The Documentary Podcast Podcast
A window into our world, through in-depth storytelling from the 麻豆社. Investigating, reporting and telling true stories from everywhere. Award-winning journalism and global issues.
A window into our world, through in-depth storytelling from the 麻豆社. Investigating, reporting and uncovering true stories from everywhere. Award-winning journalism, unheard voices, amazing culture and global issues.
From China鈥檚 state-backed overseas spending, to on the road with Canada鈥檚 Sikh truckers, to the frontline of the climate emergency, we go beyond the headlines.
Every week, we take you into the minds of the world's most creative people and explore personal approaches to spirituality. And we bring together people from around the globe to discuss how news stories are affecting their lives.
A new episode most days, all year round. From our 麻豆社 World Service teams at: Assignment, Heart and Soul, In the Studio, OS Conversations and The Fifth Floor.
Episodes to download
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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 麻豆社 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 麻豆社'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鈥橝guiar 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,...
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The Message from China
Wed 9 Apr 2008
Dr Anne-Marie Brady from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand investigates how...
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The Grass is Greener
Fri 4 Apr 2008
Why do Ghanaians dream of living a better life abroad? What must change in Ghana for...
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Assignment: The Most Dangerous Gang in America
Thu 3 Apr 2008
The United States has long been home to violent gangs, from the Mafia to the Bloods...
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Return to Kurdistan Part 2
Wed 2 Apr 2008
For Iraqi Kurds these are the best times they have ever known. But can the desire for...
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Simpson Returns to China
Fri 28 Mar 2008
Programme one: The Road From Tiananmen charts John Simpson's return to modern China 19...
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No Way Out
Fri 28 Mar 2008
Shazia Khan investigates the agony of forced marriages in the UK and the risks of to...
