BBC World Service - The Documentary

The ghost ship

A tanker drifts, unmanned, onto an Indian beach - like a ghost. What really happened?

Container ships carry everything we buy - but those giant boxes hold secrets too

The Happy Pod, our new weekly collection of the happiest stories in the world.

How sanctions on Russian oil have increased the world's secretive "dark fleet"

The Happy Pod, our new weekly collection of the happiest stories in the world.

Bulk carriers are the unseen porters of the world even during war and pandemic

The Happy Pod, our new weekly collection of the happiest stories in the world

A centenary celebration of Tito Puente, the man also known as ‘The King of Latin Music’

Why Sunshine on Leith is a love song to humanity

Ramadan Younes investigates the world of genetic eye disease ‘treatments’