The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2014

The BBC World Service's wide range of documentaries from 2014.

Episodes

Total: 197

Gabriel Gatehouse and his team go in search of Annie and along the way meet the medics and families

Former commander of the British and Coalition forces in Helmand province Major General Andrew Mackay

Sister Aimee

2014/11/25

The story of Canadian-born Aimee Semple McPherson and how she went from farm girl to invent broadcas

Human Cubans

2014/11/23

British journalist Nick Baker and Anglo-Cuban journalist Arnaldo Hernandez Diaz discover a vivid sna

How Ebola is affecting not just health services in West Africa, but tourism, agriculture and investm

Hunting The Taliban

2014/11/20

Mobeen Azhar is in Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city, where police are fighting an increasingly despe

O' Say Can you See?

2014/11/19

The Star-Spangled Banner is embedded in American national identity and yet it only became the offici

There are now more pirate attacks in the Gulf of Guinea than off the coast of Somalia - once conside

Natalia Antelava charts the downfall of Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of the Uzbek president. She h

The Syria Vote

2014/11/12

In August 2013 the Assad regime in Syria was accused of deploying chemical weapons against its own c

Are Pandemics Inevitable?

2014/11/12

Can the world come together to beat diseases with pandemic potential? We've spoken to four expert w

Allan Little returns to Sarajevo to explore the role of the arts in restoring the city's identity, 2

Hidden away in the backrooms at Humbolt University and the Ethnological Museum in Berlin are some of

Iran's Gay Refugees

2014/11/6

Ali Hamedani has been to Turkey to meet the Iranian lesbian and gay people who’ve fled home after f

When the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984 by her two Sikh bodyguards, ri

Mustafa Nayyem is one of Ukraine's leading investigative reporters, who has controversially decided

Kavita Puri goes to Switzerland to hear the extraordinary stories of survivors who lived as indentur

Linard's Travels

2014/10/29

Linard Davies is a baggage attendant at San Francisco airport. He deals with the packages that the a

What are changes in voting laws doing to demoracy in the USA? Rajini Vaidyanathan travels to North C

India's Forgotten War

2014/10/24

In the Indian capital Delhi stands India Gate, the largest memorial to the war for which 1.5 million