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BBC World Service

Download the latest documentaries Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.

Episodes

100 Women: The Mushroom Woman

Nov 23 2020 • 0 MIN

This is the story of Chido Govera aka The Mushroom Woman. It is a story about her home, Zimbabwe. And it is also a story about mushrooms. It never should have happened. Chido, an orphan, became the...

Coronavirus: Mental and physical toll

Nov 21 2020 • 0 MIN

Women in Ecuador, Peru and Brazil reveal the frightening effect of the pandemic and lockdowns on women in Latin America. Many are living with their aggressors and are unable to escape to a safe pla...

Martinique: The poisoning of paradise

Nov 19 2020 • 0 MIN

“First we were enslaved. Then we were poisoned.” That’s how many on Martinique see the history of their French Caribbean island that, to tourists, means sun, rum, and palm-fringed beaches. Slavery ...

The five-day election

Nov 18 2020 • 0 MIN

Philippa Thomas hears from voters across the United States on the agony and ecstasy of waiting for results of the unusually protracted presidential election.

Obesity crisis In Thai temples

Nov 17 2020 • 0 MIN

Obesity is a growing problem in Thailand. As the country becomes more affluent, its citizens are working more and cooking less which means that they are buying more convenience foods containing hig...

Blood lands

Nov 15 2020 • 0 MIN

At dusk on a warm evening in 2016, two men arrive, unexpectedly, at a remote South African farmhouse. The frenzy that follows will come to haunt a community, destroying families, turning neighbours...