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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Searching for Annie in Liberia
Thu 27 Nov 2014
Gabriel Gatehouse and his team go in search of Annie and along the way meet the medics...
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Afghanistan: The Lessons of War
Wed 26 Nov 2014
Former commander of the British and Coalition forces in Helmand province Major General...
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Sister Aimee
Tue 25 Nov 2014
The story of Canadian-born Aimee Semple McPherson and how she went from farm girl to...
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Human Cubans
Sun 23 Nov 2014
British journalist Nick Baker and Anglo-Cuban journalist Arnaldo Hernandez Diaz a of a...
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Ebola - The Impact on Africa
Fri 21 Nov 2014
How Ebola is affecting not just health services in West Africa, but tourism, and the...
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Hunting The Taliban
Thu 20 Nov 2014
Mobeen Azhar is in Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city, where police are fighting an...
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O' Say Can you See?
Wed 19 Nov 2014
The Star-Spangled Banner is embedded in American national identity and yet it only the...
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Chasing West Africa's Pirates
Sat 15 Nov 2014
There are now more pirate attacks in the Gulf of Guinea than off the coast of Somalia...
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'Power, Politics and Shakespeare in Uzbekistan'
Thu 13 Nov 2014
Natalia Antelava charts the downfall of Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of the Uzbek...
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The Syria Vote
Wed 12 Nov 2014
In August 2013 the Assad regime in Syria was accused of deploying chemical weapons its...
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Still Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo?
Wed 12 Nov 2014
Allan Little returns to Sarajevo to explore the role of the arts in restoring the 20...
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The Ghostly Voices of World War One
Sun 9 Nov 2014
Hidden away in the backrooms at Humbolt University and the Ethnological Museum in are...
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Iran's Gay Refugees
Sat 8 Nov 2014
Ali Hamedani has been to Turkey to meet the Iranian lesbian and gay people who’ve to...
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Assassination: When Delhi Burned
Wed 5 Nov 2014
When the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984 by her two Sikh...
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Are Pandemics Inevitable?
Tue 4 Nov 2014
Can the world come together to beat diseases with pandemic potential? We've spoken to...
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From Kabul to Kiev: Mustafa Nayyem's Story
Tue 4 Nov 2014
Mustafa Nayyem is one of Ukraine's leading investigative reporters, who has decided to...
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Switzerland: Stolen Childhoods
Thu 30 Oct 2014
Kavita Puri goes to Switzerland to hear the extraordinary stories of survivors who as...
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Linard's Travels
Wed 29 Oct 2014
Linard Davies is a baggage attendant at San Francisco airport. He deals with the that...
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Politics at the Polling Station
Tue 28 Oct 2014
What are changes in voting laws doing to demoracy in the USA? Rajini Vaidyanathan to...
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India's Forgotten War
Fri 24 Oct 2014
In the Indian capital Delhi stands India Gate, the largest memorial to the war for 1...
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Ireland’s Forced Labour Survivors
Thu 23 Oct 2014
Women abused in institutions run by the Catholic Church are demanding answers from and...
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Ebola: What went Wrong
Wed 22 Oct 2014
Ebola is now regarded as an international threat to peace and security, according to...
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The Politics of the Lone Star State - Part 2
Tue 21 Oct 2014
Texas is crucial in the race for national power. Gary O’Donoghue travels to the Lone...
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Songs from Africa
Sat 18 Oct 2014
Music from the rising stars of Africa, including wordsmiths M. Anifest from Ghana and...
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Libya: Last Stand Against Jihad?
Thu 16 Oct 2014
Tim Whewell is one of the few foreign reporters who’ve made it to Tobruk, last of a...
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A Bombay Symphony
Wed 15 Oct 2014
India is falling in love with Western classical music. In his home-city Mumbai, Zareer...
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The Politics of the Lone Star State
Tue 14 Oct 2014
Everything's bigger in Texas and that goes for the personalities who run for election...
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Kosovo’s Jihadis
Thu 9 Oct 2014
Linda Pressly travels to Kosovo and meets the sister of ISIS’ first suicide-bomber...
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The New Vikings
Wed 8 Oct 2014
In recent years, sperm has been shipped out of Denmark at an astonishing rate, of - in...
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Orania
Tue 7 Oct 2014
Orania, South Africa, remains a 'whites only' town despite the end of apartheid 20 ago...