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FRONTLINE has produced over 500 documentary films on contemporary social and political issues in the past 20 years. And you can not only watch most of them online for free through the PBS FRONTLINE website, but you can also listen to over 100 of them on the Frontline Audiocast Podcast. While the popular Frontline Audiocast Podcast lacks the visual component, it still is usually comprehendible as an audio podcast with some audio cues to aid listeners. Now FRONTLINE has launched their first audio-only podcast in The FRONTLINE Dispatch Podcast and it applies FRONTLINE's investigative reporting to the podcast medium with superb audio documentaries. This new podcast currently features dozens of short audio documentaries. In each documentary an investigative journalist guides you through the story as it is interspersed with interviews and audio source material to aid in the storytelling. For an interesting listen, check out the episode "The Housing Fix" which examines the complicated relationship between slum landlords, tenants, and city planners, as many living in poverty are evicted from their homes to make way for pricier housing developments. Set in the city neighborhoods of Dallas, but indicative of whatвЂ™s happening in many U.S. urban cities, the audio documentary paints a complex portrait of the challenges in maintaining affordable living conditions for the nationвЂ™s poor and lower middle class. ThatвЂ™s just one of the audio documentaries you can hear in this podcast from FRONTLINE that youвЂ™ll probably want to subscribe to.