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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Fading Traditions - Part 1
Thu 24 Jan 2008
The number of Moroccan story-tellers, known as halakis, is dwindling. Why is their art...
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A Dollar A Day - Part 3
Tue 22 Jan 2008
In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to on...
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Looted Art: Part II
Thu 17 Jan 2008
Charles Wheeler is on the trail of art seized by the Soviets at the end of World War II
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Desperate Dreams - Part 2
Thu 17 Jan 2008
The second in a three part series. Every year, thousands of young people from Africa a...
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A Dollar A Day - Part 2
Tue 15 Jan 2008
In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to on...
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Desperate Dreams Part 1
Fri 11 Jan 2008
Every year, thousands of young men and women from sub-Saharan Africa set off across of...
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Friday Documentary - Looted Art: Part One
Thu 10 Jan 2008
At the end of World War Two, as Nazi Germany lay in ruins, millions of works of art to...
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Assignment - S Korea computer addiction
Thu 10 Jan 2008
Computer gaming has become a national obsession in South Korea but there is a dark side.
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A Dollar A Day - Part 1
Tue 8 Jan 2008
In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have to on...
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Assignment - Taxi to the Dark Side
Thu 3 Jan 2008
American film-maker Alex Gibney tells the story of an Afghan taxi driver, tortured to...
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Press For Freedom Part 4
Wed 2 Jan 2008
In the final part of the series Roy Greenslade profiles the head of News Corporation...
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Debt Threat
Mon 31 Dec 2007
The first programme will show how rapidly the shock wave of the credit crunch is and...
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Assignment - Blackwater
Thu 27 Dec 2007
There are now as many private security contractors in Iraq as there are US soldiers.
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Quest for a Cure
Fri 21 Dec 2007
Peter Day reports on whether the US Food and Drug Administration will licence the drug...
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Global Account - Part 4
Thu 20 Dec 2007
Allan Urry investigates links between the Pentagon, politicians and weapons manufacturers.
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Assignment - Inside Uzbekistan
Wed 19 Dec 2007
Since the Uzbek government put down an uprising in Andijan in 2005, the country has...
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Press for Freedom - part two
Wed 19 Dec 2007
Freedom of the internet:How do the motives of mainstream news websites compare with of...
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Press for Freedom - part three
Wed 19 Dec 2007
Building democracy: What is the role of radio in building democracy? In Papua, a new...
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Citizen Journalists
Mon 17 Dec 2007
What is the future of news, when the internet may undermine the old-fashioned 蜜芽传媒's...
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Press For Freedom Part 1
Wed 12 Dec 2007
蜜芽传媒's Roy Greenslade looks at how far reporting 'the truth' can be endangered by and...
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Making News Part 1
Mon 10 Dec 2007
The 蜜芽传媒 and other international broadcasters boast "objective" news and impartial onto...
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Global Account Part 2
Fri 7 Dec 2007
Africa's Cocaine Coast - Guinea-Bissau is awash with cocaine and is ranked by the as...
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Assignment - Leila's story
Thu 6 Dec 2007
Leila is a young woman in Iran, sold into prostitution by her family at the age of 9,...
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Seeing Iraq, Thinking Vietnam Part 2
Mon 3 Dec 2007
Jonathan Marcus explores the impact of these two conflicts on the american political...
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Global Account - Part 1
Thu 29 Nov 2007
Angus Stickler travels into the disputed "Red Zone" of Southern Thailand to discover a...
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Assignment - Inside Gaza
Wed 28 Nov 2007
Six months ago, the radical Palestinian faction Hamas took total control of the Gaza...
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Seeing Iraq, Thinking Vietnam Part 1
Mon 26 Nov 2007
Correspondent Jonathan Marcus compares the impact of the two conflicts on American and...
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Jihad and the Petrodollar part 2
Fri 23 Nov 2007
Roger Hardy follows the money trail and looks at the case of two prominent Saudi...
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Assignment - The internet chatroom murder
Thu 22 Nov 2007
This week on Assignment, a story of lust, deception and betrayal on the internet.
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Taxing Questions (part four)
Wed 21 Nov 2007
The final part of a four part series in which Maurice Walsh discovers why and the have...
