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鈥檚 new world order, to protests in Turkey, to the headphone revolution, 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 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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Selling cheese to the Chinese
Fri 14 Aug 2009
Mukul Devichand tells the story of the Europeans who are trying to persuade China's to...
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World Stories: Bombs, Stamps and Throat Singers
Fri 14 Aug 2009
American physicist Richard Feynman fell in love with the remote Russian region Tuva of...
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Assignment - The Pardon Game
Thu 13 Aug 2009
The Afghan drugs mafia is rich, powerful and entrenched, with connections running into...
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Gold - part one
Wed 12 Aug 2009
Man's long-term obsession with gold and the lengths we have gone to to get it.
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William Morris and the Muslims
Mon 10 Aug 2009
Navid Akhtar examines the influence of Islamic design and values in the life of poet,...
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Tracing the strain
Tue 4 Aug 2009
The World Health Organisation has warned that the worldwide spread of the so-called is...
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Iran and the West - part three
Mon 3 Aug 2009
Iran in the post 9/11 era, a time of friction and unrest over its nuclear ambitions.
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Global Perspective: Chungking Mansions
Fri 31 Jul 2009
A slice of life at a shabby but popular tenement in Hong Kong's teeming commercial...
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Caribbean voices - Part two
Tue 28 Jul 2009
Colin Grant reflects on the 蜜芽传媒鈥檚 role in boosting Caribbean writing in the region...
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Iran and the West: From Khomeini to Ahmedinejad - part 2
Mon 27 Jul 2009
The inside story of Iran's war with Iraq, and how the US viewed the conflict - a for...
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Global Perspective - Across the Water
Fri 24 Jul 2009
Nick Rankin travels to Fair Isle, one of the most remote inhabited islands in the to a...
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Assignment - Pakistan - Winning the Peace
Thu 23 Jul 2009
In this week's edition of Assignment, Jill McGivering travels through Pakistan, the of...
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West African journeys - Part two
Wed 22 Jul 2009
Award-winning journalist Sorious Samura drops into the middle of an undercover of a in...
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Iran and the West: From Khomeni to Ahmedinejad - part 1
Mon 20 Jul 2009
For the first time, the 蜜芽传媒 tells the story of Iran's relationship with the West over...
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Death Diminishes Me
Fri 17 Jul 2009
A soundscape of memory, loss, regret and hope from men who have been living with HIV...
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The Greening of the Deserts - part three
Wed 15 Jul 2009
In this series, Ayisha Yahya explores climate change issues in the African desert.
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Global Persepctive: Islands of Security
Fri 10 Jul 2009
South Africa's wealthy are retreating to high-security gated communities to protect...
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From Guantanamo to Paradise
Fri 10 Jul 2009
The story of four imprisoned Uyghur men transferred from Guantanamo Bay to the wealthy...
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Assignment - Land Grab Cambodia
Thu 9 Jul 2009
150,000 Cambodians are reported to be facing eviction from their land.
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The Greening of the Deserts
Wed 8 Jul 2009
In this three part series, Ayisha Yahya explores climate change issues in the African...
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Assignment - The Opus Dei enigma
Thu 2 Jul 2009
It's widely regarded as one of the most secretive religious organisations in the world.
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Thembi鈥檚 Story
Thu 2 Jul 2009
Thembi Ngubane鈥檚 Radio Diary about living with Aids in a South African Township.
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Global Perspective: Alert Bay
Thu 2 Jul 2009
Teenagers on the island of Alert Bay, British Columbia, talk openly about the beauty a...
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The Greening of the Deserts
Wed 1 Jul 2009
In this three part series, Ayisha Yahya explores climate change issues in the African...
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Iran in crisis
Sat 27 Jun 2009
In this special edition of Assignment, John Simpson reveals how the protests, and the...
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Blood and lava
Fri 26 Jun 2009
When the dried blood of Naples' patron saint fails to liquefy, Neapolitans believe...
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Mubarak's Egypt - part two
Thu 25 Jun 2009
After 28 years in power, President Mubarak's promise of shepherding his country into a...
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Assignment - The Rich in Retreat
Thu 25 Jun 2009
In a programme first broadcast in April, Ed Butler reports from New York on how the of...
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Farm Swap - part two
Wed 24 Jun 2009
In the final part of this series, Mike Gallagher meets a British farmer working vast...
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Mubarak's Egypt - part one
Mon 22 Jun 2009
After 28 years in power, Mubarak's promise of leading Egypt into stable democracy has...
