The State We're In
By Radio Netherlands Worldwide
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Podcast Description
Featuring first-person stories from around the world about how we treat each other. The State We're In is a weekly radio programme from Radio Netherlands Worldwide.
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The State We're In - Two Enemies, One Heart | Two soldiers, one Iraqi and one Iranian, meet on the battlefield. The Iranian saves the Iraqi's life, risking his own in the process. That was 1982. Nearly 20 years later, and on the other side of the world, sheer coincidence brings the two men together again in a life-saving drama. And a man in Amsterdam sees a WWII photograph and suddenly recalls how close he was to being sent to a concentration camp. | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - One More Time | A rags-to-riches entrepreneur in Mogadishu gets kidnapped by Al Shabaab, but makes both his escape and fortune. A Chilean man confronts the man who tortured him, while an American writer recalls the truth about a family story. We end with a repeat of our interview with Don Ritchie, who passed away this week in Sydney, Australia after helping stop approximately 160 people from ending their lives. | 5/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - It's All in the Mind | A woman's personality changes after a parachuting accident, a businessman wakes up a new man after a stroke, and the two meet and fall in love. What life is like as 'The Human Google'. And an author explains how brain research cant explain away free will. | 5/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Building a Better You | We meet a researcher who believes death may be conquered in his lifetime. A British DJ recounts the excruciating aversion therapy he went to "cure" him of homosexuality. A Dutch photographer discovers "the worlds most beautiful people". And a former student reweaves the tangled web of lies he told to pass his college internship. | 5/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - World Press Freedom Day | A Swedish filmmaker on facing down a multinational corporation which wanted to silence him, a Libyan journalist who was tortured for telling the truth, and two Ghanaian women who have a lot of fun talking about sex on their blog. | 4/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Street Warriors | A man in Belarus fights for gay rights and loves it. A woman in Barcelona takes on pickpocket gangs and wins. A woman in Zimbabwe buys a van to start a business but it gets stolen. And a scientist in New York State uses evolutionary science to improve life in his town. | 4/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Pranks! | A Belgian comedy troupe pranks the country's biggest telecommunications company with the reputation for the worst customer service. A Nicaraguan woman plays a witch on local radio to name and shame men into treating their wives properly. An American writer discovers her name and image were being used to promote a porn site that thousands were flocking to. And an anti-mafia journalist names names on his TV station in Sicily and gets away with it... so far. | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - It AIn't Over | It Ain't Over. A 101 year old man on leaving his infant daughter on a neighbour's doorstep during the Warsaw Uprising. And how an Ethiopian migrant worker escaped her brutal employer in Lebanon. | 4/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Taking the Reins | William Browder on the outrageous theft of his investment fund by Russian authorities and the virtual assassination of his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky. A woman suffering from cancer discovers she has no health insurance and takes to lying to get what she needs. And a Kuwaiti man, repulsed by western stereotypes and Muslim fanatics, makes superheroes based on Allah's attributes. He tells Jonathan how it became a spectacular success that made him enemies. | 3/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - The Real Me | A 13-year-old street hawker in Kabul dreams of becoming a pilot. A Kurdish woman struggles with breast cancer and her culture's punitive view of it. And a man in Denver talks about his 20 year struggle to beat sex addiction. | 3/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Deal With It | A documentary filmmaker from Congo helps convict a warlord of war crimes, a young woman from Baghdad fights for a new Iraq on the basketball court, a woman in Cairo copes with sexual harassment on the street, in cars, even on horseback and a faithful couple suspects each other of cheating. | 3/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - By the Book | A woman in Berlin makes it her life's work to scrape off neo-Nazi graffiti, even if it puts her in danger, a long-haired leftie loses his locks and enters high finance, a journalist in Sri Lanka is rattled after his documentary screens publicly, and a librarian from Iran is trying to start a revolution through books. | 3/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Sounds Like Home | An Aboriginal soprano decides to write an opera for her people - and discovers her own family history. A composer travels to Cyprus and Palestine to unite broken communities with music, and one of TSWIs producers rediscovers her Spanish roots - a little too late. | 3/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - For the Record | A former US serviceman on founding America's first black platoon of paratroopers. A journalist from Ghana on why he went undercover to expose wrongdoings. And a Senegalese hip-hop artist on returning to her home village to break the taboos about female genital mutilation. | 2/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - It's Not Me - It's You! | A British comedienne with cerebral palsy on the laughable attitudes about whats 'normal'. An American woman on teaming up with African American mothers to shut down an abusive juvenile prison. An inventor in India who was called "psycho" for trying to invent sanity napkins poor women can afford. And an openly gay Nigerian woman living in Europe on her decision not to tell her parents about the birth of a baby daughter. | 2/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Valentine's Special 2012 | How a Palestinian Romeo crept through illegal tunnels to be with his Juliet in Gaza. Why an American sociologist thinks that monogamy virtually guarantees cheating. What happened when a woman in Toronto answered an ad for female escorts. And how a man annoyed a woman so much on a flight... she married him. | 2/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - The Fight of Your Life | A young woman in Kabul boxes to change her life and her country. A philosopher believes virtue can be taught in the boxing ring. And a Kenyan women who was attacked while running for election is determined to run again. | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Freedom's Road | The first Western media interview of Imad Ghalioun, the Syrian politician who defected recently, a Wikileaks pioneer and politician from Iceland who helped make public the 'collateral murder' video, and a former East German cyclist who defected just before he went to the Olympics. | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Border Crossings | A man from a poor village in Kenya gets an unexpected hand from Sweden to study at Harvard. A Bulgarian orphan on the verge of dying finds a loving home with South African parents. A Nigerian man betrays his parents to start a new life in the UK. And an Afghan refugee in the Netherlands lives in legal limbo. | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - The Call of Duty | After almost 70 years, a former Dutch resistance fighter admits she assassinated the wrong man. A Canadian woman tries to help the homeless and learns a life-altering lesson about herself. A South African photographer tries to create beauty in the face of the violence she and other gay women face. And an ex-Mafia princess explains why she took over the family business, and her recent struggle to go straight. | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Family Ties | Steve Lickteig thought he was the adopted son of Kansas farmers, only to discover a shocking truth that everyone in town knew, except him. Jerry Winkler was a homeless man in Amsterdam when he discovered that his late father was a millionaire. And an Australian composer turns grief into a soaring requiem after the tragic loss of his son. | 1/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Producers' Picks 2011 | Producers Belinda, Diana and Mignon pick their favourite stories of the year, featuring Egyptian blogger Sandmonkey, a man pretending to be his dead-lover's son at a funeral, the creator of amazing Strandbeesten (or Beach Beasts) and a man who chases down the Ponzi schemer who cheated him. | 12/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Don't Shoot the Messenger | A man frustrated in his search for spiritual answers decides to become a guru. His message, don't fall for fake gurus - become your own. An African American who lives in Holland wonders if the Dutch holiday tradition of Zwarte Piet is not only zany good fun, but also deeply racist. And a man in Afghanistan believes poetry not only gives us wisdom and beauty, but hope - and he should know. He turned to poetry when his son got kidnapped. | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Still Here | As Libya continues to go through an uncertain rebirth, two people are watching with heightened interest: a Palestinian doctor and a Bulgarian nurse. Both were part of the "Benghazi Six" foreign medical workers accused of infecting 400 babies with HIV. They speak together for the first time about their ordeal, liberation, and dreams. Also: an American man rediscovers the sister his parents had institutionalized decades earlier, and rekindles the joyful, playful rapport he had with her as a boy. | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Betrayal | A Norwegian filmmaker on joining anarchists in their fight against neo-Nazism, and the betrayal she regrets to this day. A Dutch decorator and his comic odyssey in becoming part-owner of one of the most expensive soccer clubs in the world. And a 97 year old veteran on the Warsaw Uprising who was jailed by the country he put his life on the line for. | 12/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - The Breaking Point | An Iranian doctor and writer on why he fled his beloved homeland, an ex-border patrol agent in America on why he is now an immigration activist, a non-violent follower of Ghandi whose ashram was bulldozed by Indian authorities and a failed actress in Brazil on how taking a walk changed her life. | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Tough Guys | A "snatchback" detective who returns children to their parents in other countries. A mountaineer who was left for dead on Mount Everest, but lived to tell the tale. Georges Laraque, the ex-pro hockey "enforcer" whos now a Green Party vegan. And a man named Bill whose sex drive was the bane of his existence... until he castrated himself. | 11/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - A Second Chance | A woman discovers the magical powers of laughter after the tragic death of her brother. A Russian playwright puts corrupt officials on trial in her play. A Nigerian pastor and imam on their journey from religious hatred to brotherhood and a woman in the US who was estranged from her mother for decades - and then reunites with her. | 11/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Faking It | A small lie lands a promising politician in prison. A Dutch artist on the joys of forging works by great painters. A Nigerian man on how he scams women into love relationships just to swindle their money. And a woman who cannot remember peoples' faces confesses how she fakes remembering past meetings. | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - The Extra Mile | A British woman recounts being rescued by a Nazi