ARC

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ARC is a non-profit documentary channel. We tell stories through film and narrative-driven podcasting that explore social justice issues, uncover histories that shape the present, and challenge dominant narratives. Our work amplifies voices often left unheard, creating space for deeper understanding. For more see: https://www.arcdocs.org/

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Nuclear SA: Enrichment

South Africans would already be familiar with headlines warning of the likelihood of enormous corruption in the nuclear procurement programme. Is this just hysteria, or is there reason to fear that we’re headed towards something like the “arms deal on steroids”? To help answer this question, we situate the nuclear deal in its international context, finding out what went wrong with a current nuclear programme in Finland, and getting a better sense of the Russian state-owned company involved in bo...

Jan 23, 2017•35 min

Nuclear SA: The Laager

This is the first of a four-part Sound Africa series exploring the tangled web of South Africa’s nuclear past, present and future. Reporter Rasmus Bitsch begins this story at an art gallery in Johannesburg’s stylish suburb of Maboneng, where artist Vincent Bezuidenhout is shining a spotlight on South Africa’s secret nuclear history through his exhibition Fail Deadly. From there, we connect the dots between the struggle against apartheid, the Cold War, and South Africa’s development of nuclear we...

Jan 16, 2017•33 min

BONUS: African Space The Live Documentary

African Space - The Live Documentary is a live recording of a collaboration between Sound Africa and Encounters South African International Documentary Festival. It is a poetic journey featuring internationally renowned astronomers and townspeople of the Karoo. What they all share is a proximity to the biggest science project in the world: a giant radio telescope called The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) under construction. Sometimes the journey is intergalactic other times dusty and local, but it...

Jun 17, 2016•51 min

6. Hilton Schilder's Catheter Symphony

Hilton Schilder's Catheter Symphony is a jazzy journey through the mother city and the hypercreative mind of pianist and composer Hilton Schilder. We get a musician's-eye view of what it was like growing up in the Cape Flats under apartheid, and an intimate glimpse into Schilder's current struggle with cancer. Hospital bed compositions and irreverent humour help this colourful and quintessentially Capetonian artist get through the hard times.--Find out more about Sound Africa at our website: sou...

Apr 26, 2016•32 min

5. The Wait is Almost Over Part 2

The second part of The Wait Is Almost Over is finally out! In this episode, Yolande recalls the details of her and Pierre's captivity, relations with her captors, and the ever-present threat of done strikes. We also take an in-depth look at the efforts of the civilian negotiators to bring Pierre home, and how these efforts ran into conflict with government policies. --Find out more about Sound Africa at our website: soundafrica.orgLike Sound Africa on Facebook: www.facebook.com/soundafricapodcas...

Mar 23, 2016•36 min

4. The Wait is Almost Over Part 1

In May 2013, Pierre and Yolande Korkie were kidnapped by Al-Qaeda. In the chaos of post-revolutionary Yemen, it was left up to an innovative local aid worker and his South African boss to secure the couple's release. This is the story of their painstaking efforts to track down the Korkies and the delicate negotiations that ensued.--Find out more about Sound Africa at our website: soundafrica.orgLike Sound Africa on Facebook: www.facebook.com/soundafricapodcastFollow Sound Africa on Twitter: twit...

Feb 22, 2016•34 min

3. The Devil In Joburg

A reporter investigates the high number of reported occult crimes in South Africa. Among others he meets an archbishop, a passionate academic and a man they call God's Detective.--Find out more about Sound Africa at our website: http://soundafrica.org/Like Sound Africa on Facebook: www.facebook.com/soundafricapodcastFollow Sound Africa on Twitter: twitter.com/sound_africa and Instagram: www.instagram.com/sound_africa/--Sound Africa is an independent podcast collective based in South Africa. We f...

Jan 05, 2016•30 min

2. The Boy Who Didn't Die

One man shares his incredible story of fleeing war, escaping an army and traveling through the deep Congo forest and half the continent alone as a child.--Find out more about Sound Africa at our website: http://soundafrica.org/Like Sound Africa on Facebook: www.facebook.com/soundafricapodcastFollow Sound Africa on Twitter: twitter.com/sound_africa and Instagram: www.instagram.com/sound_africa/--Sound Africa is an independent podcast collective based in South Africa. We focus on creative non-fict...

Dec 05, 2015•33 min

1. African Space

Africa is hardly thought of as a continent much involved in space exploration. But for the lift off of the Sound Africa Podcast we bring you two stories about Africa and space:First, The Afronaut: An introduction to a largely forgotten space program in Zambia in the 1960s. Did the leader of this wildly ambitious project, Edward Nkoloso, have a plan or was he just the delusional eccentric he was later made out to be?Second, The Telescope: A small town in the Karoo Desert of Northern South Africa ...

Nov 05, 2015•40 min

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