BBC Monthly: June Docs, Specials and Video Selections | May 18, 2022

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Featuring voices from across the U.S. and around the globe, connect your audience to the world with these unique stories and perspectives. This month, we celebrate Pride, analyze unconventional ways to help with hospital stress, and discover how one man is teaching goths and punks in Mexico to defend themselves in the face of hostility. See below for details and more unique stories.

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Docs and Specials

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Witness History: Pride Month

One hour
June 1 – June 30, 2022

A special hour of personal stories from the BBC’s Witness History program. We hear about the fight for trans rights in Indonesia, the lesbian separatists in Washington DC, and a man who was at the first gay pride march in Moscow.

The Documentary: Inside the Kim Regime / The Night Ukraine Gave Up Its Nuclear Weapons

One hour, consisting of two half hour documentaries
June 14 – 20, 2022

Have you ever wondered what life is like in the upper echelons of North Korea’s regime? We hear from Thae Yong-ho, once the Deputy Ambassador of North Korea to the United Kingdom until he defected with his family in 2016. Then, Clive Myrie examines why Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994.

Ziggy Stardust – Hang On To Yourself

One hour
June 11 – 17, 2022

To mark the 50th anniversary of Bowie’s iconic creation, a host of LGBTQ+ voices and campaigners in explaining how Ziggy Stardust, inspired a generation of people to celebrate their own self-actualisation, redefining sexuality and setting the groundwork for activism that continues today.


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People Fixing the World: Baby goats and gardens to help with hospital stress

  • Description: A hospital in the US is trying to deal with stress amongst staff and patients. They’ve created twelve plant rich therapeutic gardens and had visits from baby goats to help patient recovery and help staff to perform at their best. A film for People Fixing the World by Richard Kenny.
  • Suggested social copy:A hospital in the US is trying to deal with stress amongst staff and patients.
  • Duration: 2 minutes 58 seconds
baby goat


People Fixing the World: The Inventor Inspired by a Near-Death Experience

  • Description: Adebayo Alonge is a Nigerian entrepreneur who nearly died after being given fake medicines. Now he’s created something that can spot them – a scanner for instant drug testing.
  • Suggested social copy: A new invention that can spot fake medicine.
  • Duration: 3 minutes 16 seconds
Adebayo Alonge


A Mexican goth fights for freedom to be different

  • Description: In Mexico, goths and punks were subjected to intimidation and violence on a daily basis. One man responded by creating a mixed martial art school to teach men and women with alternative lifestyles the skills to defend themselves in a society that is often hostile towards them.
  • Suggested social copy: Teaching people to defend themselves in Mexico.
  • Duration: 2 minutes 18 seconds
goths and punks