Doubletake

WORLD Radio
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Doubletake is a narrative podcast. We tell stories creatively about interesting people encountering big ideas. It’s journalism plus storytelling, informed by a biblical worldview.

  1. Evidence Unseen

    07/19/2025

    Evidence Unseen

    Conceived as a publicity stunt, the Scopes trial raised the most significant question of all

    44 min
  2. Just a bad idea

    02/15/2025

    Just a bad idea

    Everybody knows you’re not supposed to bargain with God–but what if you do?

    15 min
  3. Fighting for Sabbath rest

    02/08/2025

    Fighting for Sabbath rest

    When Gerald Groff took his job at the Post Office in 2012, taking Sundays off wasn’t an issue. USPS didn’t deliver on Sundays. Then about a decade ago Amazon decided people simply had to have their gadgets and groceries delivered on Sundays and hired USPS to help. Suddenly Groff had a choice: keep his job or his convictions. He decided to try for both–and the case is still not settled, exactly. Today on Doubletake, a special legal episode about a mailman, his faith, and the byzantine legal rules that define religious liberty in this country. Support WORLD News Group at wng.org/donate

    36 min
  4. Intended for Evil, Part III

    02/01/2025

    Intended for Evil, Part III

    After Radha Manickam loses almost his entire family under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, hope arrives in a most unlikely way

    29 min
  5. Intended for Evil, Part II

    01/25/2025

    Intended for Evil, Part II

    Radha Manickam and his family struggle to survive in the Khmer Rouge’s brutal work camps

    32 min
  6. Intended for Evil, Part I

    01/18/2025

    Intended for Evil, Part I

    The communist Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, on April 17, 1975. Radha Manickam, a new Christian, watched them arrive from the balcony of his parents’ apartment.  It was Radha’s first exposure to the Khmer Rouge. The leader of the Khmer Rouge was Pol Pot, led the most violent and brutal government in modern history. In its doomed attempt to create an agrarian utopia, between 1975 and 1979 Pol Pot’s regime murdered over 1.7 million people. Many were beaten to death or executed. Others starved to death or died of fatigue or some wretched disease. Mao and Stalin’s Communist regimes killed far more people. But no other government has destroyed nearly a quarter of its own citizens. Today Pol Pot is largely forgotten. But he and the Khmer Rouge are well worth remembering. Because the ideas that formed the Khmer Rouge are still with us today. Also worth remembering are the stories of those who survived. People like Radha Manickam. We’ll be telling his story over the next three episodes. It is in many ways a brutal story. One of loss and grief and terror. But it’s also a story of hope and grace. And ultimately, redemption. This series is based on my recent interviews with Radha, along with my 2016 book about his experiences. The book and this series are titled “Intended for Evil” by Les Sillars. Audio from The Associated Press NBC News ABC News Support WORLD News Group at wng.org/donate

    32 min
  7. The last safe place

    01/11/2025

    The last safe place

    The Assad government is gone, but Christians in northeast Syria are still stuck in a simmering conflict

    37 min
  8. Hawler's story

    01/04/2025

    Hawler's story

    On December 8 the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, known as HTS, overthrew the brutal government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. There’s a new regime in Damascus, but in northeast Syria a lot remains the same. It’s still one of the most chaotic places in the world. WORLD correspondent Caleb Welde traveled around the region in November of 2023 with the Free Burma Rangers. That’s a Christian aid group working in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. This is the first of two episodes based on Caleb’s reporting last year. Today Caleb will tell us the story of a Syrian woman named Hawler Sheikhe. She was 13 years old when ISIS roared into Syria in 2014. But when ISIS forced her to flee her home, she found herself on a journey that would eventually lead her to Christ– and beatings, bombings, and death threats. Audio from: CNN Sky News NBC News Euronews  Support WORLD News Group at wng.org/donate.

    30 min
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Doubletake is a narrative podcast. We tell stories creatively about interesting people encountering big ideas. It’s journalism plus storytelling, informed by a biblical worldview.

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  • Creator
    WORLD Radio
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    36
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 Doubletake
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