ARC
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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- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 102
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
De Bijbel
Like our country, many of us in South Africa have complicated histories. Our ancestral backgrounds are almost always a mix contradicting the simple apartheid era classifications of Indian, black, whi…
00:38:53 |
Wed 05 Sep 2018
Examining Doctor Death
On a summer morning in 1997, a man was arrested with a plastic bag full of party drugs in a park in Pretoria. The man was Wouter Basson, also known as Dr. Death. Basson was the head of the apartheid-…
00:42:50 |
Wed 22 Aug 2018
The Heart Problem
The first ever heart transplant in the world was performed in South Africa in 1967. It was an international triumph, and the surgeon in charge, Dr. Christiaan Barnard became an over night celebrity. …
00:33:48 |
Wed 08 Aug 2018
He ran all the way
This Sound Africa Podcast is a story of a man and his mother. While it is set in the transition years between the old and the new South Africa, the story is a deeply personal narrative of how the pas…
00:38:11 |
Wed 25 Jul 2018
Bad Blood in Graceland
In 1985, South African music legend Ray Phiri collaborated with a number of other South African artists on Paul Simon’s legendary Graceland album. While the recording of the album from the beginning …
00:28:18 |
Wed 11 Jul 2018
Bowie The Poet
In this episode we meet Anthero Bowie, a former gang member who is out of prison and trying to reinvent himself as a poet. But is it possible for Bowie to reinvent himself? The entire episode plays o…
00:41:49 |
Wed 27 Jun 2018
Brother, This is Cape Town
Bongani Dyalivana is a 29-year-old man from Cape Town. He has been out of jail for just over two years after serving a 10-year sentence. In this Sound Africa podcast we hear Bongani’s story. It is a …
00:37:10 |
Wed 13 Jun 2018
The Ghost
Sometimes taking a detour can show you an entire world you did not know existed. That is what happens to reporter Lars Overland, who drives into a Karoo ghost town on his way to somewhere else and en…
00:37:53 |
Wed 30 May 2018
Freedom For Sale
When apartheid ended, the big companies that helped the regime buy weapons illegally continued to do business with the new South African government. Until today, these companies have never been held …
00:27:28 |
Wed 16 May 2018
Auntie Patty's Garden
When the coloured population of Simon's Town was forcibly removed, Aunty Patty’s family remained. They were forgotten by the authorities for years. Her nephew Jackie, on the other hand, was moved to …
00:37:09 |
Wed 02 May 2018
The Heart Problem
Its fifty years since the world’s first heart transplant was performed at Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town. But, there remains a persistent rumour that a black man called Hamilton Naki played a mu…
00:32:45 |
Thu 30 Nov 2017
Nuclear SA: Countdown
What will the future of South Africa’s energy sector look like? This is the guiding question that leads Sound Africa’s newest producer, Neroli Price, to paint three possible future scenarios. Speakin…
00:27:59 |
Mon 06 Feb 2017
Nuclear SA: Uranium Rush
In this third instalment of Sound Africa’s Nuclear SA mini-series, Dhashen Moodley takes a look at the potential consequences of uranium mining in the Karoo. We speak to a Khoi-San activist who, draw…
00:38:58 |
Mon 30 Jan 2017
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 w…
00:34:54 |
Mon 23 Jan 2017
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 Johann…
00:33:38 |
Mon 16 Jan 2017
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 inte…
00:03:06 |
Fri 17 Jun 2016
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 gro…
00:32:29 |
Tue 26 Apr 2016
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 …
00:36:04 |
Wed 23 Mar 2016
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 …
00:34:06 |
Mon 22 Feb 2016
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…
00:30:15 |
Tue 05 Jan 2016
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