Episodes 17
Avg. Duration 19m
Activity Declining
Since Jun 2023
Latest Episode Feb 2026

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About This Podcast

The Big Story podcast brings listeners inside CGTN’s flagship investigative journalism program, showcasing a curated selection of in-depth, news-driven documentaries from across the globe. Through compelling documentary storytelling, the series examines global events, current affairs, and the pressing issues impacting communities worldwide. This material is distributed by MediaLinks TV, LLC on behalf of CCTV. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

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Big Story Podcast: Triage – Healthcare in the U.S.

Feb 10, 2026 25m

The U.S. stands at the forefront of medical innovation, but this progress comes at a staggering cost. Exorbitant bills often push people to choose between their health or financial ruin. 'Triage:…

Big Story Podcast: Loaded – Guns In Thailand

Feb 14, 2025 18m

Thailand is grappling with an unsettling trend: a rise in homegrown gun violence and mass shootings. Big Story’s senior correspondent Jason Motlagh talks to survivors and experts trying to make sense…

Big Story Podcast: Red Light – Racial Violence in the U.S.

Jan 29, 2025 22m

In Louisiana, a police chase ends with the death of an unarmed black man, Ronald Greene. In Mississippi, Rasheem Carter’s body is found in the woods one month after his disappearance under mysterious…

Big Story Podcast: Dead End — Drug Overdoses in the U.S.

Jan 05, 2025 23m

Portland, Oregon, is an epicenter of the deepening opioid crisis in the United States, where a life is lost to drug use every eleven minutes. Fentanyl, a cheap and highly potent synthetic opioid up…

Big Story Podcast: Toxic – U.S. Chemical Warfare In Vietnam

Dec 25, 2024 18m

Between 1961 and 1971, the U.S. sprayed 20 million gallons of an herbicide known as Agent Orange over Vietnam. The purpose was to decimate the canopy of the native jungle and gain a military…

Big Story Podcast: Buried – U.S. Bombs In Laos

Dec 17, 2024 21m

Tiny Laos has the sad distinction of being the most bombed country in history because of an overt military intervention by the U.S. During the Vietnam War, the Nixon administration dropped more than…

Big Story Podcast: Children Of The Border

Dec 11, 2024 18m

Dozens of children in western Venezuela begin their daily journey to school before 5 a.m. But this is no ordinary school – it is located across the border in Colombia. They live in the Guajira…

S1E10 Big Story Podcast: Lawless – Gangs Of Haiti

Aug 02, 2024

Haiti is a broken state. Since the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise, street gangs armed with military grade weapons from the US have filled the power vacuum, taking control of 90…

S1E9 Big Story Podcast: Coca Growers

May 13, 2024

Since declaring the War on Drugs fifty years ago, the US has spent billions in Colombia to fight cocaine. The result: more cocaine than ever before, and a black market that fuels corruption, and…

S1E8 Big Story Podcast: Homeless – Inequality In The U.S.

May 09, 2024

San Francisco: From the Gold Rush boom to the Silicon Valley era, California’s “city by the bay” has long symbolized the prosperity of the American West, and the promise of new beginnings. Today,…

S1E7 Big Story Podcast: The Endless Harvest

May 09, 2024

The Endless Harvest is a compilation of stories from all over the world showing us that sustainable growth is not only possible but actually happening. In Florida, an NGO is linking with several…

S1E6 Big Story Podcast: Coping With Long COVID

May 09, 2024

Coping With Long COVID tells the story of three patients suffering from ongoing conditions after initially being infected with the COVID-19 virus. Each has a particular set of symptoms and wide-range…

S1E5 Big Story Podcast: The Race Gap – Asian Americans

Jun 23, 2023 19m

Racism against Asian Americans has been largely underreported until recently. But anti-Asian sentiment has existed in the U.S. for centuries. In this Big Story podcast, we travel to San Francisco to…

S1E4 Big Story Podcast: The Race Gap – African Americans

Jun 23, 2023 18m

In the mid-1950’s, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled racial segregation in schools to be unconstitutional. But more than 50 years later many black students in New York City are still feeling the effects…

S1E3 Big Story Podcast: The Red Line

Jun 23, 2023 17m

St. Louis, Missouri was once one of America’s most industrialized cities. Industry drew many new residents, including a large number of African Americans. But today, St. Louis has become a hub of…

S1E2 Big Story Podcast: Abandoned – Afghanistan after the U.S. Occupation

Jun 23, 2023 16m

In 2001, when the U.S. led an invasion of Afghanistan to oust the Taliban, the country had less than 50 miles of paved roads. The U.S. helped invest billions to create a new Ring Road connecting…

S1E1 Big Story Podcast: Remembering Sandy Hook

Jun 23, 2023 14m

Big Story launches its podcast series with ‘Unbearable – Sandy Hook 10 years later’, an examination of the elementary school shooting that took the lives of 20 children and 6 adults. The shooting…

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