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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Coronavirus: Athletes and teachers
Sat 15 Jan 2022
How global sports stars are approaching Covid vaccines.
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Djokovic, sport and vaccine mandates
Sat 15 Jan 2022
Ros Atkins looks at the issue of vaccination in sport
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World of Wisdom: Being your true self
Sat 15 Jan 2022
Trying to become the real you can be hard, especially if it means upsetting your family.
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Montenegro鈥檚 Chinese road
Thu 13 Jan 2022
How a new motorway is fuelling fears about debt, corruption, and submission to Beijing
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Forest fear
Sat 8 Jan 2022
Deforestation allows what's hidden within to get out, possibly to spread deadly pathogens
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Coronavirus: The vaccinators
Sat 8 Jan 2022
We connect to people helping to administer vaccines in different parts of the world.
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The storming of the US Capitol: what happened next
Sat 8 Jan 2022
Ros Atkins looks at the aftermath of the attack in 2021
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World of Wisdom: Precious time in later life
Sat 8 Jan 2022
It can be hard to choose how to spend our precious time in later life. How do we decide?
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Turkey's crazy project
Thu 6 Jan 2022
The ambitious new canal project that's dividing opinion in Istanbul
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Generation Change: Battling for a sustainable environment
Tue 4 Jan 2022
Babita Sharma meets young people from around the world working to fight climate change
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Generation Change: Equality in science and technology
Tue 4 Jan 2022
Young people working to diversify science, technology, engineering and maths
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Generation Change: Tackling taboos around organ donation
Tue 4 Jan 2022
Young people trying to change attitudes and save lives
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Generation Change: Fighting hunger
Tue 4 Jan 2022
Can a new generation of activists solve the problem of hunger for good?
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Gone but not forgotten: Syria's missing persons
Tue 4 Jan 2022
Wafa Mustafa has been searching for her dad since he went missing in Syria in July 2013
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A Wish for Afghanistan: The advocate and the musicians
Sun 2 Jan 2022
Lyse Doucet hears about the hopes of a younger generation of Afghans
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A Pyrotechnic History of Humanity: The future
New Year's Day 2022
How will we wean ourselves off fossil fuels?
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麻豆社 OS Conversations: Tracking the pandemic
New Year's Day 2022
Three experts who have been tracking the spread and the impact of Covid-19
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World of Wisdom: Social distance
New Year's Day 2022
The pandemic has changed many of the ways we connect socially with others
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Peru's left behind children
Thu 30 Dec 2021
The hidden pandemic in Peru; the thousands of children who have lost a parent to Covid-19
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Boxing Day 2021
Reflecting on the life of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and anti-apartheid campaigner
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A Wish for Afghanistan: The Talib and the president
Boxing Day 2021
Lyse Doucet speaks to two key players who have shaped Afghanistan's recent history
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A Pyrotechnic History of Humanity: Fossil fuels
Christmas Day 2021
Our modern comfortable way of life and how it was made possible by fossil fuels
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Coronavirus: Reporting Covid
Christmas Day 2021
Vaccines, vaccine hesitancy, Delta, Omicron. What鈥檚 it like reporting on the pandemic?
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World of Wisdom: Happiness in a hard situation
Christmas Day 2021
How do you find inner happiness when life in your home country has become very hard?
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Afghan girls given a sporting chance
Christmas Eve 2021
The fortunes of teenage football players settling into new lives in the UK and Europe
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The runaway maids of Oman
Thu 23 Dec 2021
A delicate rescue operation is helping hundreds of young African women trapped in Arabia
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CODA: I'm the thumb in my family
Tue 21 Dec 2021
The remarkable stories of the children who act as interpreters for their deaf parents
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Agriculture: The solar energy revolution
Sun 19 Dec 2021
Justin Rowlatt looks at the energy revolutions that drove human history
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Parcels of CARE
Sat 18 Dec 2021
How food packages from American relief organisation CARE eased starvation after WW2
