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The Documentary Episodes

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    Super-rich Swedes

    Why is Sweden home to so many dollar billionaires?

  2. Things Fell Apart: The most mysterious deaths

    The bizarre origins of a world-altering act of violence

  3. Forward Thinking: Can feminism fix the internet?

    Our technology dominated world is in a crisis – what are the solutions?

  4. The poker parent

    Can teaching a child to raise, call and bluff help them learn lessons about life?

  5. Forward Thinking: Can going vegan feed the world?

    What would it take for you to give up meat?

  6. His and hers medicine

    Dr Zoe Williams examines historical inequalities in the diagnosis and treatment of women

  7. El Salvador's missing children: Part two

    Can Salvadoran children adopted during the country’s civil war find their birth families?

  8. Forward Thinking: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

    Why a celebrated astrophysicist believes space research needs a new approach

  9. El Salvador's missing children: Part one

    Children separated from their parents by civil war now want to find their birth families

  10. Forward Thinking: Is it ethical to live longer?

    The dilemmas caused by treatments that could tackle some of our most serious illnesses

  11. Azovstal: The 80 day siege

    Ukrainian citizens and soldiers who survived the siege of Azovstal recount their ordeal

  12. Rwanda 30 years on

    Rwanda's journey towards healing and reconciliation after the 1994 genocide

  13. Three Million: 5. Ghosts

    Three million people died in the Bengal Famine - but why are they not better remembered?

  14. A reckoning with drugs in Oregon

    How has Oregon’s radical drug decriminalisation policy changed lives?

  15. Three Million: 4. The tapes

    The discovery of cassette tapes that throw new light on colonial responsibility.

  16. Trapped in Oman

    The fight to bring home a group of Malawian domestic workers trapped in servitude

  17. Running out of sand

    Sand mining is fuelling Cambodia's construction boom but at what cost to the environment?

  18. Three Million: 3. The f-word

    Famine grips Bengal but publicly no-one is calling it a famine

  19. Diving With a Purpose

    Meet the young scuba divers of colour who are searching for sunken slave ships

  20. Three Million: 2. The cigarette tin

    The escalating food crisis forces people to make life and death decisions.

  21. Tumaini

    Tumaini Festival - a unique music and arts celebration in Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi

  22. Three Million: 1. War

    The story of the 1943 Bengal Famine which led to the death of at least 3 million people

  23. Storm over a teacup

    The farmers and industry leaders working to secure the identity and future of Nepali tea

  24. Ukraine two years on: Your questions answered

    The Global News Podcast and Ukrainecast have come together to answer your questions

  25. Two Years of War: Voices from Russia

    Oleg Boldyrev on how ordinary Russians are dealing with life in a country at war.

  26. World Wide Waves '24

    For this year's World Radio Day, we celebrate women in community radio

  27. Reporting Greece

    Greek journalist say intimidation and surveillance is restricting their ability to report

  28. Eight Numbers To Understand China

    Eight numbers that shed light on modern China.

  29. Cairo in comics

    Cairo's young graphic novelists tell the modern story of their city

  30. The Israeli hostages

    People who survived the 7 October attacks in Israel by Hamas describe how events unfolded

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