BBC World Service podcast tells story of Iran’s wrestler Gholamreza Takhti
BBC World Service is to launch Legend of Takhti in English and Persian in new seasons of Amazing Sport Stories and Mostanad.
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The Apartheid Killer uncovers South African serial killer’s crimes
Shocking revelations about the brutal killings committed by a security guard in South Africa during the apartheid era are revealed in a BBC World Service podcast.
BBC podcast exploring stories of the super-rich returns for second series
The second season of the BBC World Service podcast, Good Bad Billionaire is launching to spotlight a new cast of famous faces.
BBC’s Focus on Africa podcast celebrates first anniversary
BBC Africa’s flagship podcast, Focus on Africa offers insightful discussions and diverse viewpoints on pressing issues facing the continent.
Amazing Sport Stories tells of plane crash killing Zambian football team
The BBC World Service podcast Amazing Sport Stories returns with the story of the 1993 plane crash that took the lives of the Zambian men’s national football team.
Presenter and former international footballer Robert Earnshaw hosts the series, telling how well Zambia did in football at the 1998 Olympics and how in 1993, the team was at a point to qualify for the World Cup for the first time.
New podcast on one of the biggest goldmining frauds of all time
A co-production from the BBC World Service and CBC investigates what was originally thought to be the biggest gold discovery in history.
The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam hosted by Suzanne Wilton tells of when Canadian mining company Bre-X announced to the world that it had found a large deposit of gold, deep in the jungles of Indonesia in 1995. Stock prices soared, as investors worldwide fought for their stake. But not everything was as it seemed.
BBC World Service launches new season of Amazing Sport Stories
A new four-part season of the BBC World Service’s Amazing Sport Stories podcast is to launch.
The new series, Chasing Mountains, follows the stories of five mountaineers who are trying to become the first woman to reach the summits of the 14 highest mountains in the world.
It’s a gruelling and potentially deadly quest, spanning years, where these women risk their lives for the ultimate challenge.
BBC Africa Eye uncovers evidence of abuse and torture by church leader
Evidence of abuse and torture by the founder of one of the world’s biggest Christian evangelical churches has been uncovered by BBC World Service’s investigation unit, BBC Africa Eye.
In a three-part television documentary, Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua, and a new nine-episode season of the World of Secrets podcast, dozens of the former members of the Synagogue Church of all Nations allege atrocities
BBC’s Amazing Sport Stories podcast investigates The Curse of County Mayo
The new season of the BBC World Service’s Amazing Sport Stories travels to the West Coast of Ireland to investigate if failure in sport be caused by a curse.
This is what The Curse of County Mayo is trying to find out. As in US baseball, for the Boston Red Sox, there was the so called “Curse of the Bambino”, this is the story of Ireland’s equivalent.
Oona Chaplin hosts podcast on how grandfather was on Hollywood blacklist
A new BBC World Service and CBC podcast tells how Charlie Chaplin was embroiled in an FBI campaign aimed at rooting out communism from Hollywood.
Hollywood Exiles, hosted by Charlie’s granddaughter Oona Chaplin, describes the events that led to the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee hearings and the era of the infamous “Hollywood blacklist.”
The extent and impact of the FBI’s investigation into Charlie Chaplin and others in the film industry, is revealed in the podcast.