BBC Radio Podcasts from The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2014
Surviving the Most Lethal Route in the World
One boat, two families; trying to escape war in Syria, desperate to start a new life...
Musa's Money
The richest man of all time was 14th Century monarch King Mansa Musa, who reigned over...
The Lipinski
A startling 300-year journey of a Stradivarius violin through the lives of geniuses,...
The Great War Diaries
How ordinary people – soldiers, mothers, nurses, even children – experienced World...
Abdi and the Golden Ticket
Assignment follows Abdi Nor, a winner of the annual US green card lottery, as he to a...
Karaoke as Art?
Is karaoke now an art form? Music critic Katie Puckrik hits the clubs in Portland, to...
Tupac Shakur: Hip Hop Immortal
Tupac Shakur trained as an actor, posed as a street thug and became a best selling but...
The Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra
The Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste or Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra, is the only in...
Global Beats: Lisbon
Music pulsates in Lisbon, from the traditional and dramatic Fado to the contemporary a...
Mothers of Jihadists
An international NGO, Women without Borders, based in Vienna, with years of experience...
The Knights of New Russia
Tim Whewell gains rare access to the shadowy world of Russia's radical nationalists in...
Afghan Women: Speaking Out, Losing Lives
A vivid portrait of the everyday lives of girls and women at a turning point in Afghan...
Greyhound 100
For 100 years, an intriguing mix of people have been criss-crossing the US by bus...
Washington Redskins
Mike Wendling explores the controversy surrounding the Washington Redskins.
Reclaiming the Swastika
For most people in the West, the swastika remains inextricably linked to the committed...
Number Crunched
In the wake of the global economic crisis, what does capitalism mean to us today? Colm...
The World’s Most Dangerous Hospital
For Assignment, Chris Rogers goes undercover to reveal the hidden shame of hospital...
Graffiti: Kings on a Mission
In 1974, New York City became the canvas for a new generation of Graffiti pioneers.
The Cult of Pablo Escobar
Two decades after the death of notorious drug baron Pablo Escobar in 1993, he still in...
The Lost Tapes of Orson Welles
Director Orson Welles was asked to write his life story in his later years.
Searching for Annie in Liberia
Gabriel Gatehouse and his team go in search of Annie and along the way meet the medics...
Afghanistan: The Lessons of War
Former commander of the British and Coalition forces in Helmand province Major General...
Sister Aimee
The story of Canadian-born Aimee Semple McPherson and how she went from farm girl to...
Human Cubans
British journalist Nick Baker and Anglo-Cuban journalist Arnaldo Hernandez Diaz a of a...
Ebola - The Impact on Africa
How Ebola is affecting not just health services in West Africa, but tourism, and the...
Hunting The Taliban
Mobeen Azhar is in Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city, where police are fighting an...
O' Say Can you See?
The Star-Spangled Banner is embedded in American national identity and yet it only the...
Chasing West Africa's Pirates
There are now more pirate attacks in the Gulf of Guinea than off the coast of Somalia...
'Power, Politics and Shakespeare in Uzbekistan'
Natalia Antelava charts the downfall of Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of the Uzbek...
The Syria Vote
In August 2013 the Assad regime in Syria was accused of deploying chemical weapons its...
Are Pandemics Inevitable?
Can the world come together to beat diseases with pandemic potential? We've spoken to...
Still Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo?
Allan Little returns to Sarajevo to explore the role of the arts in restoring the 20...
The Ghostly Voices of World War One
Hidden away in the backrooms at Humbolt University and the Ethnological Museum in are...
Iran's Gay Refugees
Ali Hamedani has been to Turkey to meet the Iranian lesbian and gay people who’ve to...
Assassination: When Delhi Burned
When the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984 by her two Sikh...
From Kabul to Kiev: Mustafa Nayyem's Story
Mustafa Nayyem is one of Ukraine's leading investigative reporters, who has decided to...
Switzerland: Stolen Childhoods
Kavita Puri goes to Switzerland to hear the extraordinary stories of survivors who as...
Linard's Travels
Linard Davies is a baggage attendant at San Francisco airport. He deals with the that...
Politics at the Polling Station
What are changes in voting laws doing to demoracy in the USA? Rajini Vaidyanathan to...
