The Documentary Podcast Podcast
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.
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.
From Australia's relationship with China, to Turkey's sinkhole problem, to understanding the behaviour of dictators, we go beyond the headlines.
Each week, all year round, we bring you the stories shaping our world. From the personal voices behind the headlines to perspectives on faith and spirituality and how work and money impact our lives. Discover how people find solutions to global problems and look at the world through the lens of its media.
Powered by the BBC World Service’s global network, The Documentary Podcast is about the people living the story – helping you see the world with greater clarity.
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The Travelling Electric
Tue 1 Jun 2010
In 1951, a black man named Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's travelling chair...
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Thank You for My Freedom
Mon 31 May 2010
Former Beirut hostage John McCarthy has never thanked Giandomenico Picco, the United...
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Nightingales and Roses
Fri 28 May 2010
Iran has an enthralling literary landscape. Poetry extends to all areas of Iranian and...
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Assignment: Jamaica's 'Godfather'
Thu 27 May 2010
This week's Assignment comes from Jamaica where there have been pitched street battles...
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The Art of War
Wed 26 May 2010
The Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote a treatise called The Art of War over 2,500 years ago.
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Soft Power - Part Two
Mon 24 May 2010
The ability to get what you want by attracting and persuading others to adopt your is...
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Global Perspective - Wedge Island
Fri 21 May 2010
Wedge Island is located in a secluded spot on the rugged, windswept Indian Ocean off...
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Assignment: Swine Flu: Panic or Pandemic
Thu 20 May 2010
In June 2009 the head of the World Health Organisation declared swine flu a global...
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Would You Kill The Big Guy - Part Two
Wed 19 May 2010
A runaway train is heading towards five people. You're standing on a footbridge, next...
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Soft Power - Part One
Mon 17 May 2010
The ability to get what you want by attracting and persuading others to adopt your is...
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Global Perspective - The Lonely Funeral
Fri 14 May 2010
Civil servant Ger Frits and poet Frank Starik come together in their shared that those...
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Assignment: A Taliban Class War?
Thu 13 May 2010
In Pakistan, the Taliban are continuing to attract recruits, despite the fact that...
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Would you kill the big guy?
Wed 12 May 2010
A runaway train is heading towards five people. You're standing on a footbridge, next...
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Cracking The Code
Mon 10 May 2010
The BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera gains exclusive access to Britain's the...
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Global Perspective - Middle C
Fri 7 May 2010
A year-long transition from woman to man, chronicled by Tristan Whiston through the in...
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Assignment: Goldmine Sachs
Thu 6 May 2010
Assignment investigates how Goldman Sachs has made record profits since it was bailed...
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The Other Guantanamo
Wed 5 May 2010
Award-winning travel writer Polly Evans goes in search of the other Guantanamo, to and...
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The Price of Bio Fuels - Part Two
Mon 3 May 2010
What are the practical and moral issues around this alternative energy source? Gerry...
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Global Perspective - Living in Limbo
Fri 30 Apr 2010
In the UK, failed asylum seekers like Collen have no rights to accommodation or benefits.
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Assignment - Inside Britain's Class System
Thu 29 Apr 2010
With the British election on May 6th, the BBC’s Nina Robinson examines the class to...
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The Apostle's Workshop
Wed 28 Apr 2010
Apostle Asafo guides us around his remarkable workshops in Accra, where teenagers can...
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The Price of Bio Fuels - Part One
Mon 26 Apr 2010
Gerry Northam investigates claims that bio fuels - once believed to be the answer to -...
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On the Edge in Soweto
Fri 23 Apr 2010
Unemployment in Soweto is well above the national average for South Africa.
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Assignment: Total Recall - The Toyota Story
Thu 22 Apr 2010
Toyota, the world's biggest car company, is in crisis, accused of putting the public...
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Looking for Jaballah Matar
Wed 21 Apr 2010
Libyan dissident Jaballah Matar disappeared 20 years ago, and his son Hisham is his...
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Generation Jihad - Part Three
Mon 19 Apr 2010
Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists on the...
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Return to Trebizond - Part Two
Fri 16 Apr 2010
In 1923 hundreds of thousands of Christian and Muslims moved between what is now and...
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Assignment - Zimbabwe's New Farmers
Thu 15 Apr 2010
It's ten years since Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe initiated a land reform which...
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Living With Tourists - Part Two
Wed 14 Apr 2010
How does tourism affect local culture? In the second part of Living With Tourists, Ros...
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Generation Jihad - Part Two
Mon 12 Apr 2010
Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists on the...