U-Boat commander - the man responsible for torpedoing the ship she was on. A Dutch woman tracks down the father she never knew and finds him living on the streets in Australia. And a long-distance runner from Western Sahara competes for a nation that isn't yet recognized. | 11/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - The Path of Most Resistance | A New Orleans cop tries to clean up a dirty police force from the inside. A Peruvian priest leads farmers in their protest against a multinational mining corporation - and wins. A budding lawyer in Toronto gets picked up by the police for a crime he never committed. And a man in Nevada helps out a stranger lying in the middle of the road and years later nearly inherits 150 million dollars. | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Above and Beyond | The Wall Street overseer who got fired for investigating insider trading, the Kenyan man who got blinded in the US Embassy attack and later climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and an Australian man whose blood donations have saved over two million babies. | 10/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Great Escapes | A Tunisian escapes prison and runs 35 kilometres to be with his wife giving birth. A Cambodian cartoonist escapes two deadly regimes, and now has making political cartoons read by thousands back home. And an Iranian woman escapes from a forced marriage and oppressive theocracy and finds new life as a comedian in Sweden. | 10/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Making it Right | This week, a woman who helped make the joyful reunion of former child soldiers and their families possible. A university professor recalls nearly becoming the teacher he hated and a woman from Honduras who risked everything to save her husband from government brutality. | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Identity Crisis | A Dutch woman nearly becomes an unwitting terrorist bomber. A former bullfighter one how the bulls he killed still haunt his dreams while a British philosopher talks about why he became a bullfighter. And an Irish journalist recounts being incarcerated, wrongly, for internet fraud. A victim of identity theft, she struggles to clear her name. | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Loverboys | A woman in Mumbai on what beauty really means after her husband throws acid in her face. A young Dutch woman reveals how she became a prostitute - and then a recruiter - for so-called 'Loverboys'. And the mother of a 'Loverboy' victim explains how shes fighting back. | 9/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Us and Them | Anthony Shaffer was an American spy whose last mission was in Afghanistan. The military didn't want him to go public with his story of institutional bloat and incompetence, but he did, in a heavily-censored book. Abdul Salam Zaeef was one of the founders of the Taliban. He was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay for four years, yet still believes in its cause. Anthony Shaffer returns to tell us how he interrogates prisoners, without resorting to torture. | 9/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Two Enemies, One Heart | Two Enemies, One Heart. An Iranian saves an Iraqi soldier, risking his own in the process. That was 1982. Nearly 20 years later, and on the other side of the world, the two men meet again in another life-saving drama. | 9/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In- Tough Lessons | Tough Lessons. A teacher in the UK turns around a problem class, only to get fired. A Burmese student activist gets out of a death sentence. A teacher in Mexico sings songs to keep her class calm during a shooting. And a Kenyan woman recounts having to tell her best friend in high school that she... stinks. | 9/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Decisions | A Rwandan mother flees the 1994 genocide on foot, with her infant son in tow. An Australian girl riding a panicked horse heading for the highway sings a song to it and saves her life. A woman in Louisiana once convicted of a so-called "crime against nature" becomes a horticulturalist, and a rickshaw driver in India explains how he became a local hero. | 8/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Happy anyway | Jonathan Overfeld lost all memory of himself and didn't even recognise his life-partner. After playing a piano piece by Bach, his past came back to him and it was horrifying. A TSWI producer talks about his unforgettable meeting with 'Queen of Romance' Barbara Cartland. Plus, there's an inside look at Bounce music, a scene populated by 'Sissy Rappers'. | 8/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Souvenirs of war | A British bomb disposal officer talks about nearly losing his life and his government's refusal to recognize his PTSD. An American journalist investigates an attempt by the Dutch government to return the preserved head of a tribal chief back to his descendants in Ghana. And we meet a Dutch woman who has adopted the grave, and maybe the soul, of an American soldier who she has never met. | 8/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Transformations | This week on TSWI...Transformations. This week the incredible life story of the philosopher who used to be a bank robber. An Indian Dalit, or untouchable, talks about how she went from abused, low caste child-bride to head of a multi-million dollar corporation. Two women, each from warring tribes in Kenya, tell tales of the great risks they took to help those in need, even those from the other side. A transsexual Australian soccer star switches to the women's league and causes a massive controversy, but scores a huge political victory. | 8/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Kidnapped (2011) | Unlikely Reunions: after a British man was taken hostage in Colombia, he becomes friends with one of his captors, surprising everyone including himself and we meet a Norwegian filmmaker who embedded himself with the Taliban to put (he says) a human