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The Documentary Podcast Episodes

  1.

    They Call Us Viet Kieu

    Anna Nguyen returns to Vietnam to rediscover the war-torn country her family fled in 1975

  2. Thembi’s Story

    Thembi Ngubane’s Radio Diary about living with Aids in a South African Township.

  3. The Zogos of Liberia

    Inside the lives of Liberia’s forgotten child soldiers

  4. The Year of Migration

    The key moments that shaped the migrant numbers reaching Europe at unprecedented levels

  5. The Year Everything Changed

    How the way the world is shaped and reported on changed fundamentally in 2016

  6. The World’s Richest Terror Army

    The story of how Islamic State, a small band of fanatical jihadi fighters, became the...

  7. The World’s Most Dangerous Hospital

    For Assignment, Chris Rogers goes undercover to reveal the hidden shame of hospital...

  8. The World’s Marriage Story

    Why do people still place their faith in marriage?

  9. The world's largest wildlife crossing

    Can a major engineering project help save Califonia's mountain lion population?

  10. The world without...cows

    Discover just how important cows have been civilisation, all around the world.

  11. The world without...copper

    You might think that copper is just another metal, but in fact it is a vital substance.

  12. The world turned upside down

    What will the end of the world’s dependence on oil mean for geopolitics?

  13. The World Service is 90

    Calling the world since 1932. Meet the journalists and hear the treasured archive

  14. The World According to Studs Terkel - Part One

    The US radio host who interviewed everyone from Bob Dylan to Martin Luther King

  15. The world according to search

    A look at popular and puzzling internet searches from around the world

  16. The Women of the Arab Spring: Part Two

    Mona Eltahawey visits her home country of Egypt where women, who stood side-by-side to...

  17. The Women of the Arab Spring

    Meet the women who are trying to be heard. Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy meets who...

  18. The Women Of Tahrir Square

    Women were at the forefront of the revolution in Egypt. Hanan Razek discovers why many...

  19. The women of IS: Part two

    How governments are drawing the line on repatriation of refugees from camps in Syria

  20. The women of IS: Part three

    What do developments in the Middle East mean for those in Syrian detention camps?

  21. The women of IS: Part one

    What next for the women and children living in Syria’s detention camps?

  22. The Woman Who Saved Me on 9/11

    How Paul Carris helped a colleague escape the North Tower on 9/11

  23. The Woman who Exposed Russian Doping

    Yuliya Stepanova revealed the use of performance enhancing drugs by Russian athletes

  24. The Woman Who Exposed Russian Doping

    Yuliya Stepanova revealed the use of performance enhancing drugs by Russian athletes

  25. The woman fighting IS in Somalia

    A female soldier on the frontline of Somalia's fight against the Islamic State group

  26. The Witch Hunts of Papua New Guinea

    Assignment follows one local man on his mission to save the “witches” of Papua New Guinea

  27. The Wireless World of Gerry Wells

    Guru, boffin, eccentric and genius, Gerry Wells is obsessed with radio - tinkering and...

  28. The Winter Olympics

    Who hear from two skiers from Peru and Lebanon who will be competing in Beijing

  29. The Winter Olympics

    Who hear from two skiers from Peru and Lebanon who will be competing in Beijing.

  30. The Wildlife Smugglers

    Worldwide, the illegal trade in wildlife is worth up to $25 billion US a year.

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