The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2013

Neil Trevithick and Kirsti Melville drive south from the Kimberley into the even-larger area of the Pilbara which has been heavily mined for more than 50 years. If there are any lessons to be learnt about the good and the bad that mining brings to country and community, then it is in the Pilbara.

As the future world faces huge changes in everything from family size to opportunities for women and length of life, how far are individuals in control? Shakespearean drama meets surprising statistics as Chris Bowlby investigates.

Dee Dee Myers, former White House Press Secretary to Bill Clinton, looks at the US State Department – it's had three female heads in the last 15 years – how has that changed the culture of the organisation?

Every year thousands of young men and women make the treacherous journey from Eritrea to Egypt via Sudan. Many fall victim to unscrupulous people traffickers. Mike Thomson reports.

How have Iraqis' lives changed in the 10 years since an invasion toppled Saddam Hussein? Hugh Sykes investigates.

The story of a photograph, a mother who died young and the desire to honour those we’ve loved and lost.

Neil Trevithick and Kirsti Melville journey across Western Australia to a pristine promontary called James Price Point, 60km north of the small resort town of Broome, to hear how the indigenous population is at odds with the huge industrial destructive non-replenishing nature of mining.

A separatist group on Kenya’s coast is calling on voters there to boycott the upcoming elections. How credible a threat will they pose to the next Kenyan government?

How Hurricane Sandy prompted New York and other coastal cities to face the reality of rising sea levels.

February marks the centenary of the birth of Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, is celebrated as the birth of the civil rights movement in the USA. Max Easterman offers a unique portrait of the woman who inspired Martin Luther King and civil rights activism across the world.