BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast

My personal history of sormeh

Black eyeliner is more than just make-up. It's a symbol of the power of Persian women

Meet the inspirational supersisters on whose shoulders today's female sport stars stand

Cubans are getting online – so how is the internet transforming this communist country?

University professors sexually harassing and blackmailing female students in Nigeria

Meet the children who help their immigrant parents navigate life in the UK by translating

In Vanuatu, a tiny Pacific Island Nation, a controversial passport scheme is a concern

The clerics facilitating so-called ‘pleasure marriages’ in return for payment

The winners and losers from the booming global citizenship trade

In America children can get married legally in most states. Jane O'Brien investigates

A Chilean man - adopted at birth - searches for the mother forced to give him up