The Documentary Podcast Podcast
Hear the voices at the heart of global stories. Where curious minds can uncover hidden truths and make sense of the world. Documentary storytelling 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. The best of documentary storytelling from the BBC World Service.
From conflict in the Middle East to the advance of AI, to the front line of the climate emergency, we go beyond the headlines. Each week we dive into the minds of the world’s most creative people, take personal journeys into spirituality and connect people from across the globe to share how news stories are shaping their lives.
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Kidnapped - part two
Fri 30 May 2008
Dr Thomas Hargrove, an American scientist kidnapped by FARC, is reunited with the who...
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Taxi to the Dark Side
Fri 30 May 2008
In Taxi To The Dark Side, American film-maker Alex Gibney reports on the use of by in...
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Assignment
Thu 29 May 2008
Lucy Ash finds out if new trade deals and diplomatic dialogue with Libya can encourage...
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What Next For Kenya? - Part Two
Tue 27 May 2008
In this two-part series, former BBC East Africa Correspondent Mike Wooldridge travels...
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Failure at the Central Bank
Fri 23 May 2008
For the last six decades, central bankers have run the international financial system...
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Kidnapped: Part One
Fri 23 May 2008
Presenter Ritula Shah reunites former hostage Norman Kember - kidnapped in Iraq - with...
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Assignment
Thu 22 May 2008
The Commodities Bubble: Michael Robinson investigates and reveals how the commodities...
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What Next For Kenya? - Part One
Tue 20 May 2008
In this two-part series, former BBC East Africa Correspondent Mike Wooldridge travels...
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How Crime Took on the World
Fri 16 May 2008
Cyber-crime is the fastest-growing sector of global-organised crime, worth about a...
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Escape from Time
Thu 15 May 2008
Who wouldn't like to escape the relentless march of time? Find out about the routes to...
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Assignment - Beyond Mark Weil
Thu 15 May 2008
Last September, Mark Weil, the radical theatre director of the Ilkhom theatre in was a...
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Living With Chico Mendes
Tue 13 May 2008
To mark the 20th anniversary of his assassination, Nick Maes looks at the life of the...
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How Crime Took on the World: Part Three
Mon 12 May 2008
In the third part of this series on international crime, Misha Glenny is in South the...
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Where the Buffalo Roam
Fri 9 May 2008
How have non-native creatures - from birds to bovines, reptiles to rhesus monkeys - of...
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Philosophy in the Streets
Tue 6 May 2008
Nick Fraser looks at the intellectual revolution that spread from Paris throughout the...
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How crime took on the world: Part two
Mon 5 May 2008
In the second of this series which charts the explosion of international organised to...
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Escape to New Zealand
Fri 2 May 2008
Environmental refugees seek a home somewhere in the planet where the predicted global...
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Assignment: Football in the Holy City
Thu 1 May 2008
In this week's Assignment David Goldblatt travels to Israel to meet the fans of Beitar...
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The My Lai Tapes - Part Two
Tue 29 Apr 2008
Forty years ago, 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians were killed by US soldiers.
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Policing the UN
Mon 28 Apr 2008
The BBC's Africa editor Martin Plaut sets out to examine serious new allegations of...
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How Crime Took on the World: Part One
Mon 28 Apr 2008
As part of his investigation into global crime, Misha Glenny is in Canada, where the a...
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Assignment - Granny Dumping
Thu 24 Apr 2008
Abandonment, abuse and neglect of the elderly by their own children and grandchildren...
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The Convict Streak
Thu 24 Apr 2008
The resourcefulness and resilience of prisioners fighting for freedom that make today...
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The My Lai Tapes - Part One
Tue 22 Apr 2008
Forty years ago in the village of My Lai in South Vietnam, a massacre took place.
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Strangers in Marseilles
Mon 21 Apr 2008
Laurie Taylor explores Marseille's unique racial geography to find out what kept the...
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Harare Festival
Fri 18 Apr 2008
Manuel Bagorro, the director of the Harare International Festival of the Arts, his to...
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Assignment: Inside Somalia's Insurgency
Thu 17 Apr 2008
The last few weeks have seen an increase in violence in Somalia. Insurgents have up on...
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Elegy for the Tech
Wed 16 Apr 2008
Award winning poet Fred D’Aguiar is head of creative writing at Virginia Tech, the a...
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A Dollar a Day - China
Fri 11 Apr 2008
China is on track to meeting the Millennium Development Goal of halving Dollar-a-day...
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Call me Nana
Fri 11 Apr 2008
More than 65,000 grandparents in Canada are raising their grandchildren on their own,...