face on them. Finally, some of your letters! | 7/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Trapped | An Indian seaman on being held hostage off the coast of Somalia for 238 days. An Englishman lives the high life for a few years before spending the next two years in what may be the worst jail in America. And a disabled man in Australia on the challenges of having a fulfilling sex life as a disabled person. | 7/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In The power of stories | The Power of Stories, featuring a brain researcher, a UN Rapporteur on Torture, a portrait photographer for the New Yorker and the Egyptian blogger, Sandmonkey. | 7/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Behind enemy lines | We talk to an ex-FBI agent and a journalist from Ghana who have gone undercover to expose wrongdoings. And a South African journalist believes that her ancestors may be calling her to become a sangoma, or traditional healer. But it's a calling shed rather not heed. | 7/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - The chosen ones | A Palestinian man discovers that his family may have taken the wrong baby - him - from the hospital. A British woman talks about her surprising and beautiful reunions with her birth mother and "birth son". A transgender man, a 'hijra', recounts the split from his adoptive mother, also a 'hijra', when he announced he wanted to live life as a male. And a Ghanaian-Dutch woman, who was adopted, talks to an Australian woman forced to give up her child for adoption. | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - A matter of life and death | A British scientist explains how we can be "cured" of death. A palliative caregiver explains how confronting death can make us more joyful. A clergyman conducts a funeral that nearly gets him killed and a sculptor wants his creations to outlive him. | 6/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Unmasked! | A Belgian comedy troupe pranks the countrys biggest telecommunications company with a reputation for the worst customer service. A Nicaraguan woman plays a witch on local radio to name and shame men into treating their wives properly. A 'human lie detector' explains how he uncovers the truth from people trying to hide it. And political pundit Craig Crawford talks about why politicians lie. | 6/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Bad therapy | Child 'witches' are being horribly abused in southern Nigeria. Women in northern Ghana accused of being witches find refuge in special camps and one man recounts the excruciating aversion therapy he went through as part of a psychiatrists attempt to cure him of his homosexuality. | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Be a man | Men grappling with what it means to be a man, including the story of the father of a murdered teenager who counselled his son's friends against seeking revenge. The son of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl talks about getting out from his father's shadow. And a man who found making the coffin for his distant father, an odd gesture of love. | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Image busting | A Kuwaiti man is repulsed by western stereotypes and Muslim fanatics, so he made a comic book series based on Allahs attributes - which has become a spectacular success - and made him enemies. A Cambodian singer explains how performing old rock 'n' roll songs helps keep her culture alive. And an African American photographer talks about challenging racial assumptions through his retrospective on 'white people'. | 5/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Call me an optimist! | An Australian recounts how hes prevented 160 suicides by offering tea. A US airman's wife explains why shes still looking for him, thirty-five years after his plane was downed in Laos. A young widow gets the one thing she wanted when her Air Force husband crashed: his wedding ring. Producer Anik See wants to return a wallet she found, no matter how fate tries to stop her. And an Indonesian who survived the extermination of his village by Dutch colonial forces explains why he still wants compensation, 70 years on. | 5/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Not In My Backyard | A Palestinian villager leads a peaceful protest against Israeli tanks and wins. A Ugandan ex-officer throws eggs at his president to make a point. And a Somali bride lays down her law to both her parents and husband. The trial of John Demjanjuk, possibly the last Holocaust trial, has concluded with a guilty verdict. A victim tells us if he feels justice has, or even can be done. | 5/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - A Way Out. | Today we feature stories about one person, maybe a stranger or even an old enemy, helping - and sometimes saving - another person. A gang member in London turns his life around after a photojournalist takes pictures of him. A Kenyan man finally meets the Swedish benefactor whose help allowed him to graduate from Harvard Law School. A woman in South Africa finds peace after meeting the man who orchestrated his daughter's assassination. And a homeless man rescues a woman drowning herself in the Thames. | 5/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - A cure for sex offenders? | We ask if there's a cure for sex offenders. Jesse White tells us about how his assault on an underage girl landed him in jail, and how he feels the chemical treatment he received has turned his life around. We also speak with the doctor who treated Jesse. And just in time for World Press Freedom day, the man known as the father of undercover journalism in Europe talks about a life in character. | 4/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Confronting history | A British man finds out his grandfather was not only a card-carrying Nazi, but a dedicated member of the SS. After a young neo-Nazi skinhead in Poland discovers his Jewish roots, he turns to a rabbi for guidance. And an Egyptian man who fled Egypt is now considering moving back