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Containers

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Containers is an 8-part audio documentary about how global trade has transformed the economy and ourselves. Host and correspondent Alexis Madrigal leads you through the world of ships and sailors, technology and tugboats, warehouses and cranes. At a time when Donald Trump is threatening to toss out the global economic order, Containers provides an illuminating, deep, and weird look at how capitalism actually works now.

Recent Episodes

  • Episode 8: Robots, Piers Full of Robots

    8 years ago

  • Episode 7: The Lost Docks

    8 years ago

  • Episode 6: And They Won, They Won Big

    8 years ago

  • Episode 5: The America-First Ships

    8 years ago

  • Episode 4: The Hidden Side of Coffee

    8 years ago

  • Episode 3: The Ships, The Tugs, and the Port

    8 years ago

  • Episode 2: Meet the Sailors

    8 years ago

  • Episode 1: Welcome to Global Capitalism

    8 years ago

  • Introducing Containers

    8 years ago