The Documentary Podcast
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Bolivia’s Cholitas – From Outcasts to Icons
27 mins; October 06, 2025
Stephen Jones’ hats: A party on your head
26 mins; October 06, 2025
Nuclear tensions in the Middle East
49 mins; October 04, 2025
The Kremlin’s reporter
26 mins; October 04, 2025
Conversations from a year in Gaza and Israel
23 mins; October 03, 2025
Orthodoxy or death: The fight for Mount Athos
26 mins; October 02, 2025
Powering Nigeria
26 mins; October 01, 2025
Deepfaking disability
18 mins; September 30, 2025
Haitians living in fear in the Dominican Republic
26 mins; September 29, 2025
Emilia Wickstead: London Fashion Week
26 mins; September 28, 2025
Bonus: The Global Story
27 mins; September 27, 2025
Social media influencers and politics
26 mins; September 27, 2025
Living with the threat of drone attacks
23 mins; September 26, 2025
Finding my Sikh faith against the odds
26 mins; September 25, 2025
Bonus. 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
44 mins; September 24, 2025
Goodreads’ ‘unfair’ rating problem
20 mins; September 23, 2025
‘A new foe’: Conscripting women in Denmark
26 mins; September 22, 2025
Lesia Khomenko: Art and war
26 mins; September 21, 2025
Will a fugitive oligarch sway Moldova’s election?
17 mins; September 20, 2025
A radio lifeline for Afghan women
26 mins; September 20, 2025
Charlie Kirk and free speech
23 mins; September 19, 2025
Digital Dolittles: Talking to the animals?
50 mins; September 18, 2025
The social lives of bacteria
27 mins; September 17, 2025
Faith on the Russia-Ukraine frontline
28 mins; September 16, 2025
Kenya: A Battle For Gen Z
30 mins; September 15, 2025
Jon Foreman: Art that goes out with the tide
26 mins; September 14, 2025
Decoding China’s doublespeak
27 mins; September 13, 2025
Who's behind Europe's largest rare book heist?
26 mins; September 13, 2025
Would you want to live until 150?
25 mins; September 12, 2025
Selling misleading fertility hope
18 mins; September 11, 2025
Tequila with the bat man
26 mins; September 10, 2025
My blessed boy: The millennial saint
26 mins; September 09, 2025
Saving Gaza's past
31 mins; September 08, 2025
Kharkiv: Love in a warzone
26 mins; September 07, 2025
MAST: Architecture on water
26 mins; September 06, 2025
Colombia's cocaine submarines
26 mins; September 06, 2025
Grey divorce
23 mins; September 05, 2025
Blessed with bread
26 mins; September 04, 2025
Germany's timber detectives
26 mins; September 03, 2025
Floods hit Texas, then came the cloud talk
20 mins; September 02, 2025
Galicia’s wild horses in peril
29 mins; September 01, 2025
The Delacorte Theater
26 mins; August 31, 2025
Paul McCartney: Beatles and beyond
45 mins; August 30, 2025
Scammed, robbed, traumatised – life after war for Russian soldiers
26 mins; August 30, 2025
Surviving the floods in Pakistan
23 mins; August 29, 2025
Digitally preserving Armenia’s Christian heritage
26 mins; August 28, 2025
Student predator: Surviving Zhenhao Zou
28 mins; August 27, 2025
The Facebook grifters making money off AI Holocaust victims
21 mins; August 26, 2025
Suing 'Alligator Alcatraz': Immigration in the US
26 mins; August 25, 2025
Adeju Thompson: Taking fashion label Lagos Space Programme to the world
26 mins; August 24, 2025
Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary presents, Hold Fast!
24 mins; August 23, 2025
Mud wrestling and tent pegging: Africa’s unusual sports
26 mins; August 23, 2025
Ukrainians at war and their hopes for peace
23 mins; August 22, 2025
Gaudí: God’s architect
26 mins; August 21, 2025
White Coats v the White House
27 mins; August 21, 2025
Dan Meis: Designing a football stadium
27 mins; August 19, 2025
Europe’s migrant crisis: the truck that shocked the world
26 mins; August 18, 2025
The Herds: Life-sized puppets flee climate change
26 mins; August 17, 2025
Ghost cities FC
49 mins; August 17, 2025
Comedians and Afghan weddings
26 mins; August 16, 2025
Messages from Sudan's war
23 mins; August 15, 2025
The president’s path: Trump’s Latino base
24 mins; August 15, 2025
Birding the gender gap
29 mins; August 13, 2025
Mo Salah: Egyptian king
56 mins; August 12, 2025
Tajikistan’s last, lonely hyenas
26 mins; August 11, 2025
Yoko Nishina: Japanese calligraphy
26 mins; August 10, 2025
Has Ghana's ‘Year of Return’ been a success?
26 mins; August 09, 2025
Why are Chinese micro-dramas so popular?
26 mins; August 09, 2025
Israelis and the war in Gaza
23 mins; August 08, 2025
Freddie’s second verse
26 mins; August 07, 2025
The engineers: Exploring the human
49 mins; August 06, 2025
New Zealand: Heading across the ditch
32 mins; August 05, 2025
Waiting for my Dad - Ukraine's children of the missing
30 mins; August 04, 2025
Luke Jerram: A good yarn
26 mins; August 03, 2025
Why a South Korean church bought a village in Paraguay
17 mins; August 02, 2025
Hunger in Gaza
24 mins; August 01, 2025
Bergen-Belsen: Among graves, we were born
26 mins; July 31, 2025
Controlling nature's data
26 mins; July 30, 2025
The JNIM branch of al-Qaeda
32 mins; July 29, 2025
Can Greenland go it alone?
26 mins; July 28, 2025
Marina Tabassum: Designing London's Serpentine Pavilion
26 mins; July 27, 2025
The shooting of India’s biggest hip hop star
25 mins; July 26, 2025
The hidden pain of fibroids
23 mins; July 25, 2025
Rāgas and Redemption: Alam Khan’s Spiritual Legacy
26 mins; July 24, 2025
The battle for Bangladesh: Eye Investigations
26 mins; July 23, 2025
Vancouver's mental health crisis
26 mins; July 21, 2025
Wynton Marsalis: The sound of democracy
26 mins; July 20, 2025
The mystery of the ‘tula boy’
18 mins; July 19, 2025
Landmines
23 mins; July 18, 2025
Escaping North Korea
26 mins; July 17, 2025
Returning Germany’s stolen skulls
26 mins; July 16, 2025
Myanmar’s Scam Centres
26 mins; July 14, 2025
Anatomy of a scene
26 mins; July 13, 2025
Dying for a transplant
49 mins; July 12, 2025
The Romanians choosing life in the hills
26 mins; July 12, 2025
Why it's good for men to talk
24 mins; July 11, 2025
France’s new Christians
26 mins; July 10, 2025
Ark of the dry lands
26 mins; July 09, 2025
Bonus. World of Secrets: The Killing Call
35 mins; July 08, 2025
Re-homing France’s immigrant workers
27 mins; July 07, 2025