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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Assignment - Dying to Give Birth
Thu 29 Oct 2009
Jill McGivering travels to Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, to meet a doctor who is...
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Rebranding Nigeria - Part Two
Wed 28 Oct 2009
Nigeria is campaigning for a new image and a new reputation in an effort to attract...
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MI6 - A Century in the Shadows - Part Tree
Mon 26 Oct 2009
The head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service Sir John Scarlett, talks for the...
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Public Places, Private Lives - Part One
Fri 23 Oct 2009
Public Places, Private Lives is a series of portraits of well known places that reveal...
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Assignment - Protecting Britain's Children
Thu 22 Oct 2009
When a 17 month-old London child died after horrific abuse by his family, it unleashed...
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Rebranding Nigeria - Part One
Wed 21 Oct 2009
Can the home of 419 internet scams, corruption and voodoo ever transmit a positive Is...
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MI6 - A Century in the Shadows
Mon 19 Oct 2009
In Programme Two, we find out what were spies really up to behind the Iron Curtain.
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Assignment Armenia: The cleverest nation on the planet
Thu 15 Oct 2009
Every two years teams from all over the world compete with one another in the Chess...
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John Simpson Returns to 1989
Thu 15 Oct 2009
The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the story of 20 years of life...
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MI6 - A century in the shadows
Mon 12 Oct 2009
An unprecedented look inside MI6 - Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, which marks...
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Memento, part two
Fri 9 Oct 2009
Imagine that conflict and violence force you to flee your country, leaving behind all...
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Assignment - Three Strike Lifers
Thu 8 Oct 2009
A life sentence for stealing a pair of socks. In California the tough 'three strikes'...
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Yiddish - a Struggle for Survival - Part One
Wed 7 Oct 2009
Yiddish was the language of the Jewish Diaspora, the language of a people on the move...
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The Crash: Back from the brink
Mon 5 Oct 2009
The third part of the BBC's definitive series on the banking crash tells the story of...
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Memento, part one
Fri 2 Oct 2009
Imagine that conflict and violence force you to flee your country, leaving behind all...
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Assignment - The Mystery of the Arctic Sea
Thu 1 Oct 2009
It's straight out of the pages of a thriller novel: a cargo ship, lost without trace;...
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Desperate Dreams - Part Two
Wed 30 Sep 2009
Presenter Jenny Cuffe sets out to find Fereinatu, a teenage girl who was trafficked...
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Assignment - Chasing the Tax Cheats
Tue 29 Sep 2009
This week's Assignment looks at the much-vaunted crackdown on tax havens announced by...
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The Crash: The Age of Risk
Mon 28 Sep 2009
The second of this three-part series that examines the boom before the bust of 2008 at...
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Building out of the Recession - part two
Fri 25 Sep 2009
Can we build our way out of the recession? The Empire State Building was started just...
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Desperate Dreams - part one
Tue 22 Sep 2009
Two years ago, Jenny Cuffe followed the journeys of migrants trying to leave Africa a...
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The Crash: The bank that busted the world
Mon 21 Sep 2009
What were the key moments that led to financial meltdown, and what happened in the The...
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Building Out of the Recession
Thu 17 Sep 2009
Just weeks after the Wall Street Crash in 1929, work began on the Empire State Building.
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Assignment - Dog Fighting in Chicago
Thu 17 Sep 2009
If my dog is tough then I'm tough. Killer dogs give teenagers status in Chicago.
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Dreams from my mother
Tue 15 Sep 2009
President Barack Obama has famously written of the influence exerted on him by his in...
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Benjamin Jealous - the future of the NAACP
Mon 14 Sep 2009
enjamin Jealous is the leader of America's oldest and largest black civil rights group.
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World Stories: Mexico's Missing Island
Fri 11 Sep 2009
Bermeja Island is missing. This strategically important island was clearly visible on...
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Citizen Journalism - Part Two
Wed 9 Sep 2009
n the second episode Michael Buerk visits Cairo and experience for himself how - among...
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Mastering Business
Wed 9 Sep 2009
What role did the business schools play in last year's financial crisis? In this of Ed...
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Why is Africa poor? Part three
Mon 7 Sep 2009
Enterprise, money, innovation are all there. Is tapping into a continent's optimism to...
