The Documentary Podcast Episodes Episode guide

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
BBC Trending: Can Community Notes clean up your feed?

Will Meta’s move to X-style Community Notes work?
BBC Trending: Brazilian farmers are (very) online

Rural pride goes viral in Brazil, but is it masking deeper environmental issues?
BBC Trending: Are we dating the same person?

How a Facebook group for exposing cheating boyfriends triggered an explicit retaliation
BBC Trending: An (online) storm in a Philippine rainforest

How a nature reserve in the Philippines got caught in an information battle
BBC OS Conversations: Women's safety in India

Indians share their experiences of attitudes towards women in the country
BBC OS Conversations: Women in sport

Sportswomen and commentators discuss being female in a male dominated profession.
BBC OS Conversations: What's it like to have mpox

Mpox sufferers and doctors share their experiences
BBC OS Conversations: What do Russians and Belarusians make of the Wagner Group?

Following the Wagner group march on Moscow, we hear from Russians and Belarusians
BBC OS Conversations: War and fatigue in Ukraine

Fighters, families and journalists share their experiences of the conflict
BBC OS Conversations: Voters in Britain and France

Why feeling fed up led to a vote for political change
BBC OS Conversations: US voters and the cost of living

How major news stories are affecting the lives of people around the world
BBC OS Conversations: US black and Latino male voters

We discuss if the male vote is a problem or opportunity ahead of the US election
BBC OS Conversations: Ukrainians and hope

People directly affected by the war share their experiences at home and abroad.
BBC OS Conversations: Ukrainian aid from the US

How Americans with Ukrainian heritage are funding medical packages, vans and art therapy
BBC OS Conversations: Ukraine: What do Russians think about the war?

Russian citizens share their views and experiences of the Ukraine-Russia war
BBC OS Conversations: Ukraine war babies and returning home

Giving birth during a war and returning from a safe haven abroad to conflict
BBC OS Conversations: Ukraine and three years of war

Every moment can be the last experiences of life in Ukraine
BBC OS Conversations: Tracking the pandemic

Three experts who have been tracking the spread and the impact of Covid-19
BBC OS Conversations: Toxic politics

Politicians share their experiences of threats and intimidation
BBC OS Conversations: Three years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan

Afghan women discuss their everyday life and the impact of tighter new restrictions
BBC OS Conversations: Three months after the fall of Assad

Women, tour guides and reunited families share their experiences of life in Syria
BBC OS Conversations: The Taylor Swift phenomenon

Experts and fans discuss the global appeal of the singer-songwriter megastar.