to be with his son after living apart for 8 years. | 4/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Notes of change | How an exiled reggae artist from Ivory Coast has been protesting the dictatorship of Lauren Gbagbo through music, how an Australian composer turned grief into a requiem after the tragic loss of his son and how a Senegalese hip-hop artist returns to her home village to break the taboos about female genital mutilation... and succeeds. | 4/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - Seeking Justice | William Browder on the outrageous theft of his investment fund by Russian authorities and their virtual assassination of his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky. Mo Shaoping tells us what it's like to be a human rights lawyer in China, of all places. And finally: an office bully gets his come-uppance through a crafty use of the vice-president's chair and decaf coffee. | 4/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The mob and I - The State We're In | How an anti-mafia journalist names mob names on his TV station in the heart of Mafia country, and gets away with it... so far. How land once owned by the mob are now used to make wine. And an ex-Mafia princess explains her struggle to go straight. | 3/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In - New chapters | A man fought jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan until he realised how extremists had hijacked the term. Now he's fighting a war of ideas against the radical view of jihad. A Swedish man loses his family in the tsunami of 2004. But he was joyfully shocked by finding a new wife and starting a new family. A woman in Australia is traumatised by a mass murder, losing her musical abilities. But she regains them after she takes up... shooting lessons. | 3/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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FYI | Sometimes getting information out there becomes a life's work. An Indonesian man explains how helping out tsunami survivors turned into a fight for gay rights. A Pakistani doctor recounts the funny and sometimes poignant tale behind getting a sex education book published in Pakistan. And a Pashtun-Pakistani journalist recounts how he was nearly assassinated. | 3/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fighting the system | People who've taken on giant opponents: Wall Street, the Securities and Exchange Commission, international criminal courts, the Turkish government, corporations... and won. | 3/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Who am I? | Who are we? One American writer knew exactly who she was, but didn't know who was using her name and her image to promote a porn site that thousands were flocking to. A single mother-of-four in South Africa discovers photography to recreate herself. And a philosopher-theologian speculates that robots could maybe do have souls. | 3/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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STEPPING IN | This week on TSWI... You see a tense situation developing. It looks bad, but youre not sure. Do you step in or mind your own business? Todays guests all have their own stories about stepping in, from Nigeria, the US, Sri Lanka. | 2/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Let it go | Imagine the biggest loss you could ever face, loved ones killed, your life savings stolen. Now imagine forgiving those who hurt you so badly. That's what today's guests have in common in this surprising, uplifting episode. | 2/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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It's complicated | This week on TSWI... It's complicated: a young British man poses as his lover's long-lost son to keep the affair a secret; a Canadian woman stages a public fight with her boyfriend as a way of protesting Valentine's Day, Parsi singles try speed dating to shore up their ever-shrinking numbers and a Dutch photographer puts an ad in newspapers around the world for the worlds most beautiful people to come forward. | 2/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Neighbourhood watch | In Cairo, Juarez and Poland: people who have had enough will do whatever it takes to change things for the better, even if it means risking their lives. | 2/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Secrets and lies | Steve Lickteig thought he was the adopted son of Kansas farmers, only to discover a shocking truth that everyone in the town but Steve knew. Jerry Winkler was a homeless man in Amsterdam when he discovered his father was a millionaire. Former student Emad tells us about the extraordinary tangled web of lies he told to pass his college internship. And Ugandan journalist Joseph Elunya explains why surviving a bizarre series of close calls, convinced him he's one of the world's luckiest men. | 1/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Us and them | Anthony Shaffer was an American spy whose last mission was in Afghanistan. The military didnt want him to go public with his story of institutional bloat and incompetence, but he did, in a heavily-censored book. Abdul Zaeef was one of the founders of the Taliban. He was imprisoned in Guantanamo for four years, yet still believes in its cause. Plus journalist Hermione Gee visits the "kinder", "gentler" Guantanámo Bay detentions facility. | 1/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The right fight | Reverend Thomas Butts in Alabama used the pulpit to fight for racial justice, even when it meant death threats. Listener Sonny Hereford IV talks to his dad about their fight to desegregate Alabama. Georges Laraque on becoming a pro ice hockey "enforcer" and now a vegan with the Green Party of Canada. And we tell the tale of two Karen women who run a covert information network inside Myanmar. | 1/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bloody but unbowed | People who don't give up. A mother in Algeria keeps looking for her son the government 'disappeared'. A