麻豆社 World Service - The Documentary Podcast

The Documentary Podcast Episodes Episode guide

Before I Go

Four people share their life-affirming experience of living with a terminal illness
Beats, rhymes and life: Hip-hop at 50

DJ and writer Lynn茅e Denise reflects on hip-hop as it marks its 50th year
Beats, rhymes and justice: Hip-hop on Rikers Island - Part two

MC and producer Ryan Burvick and the inmates learning to rap in Rikers Island jail
Beats, rhymes and justice: Hip-hop on Rikers Island - Part one

MC and producer Ryan Burvick and the inmates learning to rap in Rikers Island jail
Beats, Rhymes and Justice: Hip Hop on Rikers Island

Behind the bars of New York鈥檚 notorious jail, Rikers Island, inmates are learning to rap
Beatles in the USSR

As Beatlemania swept throughout the world in 1964, it seemed unable to penetrate the...
麻豆社 Trending: Yami Baito - Inside Japan鈥檚 dark part-time jobs

How job postings on social media are luring people into organised crime in Japan
麻豆社 Trending: Woman, life, surveillance

We speak to women targeted by the Iranian government after posting on social media
麻豆社 Trending: Were Valencia's floods engineered weather?

The conspiracy theories that swirled around Valencia's floods
麻豆社 Trending: Ukraine war - the cost of bearing witness

Open Source analysts and fact-checkers describe the toll of documenting the Ukraine war
麻豆社 Trending: The TikTokers inside an election fire-storm

麻豆社 Trending speaks to influencers implicated in the cancellation of Romania's election
麻豆社 Trending: The dark side of music streaming

How fake streams are stealing millions from the music industry
麻豆社 Trending: The curse of the blessing scam

The female crooks who exploit superstition and family love to swindle other women
麻豆社 Trending: The cost of an addiction to Somali TikTok battles

Cash-strapped and verbally abused 鈥� players of the TikTok game taking Somalia by storm
麻豆社 Trending: The chatbot bridging an aid gap

The female engineer who has created a chatbot on WhatsApp to help deliver aid in Lebanon
麻豆社 Trending: The Baku initiative?

Is Azerbaijan capitalising on France鈥檚 struggle in the South Pacific?
麻豆社 Trending: Quadrobic panic in Russia over craze to dress and walk on all fours like animals

Why Russia is cracking down on the craze to dress as animals and run on all fours
麻豆社 Trending: Print and shoot - The spread of 3D-printed guns

How the technology to print your own lethal weapon is promoted on social media
麻豆社 Trending: Passport bros

The impact that young digital nomads known as 'passport bros' are having on Medell铆n
麻豆社 Trending: Meet the anti-witch hunter

Meet the man who intervenes to protect people accused of witchcraft across Africa
麻豆社 Trending: Inside Nigeria鈥檚 hustle kingdoms

How con artists learn the tricks of their trade at dedicated scamming schools in Nigeria
麻豆社 Trending: From a suspected smuggler鈥檚 TikTok to tragedy

How one Pakistani suspected smuggler鈥檚 TikTok account revealed clues of his activities
麻豆社 Trending: Can Community Notes clean up your feed?

Will Meta鈥檚 move to X-style Community Notes work?
麻豆社 Trending: Brazilian farmers are (very) online

Rural pride goes viral in Brazil, but is it masking deeper environmental issues?
麻豆社 Trending: Are we dating the same person?

How a Facebook group for exposing cheating boyfriends triggered an explicit retaliation
麻豆社 Trending: An (online) storm in a Philippine rainforest

How a nature reserve in the Philippines got caught in an information battle
麻豆社 OS Conversations: Women's safety in India

Indians share their experiences of attitudes towards women in the country
麻豆社 OS Conversations: Women in sport

Sportswomen and commentators discuss being female in a male dominated profession.
麻豆社 OS Conversations: What's it like to have mpox

Mpox sufferers and doctors share their experiences
麻豆社 OS Conversations: What do Russians and Belarusians make of the Wagner Group?

Following the Wagner group march on Moscow, we hear from Russians and Belarusians