The World from PRX • 7th January 2025

A Costa Rican dance against colonialism becomes a paradoxical tourist attraction

Every year, in the Costa Rican village of Boruca, men dress in garish masks and costumes to reenact their ancestors’ battle against colonizers 500 years ago.

The World from PRX • 2nd January 2025

Bullfighting in Costa Rica is more like bull 'dodging'

Unlike the Spanish form, Costa Rican bullfighting does not aim to kill the bull, but only to dodge it. Jamie Fullerton takes us to this Costa Rican Christmas tradition.

The World from PRX • 10th December 2024

In Costa Rica, there's a new voice of Nicaraguan resistance

In 2018, singer-guitarist Olguita Acuña left Nicaragua, following death threats. Acuña made it to Costa Rica and, like many others forced to flee Nicaragua, applied for refugee status. Now, she’s carrying on her activism

The World from PRX • 29th October 2024

Sheds playing greater role for men in the UK

Sheds are important to British culture, or at least to many men of a certain age in the country. But now, sheds are playing a far greater role in the UK, bringing older men together.

The World from PRX • 19th October 2024

Cornish hatchery helps lobster sustainability levels

In Cornwall, in the UK, a 25-year-old hatchery seems to have proven itself a success.

The World from PRX • 25th September 2024

In Poland, a group helping Ukrainian refugees has begun building drones

An NGO established in Warsaw, Poland, to help refugees from the war in Ukraine provides up to 500 people a day with food and clothing. It’s recently added another bit of aid to its portfolio: supplying frontline Ukrainian troops with kamikaze drones.

The World from PRX • 17th September 2024

"It's a weird... performance": Famed Japanese drummer big outside of Japan

Ryosuke Kiyasu is a respected heavy metal and jazz drummer in Japan who takes on a different style in his solo drum shows, playing a snare drum with his teeth, kicking the drum around the room and often destroying furniture.

The World from PRX • 6th September 2024

In rural Austria, someone wants you to hear the sound of a glacier crying

The Dachstein glacier in Austria is nearly 9,000 feet high. But scientists say that it’s likely to melt completely by the end of this century. An artist from Cleveland, Ohio, was commissioned to create a work of art that would give the glacier a voice.

The World from PRX • 27th August 2024

Albania's No. 1 urban explorer is a Russian woman accused of being a spy

Lana Sator is a young Russian urban explorer who routinely traveled to different countries in search of abandoned military sites. But she ran into trouble when police grabbed her in Albania and accused her of being a spy. Since they took her documents and won’t let her leave the country, she’s been supporting herself by giving unofficial tours to tourists.

The World from PRX • 9th August 2024

Bulgarian bagpipe festival creates a cacophony of sound

Bagpipes blaring across a lush green rural landscape are typically associated with the Scottish Highlands. But it’s in rural Bulgaria that bagpipe enthusiasts gather for the annual bagpipe festival in the village of Gela. Bagpipes date back thousands of years in Bulgaria, particularly in the country’s Rhodope Mountains.

16th July 2022

Beast Master: putting faces to names

Who's who in my Audible non-fiction series.

Audible.co.uk • 6th June 2022

Beast Master (UK link)

My eight-part non-fiction podcast series. It's about bear wrestling, but it's not really about bear wrestling, it's about love, manipulation, obsession etc.

Audible • 12th May 2022

Beast Master (US link)

My eight-part non-fiction podcast series. It's about bear wrestling, but it's not really about bear wrestling, it's about love, manipulation, obsession etc.

Demo Tapes • 11th December 2020

Young Knives chat carving a niche with 'Barbarians'

Listen to this episode from Demo Tapes on Spotify. Young Knives recently returned with their first album in seven years, the brilliantly bonkers 'Barbarians' - and we've got them on the show to tell us all about it.

The Guardian: Today in Focus • 8th July 2019

What really happens to the waste in your recycling bin?

Guardian reporters around the world have been investigating what really happens to our waste.

New Naratif podcast • 29th January 2019

'The beginning of the end of elephant riding': Vietnam national park gets 'ethical'

A national park in Vietnam has launched what staff there claim are the country's first 'ethical' elephant tours - but are they set for a collision course with local culture?

The Guardian: Today in Focus • 28th January 2019

'20 years ago this was all jungle': Podcasted thoughts on Kuala Lumpur's monkey problem

(From 25:30) Long-tailed macaques' jungle habitat is being swallowed by the Malaysian capital.

CBC • 28th December 2018

Reporting from the destruction: Indonesia's latest tsunami

Radio broadcast from the Java tsunami zone for CBC.

WNYC Studios • 27th December 2018

Indonesia promises new tsunami warning system as rescue efforts continue

Radio broadcast about the Java tsunami zone on The Takeaway.

Demo Tapes • 20th November 2018

Demo Tapes: On the trail of Pete Doherty

My long interview on the Demo Tapes podcast, discussing my time chasing Pete Doherty around for NME.