swimmer in Sweden loses both legs and an arm in an accident and is now ranked fifth in the world. A woman in Zimbabwe loses her life savings in a swindle, but is still unshakeable in her faith. And an Iranian filmmaker discovers the resilience of underground music in Tehran. | 1/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Producers Picks Year in Review 2010 | This week on TSWI...producers picks of their favourite stories from 2010 including Dancing Auschwitz Barry Gibbss Wrongful Conviction Sarajevo Remembered Stealing Coffins in Kenya and The Man Who Disappears People. | 12/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christmas special | Jonathan Groubert goes with his family to Bosnia for a brandy-soaked holiday ritual that proves to be as poignant as it was fun. An African American living in the Netherlands tries to come to terms with the Dutch holiday tradition of Zwarte Piet or Black Peter. And a New Orleans policeman recalls how he helped reduce crime by 90 percent in some troubled neighbourhoods. | 12/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The art of smuggling | A US Marine Reservist explains why he's willing to risk his life combating the illicit trade in ancient artworks. While an expert in ancient art believes that smuggling antiquities out of corrupt countries is both necessary and moral. | 12/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Unlikely reunions | Sfter a British man was taken hostage in Colombia, he becomes friends with one of his captors, surprising everyone including himself. An auto-rickshaw driver in Bangalore, India returns lost jewelery to rich passengers and saves a woman from being assaulted: all in a day's work. And the reunion of a mother in Uruguay with her son... after 26 years. | 12/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spilling secrets | An Indonesian man survives the extermination of his village by Dutch forces and why he's not vengeful, Dutch soldiers talk about their participation in the massacres and a man blows the whistle on Swiss banks and their shady dealings with Holocaust victims, and pays a huge price for it. | 12/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The kindness of strangers | An Australian man recounts how he's saved 160 people from committing suicide by offering them a cup of tea. An Egyptian-American woman moved to Cairo to be closer to her cultural roots, but constant sexual harassment forces her to leave; a Canadian woman turns in a lost wallet but then enters comedy of errors, leaving her suspected of being the thief. And a listener tries to make the case that bullfighting can be ethically ok. | 11/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stealing children | A father hatches a plan for his son to escape from Japan after his ex-wife took him there illegally. A detective specializing in snatchbacks tells how he returns children to their custodial parents from other countries. And a young black woman raised by a white family in the Netherlands talks about meeting her birth mother in Ghana for the first time. | 11/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Talk to Me | A man with Asperger's Syndrome talks about not talking for much of his adolescence. A Northern Irish woman is shocked by what she reads in the diary she wrote nearly 40 years ago. And why perfect strangers in London are sharing intimacies about their lives with each other in public. | 11/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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War Mementos | This week on TSWI: War Mementos. Why a Dutch woman adopted the grave of an American soldier and has visited the man's family in the US, even though she never met him. How a young widow eventually got the one thing she wanted when her Air Force husband crashed: his wedding ring. Why two former US servicemen ripped up their uniforms to turn them into paper. And a Korean woman reunites with her sister in North Korea, only to realize that reunification of the two countries isn't worth it. | 11/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beasts of Burden | Beasts of Burden: a former bullfighter now staunch animal rights activist tells us about his revelation. We meet the worlds only serving MP whose constituency is not human and we hear about human ants, great masses of Chinese white collar workers looking for jobs. | 10/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The right to press freedom | This week on The State Were In... a Darfuri journalist tells us why reporting from Holland makes him a better local journalist in Darfur. How China uses lunch to control journalists. And a Colombian journalist reports on the drug wars there, despite death threats. We also meet Ismael Khatib, a Palestinian father who, when his son was shot by Israeli soldiers, donated his son's organs to Israeli children. We close with two dads: Aad and Ron Disssel de Boo who take in children no one else wants. | 10/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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For the Record | This week on TSWI... for the record. Yi Okseon, now in her 80s, is still waiting for the Japanese government to accept full responsibility for forcing her and at least 200,000 other women into sexual slavery during WWII. A former Imperial soldier admits that he used comfort stations during WWII. A Japanese historian talks about his struggle to set the record straight in Japan. And Swedish statistician Dr. Hans Rosling challenges your mind-set to match his data-set. | 10/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stuck | What do you do when you find yourself stuck? We talk to a woman who was stalked by her former partner for 15 years, unable to lay down roots anywhere and sick of moving around. Now, finally, she's able to breathe a little more easily. A Cambodian cartoonist escapes two deadly regimes, and now has making political cartoons read by thousands back home. And an Italian lawyer talks about why he let his professional judgement