The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2013

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The BBC World Services wide range of documentaries from 2013.

  1. Riding the Graphene Wave

    12/31/2013

    Riding the Graphene Wave

    Graphene is a super-strong and super-conductive material. Gerry Northam looks at its move from the laboratory to the commercial world.

    24 min
  2. Inside the Fed

    12/31/2013

    Inside the Fed

    The US Federal Reserve, America's central bank, is one hundred years old. Simon Jack tells its surprising story.

    27 min
  3. Brazil - Fighting Slavery

    12/26/2013

    Brazil - Fighting Slavery

    Brazil's anti-slavery hit-squads are unique. Linda Pressly joins a raid with a committed band of labour inspectors on an alleged slave labour operation in deepest rural Brazil.

    27 min
  4. Who's Left Holding the Baby

    12/25/2013

    Who's Left Holding the Baby

    Childcare options in Fiji, where children are taken care of by the community, and China where infants as young as three might live away from their parents in boarding kindergartens. Madeleine Morris reports.

    50 min
  5. Lines in the Sand

    12/24/2013

    Lines in the Sand

    The emerging Jihadi challenge across the Sahara and Sahel regions of Africa. Are there links between various Islamist groups?

    27 min
  6. Bangladesh: Trials of Strength

    12/19/2013

    Bangladesh: Trials of Strength

    Farhana Haider investigates the prosecution of alleged war criminals from the conflict of 1971 and asks if the trials are being used to target the opposition.

    27 min
  7. Notes from Kampala

    12/14/2013

    Notes from Kampala

    The story of Kampala Music School told by its pupils and teachers. Kampala Music School began life in 2001 in the basement of the YMCA but is now the international centre of musical excellence in Uganda.

    50 min
  8. The Revenge Porn Avengers

    12/12/2013

    The Revenge Porn Avengers

    When a group of young Texan women found naked pictures of themselves online, they wanted justice, but their critics accused them of trampling on freedom of speech.

    27 min
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