Synopsis
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.
Episodes
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![Ep3: The lovers, the prostitute, the chess player (Vietnam)]()
Ep3: The lovers, the prostitute, the chess player (Vietnam)
02/02/2015 Duration: 12minThe coolness and cover of night entices more personalities to Hanoi’s old Lenin Park.
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![Ep2: The historian, the fisherman, the keep-fit ladies (Vietnam)]()
Ep2: The historian, the fisherman, the keep-fit ladies (Vietnam)
02/02/2015 Duration: 11minThe afternoon brings new faces to the city park. Communism and the park’s peculiar providence are far from their minds.
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![Ep1: The jogger, the architect, the elderly martial artist (Vietnam)]()
Ep1: The jogger, the architect, the elderly martial artist (Vietnam)
02/02/2015 Duration: 12minOn 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.
