The Documentary Podcast Podcast
Hear the voices at the heart of global stories. Where curious minds can make sense of the world. Home of the best documentaries 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. Home of the best documentaries from the BBC World Service.
From the impact of drought on crops, tourism and trade, to Africa's first film city, to the Romanian teenagers who built a DIY internet...we go beyond the headlines.
Each week we look at the stories shaping our world and hear voices connecting people from across the globe, asking how news stories are shaping their lives. We also follow spiritual journeys, examine the world through the lens of its media and focus on solutions to global problems.
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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...
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Media Futures - Television
Tue 25 Jun 2013
Why are new forms of video production and delivery such as You Tube's recently so Mark...
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France – The Tale of Two Factories
Thu 20 Jun 2013
The northern French town of Amiens has two tyre factories with very different fates, a...
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Media Futures - Radio
Tue 18 Jun 2013
Mark Coles discovers that in Africa, the medium is evolving to suit delivery over with...
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
Thu 13 Jun 2013
Rob Walker investigates a mysterious death in London’s suburbia. Its the story of a...
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Damascus Diary
Thu 6 Jun 2013
In this intimate, revealing programme, Lina Sinjab combines dramatic scenes and with a...
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Ahmadinejad: The Populist and the Pariah
Tue 4 Jun 2013
The rise - and legacy - of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. How did this with a...
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Azerbaijan – Heroes and Villains
Thu 30 May 2013
Heroes and villains in Azerbaijan and what they tell us about national identity there.
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Egypt’s Challenge – The Next Generation
Tue 28 May 2013
Egypt’s youth were at the forefront of the revolutionary protests in Tahrir Square...
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Tax Avoidance: The Hidden Cost
Sun 26 May 2013
While the low tax bills of Google, Starbucks and Amazon trigger political uproar, how...
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Guns and Mental Health in America
Thu 23 May 2013
Many of America’s mass killers have had mental health problems yet America is a who...
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Egypt’s Challenge – Far from Cairo
Tue 21 May 2013
Shaimaa accompanies a young revolutionary back to his home town to see whether the is...
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Romario tackles Brazil
Thu 16 May 2013
Tim Franks meets Romario - Brazil's World Cup-winning footballer, turned serious...
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Egypt’s Challenge – Men in Uniform
Tue 14 May 2013
Can Egypt’s police force rebuild its reputation and will the army stay out of Khalil...
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Return to Ghana’s Oil City
Thu 9 May 2013
Rob Walker returns to the port of Takoradi, the hub for Ghana’s new oil industry, to...
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Egypt’s Challenge Part 3 (Making a Living)
Tue 7 May 2013
Shaimaa Khalil examines the state of Egypt’s economy two years after its revolution.
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Hazaras, Hatred and Pakistan
Thu 2 May 2013
Mobeen Azhar investigates violence against Pakistan’s Hazara minority in the city of...
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Egypt’s Challenge – Part 2 (Free to Speak)
Tue 30 Apr 2013
Shaimaa Khalil listens to the new voices of the Egyptian revolution. Under President...
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The Belarusian University in Exile
Thu 25 Apr 2013
Few dare to speak out in Belarus but the opposition has found a way of making it’s...
