The Documentary Podcast Podcast
A window into our world, through in-depth storytelling from the 大象传媒. Investigating, reporting and telling true stories from everywhere. Award-winning journalism and global issues.
A window into our world, through in-depth storytelling from the 大象传媒. Investigating, reporting and uncovering true stories from everywhere. Award-winning journalism, unheard voices, amazing culture and global issues.
From the plight of young women in Afghanistan, to Syria鈥檚 water wars, to keeping African languages alive, The Documentary investigates major global stories.
We delve into social media, take you into the minds of the world鈥檚 most creative people and explore personal approaches to spirituality. Every week, we also bring together people from around the globe to discuss how news stories are affecting their lives.
A new episode most days, all year round. From our 大象传媒 World Service teams at: Assignment, Heart and Soul, In the Studio, OS Conversations, The Fifth Floor and Trending.
Episodes to download
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Inside the Climate Change Talks (part 2)
Mon 5 Nov 2007
The second part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex web...
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Can America Go Green? - Programme 1
Mon 5 Nov 2007
The 大象传媒's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its...
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Inside the Climate Change Talks (part 1)
Mon 5 Nov 2007
The first part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex web...
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Assignment - Sexual violence in South Africa
Thu 1 Nov 2007
South Africa has one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world.
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Wole Soyinka Returns to Biafra Part Two
Wed 31 Oct 2007
In this part, Wole Soyinka travels back on a route he first took in 1967 at the of the...
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Benazir Bhutto - The Investigation
Mon 29 Oct 2007
In Pakistan President Musharraf and the former Pakistani prime minister, Benazir did a...
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Benazir Bhutto - The Investigation
Mon 29 Oct 2007
We investigate the substance of the allegations against Benazir Bhutto and ask whether...
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Wole Soyinka Returns to Biafra
Wed 24 Oct 2007
Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning author, Wole Sayinka travels back to Biafra and comes to...
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Tales from the Commonwealth
Fri 19 Oct 2007
Robin White finds out about the disappearing Kweyol culture in St Lucia.
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Tales from the Commonwealth
Fri 19 Oct 2007
Robin White visits Maputo the capital city of Mozambique. After sixteen years of civil...
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Tales from the Commonwealth 4
Fri 19 Oct 2007
In the final part of this series Robin White visits Georgetown the capital of Guyana...
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China's Long Arm 4
Thu 18 Oct 2007
China has turned its attention to the US in its search for natural resources, even the...
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China's Long Arm 3
Wed 17 Oct 2007
Lucy Ash assesses the wider impact of China's insatiable appetite for natural and on...
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China's Long Arm 2
Tue 16 Oct 2007
Maurice Walsh considers whether China might use its growing military power to reclaim...
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China's Long Arm 1
Mon 15 Oct 2007
Maurice Walsh examines whether US government concerns about rising defence spending in...
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Tales from the Commonwealth 1
Fri 12 Oct 2007
Local broadcaster Eunis Taumomoa guides us through Papua New Guinea, a country that...
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Assignment - Afghanistan's war crimes
Thu 11 Oct 2007
Afghanistan's recent history has been a long list of human rights abuses and war - yet...
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Stem Cell Bazaar - Part 2
Wed 10 Oct 2007
Meet the doctors who are trying to introduce regulation of stem cell therapies in so...
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The Land of the Mobile Millionaires
Mon 8 Oct 2007
Matthew Sweet presents the extraordinary story of Finland's Nokia Millionaires, and a...
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Life After Vietnam
Fri 5 Oct 2007
Lance Corporal Baronowski's personal recordings, made in Vietnam shortly before he was...
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Assignment - Britain's gangmasters
Thu 4 Oct 2007
Assignment reports on the fate of thousands of migrants from eastern Europe, who come...
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Stem Cell Bazaar - Part 1
Wed 3 Oct 2007
Do stem cells really offer a miracle cure? Are the clinics offering genuine treatments...
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Rebuilding Southern Sudan Part 2
Mon 1 Oct 2007
Darfur has diverted attention from Southern Sudan, now emerging from civil war.
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Assignment - Burma: the road to crisis
Sat 29 Sep 2007
The two week uprising in Burma has been ruthlessly put down by the Burmese military.
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Assignment - Eritrea's persecuted Christians
Thu 27 Sep 2007
Assignment reports on the persecution of Christians in Eritrea - home to one of the in...
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A Journey from Conflict to Brotherhood
Wed 26 Sep 2007
John McCarthy looks at how the Kaduna Declaration in Kaduna, Nigeria, has had some in...
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Rebuilding Southern Sudan Part 1
Mon 24 Sep 2007
Darfur has diverted attention from Southern Sudan, now emerging from civil war.
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We're No Angels
Fri 21 Sep 2007
Karin Wells investigates controversial new laws in Poland that require over 35s to...
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Assignment - Liverpool's drug gangs
Thu 20 Sep 2007
Assignment reports on how a once model public housing project in Liverpool, has become...
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Top of the Class - Part 2
Wed 19 Sep 2007
Owen Bennett-Jones visits two of the world's leading educational establishments - and...
