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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The Politics of Mongolian Hip Hop
Sat 2 Feb 2019
How Mongolia’s massive hip hop scene is shaping the country’s future
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Japan's Elderly Crime Wave
Thu 31 Jan 2019
Elderly pensioners in Japan commit petty crimes so that they can be sent to prison
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Solving Alzheimer's: Living and Dying with Alzheimer's
Tue 29 Jan 2019
How best to live and die with dementia and the difficult choices people have to make
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Songs from the Depths of Hell
Sun 27 Jan 2019
Blessed with a photographic memory Aleksander Kulisiewicz recorded songs of the damned...
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Closing Uganda’s Orphanage
Thu 24 Jan 2019
Hundreds of illegal orphanages in Uganda, many funded by UK charities, face closure.
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Solving Alzheimer's: The Trillion Dollar Disease
Tue 22 Jan 2019
How will governments find the money and workers to care for Alzheimer’s sufferers?
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The Assassination - Part Two
Sun 20 Jan 2019
Who killed Benazir Bhutto? Why has a 10-year investigation failed to find her killers?
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France, Algeria and the battle for truth
Thu 17 Jan 2019
A widow’s 60 year campaign for the truth about her husband’s death in the Algerian War
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Africa’s Drone Experiment
Wed 16 Jan 2019
Is there a viable case for drone deliveries in East Africa?
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Solving Alzheimer's: Fear and Stigma
Tue 15 Jan 2019
How fear and lack of understanding of Alzheimer’s is stigmatising those who have it
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The Assassination - Part One
Sun 13 Jan 2019
Who killed Benazir Bhutto? And why has 10-year investigation failed to find her killers?
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Balkan Border Wars - Serbia and Kosovo
Thu 10 Jan 2019
Old enemies Serbia and Kosovo discuss what for some is unthinkable - an ethnic land swap
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Cuban Voices
Tue 8 Jan 2019
Ordinary Cubans reveal what their lives have really been like under Castro’s socialism
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From the Ground Up
Sat 5 Jan 2019
The Central African Republic and its struggle to develop after years of conflict
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The Brazilian Footballer Who Never Was
Thu 3 Jan 2019
How one boy’s dream was cut short by the beautiful game’s ugly prejudice in Brazil.
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New York's Flower Market: Things my Father Loved
New Year's Day 2019
What does it take to make a living in the New York flower market?
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Childish Gambino: This is 2018
Sun 30 Dec 2018
How and why Childish Gambino’s This is America video echoed around the world in 2018
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Armenia: Return to a Town that Died
Thu 27 Dec 2018
Two British firefighters revisit the scene of Armenia's devastating earthquake in 1988.
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Carols of the Times
Sun 23 Dec 2018
Composer Bob Chilcott explores the history of A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
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DNA, Me and the Family Tree
Thu 20 Dec 2018
How home DNA testing kits are revealing more than some people bargained for.
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Spy Ship: The Capture of the USS Pueblo
Tue 18 Dec 2018
The story of the US servicemen captured and imprisoned 50 years ago by North Korea
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Congo: A River Journey
Sat 15 Dec 2018
A sound-rich immersive journey along the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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China's Hidden Camps
Thu 13 Dec 2018
The BBC gains rare access to a region of China where Muslims are being held without trial
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Stories on the Rocks
Wed 12 Dec 2018
Exploring how ancient cave paintings in Somaliland can be protected from terrorists
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When you tire of tech
Tue 11 Dec 2018
Ana Matronic visits a retreat for people who have tired of tech
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India's battle with online porn
Sun 9 Dec 2018
Is the rise of online porn in India to blame for sexual violence against women?
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Inside Burundi’s Killing Machine
Thu 6 Dec 2018
An investigation into repression in Burundi, one of Africa's most secretive countries.
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Vicky Phelan: The Woman who Changed Ireland
Wed 5 Dec 2018
How one woman uncovered a medical scandal that rocked Ireland
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Radio La Colifata
Wed 5 Dec 2018
Radio La Colifata confronts prejudices by broadcasting from a psychiatric hospital
