The Documentary
The best of BBC World Service documentaries and other factual programmes.
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nq0lx
- Description
- The best of BBC World Service documentaries and other factual programmes.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-18 12:24
- last episode published
- 2024-12-18 01:30
- publication frequency
- 2.51 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 2525
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture News History
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-12-18 |
Footprints: How did human feet get washed up on the west coast of Canada and the US? In August 2007, on an island off Canada’s west coast, the remains of a human foot were found washed up on a beach.Six days later, on another beach 50 miles away, a second foot was found. But, strangely, it does not match the first - they are from diffe... |
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| 2024-12-17 | It has been a year since chainsaw-wielding Javier Milei won the Presidency in Argentina. During his campaign, his chainsaw became a symbol of how quickly and drastically he wanted to cut the Argentine state. And he has slashed government budgets and sl... |
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| 2024-12-16 | One of the many traditions in London at Christmas is to visit the capital’s festive lights. People travel from across the world to enjoy the colourful and eye-catching Christmas window displays along Oxford Street, one of London’s main shopping roads. ... |
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| 2024-12-15 | Time-travelling drama about the Japanese-American legends of US military history - inspired by real events. The story of the 442nd regiment, fighting the Nazi German army in World War Two, is written by Oscar nominated Iris Yamashita and narrated by Wi... |
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| 2024-12-14 | Why would a young woman flee her family and leave everything behind? BBC Russian's Zlata Onufrieva has been following the journeys of three women who've decided to run away from their homes in the Russian republic of Chechnya. Her documentary, Don't lo... |
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| 2024-12-14 | Syrians have finally got their voices back. After 50 years of living under the cruelty of their President, Bashar al-Assad, they can now speak freely without fear, although some are still cautious. We talk to Syrians across the country, including Ibrah... |
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| 2024-12-13 | Author and broadcaster Chine McDonald has never seen a black representation of the Virgin Mary. Black Madonnas are statues or paintings of the Virgin Mary and the Infant Jesus, where both figures are depicted with dark skin. They can be found both in C... |
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| 2024-12-12 | Thirty years after the war in Bosnia, survivors and their descendants find themselves permanently displaced in their own country. BBC reporter Lauren Tavriger visits the Tuzla region where families fleeing atrocities, including the Srebrenica massacre,... |
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| 2024-12-11 | New season on World of Secrets. Miranda’s search for inner peace through yoga leads to allegations of grooming, trafficking and exploitation. “You just get sucked in so gradually... that you don't realise,” says her mother Penny. The Bad Guru is season... |
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| 2024-12-10 |
Assignment: Mining the Pacific – future proofing or fool’s gold? Climate change is intensifying, sea levels are rising and the very existence of low-lying Pacific Islands is under threat. The Cook Islands, though, has a plan to assure their peoples’ future. Enter deep sea mining, harvesting metallic nodules on the b... |
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