The Documentary Podcast Episodes Episode guide

BBC Trending: Yami Baito - Inside Japan’s dark part-time jobs

How job postings on social media are luring people into organised crime in Japan
BBC Trending: Woman, life, surveillance

We speak to women targeted by the Iranian government after posting on social media
BBC Trending: Were Valencia's floods engineered weather?

The conspiracy theories that swirled around Valencia's floods
BBC Trending: Ukraine war - the cost of bearing witness

Open Source analysts and fact-checkers describe the toll of documenting the Ukraine war
BBC Trending: The TikTokers inside an election fire-storm

BBC Trending speaks to influencers implicated in the cancellation of Romania's election
BBC Trending: The dark side of music streaming

How fake streams are stealing millions from the music industry
BBC Trending: The curse of the blessing scam

The female crooks who exploit superstition and family love to swindle other women
BBC Trending: The cost of an addiction to Somali TikTok battles

Cash-strapped and verbally abused – players of the TikTok game taking Somalia by storm
BBC Trending: The chatbot bridging an aid gap

The female engineer who has created a chatbot on WhatsApp to help deliver aid in Lebanon
BBC Trending: The Baku initiative?

Is Azerbaijan capitalising on France’s struggle in the South Pacific?
BBC Trending: Quadrobic panic in Russia over craze to dress and walk on all fours like animals

Why Russia is cracking down on the craze to dress as animals and run on all fours
BBC Trending: Print and shoot - The spread of 3D-printed guns

How the technology to print your own lethal weapon is promoted on social media
BBC Trending: Passport bros

The impact that young digital nomads known as 'passport bros' are having on Medellín
BBC Trending: Meet the anti-witch hunter

Meet the man who intervenes to protect people accused of witchcraft across Africa
BBC Trending: Inside Nigeria’s hustle kingdoms

How con artists learn the tricks of their trade at dedicated scamming schools in Nigeria
BBC Trending: From a suspected smuggler’s TikTok to tragedy

How one Pakistani suspected smuggler’s TikTok account revealed clues of his activities
BBC Trending: Can Community Notes clean up your feed?

Will Meta’s move to X-style Community Notes work?
BBC Trending: Brazilian farmers are (very) online

Rural pride goes viral in Brazil, but is it masking deeper environmental issues?
BBC Trending: Are we dating the same person?

How a Facebook group for exposing cheating boyfriends triggered an explicit retaliation
BBC Trending: An (online) storm in a Philippine rainforest

How a nature reserve in the Philippines got caught in an information battle
BBC OS Conversations: Women's safety in India

Indians share their experiences of attitudes towards women in the country
BBC OS Conversations: Women in sport

Sportswomen and commentators discuss being female in a male dominated profession.
BBC OS Conversations: What's it like to have mpox

Mpox sufferers and doctors share their experiences
BBC OS Conversations: What do Russians and Belarusians make of the Wagner Group?

Following the Wagner group march on Moscow, we hear from Russians and Belarusians
BBC OS Conversations: War and fatigue in Ukraine

Fighters, families and journalists share their experiences of the conflict
BBC OS Conversations: Voters in Britain and France

Why feeling fed up led to a vote for political change
BBC OS Conversations: US voters and the cost of living

How major news stories are affecting the lives of people around the world
BBC OS Conversations: US black and Latino male voters

We discuss if the male vote is a problem or opportunity ahead of the US election
BBC OS Conversations: Ukrainians and hope

People directly affected by the war share their experiences at home and abroad.
BBC OS Conversations: Ukrainian aid from the US

How Americans with Ukrainian heritage are funding medical packages, vans and art therapy