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The Documentary Podcast Episodes

  1. Love Your Wife Day

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

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

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

  3. LOUD: Is noise an invisible killer?

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

  4. 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...

  5. Lost Children of the Holocaust

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

  6. Losing my sight and learning to swim

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

  7. Losing Louisiana

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

  8. Losing Attar

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

  9. Looted Art: Part II

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

  10. Looted Art

    A tale of a tiny painting, set against a large canvas of war, politics and looted art...

  11. Looping Swans

    Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and its relationship with the Russian psyche and politics

  12. Looking for No Man's Land

    Is there anywhere left on Earth that is unaffected by humans?

  13. Looking for love: The Zoroastrian way

    Nalini Sivathasan meets young Zoroastrians trying to save their religion from extinction

  14. Looking for Jaballah Matar

    Libyan dissident Jaballah Matar disappeared 20 years ago, and his son Hisham is his...

  15. Looking for Aunt Martha's Quilt

    In 1892, Liberian farmer Martha Ann Erskine Ricks presented Queen Victoria with a quilt

  16. Lonely in Lagos

    Poet and broadcaster Wana Udobang speaks with lonely and isolated people in the city

  17. Lonely in Lagos

    Poet and broadcaster Wana Udobang speaks with lonely and isolated people in the city

  18. London Calling: The London Chronicles

    Can a city retain a memory and if so what does it sound like? Francesca Panetta goes...

  19. London Calling: No Greater Love

    A powerful memorial to the bravery of an ordinary man Leigh Pitt, who saved a boy from...

  20. Lockdown: Tales from Panama and Brazil

    People across the world broadcast their experience of the coronavirus pandemic

  21. Lockdown: Tales from Lebanon, Australia, Atlanta and India

    Listeners offer their perspectives on a global crisis and their lives in lockdown

  22. Living With Tourists - Part Two

    How does tourism affect local culture? In the second part of Living With Tourists, Ros...

  23. Living With Tourists - Part One

    Is tourism encroaching on lives, highlighting inequalities and causing antipathy and...

  24. Living with Tourette syndrome

    People with Tourette's share their experiences

  25. Living with the threat of drone attacks

    Ukrainians living with the threat of drone attacks

  26. Living with the Dead

    How some Indonesians live with dead family members for years

  27. Living with Star Wars

    How Star Wars changed the cinematic universe in 1977

  28. Living with power cuts

    We hear from people who experience regular power interruptions

  29. Living with motor neurone disease

    People with the condition tell us how it affects their lives

  30. Living with leprosy

    Aleks Krotoski on the history of leprosy and its stigma.

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