take a back seat while defending a child m******r. | 10/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cheating Death | This week on TSWI - A bomb disposal officer, a tsunami survivor and a mountaineer talk about the prospect of nearly losing their lives, and what life means to them now. | 10/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Keeping the Faith(s) | This week we look at novel ways to navigate the currents of tension between Islam and Christianity. Former Catholic priest turned Imam Idris Tawfiq tells us why he hates to proselytise, while a Lebanese evangelical describes it as a way of life. Comedy writer Ariane Sherine explains how one article she wrote sparked public anti-religious advertisements all over the world. We learn of Nigerias Chrislam, a blend of Christianity and Islam and Professor Brandon Robshaw returns to the show to answer listeners questions about the day a student in a Burqa walked into class. | 9/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Back to School | (20100918) This week on TSWI - Back to School: a woman in Rio de Janeiro educates street children, despite death threats from police. Former child actor Paul Peterson's fight for the rights of child performers. Maestro Luis Szaran on why it's worth teaching kids in the slums to play the classics and The Laugh That Wouldn't Die. | 9/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100911) Fighting For A Future Afghanistan | Fighting For A Future: Afghanistan.We speak with one woman who ran for political office in Kandahar and was targeted for assassination four times by the Taliban; a Norwegian filmmaker who embedded himself with the Taliban to put (he says) a human face on them; an Afghan poet who used a state occasion to insult President Karzai and his corrupt government. | 9/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (100904) RELEASED! | PODCAST RUNDOWN: RELEASED: a man wrongfully imprisoned wins a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the police. Another man admits he deserved his incarceration for dealing XTC, but didn't deserve the treatment he endured in America's | 9/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100828) New Orleans Stories | PODCAST RUNDOWN: This week on TSWI: New Orleans stories: a former rogue cop tells all, a Katrina Hurricane love story, an inside look at Bounce music, a scene populated by | 8/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100821) THE RESILIENCE OF MOTHERS | This week on TSWI... The Resilience of Mothers: A mother continues to campaign for her son 'disappeared' by the Algerian government. Debbie Brewer tells Jonathan what it has taken to finally turn her life around and come off crystal meth. Annette and her daughter Ayanna discover that through illness, violence and escaping to another country that some bonds can't be broken and listener Gayle Fleming gets to discuss her story during the Civil rights era with Alabama pastor Thomas Lane Butts. | 8/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100814) Enlisting God | This week on TSWI... Enlisting God: military rabbis have been directing Israeli soldiers to see combat as a matter of faith. A former soldier explains why hes repulsed by what he calls holy war. A Palestinian doctors belief in God helps him forgive the loss he endured when three of his daughters were killed by Israeli tank fire. And Samuel Maoz, director of the film Lebanon talks about his time as a tank gunner in the 1982 war, and the morality of kill-or-be-killed situations. | 8/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100814) Enlisting God | This week on TSWI. Enlisting God: military rabbis have been directing Israeli soldiers to see combat as a matter of faith. A former soldier explains why hes repulsed by what he calls holy war. A Palestinian doctors belief in God helps him forgive the loss he endured when three of his daughters were killed by Israeli tank fire. And Samuel Maoz, director of the film Lebanon talks about his time as a tank gunner in the 1982 war, and the morality of kill-or-be-killed situations. | 8/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100807) Being Gay in Africa Special | TSWI presents a special edition of the program looking at what it is like to be gay throughout Africa with voices from Namibia, Ghana, Uganda and South Africa. | 8/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100731) BRIDGING DIVIDES | This week on TSWI... Bridging the Divide. The Reverend Thomas Butts explains his role in helping desegregate Alabama beginning in the 1950s -- and how he nearly lost his job and life doing so. We also talk to a couple whose relationship during and after their divorce was better than when they were married. And two young women, one Palestinian and one Israeli, recount how they became best friends, despite their own preconceptions and anger. | 7/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100724) Getting Off the Warpath | This week on TSWI: Sudanese child soldiers who put down their guns and create a new life for themselves. And a woman in Australia gets over the trauma of living through a massacre by learning how to shoot. Plus: deaf and blind kids in Beirut create and perform their own theatre pieces. | 7/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100717) A Note of Resistance | This week on TSWI A Note of Resistance: how musicians in Tibet, Iran, Sudan keep hope alive that the weight of history can be thrown off and a new era of freedom may yet be born. | 7/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100710) The will to win | This week on TSWI A swimmer in Sweden loses his legs and one arm in a train accident but is now ranked in the top five swimmers in the world. A soccer fan in Mogadishu lost two friends to the Islamist militia, Al Shabab, killed them for watching the World Cup. He still watches sports, but now as an act of political defiance. South African dancer Mamela Nyamza explains why courting controversy is a good thing, while a Zimbabwean human rights lawyer defends the idea of