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
- 2025-01-18 11:31
- last episode published
- 2025-01-18 01:30
- publication frequency
- 2.49 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 2561
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture News History
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-18 | Vast areas of Los Angeles have been destroyed since these fires began on 7 January. Thousands of homes and businesses have been lost, and tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate. We hear from Kelly, who had just minutes to gather a few... |
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| 2025-01-17 | Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust survivor, once told Michael Goldfarb of people going to their deaths at Auschwitz asking who will say Kaddish for me? Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for the dead. On the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz' liberat... |
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| 2025-01-15 | Around the world, prison populations are bursting at the seams, but in some European countries, they are closing and reoffending rates are down. The trend has been attributed to a novel approach to justice, one that places the mental health of offender... |
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| 2025-01-15 | A mechanical engineer by day, Hania Zataari felt compelled to put her skills to use as the war intensified in Lebanon. Hailing from the south, one of the worst hit areas in the country, she has created a chatbot on WhatsApp that simplifies access to mu... |
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| 2025-01-14 |
Assignment: The Gambia - when migrants are forced to go home Each year young people from the tiny West African nation of The Gambia try to reach Europe through “The Backway” - a costly, perilous journey over land and sea.Many do not make it. In recent years, the EU has done deals with several North African natio... |
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| 2025-01-13 | Kiran Gandhi, aka Madame Gandhi, is an American artist, activist and producer who originally started out as a percussionist for popular British artist MIA, and American electronic music duo Thievery Corporation. She holds a masters degree in Music Scie... |
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| 2025-01-12 | In Freetown, Sierra Leone, we join a group of African-Americans who have all taken a DNA test and discovered their ancestors came from this country on the West Coast of Africa, before they were trafficked to the US and enslaved. Over their two week tri... |
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| 2025-01-11 | Eunice Yang from BBC Chinese reports on the closure of over 400 maternity wards across China. Plus, South Korea's illegal tattoo parlours with BBC Korean's Yuna Ku, and why Ghana's traditional kente fabric has been recognised by UNESCO as an Intangible... |
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| 2025-01-11 |
BBC OS Conversations: Dealing with trauma after vehicle-ramming attacks Over the past decade, cars and trucks have been used as lethal weapons in an increasing number of attacks. Fourteen people died and at least 35 were injured when a driver of a pickup truck targeted crowds in New Orleans on New Year’s Day. Less than a m... |
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| 2025-01-10 |
Heart and Soul: The plight of Hindus in Bangladesh, part two Sahar Zand follows young Hindu activists Banamali and Sukanto, who are documenting the violence they say authorities and media are ignoring. She joins them as they respond to a new attack on a Hindu-majority village, where a mob set fire to a yet anoth... |
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