RadioDoc Review

Featured Documentaries and Podcasts

Please see a list below of all documentaries that have been selected for discussion in RadioDoc Review. Note that separate lists are displayed at the bottom of the page for shows that were produced before the year 2000 or were mentioned in other article sections. If you do not see a certain item in the main list, please check the others for the relevant audio link.

1. Volume 1, Issue 1 (2014)
   • Poetry, Tx.
     (UK, Pejk Malinovski, 2012, 30mins)
   • The Hospital Always Wins
     (US, State of the Re:Union, Laura Starecheski, 2013, 53 mins)
   • The Children of Sodom and Gomorrah
     (Germany/Australia, Jens Jarisch feature reversioned by Sharon Davis, ABC, 2011 c.55mins)
   • Tim Key and Gogol’s overcoat
     (UK, BBC, Tim Key and Steven Rajam, 2013, 28mins)
2. Volume 1, Issue 2 (2014)
   • Will Kate Survive Kate
     (Aust, Masako Fukui, 2013, 50mins)
   • A Different Kind of Justice
     (UK, BBC, Russell Finch, 2013, 28mins)
   • The Left-to-Die Boat
     (Australia, ABC, Sharon Davis and Geoff Parish, 2012, 52mins)
   • My Share of the Sky
     (Norway, NRK, Sheida Jahanbin and Rikke Houd, 2012, 41mins)
   • Mighty Beast
     (UK, BBC, Sean Borodale and Sara Davies, 2013, 21:30 mins)
3. Volume 2, Issue 1 (2015)
   • Qui a connu Lolita (Who Killed Lolita)
     (France, Anouk Batard, Mehdi Ahoudig, Olivier Apprill, 2009, 50.47mins) English transcript
   • Efter Festen (After the Celebration)
     (Denmark, Lisbeth Jessen, 2002, 47.06mins) English transcript
   • Rien que les os (Nothing But Bones)
     (France, Floy Krouchi, Nathalie Battus, Bruno Mourlan, 2015, 56.40mins)
   • Everything, Nothing, Harvey Keitel
     (UK, Pejk Malinowski, 2013, 18.19mins)
   • Little War on the Prairie
     (US, John Biewen, 2012, 60mins)
   • ZŁoty ChŁopak (Golden Boy)
     Katarzyna Michalak (Poland 2013), 42mins)
   • Not Quite Cricket
     (UK, Jon Rose, 2012), 29.07mins)
4. Volume 2, Issue 1 (2015)
   • Still Glowing Strong
     (Norway, NRK, Sindre Leganger, 2014, 25mins)
   • Senza Parole
     (Belgium, VRT, Katharina Smeta, 2014, 18.5mins)
   • A Kiss
     (US, The Heart, Radiotopia, Kaitlin Prest, 2014, 6 mins)
   • Hacker Syndrome
     (Germany, WDR, Johannes Nichelmann, 2013, 52.5 mins) English transcript
     
   • On the Shore Dimly Seen
     (Australia, ABC, Gregory Whitehead, 2015, 50mins)
5. Volume 3, Issue 1 (2017)
   • The Eternal Present: The Untold and Short Cuts Series
     (UK, BBC, Dave Howard and Eleanor McDowall, 2016, 28 mins each)
   • Criminal: a Podcast Series
     (US, Radiotopia, Phoebe Judge)
   • Jack and Ellen
     (US, Love and Radio, Nick van der Kolk, 2013, 21mins)
6. Volume 3, Issue 2 (2017)
   • Intrigue: Murder in the Lucky Holiday Hotel
     (UK, BBC, 2017)
   • Swansong
     (UK, Falling Tree Productions and BBC, Hana Walker-Brown, 2016, 28mins)
   • Losing Yourself
     (US, Scene on Radio, Ibby Caputo, 2016, 32 mins)
   • La Revolte des Prostituées/The Sex Workers' Revolt
     (France and Belgium, Radio France Culture and Radio Belgium, Eurydice Aroney with Julie Beressi, 50.5 mins) English version on ABC Radio National, Earshot
   • Bowraville (six episodes)
     (Australia, The Australian, Dan Box and Eric George, 2016)
   • A Life Sentence: Victims, Offenders, Justice and My Mother
     (US, Transom, Samantha Broun and Jay Allison, 2016, 55mins)
   • Mariya
     (US, The Heart, Radiotopia, Mariya Karimjee, 2016, 35mins)
7. Volume 4, Issue 1 (2018)
   • Frente de Fogo/Firefront
     (Portugal, Isabel Meira, 2018, 33mins) English transcript
     
