BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast

Three Million: 5. Ghosts

Three million people died in the Bengal Famine. Why are they not better remembered?

The discovery of cassette tapes that throw new light on colonial responsibility

Famine grips Bengal, but publicly, no-one is calling it a famine

The escalating food crisis forces people to make life and death decisions

The story of the Bengal Famine of 1943, where at least three million people died

How the language of Thessaloniki’s Jews disappeared

Journalists in Pakistan speak of coming under threat for criticising the authorities

How indigenous Malaysians are using technology and social media to assert land rights

Oleg Boldyrev on how ordinary Russians are dealing with life in a country at war.

Brazilian artist Vik Muniz likes to trap and fool his audience with trickery and illusion