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The Documentary Podcast Episodes

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    Make me perfect: Manufacturing beauty in China

    BBC Eye investigates one of China’s most notorious cases of botched cosmetic surgery

  2. Make America Great Again

    Why is the word America such a controversial one outside of the US?

  3. Maids: The Untold Story Part 1

    It reads like a soap opera, but this is not fiction: round-the-clock confinement, and...

  4. Maids: The Untold Story - Part Two

    In the second programme, Judith Kampfner looks at women who work as maids in their own...

  5. Magical Money

    A new digital currency gold rush is sweeping the world but is the bubble about to burst?

  6. Madness of War

    Sahar meets the medical staff trying to deal with Afghanistan’s mental health emergency

  7. Madiba's African Footsteps

    Mandela's 1962 pan-African journey to explain the mission of the ANC and seek support,...

  8. Made in Russia: The Kremlin’s economic rebrand

    How Moscow is working around international sanctions

  9. Madagascar: From famine to hope

    Women in Madagascar defy patriarchal norms and use ‘Agro-ecology’ to feed communities

  10. Mad Women: Portraying mental health in theatre

    Constanza Hola Chamy directs two casts for her play about female artists with bipolar

  11. Macron's Quest

    Who is the former banker and civil servant and how did he rise so far so fast?

  12. Macedonia’s Colourful Revolution

    The women prosecutors who have become the scourge of Macedonia’s political elite.

  13. Macedonia: What’s in a Name?

    The name ‘Macedonia’ is disputed by two neighbouring nations. That may be about to change

  14. Macau: Monte Carlo of the Orient

    How Macau overtook Las Vegas to become the world's most lucrative gambling centre

  15. Lytton Burns

    Climate Crisis isn't coming. It's here!Extreme weather events are becoming the new normal

  16. Lynn Hill - 21st Century War Poet

    US Air Force veteran and poet Lynn Hill opens up the alien soul of 21st Century warfare

  17. Lusaka Fire and Rescue

    The story of Zambia’s embattled firefighters facing flames, protests and thrown stones

  18. Lullabies in the Arab World

    A look at the unique narratives and symbolism of the lullabies of the Arab world, are...

  19. Luke Jerram: A good yarn

    Artist Luke Jerram creates a big ball of yarn to roll through the streets of Bradford

  20. Loving, living and dying together in the Netherlands

    The story of Jan and Els who opted for euthanasia, and died together in the Netherlands

  21. Love-bombing Estonia’s Russian speakers

    Can music and culture help unite Estonia?

  22. Love Your Wife Day

    Even by the sometimes-bizarre standards of modern Japanese culture, the annual is one...

  23. Love on trial: India's age of consent controversy

    How India’s child‑protection law is punishing some teens for consensual relations

  24. LOUD: Is noise an invisible killer?

    How our noisy world is increasing health problems from heart attacks, to sleep and anxiety

  25. Lost Voices of Afghanistan

    "My mind is unhinged and I'm sick of the smell of blood / it's hard to stay human in a...

  26. Lost Children of the Holocaust

    Following the end of World War Two, the BBC began a series of special radio appeals on...

  27. Losing my sight and learning to swim

    Mônica Vasconcelos learns to negotiate the world as her sense of sight diminishes

  28. Losing Louisiana

    Meet the community struggling to survive on one of the world’s fastest eroding coastlines

  29. Losing Attar

    Jigyasa Mishra meets farmers and perfumers trying to keep a dying scent alive in Kannauj

  30. Looted Art: Part II

    Charles Wheeler is on the trail of art seized by the Soviets at the end of World War II

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