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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Treating the Sex Offender
Sun 19 Jun 2016
Film-maker Rex Bloomstein investigates how sex offenders are treated and rehabilitated
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Honduras: After Berta鈥�
Thu 16 Jun 2016
Assignment explores the impact of the murder of environmentalist, Berta Caceres
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Black, White and Beethoven
Wed 15 Jun 2016
Why is the UK's classical music scene so resolutely white, and how might it evolve?
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My Iranian Daughter
Tue 14 Jun 2016
An Iranian family struggles to deal with the unspoken fact that their daughter is gay
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Follow That Tractor
Sun 12 Jun 2016
The stories at the world鈥檚 biggest monthly second-hand tractor auction
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Held Hostage in Syria
Sat 11 Jun 2016
Four European hostages held by Islamic State talk about their months of incarceration
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Bangladesh鈥檚 Hidden Shame
Thu 9 Jun 2016
A report on the alleged persecution of the indigenous peoples of Bangladesh.
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The Deobandis: Pakistan
Wed 8 Jun 2016
Owen Bennett Jones heads to Pakistan in his exploration of South Asia's Deobandi Islam
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Listening to the Bones - Part Two
Tue 7 Jun 2016
The forensic team looking for clues in bones to look for Latin America's 'disappeared'
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Target: Tolo TV
Thu 2 Jun 2016
Yalda Hakim on how a Kabul TV station has paid a terrible human price for its journalism
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The Deobandis: India
Wed 1 Jun 2016
India鈥檚 Deobandi school of Islam and its mission to preserve Islam in its purest form
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Listening to the Bones - Part One
Tue 31 May 2016
The Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology and their quest for clues from victims' bones
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Terror and Technology: The Unabomber
Sun 29 May 2016
How a reclusive maths prodigy terrorised America and how the media amplified his cause
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Capturing South Africa
Thu 26 May 2016
Why the Gupta family of Indian entrepreneurs are accused of 'capturing' South Africa
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Next Stop - Mariachi Plaza
Wed 25 May 2016
A night out in the Latino suburbs with the mariachis of Boyle Heights, East LA
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Iraq鈥檚 Kurds: From Flight to Freedom
Sun 22 May 2016
Twenty-five years ago thousands of Iraqi Kurds died fleeing Saddam Hussein鈥檚 forces
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Ghana: The Obuasi Stand-Off
Thu 19 May 2016
Why have illegal miners invaded three of Ghana's gold mines in recent months?
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The Sprung Floor
Wed 18 May 2016
Dancer Dane Hurst on his dream to teach modern dance to under-privileged kids in SA
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Rebel Song Journey
Tue 17 May 2016
One man鈥檚 struggle to keep singing despite losing everything in the Sri Lankan civil war
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Die Klassen - Health and Family
Sun 15 May 2016
The Syrian refugees who arrived in Berlin in 2015 and their attempts to settle in
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Checkmate Me In St Louis
Thu 12 May 2016
The mid-western city which has become a world centre for the game of chess.
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Setting the Past Free - Part Two
Wed 11 May 2016
Wrestling with Rudolf Kastner's Holocaust story and the issues it raises
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Are Human Rights Really Universal?
Tue 10 May 2016
The human rights movement vs resistance to human rights by powerful states
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China's Family Planning Army
Thu 5 May 2016
China's once hated population police are being turned into child development specialists.
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Setting the Past Free - Part One
Wed 4 May 2016
The Rudolf Kastner story - a hero or villain of the Holocaust?
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Are Human Rights Really Universal?
Tue 3 May 2016
The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which set out of rights for all humankind
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Born Free, Killed by Hate in South Africa
Thu 28 Apr 2016
The story of Pasca, a young lesbian and how South Africa's rainbow nation has failed her.
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Forgetting Igbo
Tue 26 Apr 2016
The fall and rise of Igbo, one of West Africa鈥檚 most widely spoken languages
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Beyond Binary
Sun 24 Apr 2016
The movement of people who define themselves as 鈥榥on-binary鈥� 鈥� not male, not female
