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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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 麻豆社'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 麻豆社'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 麻豆社 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 麻豆社'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...
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Tales from the Commonwealth
Fri 19 Oct 2007
Robin White finds out about the disappearing Kweyol culture in St Lucia.
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Tales from the Commonwealth
Fri 19 Oct 2007
Robin White visits Maputo the capital city of Mozambique. After sixteen years of civil...
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Tales from the Commonwealth 4
Fri 19 Oct 2007
In the final part of this series Robin White visits Georgetown the capital of Guyana...
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China's Long Arm 4
Thu 18 Oct 2007
China has turned its attention to the US in its search for natural resources, even the...
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China's Long Arm 3
Wed 17 Oct 2007
Lucy Ash assesses the wider impact of China's insatiable appetite for natural and on...
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China's Long Arm 2
Tue 16 Oct 2007
Maurice Walsh considers whether China might use its growing military power to reclaim...
