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.
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The coolness and cover of night entices more personalities to Hanoi’s old Lenin Park.Di Parklife
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The afternoon brings new faces to the city park. Communism and the park’s peculiar providence are far from their minds.Di Parklife
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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.Di Parklife
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