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
- 2025-02-22 02:39
- last episode published
- 2025-02-22 01:30
- publication frequency
- 2.46 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 2603
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture News History
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-02-22 | The past week has seen talks between the United States and Russia – without Ukraine. This was followed by what seems to be a deepening rift between US President Trump and Ukrainian leader President Zelensky. Meanwhile, the war on the ground grinds on a... |
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| 2025-02-21 | In 2019, performer and writer Rochi Rampal found herself attending 10 funerals in one year. To contend with this, she embarked on her own “crash course” to better deal with death, and felt she had found a new attitude to both grief and dying. But Rochi... |
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| 2025-02-20 | Extraordinary stories from African-American history, told by the people who were there. We hear tales of bravery and survival against all odds, from the first African-American woman to lead a World War Two battalion, to a Black Panther Party leader in ... |
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| 2025-02-19 |
BBC Trending: Quadrobic panic in Russia over craze to dress and walk on all fours like animals There’s a moral panic in Russia and several former Soviet states about a craze in which teenagers and children dress up as animals and walk on all fours like their favourite animals. In one TikTok video, a group of youngsters are seen scampering across... |
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| 2025-02-18 | In Germany some 300 villages have been destroyed since the Second World War because of the coal that lay beneath them. Villagers have grown up in the knowledge that one day their house will be torn down and generally they’ve accepted the deal on offer:... |
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| 2025-02-17 | Dublin-born Jennifer Walshe is one of the world’s most bold and imaginative contemporary classical composers, and holds the prestigious post of professor of composition at Oxford University. Whether it is Barbie dolls or recipe books, the mundane and s... |
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| 2025-02-16 | As the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine approaches, we explore how the country will be rebuilt, who is coming up with the redesign of damaged cities, and what they might look like in the future. We hear from Lord Norman Foster, the fam... |
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| 2025-02-15 | When the American troops withdrew from Afghanistan, they left behind $7bn of military supplies. Where are they now? Hafizullah Maroof from BBC Afghan will take us inside the Kabul flea market that sells second-hand military equipment to the Taliban. Pl... |
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| 2025-02-15 | Thousands of people from all around the world came to Paris this week to talk about the impact of artificial intelligence in society. The rapidly growing technology can emulate a human response and has the potential to learn quickly. This allows it to ... |
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| 2025-02-14 | Abram Iskhakov is the caretaker of the oldest synagogue in Bukhara, one of the sacred cities of Islam. He is keeper of a Torah inscribed on deer velum and kept safe for 1000 years, or so the story goes. Abram has a powerful voice and recites for us a v... |
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