India's Forgotten War
In the Indian capital Delhi stands India Gate, the largest memorial to the war for 1...
Ireland’s Forced Labour Survivors
Women abused in institutions run by the Catholic Church are demanding answers from and...
Ebola: What went Wrong
Ebola is now regarded as an international threat to peace and security, according to...
The Politics of the Lone Star State - Part 2
Texas is crucial in the race for national power. Gary O’Donoghue travels to the Lone...
Songs from Africa
Music from the rising stars of Africa, including wordsmiths M. Anifest from Ghana and...
Libya: Last Stand Against Jihad?
Tim Whewell is one of the few foreign reporters who’ve made it to Tobruk, last of a...
A Bombay Symphony
India is falling in love with Western classical music. In his home-city Mumbai, Zareer...
The Politics of the Lone Star State
Everything's bigger in Texas and that goes for the personalities who run for election...
Kosovo’s Jihadis
Linda Pressly travels to Kosovo and meets the sister of ISIS’ first suicide-bomber...
The New Vikings
In recent years, sperm has been shipped out of Denmark at an astonishing rate, of - in...
Orania
Orania, South Africa, remains a 'whites only' town despite the end of apartheid 20 ago...
Man Bites Dog in Denmark
Neal Razzell goes to work with Copenhagen’s hot dog vendors who tell how the humble...
The Singing Fish of Batticaloa
Since the 18th Century, Tamil fishermen have claimed to navigate by the mysterious of...
Media and the Middle East
The rockets and missiles fly, from Israel into Gaza, from Gaza into Israel.
Inside the Ebola Lockdown
Tim Mansel on the lives of people in Sierra Leone as they face a three day "lock-down"...
The Lost Legacy of Little Miss Cornshucks
In the late 1930's a young Mildred Cummings from Dayton, Ohio is barefoot, standing in...
Mexico
Music from the most promising bands of the Mexican music scene. Hear rapper Eptos One,...
Ivory Coast's School for Husbands
In Ivory Coast, men are going back to the classroom. It's an innovative project dubbed...
The Black Liberace
The legacy of jazz pianist James Booker. Classically trained in piano and a child with...
The Trial of Oscar Pistorius
After becoming a Paralympics champion, Oscar Pistorius rose to fame as the first to in...
America's New Bedlam
Hilary Andersson investigates the more than one million mentally ill prisoners held in...
Clearing the Air
Ten years ago, Ireland became the first country in the world to ban smoking in the...
The Future of Women's Football
Could women's football provide a new, more sustainable model to the men's game? Yvonne...
The Girls Britain Betrayed
At least 1,400 children were sexually exploited in the northern English town of by of...
A Song for Spanish Miners
Natalio Cosoy meets the miners of northern Spain who sing to their patron saint, Santa...
Ata Kak and the Crate Diggers
Giving Africa's obscure musical gems a new lease of life - meet the fans of sounds...
Delivering the King's Speech
King George VI spoke to the world about the declaration of war on Germany in 1939.
Atlantic Crossing
Air traffic controllers have guided trans-Atlantic flights since 1919.
Guatemala’s Addicts Behind Bars
Pentecostal churches in Guatemala run many of the country's compulsory drug centres...
Poetry Idol
Million's Poet is a hugely popular televised competition to find the best poet in the...
Native American News
TV made in the USA by tribal people, for tribal people covering everything from to and...
War, Lies and Audiotape
Did President Johnson take the US to war with Vietnam on a lie, or was he misled? DD...
Goodbye Ireland; Goodbye Gaelic Football
As more young people leave Ireland, Gaelic Football is losing its lifeblood.
Roots Reggae and Rebellion Part Two
Rastafari's global impact after the explosion of Jamaica's Roots Reggae scene in the...
Grapes of Wrath Revisited
The classic novel, a parable of America's Great Depression, as applied to the US today.
Chasing China's Doomsday Cult
The BBC's China Editor investigates an elusive cult at the centre of a grisly murder...
Roots Reggae and Rebellion Part One
How Rastafari turned from an ostracised religious sect into a global phenomenon - and...
Damming Afghanistan: Lost Stories from Helmand
The Helmand valley dam complex, is the biggest engineering project in Afghanistan.
