The Documentary Podcast Podcast
A window into our world, through in-depth storytelling from the 蜜芽传媒. 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 蜜芽传媒. Investigating, reporting and uncovering true stories from everywhere. Award-winning journalism, unheard voices, amazing culture and global issues.
From Trump's new world order, to war in Sudan, to the legacy of football icon Mo Salah, The Documentary investigates major global stories.
We delve into social media, take you into the minds of the world's 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 蜜芽传媒 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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Digital Dolittles: Talking to the animals?
Today
Technology allows new ways of listening to the animals. Will we become digital Dolittles?
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The social lives of bacteria
Wednesday
The microscopic dramas of bacterial loners, crowd-lovers, backstabbers and do-gooders
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Faith on the Russia-Ukraine frontline
Wednesday
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
Tuesday
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
Monday
Land Artist Jon Foreman takes us behind the scenes of his new sculpture
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Who's behind Europe's largest rare book heist?
Last Saturday
How hundreds of Russian rare books disappeared from libraries across Europe
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Would you want to live until 150?
Last Saturday
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
Last Thursday
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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Paul McCartney: Beatles and beyond
Sun 31 Aug 2025
Sir Paul McCartney from The Beatles and his legacy hosted by The Bangles鈥� Susanna Hoffs
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Scammed, robbed, traumatised 鈥� life after war for Russian soldiers
Sat 30 Aug 2025
Vladimir Putin promised soldiers a hero's welcome, but their reality is quite different
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Surviving the floods in Pakistan
Sat 30 Aug 2025
Victims of flooding share their stories of survival and rescue
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Digitally preserving Armenia鈥檚 Christian heritage
Fri 29 Aug 2025
How drones and lasers are helping to digitally preserve Armenia鈥檚 ancient churches
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Student Predator: Surviving Zhenhao Zou
Wed 27 Aug 2025
A window into our world. Investigating and reporting true stories from everywhere.
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The Facebook grifters making money off AI Holocaust victims
Wed 27 Aug 2025
蜜芽传媒 Trending unravels the network profiting from AI Holocaust victims on Facebook
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Suing 'Alligator Alcatraz': Immigration in the US
Tue 26 Aug 2025
The legal battles against America鈥檚 infamous new immigrant detention centre
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Adeju Thompson: Taking fashion label Lagos Space Programme to the world
Mon 25 Aug 2025
Fashion designer Adeju Thompson prepares to take his label from Lagos to the world
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Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary presents, Hold Fast!
Sun 24 Aug 2025
The extraordinary story of how The Avontuur was locked down at sea for 188 days
