The Documentary Episodes Episode guide
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Coronavirus: Questions and answers
A panel of experts answers questions from listeners around the world
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Houston, we have a new criminal justice system
Can new judges transform Houston’s criminal justice system?
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Crossing Divides: The exchange
Cattle farmers from the USA and South Africa share perspectives
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Gospel meets hip-hop
Award winning UK rapper Guvna B explores the ‘gospel hip-hop’ music genre
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Reinventing Miss America
How can beauty pageants adapt in the wake of the #MeToo movement?
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Blasian love
Relationships between black and Asian origin South Africans
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Life on the line
What is life like for the billions of people who live along earthquake fault lines?
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Tony's Freehold Grill: Politics on the side
The 2020 US Presidential campaign as it unfolds over the countertop of a New Jersey diner
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The remarkable resistance of Lilo
Lilo and Erich Gloeden hid Jews from the Nazis in wartime Berlin.
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Disagreeing better
Why do we hold our opponents in contempt?
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My father the killer
How would you feel if your father was a convicted torturer?
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Greenland: Why music matters
Kate Molleson explores music’s place on the world’s largest island
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The Coffin Club
Meet the New Zealanders making an art-form out of coffin creation
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Germany: Justice and memory
How has Germany tried to come to terms with the legacy of its Nazi past?
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Trans in Japan
The controversial laws over how people can change gender in Japan
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The world turned upside down
What will the end of the world’s dependence on oil mean for geopolitics?
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Hey Sisters, Sew Sisters
The seamstresses who sewed soft goods components for space craft and space suits
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Time has chosen us
The Soviet War in Afghanistan told through its teenage soldiers and their music.
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Ii: The greenest town in Europe
The town of Ii in northern Finland is a green trailblazer
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Razia Iqbal speaks to US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Living with Star Wars
How Star Wars changed the cinematic universe in 1977
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Romania’s revolution 30 years on
How has Romania moved on from its totalitarian past?
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The Rainbow Railroad
A Canadian organisation is helping LGBT people escape persecution via a secret network.
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Judy Garland: The final rainbow
The story of Judy Garland's last concerts in London at the Talk of The Town nightclub
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My Big Korean-Iranian Wedding
What happens when an Iranian marries a South Korean and their families meet?
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The digital election: How social media is reshaping UK democracy
US political media expert Travis Ridout assesses efforts to influence UK voters.
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Giving peace a chance
Francine Jones returns to the scene of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 bed in for peace.