A Day in the Life of an Immigration Lawyer
Presenter Nihal Arthanayake visits UK immigration lawyer Harjap Singh Bhangal who to...
Crimea: Paradise Regained
As Ukrainian holidaymakers stay away from Crimea's beaches following Russia's of the...
Afghanistan's Death Lists
David Loyn investigates how a lost document is helping Afghanistan come to terms with...
The Watergate Legacy
Forty years on from President Nixon’s resignation we hear from Bob Woodward and...
Colombia's Lost Children
In Colombia’s Marxist guerrilla war, thousands of rebel fighters have been female.
Fearless Women in Turkish Kurdistan
Tim Whewell meets the dynamic young women in Turkish Kurdistan who are defining the of...
A Tale of Two Theatres
Theatre director Mehmet Ergen guides us through the politically charged arts scene of...
Yemen's Swap Marriages
‘I’ll marry your sister if you marry mine. And if you divorce my sister, I’ll...
Open Eye: Crying Meri
***WARNING: This programme includes graphic descriptions of sexual violence*** 'A how...
I Don't Remember the War
Six talented young writers under 35 explore a great grandparent or grandparent's in...
Tornado: Hide and Seek
What do you do when a twisting funnel drops from the sky with tearing winds of up to...
The War Widows of Aghanistan
As Nato troops withdraw from Afghanistan, British and Afghan women share their stories...
At the End of Death Row
Following recent botched executions in several states, Rajini Vaidyanathan asks the of...
Kentucky learns to love Obamacare
Claire Bolderson reports from Kentucky on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare,...
Three Continents, Three Generations
In 1896 the British sent thousands of labourers from India to Kenya, to build the from...
Back to Charm School
Ahead of sporting mega-events such as the Olympic Games, local people are being given...
No Destination
Fifty years ago, at the height of the Cold War and at the time of increasing tensions...
Nigeria Undercover
Yalda Hakim hears from residents deep in Boko Haram territory, in northern Nigeria,...
Bombay Jazz
Sarfraz Manzoor charts the extraordinary story of jazz in India when some of the most...
Yellow Cab Blues
Meet New York's rookie cabbies - fledgling taxi-drivers trying to earn a living in the...
Shaking Hands with the Enemy
Are international regulations designed to stop money and equipment reaching terrorist...
My Family's Fight for Civil Rights
Baroness Oona King, former British Labour MP, discovers her American family's role in...
Misers, Bling and the Money Thing: Part Two
Alvin Hall delves into the inspirations and fears that influence people’s differing...
Rebel Rebel
Between 1981 and 1990 teams 'representing' England, Sri Lanka, West Indies and toured...
Over the Hill in Silicon Valley
The median age in many Silicon Valley tech firms is under 30. So where does that leave...
The Great Space Hunt
With the power of nuclear weapons and the potential to wipe out life on Earth, hit...
Misers, Bling and the Money Thing - Part One
Why do some people who have plenty of cash choose to sit on a secret nest egg, rather...
Global Beats: Ghana
Seven up-coming Ghanaian musicians perform a song especially for the BBC, and talk in...
Has Everest Lost Its Soul
In April 16 Sherpas lost their lives in an avalanche whilst working for expedition...
Moscow on Thames
More and more wealthy Russians are settling in London. From a lavish Russian Ball at -...
The Women of the Arab Spring: Part Two
Mona Eltahawey visits her home country of Egypt where women, who stood side-by-side to...
World War One
Historian Heather Jones tackles the familiar image of a war centred on a static front...
South Korea: Sex in the Sunset Years
For some in South Korea, old age has meant making some tough choices. In a park in an...
The Burden of Beauty - Part Two
How will Brazil cope with the pressures of hosting the World Cup - on and off the have...
What Does Putin Want?
Edward Stourton examines Vladimir Putin’s strategic vision for Eastern Europe, of -...
The Women of the Arab Spring
Meet the women who are trying to be heard. Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy meets who...
D-Day Dames
In spring 1944 American women war correspondents gathered in London in anticipation of...
The Mystery of Glasgow's Health problems
Residents of Glasgow are some 30% more likely to die young than people in similar UK...
The Burden of Beauty 1
As Brazil hosts the World Cup, Musa Okwonga explores the role the beautiful game has...
