The Documentary Podcast
Episodes
A Stark Choice for Cambodia's Surrogates
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In a Cambodian hospital, a group of terrified new mothers nurse tiny babies under the watch of police guards. They're surrogates, desperately poor wom...
Migrants Mean Business
28 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Tserkezie explores how migrants have used their entrepreneurial skills to become part of British communities, and finds out whether the experience...
The Surrogates Club
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In Canada many women volunteer to give birth to a stranger's child and do not get paid in return. Under Canadian laws, gestational surrogates receive ...
Reporting Women
25 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Women make up roughly 50% of the world but is the media reporting the issues that matter to them? Do women want to hear more debate around taboo subje...
The Carnival: 50 Years in St Pauls
24 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Narrated by Bristol’s first poet laureate Miles Chambers, from costumes to sound systems this tale looks at the history of the St Pauls Carnival, me...
Nigeria's Patient 'Prisoners'
22 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nigerian patients held in hospital because they can’t pay their medical bills.In March 2016, a young woman went into labour. She was rushed to a loc...
The Number One Ladies’ Landmine Agency
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We follow a unique group of Sahrawi women working alongside the world’s longest minefield, the 2,700km sand wall or berm built by Morocco across the...