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.
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China's Population 'Rhinoceros'
Sat 7 Feb 2026
Why China's shrinking population is like a charging rhino: dangerous and unavoidable
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Returning to Gaza
Sat 7 Feb 2026
Palestinians who've been separated by war reflect on the opening of the Rafah crossing
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Caught on camera: Exposing China鈥檚 spycam porn
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Hunting the criminals who hide cameras in hotel rooms to film people having sex
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Game of clones
Thu 5 Feb 2026
How has cloning Polo horses in Argentina been a game-changer, for both sport and biotech?
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From American Pastor to Whirling Dervish
Wed 4 Feb 2026
Former US Christian pastor, Ismail Fenter, fell for Rumi and became a whirling dervish
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India's sportswomen playing to be seen
Tue 3 Feb 2026
How sport is giving some young women in India a way out of child marriage.
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Liberation Radio
Mon 2 Feb 2026
Matthew Sweet on an exhibition about soldiers who sought refuge in Sweden
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Archaeology and war
Sat 31 Jan 2026
A Russian archaeologist has been imprisoned for his dig in occupied Crimea
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ICE in Minnesota
Sat 31 Jan 2026
How life has changed since Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrived
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Jesus in a shop doorway
Fri 30 Jan 2026
A former addict and gangster turns his past into a life of faith
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Hungary: The alternative to Orban
Thu 29 Jan 2026
Can opposition leader Peter Magyar challenge Viktor Orban?
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Shepherd's Eye In The Sky
Wed 28 Jan 2026
Bola Mosuro meets the nomadic herders feeding Africa and fighting climate change
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Nigeria: Killings, land and cattle
Tue 27 Jan 2026
Inside a conflict that鈥檚 fuelled controversial claims of 鈥淐hristian genocide鈥�
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Mrinalini Mukherjee: Hemp sculptures
Mon 26 Jan 2026
Indian sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee and her delicate hemp sculptures
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US foreign policy in five doctrines
Sun 25 Jan 2026
From the Monroe Doctrine to Trump, we look back at five big US foreign policy shifts
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Living in Greenland
Sat 24 Jan 2026
What is it like to live in Greenland as the world debates your future?
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Daughters of thunder
Fri 23 Jan 2026
The transformative work and faith of black female pastors in the American south
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Bonus: Introducing: The History Bureau
Wed 21 Jan 2026
If journalism is the first draft of history, what happens if that turns out to be flawed?
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Greece: Rescuers on trial
Tue 20 Jan 2026
The aid workers put on trial for people-smuggling after saving migrants from drowning
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Black girlhood in photos and writing
Tue 20 Jan 2026
Sisters Salamishah and Scheherazade Tillet鈥檚 photos and words on the lives of Black girls
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New elements
Sun 18 Jan 2026
The search for element 120 begins at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Kenyans lured to Russia's frontline
Sat 17 Jan 2026
The promise of a good job has tricked some into fighting in the war in Ukraine
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Stories from the New Silk Road: The Bering Sea
Thu 15 Jan 2026
The China-Russia-US tensions in the Bering Sea and China鈥檚 push for wider influence
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Putin's foreign fighters
Tue 13 Jan 2026
Why are young men from around the world risking their lives fighting for Russia?
