The Documentary Podcast

By BBC World ServiceSociety & Culture Documentary

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The Documentary Podcast episodes

September 26, 2013 Venezuela – Out of Stock
Ed Butler follows consumer’s quest for goods, the phenomenon of widespread smuggling, and asks whether the government has a plan to tackle the sense of looming economic crisis.
27 min
September 02, 2013 Rewriting the Revolution
Shaimaa Khalil looks at the Arab Spring through the eyes of prominent writers Egypt's Sara Khorshid, Libyan author Ghazi Gheblawi, Tunisia's Samar Samir Mezghanni, Farea Al-Muslimi from Yemen and Syrian author Samar Yazbek.
28 min
July 18, 2013 Welfare Britain – the New Reality
London families talk to Nina Robinson about the reality of new welfare reforms.
27 min
July 11, 2013 Greece – In Sickness and in Debt
Zeinab Badawi talks to doctors and patients who struggle to cope as hospitals in Greece are hit by cuts and are running out of basic medical supplies.
27 min
May 23, 2013 Guns and Mental Health in America
Many of America’s mass killers have had mental health problems yet America is a country where millions who are mentally ill go without treatment and have easy access to guns.
27 min
April 30, 2013 Egypt’s Challenge – Part 2 (Free to Speak)
Shaimaa Khalil listens to the new voices of the Egyptian revolution. Under President Mubarak the media was restricted – all that’s changed but it’s presenting new challenges.
27 min
March 05, 2013 After Saddam - Part 1
How have Iraqis' lives changed in the 10 years since an invasion toppled Saddam Hussein? Hugh Sykes investigates.
24 min
March 02, 2013 Red Dirt Dreaming - Part One
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.
50 min
February 18, 2013 The Next Pope
What kind of Pope does the Catholic Church need? A conservative or a reformer? Dan Damon joins Vatican experts and religious leaders to examine the future of the papacy.
50 min
January 15, 2013 Pity the Poor Soccer Stars
Why do so many African football stars go from rags to riches - and back to rags again? Farayi Mungazi is in Africa to find out.
24 min

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The best documentaries from the BBC World Service. Hear the voices at the heart of global stories. Where curious minds can uncover hidden truths and make sense of the world.