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The Documentary Episodes

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    Bougainville's long road to independence

    Is the Pacific island of Bougainville ready to become the world's newest country?

  2. Cold War in full swing

    Kevin Le Gendre discovers how Louis Armstrong came to play jazz in communist East Germany

  3. Global News Ukrainecast

    蜜芽传媒 correspondents answer questions from listeners around the world

  4. Sumo's soaring success

    Sumo star Konishiki Yasokichi discovers how the Japanese tradition is going global

  5. Ukraine: How did we get here?

    Edward Stourton and expert guests explain the steps that led to the conflict

  6. Inside the world's biggest humanitarian warehouse

    Meet the men and women helping to run Unicef's central distribution hub in Copenhagen

  7. Jobfished

    How people were hired to work for a successful design agency but the whole thing was fake

  8. The River Man

    Why did the IRA execute Irish former policeman James Kane 100 years ago?

  9. Dark patterns

    The complex web designs manipulating us to click, buy or subscribe

  10. World Wide Waves '22: The sounds of community radio

    Radio stations around the world keeping traditions alive

  11. No satisfaction

    Why young people are having less sex than previous generations

  12. Pakistan's long game

    Owen Bennett-Jones examines the long game Pakistan played in the US defeat in Afghanistan

  13. Music that survived the Nazis: Part two

    How music was kept alive by Jewish musicians in the camps and ghettos of Nazi Europe

  14. Fighting tobacco in Zambia

    The story of Brenda Chitindi's efforts to introduce a Tobacco Control Bill in Zambia

  15. Music that survived the Nazis: Part one

    The wealth of music during the Nazi era including secret sessions by Jewish musicians

  16. Tale of a tiny fish: Part two

    The tale of the disappearing Yaboi - a tiny nutritious fish from Senegal

  17. Silence would be treason

    The last prison writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa in the run-up to his execution

  18. Tale of a tiny fish: Part one

    The tale of the disappearing yaboi - a tiny nutritious fish from Senegal

  19. Forest fear

    Deforestation allows what's hidden within to get out, possibly to spread deadly pathogens

  20. Gone but not forgotten: Syria's missing persons

    Wafa Mustafa has been searching for her dad since he went missing in Syria in July 2013

  21. Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime

    The impact of Talking Heads' iconic single Once in a Lifetime

  22. Instahappiness

    Could one online inspirational quote actually change your life?

  23. Archbishop Desmond Tutu

    Reflecting on the life of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning campaigner

  24. Generation change: Part two

    The new generation fighting to taboos around organ donation and for diversity in STEM

  25. Generation change: Part one

    The new generation of change makers working to fight hunger and climate change

  26. MTV@40

    The birth of a ground-breaking concept - MTV, 24-hour music TV

  27. Afghan girls given a sporting chance

    The fortunes of teenage football players settling into new lives in the UK and Europe

  28. I Wonder as I Wander

    The origins and emotional impact of the Appalachian carol I Wonder as I Wander

  29. CODA: I'm the thumb in my family

    The remarkable stories of the children who act as interpreters for their deaf parents

  30. When the Beatles didn't meet Imelda

    The disastrous visit to the Philippines by the Beatles in 1966

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