Bangalore's New Beat
Bobby Friction traces how young people in India are expressing themselves through and...
Educating Ulster
Andrea Catherwood examines the movement for integrated schools in Northern Ireland.
All that Stands in the Way: The Debate
Ros Atkins brings three teenage girls from the programme All that Stands in the Way in...
Ukraine’s Citizen Soldiers
As Ukraine prepares for elections amid rising tension, Tim Whewell travels there to to...
All that Stands in the Way: The Parents
The parents of four teenage girls in the BBC World Service programme All That Stands...
All that Stands in the Way: The Girls
Four teenage girls from the BBC World Service programme All That Stands In The Way,...
The Reykjavik Confessions
Simon Cox investigates a notorious miscarriage of justice in Iceland which many see as...
Our Missing Girls
Finding Nigeria's missing girls has become a global cause with a massive online...
Being Brazilian
As the World’s media prepares to descend on Brazil for the 2014 World Cup, Julia...
Law Behind Bars
Most people who face criminal charges in Kenya go to court without a lawyer.
Argentina: GMs’ New Frontline
Across Argentina’s vast GM belt, there are claims of an on-going health crisis.
Swinging Addis
In the 1960s and early '70s, Addis Ababa's nightlife was electrified by a blend of and...
Being Brazilian
As the World’s media prepares to descend on Brazil for the 2014 World Cup, Julia the...
The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
After the humiliations of World War Two, France was insistent on reasserting itself as...
The Party of No
Mark Mardell examines America's Grand Old Party which has been engaged in a civil war;...
The Rise of the Arab Spring
Egyptian author Tarek Osman examines the build up to the Arab Spring. As with the with...
Massive Open Online Courses
How is technology transforming education, and what will the classroom of the future to...
Lighting Lagos
Neal Razzell spends days and nights in Lagos with the electricity teams who are to to...
The Rise of Islamism
Eyptian author Tarek Osman explores the events which converged and led to the rise of...
Learning with Videos and Video Games
How technology is transforming education. How do children learn best? And have methods...
Africans in the Holy Land
The African quarter of Jerusalem, Ethiopian Jews returned to their ancient homeland to...
Cambodia’s Gambling Boom
Vietnamese now cross in their thousands to visit Cambodian border casinos.
Rise and Fall of Arab Nationalism
Tracing the history of the modern Arab world through some of the great political that...
Preparing for Disaster
Lu Olkowski reports on New York's growing 'prepper' movement - people who are fearful...
Manchester: A City United
How Manchester helped shape the modern age. Communism, free trade, the co-operative or...
Central African Republic - A Road Through Hatred
Can a unique friendship between two men of god end the killings in the Central African...
The Rise and Fall of Arab Liberalism
The history of the Arab world, including Egypt's 19th Century encounters with Europe...
Mapping the Void
How does being on a map affect your work, education and rights? Meet the The who are -...
A Good Man in Rwanda
The story of Capt Mbaye Diagne, one of the unsung heroes of Rwanda’s genocide.
The Mystery of Flight 370
How can an airplane go missing in the 21st Century and why - nearly a month after it -...
Ukraine – The Criminal Paper Trail
Lucy Ash talks to the Ukrainian volunteers and activists who are painstakingly a stash...
Crypto Wars
Hacking, security, encryption: Gordon Corera explores the history of the war between...
The Education Revolution: Part Two
Sarah Montague turns her attention to universities, in particular, to MOOCs (Massive...
Nigeria's Working Children
Mustapha Mohammed meets Nigerian boys who have to work to support their families in of...
The Man Who Went Looking For Freedom
In 1983 at the height of the deprivations and repression of Nicolae Ceausescu's regime...
The Missing Migrants
Each year, thousands of Latin American migrants illegally cross the US border via a...
Guns in America
More gun deaths are due to suicide than homicide in the US. But what happens to the to...
The Silent Enemy
Tim Whewell travels to the Turkish border and to Lebanon to talk to the doctors and to...
Brazil: Confronting the Past
Monica Vasconcelos reports that fifty years after the coup, Brazil has started to deal...
"Blacks Only"
Under apartheid in South Africa, stand-up comedy was exclusively the domain of white...
All that Stands in the Way
Young women lack the same opportunities as men, despite most countries legislating...
