The Documentary Episodes Episode guide
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The CIA's Secret War in Laos
A son uncovers his father's double-life as a CIA spy in a covert mission in 1960s Laos
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Offence, Power and Progress
Is taking offence on social media over-sensitivity or a force for progress?
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Stockfish
How did stockfish - cod that is dried in Norway’s cold air - become a Nigerian staple?
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The First Woman on the Moon
Wally Funk looks at mankind's return to the Moon and if a woman might actually get there
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Remembering Solidarity
Five Solidarity members reflect on the movement that ended communist rule in Poland
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The Invisible Hand of Donald Trump
Martin Wolf of the Financial Times examines the economic impact of President Donald Trump
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The Last Kamikazes
The indoctrination of Japan’s World War Two suicide pilots told by the last survivors
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Trump Re-Elected
Donald Trump’s election win 8th November 2016 revisited - could he do it again in 2020?
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Before I Go
Four people share their life-affirming experience of living with a terminal illness
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AKA Mystery Island
A tiny South Pacific island hosts 25,000 cruise ship tourists a month but at what cost?
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Nigeria: Shooting it Like a Woman
Nigerian director Tope Oshin celebrates women film-makers currently reinventing Nollywood
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A New Church for the Red State
How a reforming priest brought revolution to Russia’s Orthodox Church
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C-Section Brazil
Brazil is the caesarean capital of the world. What is behind this C-section “epidemic”?
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I Speak Navajo
"Growing up and not speaking the language, I felt this loss or this void"
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Aymara and the Ants
How Aymara Val and her neighbours are fighting for better jobs, sewage and water systems
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Che Today
Fifty years after his death, what would Che Guevara have thought of today’s Cuba?
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The Fish that Ate Florida
Why some people want to eradicate the lionfish from Florida's waters
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Making the Grade
The global expansion of British music exams, and its very modern challenges
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The Avocado Wall
The amazing success story of the avocado in the US as a case study for the future trade
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Life After Life
How thousands of Americans given life sentences as children now have a chance of freedom.
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Forever Young
Meet the self-experimenters and scientists trying to add years to our lives
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My First Period
Periods are a taboo in many places but for some in Tanzania first periods are celebrated
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Beats, Rhymes and Justice: Hip Hop on Rikers Island
Behind the bars of New York’s notorious jail, Rikers Island, inmates are learning to rap
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Lonely in Lagos
Poet and broadcaster Wana Udobang speaks with lonely and isolated people in the city
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The Flying Colombians
We join the world’s cyclists on the gruelling Vuelta a Colombia race
