Documentary Special
Sunday 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
A different documentary special is featured each week.
Latest Episodes
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Sunday at 6:00 p.m. on "BackStory," we’re going to work on stories about women’s work. It’s easy nowadays to roll our eyes at the quaint notion that “a…
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How do we break the vicious cycle of violence now so relentless at home and abroad? From mass shootings to the barbarism of ISIS, how can we stop this…
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12/27/2015 - With end of the year approaching, it’s time to celebrate all the great music we’ve had the pleasure to hear. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot…
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12/13/2015 - To celebrate the season of miracles and light, NPR searched far and wide to find the best existing writing about Hanukkah. For this year's…
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Each year the Third Coast International Audio Festival honors the best new stories produced around the world for radio and the Internet (in English). Tune…
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10/18/2015 - High-profile cases have recently put campus sexual assault in the spotlight. One question that has repeatedly come up: why are these cases…
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10/11/2015 - Reveal for October - We go on the hunt for super water wasters in rain-starved California. The governor’s asked people to conserve, but some…
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10/04/2015 - An American Radioworks Documentary - In the 1940s a British headmaster named Kurt Hahn set up a wilderness school called Outward Bound to…
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09/27/2015 - An American Radioworks education documentary - The longest war in American history is drawing to a close. Now, the men and women who served…
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08/02/2015 - The Center for Investigative Journalism and PRX present an investigation into the culture of secrecy within the Jehovah's Witnesses that…