Parklife: Recent Episodes
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Parklife is a podcast about the people that make the parks we visit what they are.
The first series visits a busy suburban park in Hanoi, Vietnam. It has been used as a dump, outlived a name change to honour Vladimir Lenin and survived a major redevelopment scam.
We follow the characters that tread its leafy paths. Dancers and young lovers, gamblers and prostitutes reveal their lives in an evolving one-party state.
The afternoon brings new faces to the city park. Communism and the park’s peculiar providence are far from their minds.
On a busy morning in a central Hanoi park, we follow the characters that tread its paths.
Once used as a dump, the park has outlived a name change to honour Vladimir Lenin and survived a major redevelopment scam.
Today’s park-goers reveal their lives in an evolving one-party state.