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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New Year, New Burma
Sun 15 Sep 2013
As Burma (also known as Myanmar), opens up, one new freedom comes in the form of - the...
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China's Leftover Men
Thu 12 Sep 2013
Lucy Ash reports on China’s gender imbalance which by 2020 will leave 24 million for...
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The New Ottomans Part 3
Tue 10 Sep 2013
Turkish businessmen have been rapidly rebuilding their links with the Balkan states as...
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The Congress and the Commander in Chief
Sat 7 Sep 2013
The history of tension between the US President and Congress over taking military action.
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Boom and Bust in Australia’s coal country
Thu 5 Sep 2013
James Fletcher travels to Mackay in Queensland’s coal country to hear one town’s...
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The New Ottomans Part Two
Tue 3 Sep 2013
Turkey's new relationships with its traditional allies - the Balkans, North Africa and...
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Rewriting the Revolution
Mon 2 Sep 2013
Shaimaa Khalil looks at the Arab Spring through the eyes of prominent writers Egypt's...
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Inside Gay Pakistan
Thu 29 Aug 2013
Mobeen Azhar investigates life in gay, urban Pakistan and finds out what it's really...
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Turkey - The New Ottomans
Tue 27 Aug 2013
Allan Little charts the politcal changes in Turkey from the birth of the republic and...
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Turkey’s New Opposition
Thu 22 Aug 2013
Emre Azizlerli explores the strange new alliances forged in Turkey's anti-government...
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Kazakhstan’s living Gulags
Thu 15 Aug 2013
The Soviet Gulag system is said to live on in Kazakhstan's jails, the prison are be...
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Feeding the World
Tue 13 Aug 2013
America's Food for Peace programme ships American-grown food in sacks across the world...
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Feeding the World
Tue 13 Aug 2013
America's Food for Peace programme ships American-grown food in sacks across the world...
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Tel Aviv Comes Out
Sun 11 Aug 2013
In many Middle East countries being gay can lead to the death penalty.
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Bombing Boston
Thu 8 Aug 2013
Hilary Andersson investigates what really lay behind the Boston marathon bombings and...
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The Truth and Nothing but the Truth
Tue 6 Aug 2013
Dr Geoff Bunn investigates the latest lie-detecting technology. He discovers that the...
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Miracle Village
Thu 1 Aug 2013
Miracle Village is home to over a hundred sex offenders. But do Florida’s strict the...
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Race for Equality, Episode 2
Tue 30 Jul 2013
Ghana sent just four Paralympians to the 2012 Olympics, none of whom made it to the...
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Nightingales of India
Sun 28 Jul 2013
Sisters Lata and Asha have forged Bollywood singing careers spanning more than six and...
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Six Months in Captivity
Sat 27 Jul 2013
In September 2011, Judith and David Tebbutt set off to Kenya on holiday.
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Spain: Operation FGM
Thu 25 Jul 2013
In Spain a doctor offers reconstructive surgery to women who have had female genital...
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Under Attack
Sun 21 Jul 2013
The Threat from Cyberspace: The alarming extent to which cyberspace is being used to...
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Welfare Britain – the New Reality
Thu 18 Jul 2013
London families talk to Nina Robinson about the reality of new welfare reforms.
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Race for Equality, Episode 1
Tue 16 Jul 2013
Tatyana McFadden is one of the most successful wheelchair racers in Paralympic history...
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Law Behind Bars
Sun 14 Jul 2013
Meet the Kenyan prisoners acting as lawyers on behalf of themselves and fellow inmates.
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Greece – In Sickness and in Debt
Thu 11 Jul 2013
Zeinab Badawi talks to doctors and patients who struggle to cope as hospitals in are...
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Home Away From Home
Tue 9 Jul 2013
Meet the Somali community whose families first settled in Cardiff's Butetown in 1890,...
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Sweden’s Angry Suburbs
Thu 4 Jul 2013
Tim Mansel reports from Stockholm in the wake of riots that started in the suburbs and...
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Media Futures - Internet Age
Tue 2 Jul 2013
In the fourth and final part of the programme, Mark Coles considers the lessons that -...
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Kermit Gosnell: Doctor and Murderer
Thu 27 Jun 2013
Authorities knew there were big problems at Dr Kermit Gosnell’s west Philadelphia...
