The Documentary Podcast Podcast
A window into our world, through in-depth storytelling from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ. 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 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ. Investigating, reporting and uncovering true stories from everywhere. Award-winning journalism, unheard voices, amazing culture and global issues.
From the debate over abortion in the US, to voices from the Middle East conflict, to climate change in Somalia, The Documentary investigates major global stories.
We delve into social media, take you into the minds of the world’s most creative people and explore personal approaches to spirituality. Every week, we also 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 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service teams at: Assignment, Heart and Soul, In the Studio, OS Conversations, The Fifth Floor and Trending.
Episodes to download
-
Heart and Soul: The caste faultlines in Modi’s India
Fri 5 Apr 2024
How the Hindu majority in Modi’s India is still divided by caste
-
Azovstal: The 80 day siege
Thu 4 Apr 2024
Ukrainian citizens and soldiers who survived the siege of Azovstal recount their ordeal
-
Forward Thinking: Is it ethical to live longer?
Wed 3 Apr 2024
The dilemmas caused by treatments that could tackle some of our most serious illnesses
-
Assignment: Secret Sisters. Political prisoners in Belarus
Tue 2 Apr 2024
Belarus has huge numbers of political prisoners - many of them are women
-
In the Studio: Maria Grachvogel
Mon 1 Apr 2024
Maria Grachvogel shares her passion for creating outfits and working with Victoria Beckham
-
Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary
Sun 31 Mar 2024
Fugees Family: the refugee football team who became my life - Lives Less Ordinary
-
Bonus: The Global Jigsaw: Moscow attack: disinfo wars
Sat 30 Mar 2024
Who is behind the Crocus City Hall attack? We track the blame game.
-
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ OS Conversations: Messages from Gaza
Sat 30 Mar 2024
Four women share their experiences of resilience, fear and despair in war-torn Gaza
-
Heart and Soul: An ‘Encore’ for Jesus
Fri 29 Mar 2024
The older women taking vows and becoming nuns in their 50s and 60s.
-
-
Assignment: Choking in Chiang Mai
Thu 28 Mar 2024
What it’s like to live and die in a polluted city
-
Rwanda 30 years on
Wed 27 Mar 2024
Rwanda's journey towards healing and reconciliation after the 1994 genocide
-
Bonus: The Black 14
Tue 26 Mar 2024
The lives of 14 black American footballers are changed forever in a fight against racism
-
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
-
-
-
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ OS Conversations: Protesting farmers
Sat 23 Mar 2024
Why are farmers taking to the streets?
-
Heart and Soul: How the Church’s role in Argentina’s dictatorship shook the nation’s faith
Fri 22 Mar 2024
How the Church’s role in Argentina’s bloody military dictatorship changed people’s faith
-
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
-
-
A reckoning with drugs in Oregon
Wed 20 Mar 2024
How has Oregon’s radical drug decriminalisation policy changed lives?
-
Trapped in Oman
Tue 19 Mar 2024
The fight to bring home a group of Malawian domestic workers trapped in servitude
-
In the Studio: Colm TóibÃn
Mon 18 Mar 2024
Inside the creative world of the acclaimed author of Brooklyn
-
Bonus: The Global Story
Sun 17 Mar 2024
Panama Canal: It's running dry and it's going to cost us - The Global Story
-
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 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
-
Heart and Soul: Not even water?
Fri 15 Mar 2024
How young Muslims manage Ramadan in their lives and work
-
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
-
Running out of sand
Wed 13 Mar 2024
Sand mining is fuelling Cambodia's construction boom but at what cost to the environment?
-
-
In the Studio: Peter Beatty
Mon 11 Mar 2024
Artist and film-maker Peter Beatty turns his barge into a film studio