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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Press for Freedom - part three
Wed 19 Dec 2007
Building democracy: What is the role of radio in building democracy? In Papua, a new...
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Citizen Journalists
Mon 17 Dec 2007
What is the future of news, when the internet may undermine the old-fashioned BBC's...
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Press For Freedom Part 1
Wed 12 Dec 2007
BBC's Roy Greenslade looks at how far reporting 'the truth' can be endangered by and...
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Making News Part 1
Mon 10 Dec 2007
The BBC and other international broadcasters boast "objective" news and impartial onto...
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Global Account Part 2
Fri 7 Dec 2007
Africa's Cocaine Coast - Guinea-Bissau is awash with cocaine and is ranked by the as...
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Assignment - Leila's story
Thu 6 Dec 2007
Leila is a young woman in Iran, sold into prostitution by her family at the age of 9,...
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Seeing Iraq, Thinking Vietnam Part 2
Mon 3 Dec 2007
Jonathan Marcus explores the impact of these two conflicts on the american political...
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Global Account - Part 1
Thu 29 Nov 2007
Angus Stickler travels into the disputed "Red Zone" of Southern Thailand to discover a...
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Assignment - Inside Gaza
Wed 28 Nov 2007
Six months ago, the radical Palestinian faction Hamas took total control of the Gaza...
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Seeing Iraq, Thinking Vietnam Part 1
Mon 26 Nov 2007
Correspondent Jonathan Marcus compares the impact of the two conflicts on American and...
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Jihad and the Petrodollar part 2
Fri 23 Nov 2007
Roger Hardy follows the money trail and looks at the case of two prominent Saudi...
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Assignment - The internet chatroom murder
Thu 22 Nov 2007
This week on Assignment, a story of lust, deception and betrayal on the internet.
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Taxing Questions (part four)
Wed 21 Nov 2007
The final part of a four part series in which Maurice Walsh discovers why and the have...
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Taxing Questions (part three)
Tue 20 Nov 2007
In the third of a four part series Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the...
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Can America Go Green? - Programme 3
Mon 19 Nov 2007
The BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its...
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Jihad and the Petrodollar - part 1
Fri 16 Nov 2007
Has Saudi Arabia fanned the flames of Muslim militancy by exporting its own form of to...
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Taxing Questions (programme two)
Fri 16 Nov 2007
In the second of a four part series Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the...
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Assignment - The neglected thalidomiders
Thu 15 Nov 2007
Fifty years ago, the drug thalidomide was introduced as a treatment for pregnancy...
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Can America Go Green? - Programme 2
Mon 12 Nov 2007
The BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its...
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Taxing Questions (programme one)
Mon 12 Nov 2007
The first part of a four part series in which Maurice Walsh discovers why and the have...
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In Search of a New Kyoto
Fri 9 Nov 2007
In a special BBC WS One Planet debate, we bring together four people at the heart of...
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Inside the Climate Change Talks (part 3)
Wed 7 Nov 2007
The final part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex web...
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Inside the Climate Change Talks (part 2)
Mon 5 Nov 2007
The second part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex web...
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Can America Go Green? - Programme 1
Mon 5 Nov 2007
The BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its...
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Inside the Climate Change Talks (part 1)
Mon 5 Nov 2007
The first part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex web...
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Assignment - Sexual violence in South Africa
Thu 1 Nov 2007
South Africa has one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world.
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Wole Soyinka Returns to Biafra Part Two
Wed 31 Oct 2007
In this part, Wole Soyinka travels back on a route he first took in 1967 at the of the...
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Benazir Bhutto - The Investigation
Mon 29 Oct 2007
In Pakistan President Musharraf and the former Pakistani prime minister, Benazir did a...
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Benazir Bhutto - The Investigation
Mon 29 Oct 2007
We investigate the substance of the allegations against Benazir Bhutto and ask whether...
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Wole Soyinka Returns to Biafra
Wed 24 Oct 2007
Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning author, Wole Sayinka travels back to Biafra and comes to...
