The Documentary Podcast Podcast
Hear the voices at the heart of global stories. Where curious minds can uncover hidden truths and make sense of the world. Documentary storytelling from the 麻豆社 World Service.
Hear the voices at the heart of global stories. Where curious minds can uncover hidden truths and make sense of the world. The best of documentary storytelling from the 麻豆社 World Service.
From conflict in the Middle East to the advance of AI, to the front line of the climate emergency, we go beyond the headlines. Each week we dive into the minds of the world鈥檚 most creative people, take personal journeys into spirituality and connect people from across the globe to share how news stories are shaping their lives.
Episodes to download
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Heart and Soul: An 鈥楨ncore鈥� for Jesus
Fri 29 Mar 2024
The older women taking vows and becoming nuns in their 50s and 60s.
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Rwanda 30 years on
Wed 27 Mar 2024
Rwanda's journey towards healing and reconciliation after the 1994 genocide
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Bonus: The Black 14
Tue 26 Mar 2024
The lives of 14 black American footballers are changed forever in a fight against racism
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In the Studio: Helmut Deutsch and Michael Volle - Staging Winterreise
Mon 25 Mar 2024
An acclaimed pianist and baritone tackle Franz Schubert's song cycle
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Heart and Soul: How the Church鈥檚 role in Argentina鈥檚 dictatorship shook the nation鈥檚 faith
Fri 22 Mar 2024
How the Church鈥檚 role in Argentina鈥檚 bloody military dictatorship changed people鈥檚 faith
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Assignment: Border Stories, part 2 - Coyotes and Kidnap
Thu 21 Mar 2024
Tales of kidnap and extortion from those who risk everything to enter the US from Mexico
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A reckoning with drugs in Oregon
Wed 20 Mar 2024
How has Oregon鈥檚 radical drug decriminalisation policy changed lives?
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Trapped in Oman
Tue 19 Mar 2024
The fight to bring home a group of Malawian domestic workers trapped in servitude
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In the Studio: Colm T贸ib铆n
Mon 18 Mar 2024
Inside the creative world of the acclaimed author of Brooklyn
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Bonus: The Global Story
Sun 17 Mar 2024
Panama Canal: It's running dry and it's going to cost us - The Global Story
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麻豆社 OS Conversations: Haiti gangs and stray bullets
Sat 16 Mar 2024
People in Haiti trying to survive and the struggle for aid workers trying to help them
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Heart and Soul: Not even water?
Fri 15 Mar 2024
How young Muslims manage Ramadan in their lives and work
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Assignment: Border Stories, part one - Zero Tolerance
Thu 14 Mar 2024
The ongoing effects of Zero Tolerance, the policy that divided families on the US border
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Running out of sand
Wed 13 Mar 2024
Sand mining is fuelling Cambodia's construction boom but at what cost to the environment?
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In the Studio: Peter Beatty
Mon 11 Mar 2024
Artist and film-maker Peter Beatty turns his barge into a film studio
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麻豆社 OS Conversations: The cost of living crisis in Nigeria
Sat 9 Mar 2024
Daily experiences from the country鈥檚 worst economic crisis in a generation
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Heart and Soul: I joined the Taliban after they kept me hostage
Fri 8 Mar 2024
Why Jibra鈥檌l Omar, formerly Timothy Weeks, joined the Taliban after they kept him hostage
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Assignment: Educating Tibet
Thu 7 Mar 2024
Are Tibetans being forced into Chinese language schools, made to abandon their culture?
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Diving With a Purpose
Wed 6 Mar 2024
Meet the young scuba divers of colour who are searching for sunken slave ships
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Trending - The anti-vax candidate?
Wed 6 Mar 2024
Will Robert F Kennedy Jr鈥檚 views on vaccines help or hinder his bid for the White House?
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Tumaini
Tue 5 Mar 2024
A unique refugee-led celebration of music and solidarity in Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi
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In the Studio: Ghawgha
Mon 4 Mar 2024
Singer Ghawgha from Afghanistan explores identity, displacement and her people's struggle
