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The Documentary Podcast Episodes

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    The Fifth Floor: China’s global mining for green tech

    The Global China Unit's latest report on Chinese mines overseas

  2. The Fifth Floor: China's empty maternity wards

    How falling birth rates led to the closure of over 400 maternity wards in China

  3. The Fifth Floor: Can climate change stories be cool?

    A real life Squid Game in South Korea and a virtual tour of Brazil's giant ravines

  4. The Fifth Floor: Bollywood binge

    Old hits and horror movies: what is trending in Bollywood right now

  5. The Fifth Floor: Behind Georgia's political turmoil

    Why does Georgia find itself in a time of political turmoil?

  6. The Fifth Floor: Are Korean beauty products too light?

    How global demand is reshaping the Korean beauty industry

  7. The Fifth Floor: An Afghan love story

    From the fall of Kabul, to falling in love

  8. The Fifth Floor: A journalist's life in Israel

    What is it like to live and work as a journalist in Israel right now?

  9. The Father of English Football

    How decisions noted by Ebenezer Morley in 1863 allowed football to become the most of...

  10. The fate of Russia’s soldiers

    Tim Whewell follows the story of a Russian prisoner of war in Ukraine

  11. The famine at the edge of the ocean

    Journalist Raissa Ioussouf meets the people worst affected by Madagascar's famine

  12. The Fake Paralympians: 6.Fallout

    Why are learning disability athletes still feeling the impact of cheating 21 years on?

  13. The Fake Paralympians: 5. Court

    A criminal case is brought against the alleged cheats. Will justice be done?

  14. The Fake Paralympians: 4. Probe

    An investigation into whether the cheating went wider has shocking consequences

  15. The Fake Paralympians: 3. Lost

    The truth is out, the medals handed back. Now the questions. How? And why?

  16. The Fake Paralympians: 2. Caught

    Some of the gold-medal-winning team are recognised back home - and they're not disabled

  17. The Fake Paralympians: 1. Gold

    Team captain Ray is genuinely disabled - and going to Sydney is beyond his wildest dreams

  18. The fake bitcoin mine

    The story of a cryptocurrency scam that cost two men in India their life savings

  19. The Facebook grifters making money off AI Holocaust victims

    BBC Trending unravels the network profiting from AI Holocaust victims on Facebook

  20. The Face of China

    What Chinese magazines and their readers tell us about culture and politics in China

  21. The Extractor

    A profile of Israel's top search and rescue expert Hilik Magnus

  22. The exiles: Hong Kong at a crossroads

    Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters facing a tough decision. Do they stay or do they flee?

  23. The Evidence: Maternal Health in Malawi

    Why do so many women die due to childbirth?

  24. The Eternal Life of the Instant Noodle

    How instant noodles went global with the help of students, travellers and prisoners

  25. The Engineers: The future of cars

    Kevin Fong chairs a debate on the future of cars

  26. The Engineers: Lunar exploration

    Space engineers discuss their return to the moon and what that entails

  27. The Engineers: Exploring the human

    Innovations in neuro-science, blood-bubble drug delivery and ingestible electronics

  28. The End Zone

    Fears of brain damage is leading to Americans stopping playing football

  29. The End of Sand

    Our planet's sand reserves may be running out, with serious consequences for society

  30. The End of Innocence in Venezuela

    How criminal gangs in Venezuela use children as young as 10 and teenagers in their wars

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