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
- 2024-04-26 12:29
- last episode published
- 2024-04-26 00:30
- publication frequency
- 2.73 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 2239
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture News History
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Episodes
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| 2024-04-26 | On the southern shores of Vietnam, whales are revered as gods of the oceans. Eliza Lomas visits whale temples and a whale cemetery, hearing about the roots and rituals of the belief. We learn how worshippers’ lives are entwined with the sea, joining a ... |
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| 2024-04-25 | Sweden has a global reputation for championing high taxes and social equality, but it has more dollar billionaires, relative to its population size, than almost anywhere else on the planet. Stockholm-based journalist Maddy Savage untangles the rise of ... |
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| 2024-04-24 | From deepfakes to the fear of AI taking jobs, to the social media giants making money from abusive content, our technology dominated world is in a crisis – what are the solutions?AI researcher Kerry McInerney applies a feminist perspective to data, alg... |
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| 2024-04-23 | For three decades Armenians ruled Karabakh – literally “Black Garden” – an unrecognised statelet inside neighbouring Azerbaijan. Many saw it as the cradle of their civilisation. But as Azerbaijan retook control last autumn, the entire population fled i... |
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| 2024-04-22 | Philip K. Dick's novella The Minority Report was famously adapted into a science fiction blockbuster by director Steven Spielberg in 2002. More than 20 years later, it is now being adapted for the stage by writer David Haig and director Max Webster. Ma... |
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| 2024-04-21 | A bonus episode from the What in the World podcast. Korean shamans hold significant cultural importance in Korean society. They are often portrayed in Korean dramas and films, adorned in shiny and colourful traditional attire, dancing on sharp knives,... |
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| 2024-04-20 | How do you prepare for the worst-case scenario? Juna Moon has been talking to young people in South Korea about how they perceive the threat of war in the region and how they’re planning for it. Growing up in Taiwan after the 1999 Jiji earthquake, Joy ... |
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| 2024-04-20 | The situation in the Middle East is being described as uncharted territory following strikes involving Iran and Israel. This is framed around the war between Israel and Hamas, now in its seventh month. Three people in Israel share their experiences wit... |
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| 2024-04-19 | What if you carry an inherited surname that you feel is profoundly un-Christian? Should you keep it or change it? Robert Beckford is going through this dilemma. His surname is a slave name, a brand of ownership passed down from his enslaved African anc... |
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| 2024-04-18 | An eight-year-old girl holds two cards in her hand. She places several plastic poker chips into the middle of the dining room table and makes a bet. Science writer Alex O’Brien has been teaching her daughter how to play poker for three years. She belie... |
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