The Documentary Podcast BBC

Great entertaining and enlightening podcast. It has an international and broad reach. You'll learn something new every time.

As a constant listener and a Canadian living in Britain, I very much looked forward to recent episode “Canada and how it sees Britain”. Unfortunately, I was incredibly disappointed that the host not only failed to interview an Indigenous guest but actually used the derogatory word “Indian” to describe West Coast Indigenous art. Given Britain’s colonial history in Canada, including the mistreatment of the Indigenous population which continues to have a deep impact on settler/Indigenous relationships today, I expected a fair representation of that perspective in the episode.

Furthermore, the episode’s discussion of Chinese migrant laborers and their role in building Canada’s railroad leaves out any mention of those laborers’ experience of exploitation and mistreatment in Canada.

Shame on Mr. MacGregor and his team for such an insensitive and ill-informed presentation. If Britain truly wishes to reflect, it must face its colonial legacy of racist institutions which continue to scar the Commonwealth and beyond.

The reason why I unsubscribed