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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Assassination: When Delhi Burned
Wed 5 Nov 2014
When the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984 by her two Sikh...
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Are Pandemics Inevitable?
Tue 4 Nov 2014
Can the world come together to beat diseases with pandemic potential? We've spoken to...
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From Kabul to Kiev: Mustafa Nayyem's Story
Tue 4 Nov 2014
Mustafa Nayyem is one of Ukraine's leading investigative reporters, who has decided to...
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Switzerland: Stolen Childhoods
Thu 30 Oct 2014
Kavita Puri goes to Switzerland to hear the extraordinary stories of survivors who as...
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Linard's Travels
Wed 29 Oct 2014
Linard Davies is a baggage attendant at San Francisco airport. He deals with the that...
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Politics at the Polling Station
Tue 28 Oct 2014
What are changes in voting laws doing to demoracy in the USA? Rajini Vaidyanathan to...
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India's Forgotten War
Fri 24 Oct 2014
In the Indian capital Delhi stands India Gate, the largest memorial to the war for 1...
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Ireland’s Forced Labour Survivors
Thu 23 Oct 2014
Women abused in institutions run by the Catholic Church are demanding answers from and...
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Ebola: What went Wrong
Wed 22 Oct 2014
Ebola is now regarded as an international threat to peace and security, according to...
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The Politics of the Lone Star State - Part 2
Tue 21 Oct 2014
Texas is crucial in the race for national power. Gary O’Donoghue travels to the Lone...
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Songs from Africa
Sat 18 Oct 2014
Music from the rising stars of Africa, including wordsmiths M. Anifest from Ghana and...
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Libya: Last Stand Against Jihad?
Thu 16 Oct 2014
Tim Whewell is one of the few foreign reporters who’ve made it to Tobruk, last of a...
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A Bombay Symphony
Wed 15 Oct 2014
India is falling in love with Western classical music. In his home-city Mumbai, Zareer...
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The Politics of the Lone Star State
Tue 14 Oct 2014
Everything's bigger in Texas and that goes for the personalities who run for election...
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Kosovo’s Jihadis
Thu 9 Oct 2014
Linda Pressly travels to Kosovo and meets the sister of ISIS’ first suicide-bomber...
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The New Vikings
Wed 8 Oct 2014
In recent years, sperm has been shipped out of Denmark at an astonishing rate, of - in...
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Orania
Tue 7 Oct 2014
Orania, South Africa, remains a 'whites only' town despite the end of apartheid 20 ago...
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Man Bites Dog in Denmark
Thu 2 Oct 2014
Neal Razzell goes to work with Copenhagen’s hot dog vendors who tell how the humble...
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The Singing Fish of Batticaloa
Wed 1 Oct 2014
Since the 18th Century, Tamil fishermen have claimed to navigate by the mysterious of...
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Media and the Middle East
Sat 27 Sep 2014
The rockets and missiles fly, from Israel into Gaza, from Gaza into Israel.
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Inside the Ebola Lockdown
Thu 25 Sep 2014
Tim Mansel on the lives of people in Sierra Leone as they face a three day "lock-down"...
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The Lost Legacy of Little Miss Cornshucks
Wed 24 Sep 2014
In the late 1930's a young Mildred Cummings from Dayton, Ohio is barefoot, standing in...
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Mexico
Sat 20 Sep 2014
Music from the most promising bands of the Mexican music scene. Hear rapper Eptos One,...
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Ivory Coast's School for Husbands
Thu 18 Sep 2014
In Ivory Coast, men are going back to the classroom. It's an innovative project dubbed...
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The Black Liberace
Wed 17 Sep 2014
The legacy of jazz pianist James Booker. Classically trained in piano and a child with...
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The Trial of Oscar Pistorius
Fri 12 Sep 2014
After becoming a Paralympics champion, Oscar Pistorius rose to fame as the first to in...
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America's New Bedlam
Thu 11 Sep 2014
Hilary Andersson investigates the more than one million mentally ill prisoners held in...
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Clearing the Air
Wed 10 Sep 2014
Ten years ago, Ireland became the first country in the world to ban smoking in the...
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The Future of Women's Football
Tue 9 Sep 2014
Could women's football provide a new, more sustainable model to the men's game? Yvonne...
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The Girls Britain Betrayed
Sun 7 Sep 2014
At least 1,400 children were sexually exploited in the northern English town of by of...
