 27 Nov 2014
Gabriel Gatehouse and his team go in search of Annie and along the way meet the medics...
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Afghanistan: The Lessons of War
Wed 26 Nov 2014
Former commander of the British and Coalition forces in Helmand province Major General...
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Sister Aimee
Tue 25 Nov 2014
The story of Canadian-born Aimee Semple McPherson and how she went from farm girl to...
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Human Cubans
Sun 23 Nov 2014
British journalist Nick Baker and Anglo-Cuban journalist Arnaldo Hernandez Diaz a of a...
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Ebola - The Impact on Africa
Fri 21 Nov 2014
How Ebola is affecting not just health services in West Africa, but tourism, and the...
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Hunting The Taliban
Thu 20 Nov 2014
Mobeen Azhar is in Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city, where police are fighting an...
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O' Say Can you See?
Wed 19 Nov 2014
The Star-Spangled Banner is embedded in American national identity and yet it only the...
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Chasing West Africa's Pirates
Sat 15 Nov 2014
There are now more pirate attacks in the Gulf of Guinea than off the coast of Somalia...
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'Power, Politics and Shakespeare in Uzbekistan'
Thu 13 Nov 2014
Natalia Antelava charts the downfall of Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of the Uzbek...
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The Syria Vote
Wed 12 Nov 2014
In August 2013 the Assad regime in Syria was accused of deploying chemical weapons its...
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Still Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo?
Wed 12 Nov 2014
Allan Little returns to Sarajevo to explore the role of the arts in restoring the 20...
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The Ghostly Voices of World War One
Sun 9 Nov 2014
Hidden away in the backrooms at Humbolt University and the Ethnological Museum in are...
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Iran's Gay Refugees
Sat 8 Nov 2014
Ali Hamedani has been to Turkey to meet the Iranian lesbian and gay people who’ve to...
