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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Remembering Rio
Tue 20 Jan 2015
Machado de Assis was born in 1839 of mixed race, an epileptic with little formal...
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Greece - The Rubber Glove Rebellion
Thu 15 Jan 2015
The protest by cleaners, laid off from tax offices and the Greek Finance Ministry, has...
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Olive Wars
Wed 14 Jan 2015
The olive harvest in the West Bank is all about tradition. The first rains of the the...
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India's Beats: The Hungry Generation
Tue 13 Jan 2015
Allen Ginsberg arrived in early 1960s Calcutta to discover a collective of angry young...
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Three Pounds in my Pocket
Sun 11 Jan 2015
In the 1950s and 1960s tens of thousands of migrants came to Britain from the Indian...
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Bureaucracy and Brutality
Sat 10 Jan 2015
Former jihadi Aimen Dean gives a unique insight into the workings of Islamic State.
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Codename: Madeleine
Wed 7 Jan 2015
Noor Inayat Khan was one of the most courageous, unusual secret agents of World War Two.
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Death, Sex and Money
Tue 6 Jan 2015
We like to think of our romantic lives as pure and unbothered by the cold business of...
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MINT - One Year On
New Year's Day 2015
A year ago, we asked former Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill to identify the next -...
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Colombia – Where the Truth Lies Buried
New Year's Day 2015
In Medellin there's a huge dump. Locals say it's where the truth is buried - they're...
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Tupac Shakur: Hip Hop Immortal
Wed 31 Dec 2014
Tupac Shakur trained as an actor, posed as a street thug and became a best selling but...
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Musa's Money
Tue 30 Dec 2014
The richest man of all time was 14th Century monarch King Mansa Musa, who reigned over...
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The Lipinski
Sun 28 Dec 2014
A startling 300-year journey of a Stradivarius violin through the lives of geniuses,...
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Surviving the Most Lethal Route in the World
Sat 27 Dec 2014
One boat, two families; trying to escape war in Syria, desperate to start a new life...
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The Great War Diaries
Christmas Day 2014
How ordinary people – soldiers, mothers, nurses, even children – experienced World...
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Abdi and the Golden Ticket
Christmas Day 2014
Assignment follows Abdi Nor, a winner of the annual US green card lottery, as he to a...
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Karaoke as Art?
Christmas Eve 2014
Is karaoke now an art form? Music critic Katie Puckrik hits the clubs in Portland, to...
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The Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra
Tue 23 Dec 2014
The Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste or Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra, is the only in...
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Global Beats: Lisbon
Sun 21 Dec 2014
Music pulsates in Lisbon, from the traditional and dramatic Fado to the contemporary a...
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Mothers of Jihadists
Sun 21 Dec 2014
An international NGO, Women without Borders, based in Vienna, with years of experience...
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The Knights of New Russia
Thu 18 Dec 2014
Tim Whewell gains rare access to the shadowy world of Russia's radical nationalists in...
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Afghan Women: Speaking Out, Losing Lives
Wed 17 Dec 2014
A vivid portrait of the everyday lives of girls and women at a turning point in Afghan...
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Greyhound 100
Tue 16 Dec 2014
For 100 years, an intriguing mix of people have been criss-crossing the US by bus...
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Washington Redskins
Thu 11 Dec 2014
Mike Wendling explores the controversy surrounding the Washington Redskins.
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Reclaiming the Swastika
Wed 10 Dec 2014
For most people in the West, the swastika remains inextricably linked to the committed...
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MINT - Turkey
Tue 9 Dec 2014
For centuries, Turkish traders have exploited their location on the historic Silk Road...
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Number Crunched
Tue 9 Dec 2014
In the wake of the global economic crisis, what does capitalism mean to us today? Colm...
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The World’s Most Dangerous Hospital
Thu 4 Dec 2014
For Assignment, Chris Rogers goes undercover to reveal the hidden shame of hospital...
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Graffiti: Kings on a Mission
Wed 3 Dec 2014
In 1974, New York City became the canvas for a new generation of Graffiti pioneers.
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The Cult of Pablo Escobar
Tue 2 Dec 2014
Two decades after the death of notorious drug baron Pablo Escobar in 1993, he still in...
