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.
Episodes to download
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Useful Idiots - Part Two
Wed 11 Aug 2010
In this two part series, the BBC takes a look at the intellectuals - or Lenin's - who...
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The Mossad
Mon 9 Aug 2010
"They teach you how to steal and they teach you how to kill and they teach you to do...
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Korea's lost children
Fri 6 Aug 2010
Korea's overseas adoption programme began in the 1950s as the impoverished answer to...
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Assignment - Politics in Rwanda
Thu 5 Aug 2010
Days before Rwanda's presidential election, the government has issued a strongly any...
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Useful Idiots
Wed 4 Aug 2010
“That’s what my role was. I was taken around and shown things as a useful idiot.
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Shaking the World - Part Four
Mon 2 Aug 2010
"This culture inhibits the evolution of new ideas," says Professor Guosong Liu of the...
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Spanning the World - Part Four
Fri 30 Jul 2010
London Bridge has served as a crossing, a shopping district, a housing settlement and...
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Listening Post - Part Two
Wed 28 Jul 2010
The Listening Post is a new series that invites close, unhurried listening to the of...
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Shaking the World - Part Three
Mon 26 Jul 2010
China's social tensions may threaten the growth upon which much of the rest of the now...
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Spanning the World - Part Three
Fri 23 Jul 2010
What personal stories can a bridge reveal? When the he Oresund Bridge-Tunnel opened it...
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Assignment - Who Jails the Pirates?
Thu 22 Jul 2010
Why are so few captured pirates brought to trial? Each year hundreds of ships are by...
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Listening Post - Part One
Wed 21 Jul 2010
Mary Thida Lun works is a civil servant. She has had postings in Sudan and Iraq.
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Shaking the World - Part Two
Mon 19 Jul 2010
Part Two of this series looks outwards at the potentially world-shaking clash of China...
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The Greatest Hits of the World - Part 2
Fri 16 Jul 2010
The song Wimoweh, or The Lion Sleeps Tonight has been exposed to a mass audience with...
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China Shaking the World - part one
Mon 12 Jul 2010
Michael Robinson examines the political, economic and cultural mechanisms of China's -...
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Stand By Me
Fri 9 Jul 2010
Ben E King says of his song Stand By Me "It tends to fall in place for someone who it...
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Assignment: The Families of Manshiyet Nasser
Thu 8 Jul 2010
Catherine Miller reports from one of Cairo's biggest slums where - in 2008 - a massive...
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Caribbean voices - Part one
Wed 7 Jul 2010
The BBC's seminal role in launching Caribbean writing in the region is remembered 60...
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Every Picture Tells A Story
Mon 5 Jul 2010
"A good photograph has an emotional component, the iconic photos hit you right away it...
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Assignment: Arizona's Immigration Law SB1070
Thu 1 Jul 2010
Arizona has passed a law cracking down on illegal immigrants -- the toughest of its in...
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Tiger v Dragon: China's String of Pearls (part two)
Wed 30 Jun 2010
Mukul Devichand explores the rising Asian giants, China and India. How will the old of...
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The Power and the Passion - Part Four
Mon 28 Jun 2010
With the World Cup underway, many fans will be avidly debating the fate of their in it...
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Home from Home Part One
Fri 25 Jun 2010
How does one's family history alter one's sense of sefl? Nihal Arthanayake - a London...
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Assignment: Spain's Hard Times
Thu 24 Jun 2010
Pascale Harter reports from Spain for Assignment to see how families there are coping...
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Tiger v Dragon: The Power of the Poor (part one)
Wed 23 Jun 2010
Mukul Devichand explores the rising Asian giants, China and India. In the churn and of...
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The Power and the Passion - Part Three
Mon 21 Jun 2010
With the World Cup underway, many fans will be avidly debating the fate of their in it...
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Aung San Suu Kyi: Freedom from Fear
Fri 18 Jun 2010
Aung San Suu Kyi leads the pro-democracy movement in Burma. She has been under house...
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South Africa's Path to Freedom - Part Two
Wed 16 Jun 2010
Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian author Wole Soyinka travels to South Africa to assess the...
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The Power and the Passion - Part Two
Mon 14 Jun 2010
With the World Cup underway, many fans will be avidly debating the fate of their in it...
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Crime, Scene, Insects
Fri 11 Jun 2010
Amoret Whitaker is a forensic entomologist. She is called in to help on cases where it...
