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Document

Document is the NHPR newsroom’s award-winning narrative podcast series. Each season, we tell a gripping new story that illuminates an issue affecting people in the Granite State and beyond right now – often in ways you don’t expect. Document follows the story as it’s unfolding and goes deep on why it matters.

We’re driven by the idea that taking the time to tell the whole story leads to bigger impact – opened minds, changed policies – and a more nuanced understanding of the people at the heart of important issues affecting many of us every day.

  • The neighborly thing to do
    When we’ve been exposed to something that could harm us, what are we supposed to do — as regulators, as doctors, as company executives, or as people just trying to live our lives? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
  • A gray world
    Former workers at Saint-Gobain’s New Hampshire plant share what they did — and didn’t — know about PFOA and its potential health effects. And how the chemical industry has worked to sow doubt to its own benefit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
  • A flash of genius
    We go back in time to Hoosick Falls, New York where a man looks for answers after his father dies of cancer following his retirement from the local Saint-Gobain plant. What he finds changes the course of this whole story: a remarkable kind of chemical once used to help make the Atom Bomb that manufacturers knew could be dangerous for decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
  • You don’t know about this?
    A New Hampshire town finds out its water has been contaminated by a “forever chemical.” The source appears to be the nearby Saint-Gobain plant. Officials say the potential health effects are unclear, but most people can still drink the water. One resident doesn’t buy it and goes down a research rabbit hole. She soon learns all this has happened before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
  • Introducing: Safe to Drink
    A New Hampshire town finds out their water has been contaminated by a chemical. Their most basic question — whether the water is safe to drink — doesn’t have a clear answer. Nobody seems to know much about this so-called forever chemical, which is weird because… this has all happened before. From the Document team at New Hampshire Public Radio, Safe to Drink is a four-part series about the water contamination story that keeps repeating in town after town — and about the people who fought for answers through a maze of chemistry, regulations, and illnesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
  • Love Brings You Home
    A genealogist finally digs into her own family’s past and unearths a 100-year-old tragedy. Then, she sets out to make sure the truth will never be buried again. Click here to see photos and more from this story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
  • A Duck’s a Duck
    “Operation Night Cat” is a special three-part series from NHPR’s Document team and Outside/In. Click here to listen to The Underdogs. NHPR's journalism is made possible by listeners like you. Click here to support independent, investigative journalism. News audio clip credit: WMUR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
  • Behind the Brick Wall
    “Operation Night Cat” is a special three-part series from NHPR’s Document team and Outside/In. NHPR's journalism is made possible by listeners like you. Click here to support independent, investigative journalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
  • Why Did the Deer Cross the Road?
    “Operation Night Cat” is a special three-part series from NHPR’s Document team and Outside/In. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
  • Introducing: Operation Night Cat
    Introducing a special three-part series from NHPR’s Document team and Outside/In: Operation Night Cat. A New Hampshire Fish and Game warden follows a tip to a man’s backyard. He finds a twisted game of one-upmanship, digital trophy rooms, and one of the biggest poaching cases in recent state history. Then, the hunting investigation takes a surprising turn when it reveals another set of potential crimes – this time, behind the brick walls of New Hampshire’s State Prison for Men. Host Nate Hegyi has spent the past year digging into what happened next. Catch the first episode right here, on November 5th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
  • Feds Arrest Eric Spofford
    Federal prosecutors now say the vandalism scheme was Eric Spofford’s idea all along. Spofford appears in federal court, and Lauren explains what this remarkable moment means for her and her sources. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
  • Part 4: Tibbs Comes Back
    NHPR's journalism is made possible by listeners like you. Please consider donating to support our work right here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices