BBC Radio Podcasts from The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2013
Riding the Graphene Wave
Graphene is a super-strong and super-conductive material. Gerry Northam looks at its...
Inside the Fed
The US Federal Reserve, America's central bank, is one hundred years old.
Brazil - Fighting Slavery
Brazil's anti-slavery hit-squads are unique. Linda Pressly joins a raid with a band of...
Who's Left Holding the Baby
Childcare options in Fiji, where children are taken care of by the community, and as...
Lines in the Sand
The emerging Jihadi challenge across the Sahara and Sahel regions of Africa.
Bangladesh: Trials of Strength
Farhana Haider investigates the prosecution of alleged war criminals from the conflict...
Notes from Kampala
The story of Kampala Music School told by its pupils and teachers. Kampala Music began...
The Revenge Porn Avengers
When a group of young Texan women found naked pictures of themselves online, they but...
The Harder They Come - Part Two
Forty years after the premiere of Jamaican cult film The Harder They Come, Chris asks...
Madiba's African Footsteps
Mandela's 1962 pan-African journey to explain the mission of the ANC and seek support,...
Mandela - an Audio History
Nelson Mandela on the struggle against apartheid, with words from those who fought - -...
Life of Mandela
A look back at the life of Nelson Mandela by the BBC's former South Africa Allan...
India: Resisting Rape
One year on from the horrific attack on a student in Delhi, Joanna Jolly hears from to...
Jamaica - The Harder They Come
The cult classic Jamaican crime film The Harder They Come, its reggae soundtrack - and...
Inside The Vatican
Pope Francis is being acclaimed for his leadership of the Roman Catholic Church - but...
It's a Mall World
Be it in Lagos, Minneapolis or Rio de Janeiro, how have shopping malls become such a...
Mexico - Exorcising the Narco-Devil
Vladimir Hernandez meets the Mexican Catholic priests who believe the country's drug -...
The Father of English Football
How decisions noted by Ebenezer Morley in 1863 allowed football to become the most of...
Moldova - Sour Grapes
Tiny Moldova is the world's 7th biggest wine exporter so a ban on exports to Russia...
The Rhetoric of Cancer
Are military metaphors such as 'battling' always appropriate when it comes to dealing...
JFK: Dallas Remembers
People with a perspective on the assassination and death of John F Kennedy in Dallas:...
Colombia Child Soldiers
With rare access to the government's rehabilitation programme Tom Esslemont meets as...
Across Jamaica's Gay Divide - Part One
Jamaica's gay rights and anti-homosexuality movements: what it is like to be a gay in...
Indonesia: The Humungous Healthcare Plan
Can Indonesia create the world's largest public health system? Claire Bolderson...
Who's Holding the Baby
Madeleine Morris explores alternative childcare with a visit a boarding school where...
Melilla’s Border Stories
Melilla is one of Europe’s most southerly land borders with Africa, a town under...
Who's Holding the Baby?
Childcare - its costs and its developmental implications - has become one of the most...
The Pink Panthers
The inside story of the world’s most successful gang of jewel thieves, nicknamed The...
Lighting Lagos
Neal Razzell spends days and nights in Lagos with the electricity teams who are to to...
Women on the Front Line
Emma Barnett examines which countries in the world do allow women to serve, and the of...
Women Farmers
The toils and tribulations of Polly Apio a smallholder in rural Uganda, where men own...
Battling Booze in Alice Springs
James Fletcher travels to Alice Springs in Australia to hear first-hand how alcohol is...
Ageing and Caring
As the global population ages, is it time for a re-think about how we view elderly to...
Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase
"Anything that can happen on earth, at some point happens in the sky. " Air hostess the...
The Bucket List
Cancer-fighting BBC foreign correspondent Helen Fawkes shares her list of things she...
Malala's Story
The dramatic, disturbing and inspiring story of Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the...
After the Collapse - the Rana Plaza Legacy
More than a thousand garment workers died and several thousand were injured in the of...
China and America: Harmony and Hostility
The BBC's North America Editor, Mark Mardell, travels to China to explore the most in...
The Iraq War
Lucy Ash looks at the conflicts within Iraq between 2005 and 2012, told from the point...
Isolation
Man is a social creature, so how does he cope in situations of isolation - bereft of -...
Attack on Nairobi’s Westgate Mall: The People's Story
The BBC’s Anne Soy reflects on what these last few days will mean for the future of...
Venezuela – Out of Stock
Ed Butler follows consumer’s quest for goods, the phenomenon of widespread and asks...
The Iraq War
Lucy Ash looks at the mistakes made early in the occupation of Iraq during the period...
The Red Cross Crisis
The Red Cross turns 150 this year, but is their humanitarian role still relevant?...
Indonesia – The Mercury Menace
Linda Pressly investigates the threat from mercury poisoning to the health of gold...
The Iraq War
The inside story of the invasion of Iraq and the ensuring decade of conflict, told the...
New Year, New Burma
As Burma (also known as Myanmar), opens up, one new freedom comes in the form of - the...
China's Leftover Men
Lucy Ash reports on China’s gender imbalance which by 2020 will leave 24 million for...
The New Ottomans Part 3
Turkish businessmen have been rapidly rebuilding their links with the Balkan states as...
The Congress and the Commander in Chief
The history of tension between the US President and Congress over taking military action.
Boom and Bust in Australia’s coal country
James Fletcher travels to Mackay in Queensland’s coal country to hear one town’s...
The New Ottomans Part Two
Turkey's new relationships with its traditional allies - the Balkans, North Africa and...
Rewriting the Revolution
Shaimaa Khalil looks at the Arab Spring through the eyes of prominent writers Egypt's...
Inside Gay Pakistan
Mobeen Azhar investigates life in gay, urban Pakistan and finds out what it's really...
Turkey - The New Ottomans
Allan Little charts the politcal changes in Turkey from the birth of the republic and...
Turkey’s New Opposition
Emre Azizlerli explores the strange new alliances forged in Turkey's anti-government...
Kazakhstan’s living Gulags
The Soviet Gulag system is said to live on in Kazakhstan's jails, the prison are be...
Feeding the World
America's Food for Peace programme ships American-grown food in sacks across the world...
Tel Aviv Comes Out
In many Middle East countries being gay can lead to the death penalty.
Bombing Boston
Hilary Andersson investigates what really lay behind the Boston marathon bombings and...
The Truth and Nothing but the Truth
Dr Geoff Bunn investigates the latest lie-detecting technology. He discovers that the...
Miracle Village
Miracle Village is home to over a hundred sex offenders. But do Florida’s strict the...
Race for Equality, Episode 2
Ghana sent just four Paralympians to the 2012 Olympics, none of whom made it to the...
Nightingales of India
Sisters Lata and Asha have forged Bollywood singing careers spanning more than six and...
Six Months in Captivity
In September 2011, Judith and David Tebbutt set off to Kenya on holiday.
Spain: Operation FGM
In Spain a doctor offers reconstructive surgery to women who have had female genital...
Under Attack
The Threat from Cyberspace: The alarming extent to which cyberspace is being used to...
Welfare Britain – the New Reality
London families talk to Nina Robinson about the reality of new welfare reforms.
Race for Equality, Episode 1
Tatyana McFadden is one of the most successful wheelchair racers in Paralympic history...
Law Behind Bars
Meet the Kenyan prisoners acting as lawyers on behalf of themselves and fellow inmates.
Greece – In Sickness and in Debt
Zeinab Badawi talks to doctors and patients who struggle to cope as hospitals in are...
Home Away From Home
Meet the Somali community whose families first settled in Cardiff's Butetown in 1890,...
Sweden’s Angry Suburbs
Tim Mansel reports from Stockholm in the wake of riots that started in the suburbs and...
Media Futures - Internet Age
In the fourth and final part of the programme, Mark Coles considers the lessons that -...
Kermit Gosnell: Doctor and Murderer
Authorities knew there were big problems at Dr Kermit Gosnell’s west Philadelphia...
Media Futures - Television
Why are new forms of video production and delivery such as You Tube's recently so Mark...
France – The Tale of Two Factories
The northern French town of Amiens has two tyre factories with very different fates, a...
Media Futures - Radio
Mark Coles discovers that in Africa, the medium is evolving to suit delivery over with...
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Rob Walker investigates a mysterious death in London’s suburbia. Its the story of a...
Media Futures
1/4. Does the internet mean the end of the daily newspaper?
Damascus Diary
In this intimate, revealing programme, Lina Sinjab combines dramatic scenes and with a...
Ahmadinejad: The Populist and the Pariah
The rise - and legacy - of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. How did this with a...
Azerbaijan – Heroes and Villains
Heroes and villains in Azerbaijan and what they tell us about national identity there.
Egypt’s Challenge – The Next Generation
Egypt’s youth were at the forefront of the revolutionary protests in Tahrir Square...
Tax Avoidance: The Hidden Cost
While the low tax bills of Google, Starbucks and Amazon trigger political uproar, how...
Guns and Mental Health in America
Many of America’s mass killers have had mental health problems yet America is a who...
Egypt’s Challenge – Far from Cairo
Shaimaa accompanies a young revolutionary back to his home town to see whether the is...
Romario tackles Brazil
Tim Franks meets Romario - Brazil's World Cup-winning footballer, turned serious...
Egypt’s Challenge – Men in Uniform
Can Egypt’s police force rebuild its reputation and will the army stay out of Khalil...
Return to Ghana’s Oil City
Rob Walker returns to the port of Takoradi, the hub for Ghana’s new oil industry, to...
Egypt’s Challenge Part 3 (Making a Living)
Shaimaa Khalil examines the state of Egypt’s economy two years after its revolution.
Hazaras, Hatred and Pakistan
Mobeen Azhar investigates violence against Pakistan’s Hazara minority in the city of...
Egypt’s Challenge – Part 2 (Free to Speak)
Shaimaa Khalil listens to the new voices of the Egyptian revolution. Under President...
The Belarusian University in Exile
Few dare to speak out in Belarus but the opposition has found a way of making it’s...
Egypt’s Challenge Part 1 (Returning Home)
As Egypt struggles with its new democracy, Shaimaa Khalil examines the dramatic facing...
CEO Guru
Top chief executives - including Lenovo's Chairman Liu Chuanzhi and Sir Martin Sorrell...
Mexico Vigilantes
In many parts of Mexico, insecurity has become the principle preoccupation for most...
The Truth About Pope Francis
Mark Dowd travels to Argentina to probe the background of the new Pope.
Ukraine’s HIV/Aids Epidemic
Ukraine is second only to Russia in having the highest infection rates in Europe.
The Forgotten Black Cowboys
Sarfraz Manzoor tells the story of the African American cowboys. How did they get out...
The Bank That Brought Down Cyprus
Simon Cox finds out from employees and executives at the now defunct Laiki Bank how in...
Sisters in Science
Penny Dale travels to Tanzania to explore the state of science and technology in one...
Snitching in the USA
Informants play a key role in the US justice system. But there are few regulations how...
Studio in the Sand
The music of refugee camps of the Saharawi people in Algeria and their efforts to to a...
What If... We all had a car?
As the number of cars on the road increases, how can they be developed to prevent and...
Tunisia’s Harlem Shake
How an internet dance craze has become a sometimes violent battleground between and in...
What If... The Best Education
Will a sophisticated revolution in online teaching - from the best universities on the...
What if... The Next Tech Billionaires
People with ideas flock to Silicon Valley, where innovation and invention are and are...
Nepal: Getting Away With Murder
The families of those who disappeared during Nepal’s civil war demand answers and...
