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The Documentary Podcast

Europe’s migrant crisis: the truck that shocked the world (Tue, 19 Aug 2025)
In the summer of 2015 tens of thousands of people left their homes in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq in the hope of finding a safe haven in Europe. The journeys they took were often hazardous and not everyone reached their destination. In one of the most notorious cases, 71 migrants were found dead in the back of a refrigerated truck on a motorway in Austria. They had all suffocated. Could this tragedy have been prevented? For Assignment, Nick Thorpe speaks to two of the people smugglers who are now serving life sentences in a Bulgarian prison. He visits a man in northern Iraq who lost his younger brother and two children aboard the truck and asks the police in Hungary if they could have acted sooner. This episode of The Documentary comes to you from Assignment, investigations and journeys into the heart of global events.
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The Herds: Life-sized puppets flee climate change (Mon, 18 Aug 2025)
A vast herd of life-size puppet animals travel from the Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle, to flee the effects of climate change. Following their internationally successful project, The Walk with Little Amal, in which a 13-foot puppet visited 17 countries, drawing attention to the vast numbers of children fleeing war, violence, and persecution, David Lan, previously the artistic director of the Young Vic and Amir Nizar Zuabi the celebrated Palestine theatre director, have created a new global project, The Herds. Concerned with raising awareness of climate change, it is inspired by the notion that animals are the first to sense environmental disaster and respond alarmingly. The animals, designed in Cape Town by the Ukwanda Puppet Collective and replicated by partners along the route, reflect the countries through which they passed. This episode of The Documentary, comes to you from In the Studio, exploring the processes of the world’s most creative people.
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BBC News

How long tubes of mud could reveal how Antarctica is changing (Tue, 19 Aug 2025)
How long tubes of mud - drilled out of the Antarctic seafloor - could reveal how the frozen continent is changing.
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Leaves falling, berries ripe, but it's hot. Is autumn coming early? (Sun, 17 Aug 2025)
Has autumn come sooner than expected to the UK - and does it even matter if it has?
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Expect smaller broccoli if heatwave continues, farmers warn (Mon, 18 Aug 2025)
The British Growers Association warns that supplies of broccoli are 'tight' thanks to the heatwave.
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BBC News

Lineker nominated for National Television Awards (Tue, 19 Aug 2025)
Lineker receives his first NTA nomination since 2017 in the wake of his exit from Match of the Day.
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'Ketamine Queen' to plead guilty in Matthew Perry overdose case (Tue, 19 Aug 2025)
The American-British dual-national is one of five people who were charged with supplying ketamine to the actor.
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Ofcom rejects 14,000 Love Island complaints (Mon, 18 Aug 2025)
Bullying and concerns for contestants' mental health were among the main issues in the complaints.
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