The Assignment Bureau Podcast
Can creative assignments help solve people's problems? These true stories follow people who test out unusual methods to face challenges that have to do with love, dreams, or trying to make the world a more hospitable place. (Independent podcast.)
Recent Episodes
Oct. 3, 2021
The creative assignments behind Devi Lockwood’s book 1,001 Voices on Climate Change
Journalist Devi Lockwood's book 1,001 Voices on Climate Change opens with a description of the runway at Funafuti airport in Tuvalu, a country four times smaller in area than Disney World. She describes how with salt water encroaching on the land resid...
Aug. 17, 2017
BINGO xox
Is it possible to cure a broken heart by inventing a game? In this episode, at a place called the Museum of Broken Relationships in Los Angeles, the host of the show meets a young actress named Faith D’Amato, who is trying to recover from a recent breakup with the person she’d thought might have been “the one”. As a result of the encounter, an unusual game is born. If you want to play the game yourself, you can download your own board to fill out here (http://www.theassignmentbureau.org/kissing
Aug. 12, 2017
Trailer
A taste of The Assignment Bureau Podcast, which follows people who are facing challenges by doing creative assignments. Premiers in August 2017.