   • Summer Rain
     (Denmark, Danish Radio, Nanna Hauge Kristensen, 2017, 3mins)
   • A Very Different Time
     (UK, BBC, Jazz Dis Junction, 2017, 11.5mins)
   • Avec le Vent/With the Wind
     (Belgium, ACSR, Jeanne Debarsy, 2017, 14.5mins) English transcript
     
8. Volume 5, Issue 1 (2019)
   • Tara and George (six episodes)
     (UK, BBC, Audrey Gillan, 2018, 28mins each)
   • Have You Heard George’s Podcast (eight episodes)
     (UK, BBC, Benbrick/Paul Carter, 2018)
   • No Feeling Is Final (six episodes)
     (Australia, ABC, Honor Eastly, 2018)
9. In Articles
   • The letter S (whispers in the air)
     (Canada, Chris Brookes, 2001, 50mins)
   • Harper high school, part one
     (US, This American Life, 2013, c. 60mins)
   • Witness to an Execution
     (US, Stacy Abramson and David Isay, National Public Radio, 2000, 22 mins)
   • The Boy with the Violin
     (UK, BBC World Service, 2011, 25 mins).
   • Blame
     (US Radiolab, 2013, 65mins)
   • Affairs of the Mind
     (Australia, ABC, Kyla Brettle, 2002, 48 mins)
   • South American diary
     (Australia, ABC, Mike Ladd, 2013, c. 48mins)
   • In the land of the 419s
     (Australia, ABC, Susan Murphy, 2009/2012, 50mins)
   • 1984: the year not the book
     (US, The Theory of Everything (podcast), B. Walken, 2013, 60mins)
   • Bird interrupted
     (Australia, ABC, Hollis Taylor, Jane Ulman and Russell Stapleton, 2014, 60mins)
   • The Super
     (US, This American Life # 323, 2007, 60mins)
   • This is Jimmy Barker
     (Australia, Martin Thomas, ABC Radio Eye, 2003, 50mins)
     To hear audio, contact Martin Thomas: http://history.cass.anu.edu.au/people/martin%20thomas
10. HISTORICAL SPOTLIGHT (pre-2000)
    • The Long Long Trail
      (UK, BBC, Charles Chilton, 1961, 58mins)
    • Father Cares: the last of Jonestown
      by James Reston and Noah Adams, produced by Deborah Amos, US, NPR, 1981
      

      On November 18, 1978, 913 men, women, and children - followers of cult leader Jim Jones -- died during a mass suicide and murder in Jonestown, Guyana. Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown recaptures the final months for the People’s Temple cult. It is based on hundreds of hours of tapes Reston acquired under the Freedom of Information Act. It won major awards including the Dupont Columbia Award, the National Headliner Award and the Prix Italia.

      See also: http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/jonestown.html
    • Tokyo’s Burning
      by Tony Barrell, Australia, ABC 1995, c. 50mins
      

      Commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the mass firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945 in which 100,000 people died and several million were 'de-housed'. Winner, Prix Italia.

      Audio link broken: TBC
    • Mei Mei: A Daughter’s Song
      by Dmae Roberts, US, NPR, 1989, 26'34"
      

      Dmae Roberts tell two interwoven stories in this personal documentary: the frustration she feels not living up to her mother's ideal of a perfect Taiwanese daughter and the compassion she has for a mother who as a child suffered abuse, starvation, and the horrors of World War Two.

    • Glocken in Europa/The Bells in Europe
      by Peter Leonhard Braun, Germany, 1973, 50’56”
      

      Classic feature by renowned founder of International Features Conference in Europe.

    • The Lonesome Train
      (US, CBS 1944, dir Norman Corwin, 27.40mins)
      

      A ‘folk cantata’ about the repatriation of the body of Abraham Lincoln to his home town for burial.

    • The Lemon Tree
      by Sandy Tolan, US, Fresh Air, 1998 (38’.43”)
      

      A documentary, told in first-person by an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man, exploring the roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

      See also: http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/library/644-the-lemon-tree
    • The Late Macbeth
      (Ireland, RTE, Lorelei Harris, 1992, 43 mins)
    • The Change in Farming
      (Canada, Adam Goddard and Steve Wadhams, 1998, 11.35mins)