The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2014

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

Episodes

Total: 197

Clearing the Air

2014/9/10

Ten years ago, Ireland became the first country in the world to ban smoking in the workplace. In the

Could women's football provide a new, more sustainable model to the men's game? Yvonne Macken hears

At least 1,400 children were sexually exploited in the northern English town of Rotherham by gangs o

Natalio Cosoy meets the miners of northern Spain who sing to their patron saint, Santa Bárbara Bendi

Giving Africa's obscure musical gems a new lease of life - meet the fans of rediscovered sounds. Amo

King George VI spoke to the world about the declaration of war on Germany in 1939. Listen to the sto

Atlantic Crossing

2014/8/30

Air traffic controllers have guided trans-Atlantic flights since 1919. As Creative archaeologist Chr

Pentecostal churches in Guatemala run many of the country's compulsory drug rehabilitation centres.

Poetry Idol

2014/8/27

Million's Poet is a hugely popular televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East. P

Native American News

2014/8/26

TV made in the USA by tribal people, for tribal people covering everything from whaling rituals to c

War, Lies and Audiotape

2014/8/23

Did President Johnson take the US to war with Vietnam on a lie, or was he misled? DD Guttenplan expl

As more young people leave Ireland, Gaelic Football is losing its lifeblood. John Murphy reports on

Rastafari's global impact after the explosion of Jamaica's Roots Reggae scene in the 1970s. Does thi

Grapes of Wrath Revisited

2014/8/19

The classic novel, a parable of America's Great Depression, as applied to the US today. Mark Mardell

The BBC's China Editor investigates an elusive cult at the centre of a grisly murder that has shocke

How Rastafari turned from an ostracised religious sect into a global phenomenon - and its role in re

The Helmand valley dam complex, is the biggest engineering project in Afghanistan. How has it withst

Presenter Nihal Arthanayake visits UK immigration lawyer Harjap Singh Bhangal who gives advice to mi

As Ukrainian holidaymakers stay away from Crimea's beaches following Russia's annexation of the peni

David Loyn investigates how a lost document is helping Afghanistan come to terms with its painful pa