Seriously... Podcast
Seriously is home to the world’s best audio documentaries and podcast recommendations. Introduced by Vanessa Kisuule. This feed is no longer being updated. Thanks for listening.
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A History of Ghosts: Ancient Ghosts
Tue 20 Oct 2020
Kirsty Logan explores the evolution of Ghost Lore.
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False Hope? Alternative Cancer Cures - Episode 3
Tue 22 Sep 2020
Layla finds another family with a similar story and goes inside the thermography clinic.
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False Hope? Alternative Cancer Cures - Episode 2
Tue 22 Sep 2020
Sean is rushed to hospital and Layla makes an appointment at the thermography clinic.
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False Hope? Alternative Cancer Cures - Episode 1
Tue 22 Sep 2020
A young musician believes he can cure his cancer without the help of the hospital.
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Blood Lands: Common Purpose – Episode 5
Mon 14 Sep 2020
As a trial ends will anyone be convicted of killing two black South African farmworkers?
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Blood Lands: Betrayal – Episode 4
Mon 14 Sep 2020
A family betrayal opens the door to a murder trial in a South African farming community.
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Blood Lands: Shaking the Tree – Episode 3
Mon 14 Sep 2020
South African police investigating a suspected double murder find explosive new evidence.
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Blood Lands: Say Nothing – Episode 2
Mon 14 Sep 2020
A white farming family falls silent following the brutal deaths of two black workers.
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Blood Lands: Blood on the Wall – Episode 1
Mon 14 Sep 2020
Two men arrive at a South African farmhouse triggering a violent series of events.
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Broad Spectrum
Thu 10 Sep 2020
Helen Keen had a diagnosis of autism as an adult: she explores how it appears in women.
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Universities in Crisis
Fri 4 Sep 2020
Sam Gyimah investigates if Britain's universities can survive the crisis they now face.
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Code-Switching
Wed 26 Aug 2020
Lucrece Grehoua reveals the cost of hiding who we really are in the workplace.
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Led by the Science
Fri 14 Aug 2020
How does scientific advice lead to government policy at the best of times, and the worst?
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Taking on Trump
Tue 11 Aug 2020
Jim Naughtie examines Joe Biden's election chances as he takes on Donald Trump.
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Fothermather
Fri 7 Aug 2020
Poet Gail McConnell explores what it means to be a parent in a same-sex relationship.
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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔless Hotel
Tue 4 Aug 2020
What happened to rough sleepers during the coronavirus lockdown - and what happens next?
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How They Made Us Doubt Everything: 1. Big Oil's Big Crisis
Wed 29 Jul 2020
From climate change to smoking and cancer, this is the story of how to manufacture doubt.
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A Deadly Trade
Tue 21 Jul 2020
Even through lockdown boatloads of refugees made the dangerous crossing by boat to the UK
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Summer with Greta
Fri 10 Jul 2020
Greta Thunberg describes the remarkable and tumultuous past year of her life.
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Your Call Is Important to Us
Tue 7 Jul 2020
New universal credit claimants tell us about their lives on hold.
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On the Menu
Tue 30 Jun 2020
Adam Hart explores our relationship with some of the animal kingdom's deadliest predators
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The New Tech Cold War
Fri 19 Jun 2020
Gordon Corera asks if the West is losing the technological race with China.
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Life, Uncertainty and VAR
Fri 12 Jun 2020
Tom Chivers asks what football's search for truth tells us about uncertainty in our lives
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The Wellness Phenomenon
Fri 5 Jun 2020
Claudia Hammond explores the wellness phenomenon, from its start in California to today.
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The Global Ventilator Race
Tue 26 May 2020
Engineers worldwide are rushing to build new ventilators. Are they any good?
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Art of Now: Raw Meat
Tue 12 May 2020
Susan Bright gets bloody and fleshy with artists who use body parts as a raw material
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The Virus Hunters
Tue 5 May 2020
Tracking the virus hunters who race to understand and extinguish new pathogens.
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How to Cure Viral Misinformation
Fri 24 Apr 2020
The story of one misleading post - and how we can all stop the spread of bad information.
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The Phoney War
Tue 21 Apr 2020
The story of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ in the strange period of 1939-1940 and the echoes of Covid-19 today.
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The Art of Raising a Child
Fri 10 Apr 2020
Can you make creativity a life skill? Where might such a skill take a child in life?
Nazanin and the mystery of a decades old tank debt
Has an old tank debt with Iran cost Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe her freedom?
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