Next New Zealand – September 2019

There’s nodenyingtheUSproducessome

the of thebestpodcastsaround.Butwhen

you’ve gorged yourself on these master-

pieces, one can’t help but feel a little

drenched in the American perspective:

AmericanjournaliststalkingtoAmerican

people about American issues. It’s true

that muchofwhat’sreportedontherecan

be appliedtoourlittlecorneroftheworld,

but the world’s a bigplaceand ifyou’re

hungry for some high-quality reportage

that spansfurtherthantheshoresofthe

US, try theseonforsize.

Rough Translation

Admittedly, this show

is created by NPR –

a US public radio

network– butitsfocus

is rmly on the wider

world. NPR has 17

international bureausandhostGregory

Warner andhisteamutilisethisresource

in surprisingly inventive and culture-

bending ways. Reportage takes place

everywhere fromBrazil toUkraineand

some of themostcompellingepisodesare

when the reporter steps into the story

with theirownpersonalstakes.

The episode titled ‘Intruders’, for

example, is about reporter Jasmine

Garsd, whoreturns toher homecityof

Buenos Aires to investigate a TV talk-

show mystery. And in ‘How to Speak

Addiction’, reporter Julia Simon shares

an intimatestoryofhowshestruggledto

forgive hermumfortheliesshetoldas

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an alcoholic until Julia discovered how

such things are handled in Indonesia.

Two-parter‘TheSearch’,meanwhile,is a

straight-forward narrator-driven story

about a Kurdish photo journalist who

goesmissinginIraq,andhisfriendsand

familywhogureouta rescueplan.

Theworkthatgoes intoeachepisode

is epicandtheresultis trulyimpressive.

If you want to dip your toes in, try

‘Austenistan’ about a pair of Pakistani

sistersandhowtheirliveshaveintersected

withthenovelsofJaneAusten.

TheDocumentary

TheBBCWorldServicehaslongreported

fromallovertheplanetandthispodcast

isa treasure troveforthose who likea

deepdiveintoglobalissuesandaffairs.

The back catalogue

contains literally

hundreds of episodes

coveringdiversetopics,

fromTanzanianmums

forced to hide their

children with Down Syndrome (‘Don’t

HideMySon’),toanexposéabouthow

the hash sold perfectly legally in

Amsterdam cafésmakes its illegal way

throughEuropefromthemountainsof

northernAfrica(‘Morocco’sHashTrailto

Europe’).EvenNewZealandgetsa doco.

Theepisodecalled‘Tickettoa NewLife’

shines a light on our Pacific Access

Category ballot in which citizensfrom

severalPacic nationsenterthedrawfor

a residentvisa.If youwin,youhavearound

ninemonthstonda jobinNewZealand.

DON’T MISS

Bowraville

DanBox

Viking,$40

Here’s one for those

who love true crime.

Within five months in

the early ’90s, three

young Aboriginals were

murderedina smalltown

in Australia. The same

white manwaslinked to

eachbutnoonehaseverbeenconvicted.

Threeyearsago,authorDanBoxmadea

compelling podcast series, Bowraville,

about thecase for The Australian. Now,

he’scontinuinghiscrusadewiththisbook.

ThePortal

TomCroninandJacquiFifer

MurdochBooks,$37

An exploration into

how meditation and

mindfulnesscannotonly

change individual lives

butalso theworld as a

whole. Tom and Jacqui

includethestoriesof six

people who’ve healed

theirlivesthroughmeditation.Theyalso

talktoa rangeofinnovativethinkerswho

have faith inour potentialto pivot and

change, nomatter what challengeslie

aheadona globalscale.

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