The Documentary Podcast Podcast
Download the latest documentaries Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
Episodes to download
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Sierra Leone: The price of going home
Last Thursday
What happens to migrants who give up trying to reach Europe – and go home as failures?
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Hong Kong: Love in a divided city
Last Tuesday
How have the protests affected the married lives between Hong Kong and mainland Chinese?
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Comrade Africa
Sun 10 Nov 2019
How Communist East Germany tried to influence Africa via radio during the Cold War
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Moondog: Sound of New York
Wed 6 Nov 2019
Huey Morgan celebrates the life and work of blind musician Moondog
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Cameroon's MMA champion
Tue 5 Nov 2019
Francis Ngannou's odyssey from child labour in a sand quarry to superstardom in the UFC
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Northern Ireland 1969: The violence spreads
Wed 30 Oct 2019
Ruth Sanderson looks back at the Scarman testimonies and the violence in Belfast in 1969
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Uganda's war in the bush
Sun 27 Oct 2019
How the guerrilla war in Uganda led to the current leadership
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Being black in Italy
Thu 24 Oct 2019
Meet the black Italians fighting to claim their place in a nation that’s still very white
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Northern Ireland 1969: Battle lines
Wed 23 Oct 2019
How the violence of the Northern Ireland Troubles began in August 1969
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Looking for love: The Zoroastrian way
Tue 22 Oct 2019
Nalini Sivathasan meets young Zoroastrians trying to save their religion from extinction
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Argentina’s ‘white gold’ rush
Thu 17 Oct 2019
Are lithium-powered electric vehicles as ‘green’ as we think they are?
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The Gospel of Wealth
Wed 16 Oct 2019
Gordon Brown meets billionaires inspired by the great philanthropist Andrew Carnegie
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My personal history of sormeh
Tue 15 Oct 2019
Black eyeliner is more than just make-up. It's a symbol of the power of Persian women
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Super Sisters
Sun 13 Oct 2019
Meet the inspirational supersisters on whose shoulders today's female sport stars stand
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Cuba's digital revolution
Sun 13 Oct 2019
Cubans are getting online – so how is the internet transforming this communist country?
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Nigeria: sex for grades
Thu 10 Oct 2019
University professors sexually harassing and blackmailing female students in Nigeria
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Translating for mum and dad
Wed 9 Oct 2019
Meet the children who help their immigrant parents navigate life in the UK by translating
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Passport to paradise
Tue 8 Oct 2019
In Vanuatu, a tiny Pacific Island Nation, a controversial passport scheme is a concern
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Undercover with the clerics: Iraq’s secret sex trade
Thu 3 Oct 2019
The clerics facilitating so-called ‘pleasure marriages’ in return for payment
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How to buy your own country
Tue 1 Oct 2019
The winners and losers from the booming global citizenship trade
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America's child brides
Sun 29 Sep 2019
In America children can get married legally in most states. Jane O'Brien investigates
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Chile’s Stolen Babies
Thu 26 Sep 2019
A Chilean man - adopted at birth - searches for the mother forced to give him up
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The imam and the artist
Tue 24 Sep 2019
Searching for justice for South Africa’s Imam Abdullah Haron who spoke against apartheid
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World War Two: The economic battle
Sun 22 Sep 2019
How the countries involved in WW2 fought to feed their people and fund their armies
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The bitter song of the hazelnut
Thu 19 Sep 2019
Long hours, little pay, for the workers who pick Turkey's hazelnuts.
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Colombia’s kamikaze cyclists
Thu 12 Sep 2019
Precipitous mountain roads, specially-modified bikes, and deadly consequences.
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Hearing me
Tue 10 Sep 2019
What does life sound like for someone whose hearing has suddenly changed?