After Saddam
Hugh Sykes visits the Marsh Arabs and Basra, occupied by British forces for six years.
Red Dirt Dreaming - Part Two
Neil Trevithick and Kirsti Melville drive south from the Kimberley into the area of 50...
What If... We Could Shape our Lives
As the future world faces huge changes in everything from family size to opportunities...
What If... Women Ruled the World?
Dee Dee Myers, former White House Press Secretary to Bill Clinton, looks at the US –...
Escape from Sinai
Every year thousands of young men and women make the treacherous journey from Eritrea...
After Saddam - Part 1
How have Iraqis' lives changed in the 10 years since an invasion toppled Saddam Hugh...
In My Mother's Image
The story of a photograph, a mother who died young and the desire to honour those and...
Red Dirt Dreaming - Part One
Neil Trevithick and Kirsti Melville journey across Western Australia to a pristine of...
The Struggle for Land on Kenya’s Coast
A separatist group on Kenya’s coast is calling on voters there to boycott the...
The Drowning City
How Hurricane Sandy prompted New York and other coastal cities to face the reality of...
Rosa Parks - Quiet Revolutionary
February marks the centenary of the birth of Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her...
Italian Connection
The family may be central to Italian business life, but many economists believe that...
When Assisted Death is Legal - Part Two
How does it feel to be part of ending someone's life? Liz Carr talks to the doctors to...
When Assisted Death is Legal - Part One
It is possible to balance the right of the individual who wants to die with the of to...
Girls' Night Out
How do men treat women when they are out for a night? Five young women compare in Rio,...
The Next Pope
What kind of Pope does the Catholic Church need? A conservative or a reformer? Dan and...
What If We Fall In Love In The Future
Nine short stories from around the world, looking at who we fall in love with, the way...
Murder in Corsica
Tom Esslemont investigates why assassinations are happening in Corsica and why so few...
The Silent Epidemic
Drowning is the cause of a quarter of a million child fatalities every year.
Hillary Clinton's Journey
Kim Ghattas analyses Hillary Clinton’s record as America’s chief diplomat and an...
India's Uterus Scam
Jill McGivering investigates health clinics in rural India where thousands of private...
Phelophepa
A mobile health clinic called Phelophepa (meaning good, clean health) is a permanently...
What If Chicken Conquers the World?
Could test tube or laboratory-reared chicken ever replace meat from birds? And how to...
Roma Children in Care
Why are so many children from Europe’s biggest ethnic minority – the Roma – into...
The Path to English
Meet the people learning English from scratch in the UK. Many of them are immigrants...
What If... Chicken Conquers the World?
Chicken farming dates back 10,000 years and produces 50 billion chickens to eat each year.
Libya - Life After Revolution Jan 2013
A little over a year after Gaddafi's death, writer and journalist, Justin Marozzi, if...
Pity the Poor Soccer Stars
Could better financial education be the key to providing for African footballers in...
Uzbek to My Roots
Amy Cordell's family still cleaves to the ancient traditions of her Bukharian who were...
Tajik Drugs JAN 2013
Rustam Qobil travels to remote border villages in Tajikistan to find out how are being...
Pity the Poor Soccer Stars
Why do so many African football stars go from rags to riches - and back to rags again?...
Voices from the Ghetto
Oyneg Shabbat was the contemporaneous and clandestine project to record the history,...
Changing Burma
A guide to Burma’s extraordinary year. What are the challenges for 2013? James and...
Taxing America
Is it true that Americans hate paying tax? Owen Bennett-Jones explores the reasons why...
India's Lost Girls
Natalia Antelava investigates the trafficking of girls within India for sale into or...
Europe Moves East
Since 1989, the EU's centre of gravity has shifted from Western Europe - in particular...
Japan Forced Confessions Jan 2013
In Japan the majority of crimes are solved by the use of confessions. But there’s of...
The Hackers
Governments, companies and criminals do it. But in recent years some of the highest...