The Documentary Podcast Podcast
Hear the voices at the heart of global stories. Where curious minds can uncover hidden truths and make sense of the world. Documentary storytelling from the 91福利社 World Service.
Hear the voices at the heart of global stories. Where curious minds can uncover hidden truths and make sense of the world. The best of documentary storytelling from the 91福利社 World Service.
From conflict in the Middle East to the advance of AI, to the front line of the climate emergency, we go beyond the headlines. Each week we dive into the minds of the world鈥檚 most creative people, take personal journeys into spirituality and connect people from across the globe to share how news stories are shaping their lives.
Episodes to download
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Living with the threat of drone attacks
Sat 27 Sep 2025
Ukrainians living with the threat of drone attacks
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Finding my Sikh faith against the odds
Fri 26 Sep 2025
A British Sikh鈥檚 journey from gambling addiction and shame to ultimate spiritual renewal
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Bonus. 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
Thu 25 Sep 2025
Can Nasa build the most complex flying machine in space history?
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Goodreads鈥� 鈥榰nfair鈥� rating problem
Wed 24 Sep 2025
How 鈥榰nfair鈥� Goodreads ratings are leaving writers and readers mystified
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鈥楢 new foe鈥�: Conscripting women in Denmark
Tue 23 Sep 2025
18-year-old girls in Denmark are facing the draft, as the military boosts its numbers.
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Lesia Khomenko: Art and war
Mon 22 Sep 2025
Artist Lesia Khomenko has been documenting how the war has transformed Ukrainian society
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Will a fugitive oligarch sway Moldova鈥檚 election?
Sat 20 Sep 2025
The 91福利社 goes undercover, exposing a disinformation campaign ahead of Moldova鈥檚 election.
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Charlie Kirk and free speech
Sat 20 Sep 2025
Kirk鈥檚 supporters and other activists discuss the future for freedom of speech in the US
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Digital Dolittles: Talking to the animals?
Fri 19 Sep 2025
Technology allows new ways of listening to the animals. Will we become digital Dolittles?
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The social lives of bacteria
Wed 17 Sep 2025
The microscopic dramas of bacterial loners, crowd-lovers, backstabbers and do-gooders
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Faith on the Russia-Ukraine frontline
Wed 17 Sep 2025
We hear from military chaplains and priests on both sides of the war in Ukraine
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Kenya: A Battle For Gen Z
Tue 16 Sep 2025
Protests, abductions, defiance - the young people caught in a struggle for Kenya
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Jon Foreman: Art that goes out with the tide
Mon 15 Sep 2025
Land Artist Jon Foreman takes us behind the scenes of his new sculpture
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Decoding China鈥檚 doublespeak
Sun 14 Sep 2025
How the Chinese Communist Party gets lost in translation
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Who's behind Europe's largest rare book heist?
Sat 13 Sep 2025
How hundreds of Russian rare books disappeared from libraries across Europe
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Would you want to live until 150?
Sat 13 Sep 2025
We hear what it is like to live to an old age and what experts say on longevity
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Tequila with the bat man
Thu 11 Sep 2025
One conservationist's mission to protect bats and Mexico鈥檚 iconic tequila and mezcal
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Selling misleading fertility hope
Wed 10 Sep 2025
We investigate the science behind fertility supplements being promoted online
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My blessed boy: The millennial saint
Wed 10 Sep 2025
How teenager Carlo Acutis became the world鈥檚 first Millennial Saint
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MAST: Architecture on water
Mon 8 Sep 2025
Copenhagen architecture studio MAST specialises in building on water
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Kharkiv: Love in a warzone
Sun 7 Sep 2025
Why one woman chose to live under fire in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv 鈥� for love
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Colombia's cocaine submarines
Sat 6 Sep 2025
How Colombian drug cartels are using new methods to boost their revenues
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Grey divorce
Sat 6 Sep 2025
The personal impact of separating later in life and how it also affects adult children
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Germany's timber detectives
Thu 4 Sep 2025
A group of German scientists tackling illegal deforestation
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Floods hit Texas, then came the cloud talk
Wed 3 Sep 2025
Did cloud seeding trigger the Texas floods? No, but that didn鈥檛 stop the online rumours
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Galicia鈥檚 wild horses in peril
Tue 2 Sep 2025
Europe鈥檚 largest herd of wild horses, in north-west Spain, is under threat. Why?
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