The Documentary Podcast Episodes Episode guide

Being Bisexual

Openly bisexual journalist Nichi Hodgson explores what it means to be bisexual
Beijing: Beyond the masks

Liyang Liu explores her home city Beijing in the wake of the pandemic
Behind the scenes of Bookish

Antonia Quirke goes behind the scenes of Bookish.
Behind the Hong Kong protests

What is motivating the demonstrators on the city’s streets – and their opponents?
Behind Closed Doors: Solutions to Domestic Violence in Peru

Rates of domestic violence in the Peruvian Andes are particularly high
Behind Closed Doors: Solutions to Domestic Abuse in Kenya

Unity is a village without men set up by Samburu women in response to domestic abuse
Behind Closed Doors: Solutions to Domestic Abuse in Indonesia

Indonesia has just conducted its first ever national survey on domestic violence
Befriending the man who killed my family

In Rwanda, survivors face the return of men who killed their families
Before I Go

Four people share their life-affirming experience of living with a terminal illness
Beats, rhymes and life: Hip-hop at 50

DJ and writer Lynnée Denise reflects on hip-hop as it marks its 50th year
Beats, rhymes and justice: Hip-hop on Rikers Island - Part two

MC and producer Ryan Burvick and the inmates learning to rap in Rikers Island jail
Beats, rhymes and justice: Hip-hop on Rikers Island - Part one

MC and producer Ryan Burvick and the inmates learning to rap in Rikers Island jail
Beats, Rhymes and Justice: Hip Hop on Rikers Island

Behind the bars of New York’s notorious jail, Rikers Island, inmates are learning to rap
Beatles in the USSR

As Beatlemania swept throughout the world in 1964, it seemed unable to penetrate the...
BBC Trending: Yami Baito - Inside Japan’s dark part-time jobs

How job postings on social media are luring people into organised crime in Japan
BBC Trending: Woman, life, surveillance

We speak to women targeted by the Iranian government after posting on social media
BBC Trending: Were Valencia's floods engineered weather?

The conspiracy theories that swirled around Valencia's floods
BBC Trending: Ukraine war - the cost of bearing witness

Open Source analysts and fact-checkers describe the toll of documenting the Ukraine war
BBC Trending: The TikTokers inside an election fire-storm

BBC Trending speaks to influencers implicated in the cancellation of Romania's election
BBC Trending: The dark side of music streaming

How fake streams are stealing millions from the music industry
BBC Trending: The curse of the blessing scam

The female crooks who exploit superstition and family love to swindle other women
BBC Trending: The cost of an addiction to Somali TikTok battles

Cash-strapped and verbally abused – players of the TikTok game taking Somalia by storm
BBC Trending: The chatbot bridging an aid gap

The female engineer who has created a chatbot on WhatsApp to help deliver aid in Lebanon
BBC Trending: The Baku initiative?

Is Azerbaijan capitalising on France’s struggle in the South Pacific?
BBC Trending: Quadrobic panic in Russia over craze to dress and walk on all fours like animals

Why Russia is cracking down on the craze to dress as animals and run on all fours
BBC Trending: Print and shoot - The spread of 3D-printed guns

How the technology to print your own lethal weapon is promoted on social media
BBC Trending: Passport bros

The impact that young digital nomads known as 'passport bros' are having on Medellín
BBC Trending: Meet the anti-witch hunter

Meet the man who intervenes to protect people accused of witchcraft across Africa
BBC Trending: Inside Nigeria’s hustle kingdoms

How con artists learn the tricks of their trade at dedicated scamming schools in Nigeria
BBC Trending: From a suspected smuggler’s TikTok to tragedy

How one Pakistani suspected smuggler’s TikTok account revealed clues of his activities