IFC Podcast -Latest Radio Docs

Stories of babysitters, and what goes on while mom and dad are away that mom and dad never find out about. Including the story of two teenagers who decide to invent children to babysit, as an excuse to get out of their own house.

Radio Doc is hét documentaireprogramma van Radio 1. Met iedere week een kort én een langer verhaal over onderwerpen die mensen in Nederland bezighouden.

Why is it OK to be gay in the UK but not in Zambia? In 1967, a turning point for the gay rights movement in the UK, England and Wales decriminalised sex between men. Fifty years on, four out of five British people say they have no problem with homosexuality. Yet it remains a taboo and a crime in many former British colonies, including Zambia. What brought about the change in the UK and why it has not happened in Zambia, which largely inherited the British legal system?

We go inside Yangon's booming counter-cultural art scene to reveal the city as seen through the eyes of the young artists on the front line of change. Until censorship was lifted in 2012, dissident artists, musicians and poets lived with the threat of jail for speaking out against the military regime that had gripped Myanmar, or Burma, since 1962 and turned it into a police state. Now, from modern art to punk rock to poetry, a new vibrant youth culture is flourishing - inconceivable only five years ago, when there was no internet, no mobile phones, no freedom of expression. We meet the emerging artists and performers breaking through and forging a new Myanmar.

In 1962 Igor Stravinsky, the Russian-born composer and conductor, went to South Africa to conduct the state broadcaster SABC Symphony Orchestra in a series of concerts. It was the height of apartheid – and the regime believed classical music was the domain of white people. But in an extraordinary move Stravinsky insisted on also performing his music for a black audience. The concert took place on 27 May 1962 in a town just outside Johannesburg, Kwa Thema.

En höstnatt 2007 skjuts två tonårskillar på en gård utanför Rödeby i Blekinge. En 15-årig kille dör. Skjutningen är kulmen på år av trakasserier, händelsen delar Rödeby och hela Sverige i två läger.

Malamuds The Fixer: Documentaire over het boek De Fikser (1966) van Bernard Malamud en over hoe literatuur een rol kan spelen bij het overbrengen van levenservaringen. Met literair criticus Theo Hakkert en Malamud-liefhebber Sigrid van Dieren. De roman werd geïnspireerd door het verhaal van Menahem Mendel Beilis, een onterecht gevangen gehouden Jood in het tsaristische Rusland. Het boek werd dit jaar geselecteerd in het kader van de actie Schwob (www.schwob.nl). - Bibeb spreekt: Bibeb was de koningin van het interview. Ze interviewde iedereen van Roald Dahl tot Picasso. En nog zo'n zeshonderd anderen. Over haar eigen leven was nauwelijks iets bekend: ze liet zich niet interviewen en er zijn handjevol foto's van haar te vinden. Bibeb bleef zo tot haar dood in 2010 een mysterie. Journalisten Adinda Akkermans en Roos Menkhorst besloten daarom op onderzoek uit te gaan. Voor hun boek 'Bibeb. Biechtmoeder van Nederland' spraken ze zo'n dertig bekende Nederlanders over hun interview met Bibeb, ze ontmoetten oud-collega's en familie. En ze troffen materiaal aan waarin Bibeb wel degelijk aan het woord kwam. In deze radio doc 'Bibeb spreekt' is Bibeb voor het eerst in 45 jaar weer sprekend op de radio te horen.  

Two towns where people got really upset about undocumented immigrants, even though in both places, that did not seem to be the most important thing happening at all. One of the towns, a small town in Alaska, has no undocumented immigrants at all, but the possibility of them arriving put the whole town at each other’s throats.

Seventy years ago, India and Pakistan became independent nations - but at a cost. People and lands were partitioned, and a once shared heritage was broken apart. In part one, Kanishk Tharoor stretches back to stories of empire well before British rule, and looks at how narratives of conquest and loss still have a powerful hold over South Asians. There’s the spectacular creation - and destruction - of the famed Peacock Throne of the Mughal emperors. It took seven years to make, and seven elephants to cart it away forever. And the forgotten world of the Kushan empire in Pakistan, ruled over by the magnificent King Kanishka. We explore the mystery of what happened to his little bronze box that was said to hold the remains of the Buddha himself. Part two delves into the histories of artefacts and landmarks linked to two of the greatest figures in modern South Asian history – Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, and Rabindranath Tagore, the celebrated Bengali writer. Ziarat Residency, the beautiful sanatorium where Jinnah spent the last three months of his life. Four years ago, it was fire-bombed and burnt to the ground by Balochi insurgents. And Tagore’s missing Nobel Prize Medal. In 1913, Tagore made history by becoming the first non-westerner to win a Nobel award. But just over 10 years ago, the medal was stolen – and still hasn’t been found. We explore how Tagore inspired revolutionaries and reformers in South Asia, and how his suspicion of all nationalisms makes his work relevant today. Produced by Maryam Maruf Contributors: Yuthika Sharma, University of Edinburgh; Vazira Fazila-Yacoubali Zamindar, Brown University; Nayyar Ali Dada; Saher Baloch; Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University; Pasha Haroon; Arunava Sinha; Rahul Tandon; and Saroj Mukherji With thanks to Sussan Babaie, The Courtauld Institute of Art; Fifi Haroon; Minu Tharoor; CS Mukherji; and Sudeshna Guha Image: Persian ruler Nadir Shah on the Peacock Throne after his victory over the Mughals Credit: Alamy

Fifty years ago, during a few short weeks in the summer of 1967, thousands of hippies descended on San Francisco. The small suburb of Haight-Ashbury became a centre for sexual freedom, freedom to experiment with mind blowing drugs, to debate social and economic utopias and freedom to listen to loud rock music. Marco Werman looks back at those hedonistic times through the music and recollections of people who were there 50 years ago.