BBC DOCS AND SPECIALS

Each month, the BBC World Service offers new documentaries and specials selected specifically for U.S. audiences, with in-depth, relevant reporting. Typically one-hour, or two half-hours on a similar topic, they offer great content for any time of day, and satisfy audiences' needs for deeper narratives and more reflective listening.

Monthly offerings are available via ContentDepot, complete with promos and billboards. Click on individual titles to visit and subscribe to unique ContentDepot pages, where you can access programs as air windows open.

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World Wide Waves ‘24

February 17 – March 15
One hour

Radio is a perfect medium for women: intimate, direct and, if need be, anonymous. For World Radio Day, we hear from community radio stations around the world that put female voices first: from Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories, the Ecuadorian Amazon, and among migrant farmworkers in the US.

Witness History: Women's History Month

March 1 - March 31
One hour

An all-new collection of stories from the BBC’s Witness History program, telling extraordinary stories of women in history. We hear about the female poet who defied a regime, meet the Australian politician who made a ground-breaking attack on misogyny, and hear the story of a woman who was arrested in Sudan – for wearing trousers.

Diving With A Purpose

March 12 - April 8
Half hour

Diving With A Purpose is a collective of Black scuba divers who search for long-lost slave wrecks. They are on a mission to raise the silent voices of the captive Africans who went down with those vessels and bring them back into our collective memory.

Rwanda 30 Years On

March 30 - April 20
One hour

BBC Newsday presenter Victoria Uwonkunda makes an emotional journey back to Rwanda, where she grew up. It’s the first time she’s visited since the age of 12, when she fled the 1994 genocide with her family.

Witness History: The Environment

April 1 - April 30
One hour

An all-new collection of stories from the BBC’s Witness History program, with new stories of environmentalism and conservation. We’ll meet people who have been instrumental in protecting the Amazon rainforest, elephants, and the Russian arctic.

El Salvador’s Missing Children

April 18 - May 15
One hour

Mike Lanchin follows the dramatic stories of two Salvadoran-born women who were adopted abroad during the country's brutal civil war, as they try to piece together the circumstances of their adoptions almost four decades ago.

The Forum: Green Revolutions

April 27 - May 24
One hour

The "green revolution" of the 20th century is credited with saving many people from hunger and malnutrition across Asia and Latin America. And yet, a half-century on, farmers’ incomes in Africa, Asia and Europe are falling and farmers in many countries are on the streets protesting. At the same time, the environmental impacts of intensive food production are becoming increasingly clear. Do we need a new "green revolution"?

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