The Documentary Podcast Episodes Episode guide
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Assignment: The Italian town where praying is a political issue
Monfalcone’s mayor has effectively tried to ban collective Muslim prayer in her town
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Assignment: The human cost of developing Cambodia's Angkor wonder
Changing the temple complex of Cambodia's '8th wonder of the world'
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Assignment: The Gambia - when migrants are forced to go home
The young Gambians who had to give up on their journey to Europe
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Assignment: The Families of Manshiyet Nasser
Catherine Miller reports from one of Cairo's biggest slums where - in 2008 - a massive...
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Assignment: The child rescue con
Exposed: the charity which claims to save children from trafficking and abuse
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Assignment: The Caspian crisis
Why is the Caspian Sea shrinking and what does this means for the region?
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Assignment: The Art of Match-Fixing
A series of recent arrests across Europe has highlighted the growing threat of in...
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Assignment: The Afghan Governors
Ten years after foreign forces invaded Afghanistan, they've begun to hand full back to...
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Assignment: The 'ghost city' of Cyprus
The beach resort frozen in time by 50 years of conflict, and the struggle over its future
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Assignment: Thawil - the Red Shirt protestor
When Thai soldiers stormed an anti-government protest in Bangkok last month more than...
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Assignment: Tempting fate - Istanbul's earthquake dilemma
Emily Wither reports from Istanbul on the threat of an earthquake striking the city
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Assignment: Taxing Questions for Greeks
No-one likes paying tax - but avoiding it is a way of life for many people in Greece,...
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Assignment: Taught to fear - corporal punishment in the classroom
Reported cases of teachers beating their students in Kenyan schools are on the rise
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Assignment: Syria - return to ruins
After 13 years of civil war, what awaits Syrians returning to their homes?
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Assignment: Swine Flu: Panic or Pandemic
In June 2009 the head of the World Health Organisation declared swine flu a global...
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Assignment: Spain's Stolen Babies
Katya meets the heartbroken families in Spain searching for their children and the now...
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Assignment: Spain's Hard Times
Pascale Harter reports from Spain for Assignment to see how families there are coping...
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Assignment: Spain, the kiss and the culture war
Has feminism gone too far? A world cup kiss that set a match to Spanish gender relations
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Assignment: Spain - can an algorithm predict murder?
How a risk assessment tool is used by police in Spain to predict gender-based violence
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Assignment: Spain - ‘liquid gold’ under pressure
In an era of climate change, what does the future look like for Spain’s olive farmers?
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Assignment: South Korea - the feminist hunters
How feminists in South Korea are being hunted down, attacked and sacked
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Assignment: Singing in Gaza
Amid the rubble, children in Gaza are learning music. How and why do they go on singing?
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Assignment: Singapore – drugs, rehab, execution
Singapore and drugs: compulsory rehabilitation, and traffickers paying the ultimate price
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Assignment: Secret Sisters. Political prisoners in Belarus
Belarus has huge numbers of political prisoners - many of them are women
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Assignment: Russia’s new war elite
How huge payouts to soldiers and their families are creating a new middle class in Russia
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Assignment: Russia's Church in Texas
The Americans converting to Orthodox Christianity in Texas...
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Assignment: Russia - Waiting for Justice
Rebecca Kesby investigates allegations of corruption within Russia's criminal justice...
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Assignment: Road wars - cycling in Paris
How a recent killing in Paris reveals a dark side to the city's cycling revolution
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Assignment: Return of the Benin Bronzes
Nigeria's long battle to bring home ancient treasures taken by British forces in 1897
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Assignment: Reproductive rights: A divided flock
How the debate over abortion and IVF has divided evangelical Christians in the US
