BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast

Beyond the Pitch

Dramatic and poignant tales exploring how Africa’s football and politics are bedfellows

Women in Poland are angry with their government and with the Catholic church

Dealing with immigration, an exploding population, and a divide between rich and poor

Yuliya Stepanova revealed the use of performance enhancing drugs by Russian athletes

There’s a crisis of homelessness for families in Britain

How the way the world is shaped and reported on changed fundamentally in 2016

How music has become a crucial source of comfort and resilience for refugees in Lebanon

Street artist Reza captured public dissatisfaction when he caricatured the PM as a clown

Why did Indonesians flock to a remote mountain shrine to have sex with strangers?

Faster Rudolph! Competitive reindeer-racing is a popular sport across the Arctic Circle