The Door Back to Mexico
The BBC’s Valeria Perasso is on the US border, exploring the journey taken by as the...
India - Press for Sale
Does 'paid media' threaten democracy? Shilpa Kannan investigates corruption in India...
Where Are You Going?
Catherine Carr charts the course of one day in the lives of many people, making many...
The Freedom to Broadcast Hate
Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, the Middle East has experienced a of new TV to...
Hungary’s Crusading Conductor
Hungarian conductor – Ivan Fischer – is holding up a mirror to Hungarian society...
Is the UK press Free?
With regulation of newspapers planned, Steve Hewlett and a panel of international ask:...
China in Vogue
Fashion magazines, consumerism, and the changing face of Chinese fashion.
Will Carlos Acosta Get to the Pointe
A decision by his father to send him to ballet school changed the direction of Carlos...
Freedom to be Single
Rupa Jha meets fellow Indian women who choose to be, or are forced to be, single.
Uruguay’s Radical Drugs Policy
Thousands of Uruguayans are hooked on a highly addictive cocaine derivative –...
Freedom of the Mind
Ingrid Betancourt - who was held captive for six years - explores how people's minds...
India’s Wedding detectives
The number of families in India employing detectives to spy on future brides and is on...
Guantanamo Voices
Ex-Guantanamo detainees talk about freedom and how detention in the military prison...
Missing Histories: China and Japan
They are Asia’s economic giants – yet the historical record of Japan and China to...
Lebanon – Dancing into the Abyss
Kim Ghattas travels through her native country Lebanon exploring the deepening sense...
Missing Histories: China and Japan
They are Asia’s economic giants - yet the historical record of Japan and China to...
Digging up the Dead in Russia
The story of Russia's volunteer diggers armed with spades and metal detectors who and...
My War, My Playlist
What role does music play for today’s soldiers? Soldiers stationed at Camp Bastion -...
The Right to Die for Children
Voluntary euthanasia for adults has been legal since 2002 in Belgium. Now legislators...
The Road to Sochi
With accusations of corruption and criminality, are the concerns about Sochi Given all...
MINT - Turkey - Beyond the Silk Road
For centuries, Turkish traders have exploited their location on the historic Silk Road...
MINT - Mexico - Brave New World
Mexico's hope of becoming the workshop of North America was shattered by China's of is...
Turkey's Hidden Truths
Turkey has notoriously vague and extensive anti-terror laws which have been used to of...
MINT - Indonesia - Commodity Curse
Can Indonesia break its old reliance on exporting raw materials to realise the of a...
MINT - Nigeria - Africa's Hope
Nigeria is a nation of young, vibrant and natural entrepreneurs. Can they overcome the...
Dieudonne - France's most dangerous comedian?
What does the popularity of controversial comedian Dieudonné tell us about France of...
China's Global Popstars
meet Ruhan Jia one of the young hopefuls in the world of state-manufactured pop.
Thailand’s Slave Fishermen
Why and how illegal migrants from Burma and Cambodia are being forced onto Thai boats...
Homeless in Hungary
Nick Thorpe reports from Hungary where the government has adopted controversial laws...
Uzbekistan - Searching for Googoosha
Natalia Antelava profiles Gulnara Karimova, the socialite, pop star and philanthropist...
Gene Doping
It has taken scientists almost 50 years to cure rare diseases through gene therapy.
Boy for Rent
Prostitution is said to be one of the world's oldest professions, and one which has of...
MINT - Turkey
For centuries, Turkish traders have exploited their location on the historic Silk Road...
Aid and politics on Syria’s border
Tim Whewell investigates claims that millions of dollars of aid meant for Syria has to...
MINT - Indonesia
Indonesia has enjoyed a boom created by its exports of raw materials to China, India...
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Breakthrough on the identity of a man found on a London street. Months after Jose from...
MINT - Mexico
Mexico's hope of becoming the workshop of North America was shattered by China's of is...
The Putin Project
Will the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi showcase a resurgent Russia or hide real Lucy...
MINT - Nigeria
Jim O'Neill investigates Nigeria; can a nation of young, vibrant, natural overcome of...
Greenland: To dig or not to dig
James Fletcher asks if mining for rare earths and uranium will destroy Greenland's –...