arguing unwinnable cases. | 7/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In | This week on TSWI A swimmer in Sweden loses his legs and one arm in a train accident but is now ranked in the top five swimmers in the world. A soccer fan in Mogadishu lost two friends to the Islamist militia, Al Shabab, killed them for watching the World Cup. He still watches sports, but now as an act of political defiance. South African dancer Mamela Nyamza explains why courting controversy is a good thing, while a Zimbabwean human rights lawyer defends the idea of arguing unwinnable cases. | 7/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100703) Spy vs. Spy | This week, The State We're In Against the backdrop of the US identifying a group of Russian spies operating in America, we talk to two spies, one from the former Soviet Union, the other from the UK. They talk about their experiences working on opposite sides of the Cold War. | 7/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100626) Last Respects | This week on TSWI All over the world, 6,500 times an hour, someone somewhere dies. This episode confronts the final frontier in a light-hearted way: from cremating a 500lb man to the latest in funeral bling. | 6/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100619) Bhopal Survivors: Then and Now | PODCAST RUNDOWN: This week on TSWI... as outrage continues to simmer in India over the Bhopal case, we hear from survivors of the 1984 disaster - and from the second generation of survivors who grew up in the city's toxic wake. | 6/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100612) The Beautiful Game | This week on TSWI... against the backdrop of the World Cup, we present stories of how the game has changed people's lives: a transsexual in Australia starts playing with women and causes a huge controversy, but scores a huge political victory; and a former professional talks about the moment when the opposing goalkeeper collapsed and he chose to help him rather than score. And one man explains why the beautiful game is so beautiful off the field. | 6/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100605) Crossing the Border | This week on TSWI. Crossing Borders. The promises and perils of crossing the Mexican and American borders to work in the US. What it's like to cross from a Palestinian checkpoint into Israel to work. And how child labour can actually be a good thing. | 6/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100529) North Korea: Police State, Prison State | This week on TSWI... North Korea: Police State, Prison State. The world's attention has once again refocused on North Korea over allegations that it sank a South Korean ship. Its actions on the world stage are mirrored by the harshness of its secret prison camps: the rogue nation has 154,000 political prisoners in six camps across the country, and its human rights record is atrocious. We speak to a former prisoner, and to a former prison guard about what they went through. And we remember the Gwangju massacre. Ahn Sung-ryea was a nurse supervisor at a hospital in Gwangju, and tells Jonathan why she will never forget the day fighting broke out. | 5/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100522) Gone Missing | This week on TSWI... we present stories of the disappeared. Carol Hrdlicka explains why, thirty-five years after her husbands plane was downed in Vietnam, shes still looking for him. Veteran journalist Sydney Schanberg (whose story inspired The Killing Fields) says he has proof the US government is hiding the truth about POW/MIAs. We also meet a detective who can make you disappear from society. And documentary maker David Bond explains why he tried to erase himself. | 5/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100515) Flirtation, Love, Romance and Polyamory | This week on TSWI...Flirtation, Love, Romance and Polyamory. We speak with a polyamorous couple, a wedding musician shares her observations, older Chinese couples married under Mao renew their visual vows, we meet a women who teaches the art of seduction and a TSWI producer talks about his unforgettable meeting with Queen of Romance Barbara Cartland. | 5/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100508) Babahs Day in Court, Right to Sex (or Not Have Sex) | This week on TSWI...a second chance to hear our Gabriel Award winning piece Babah's Day in Court in which a man from Sierra Leone finally goes to the Charles Taylor trial in The Hague to confront the man whose very voice still makes him shake with fear and outrage. Plus the right to sex featuring the tempting tale of 63 year old vixen Wendy Salisbury and the real life Lysistrata perpetrated by Kenya's women. And 21-year-old Nathan Royle from Adelaide, Australia explains he came to realize he was 'asexual'. Finally, a professor of philosophy tells us what he did when, the day he was giving a lesson on the meaning of tolerance, a student walked in shrouded from head to toe in a Burqa. | 5/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100501) World Press Freedom Day Special | This week on TSWI...is a special honouring World Press Freedom Day. Mike Bonanno of the Yes Men talks activist stunts, two exiled Middle Eastern writers explain why exile isn't as free as you'd think and an ex Jihadist regrets his interview with a Christian broadcaster. And the man known as the father of European undercover journalism talks about a life in character. | 4/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100424) A Cure for Sex Offenders? | This week on TSWI...we ask if there's a cure for sex offenders. Jesse White tells us about how his assault on an underage girl landed him in jail, and how he feels the chemical treatment he received has turned his life around. We also speak with the doctor who treated Jesse. Finally we talk to Bill - not a sex offender - but someone who felt his sex drive was the bane of his existence...until he castrated himself. | 4/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100417) | This week on TSWI... A Russian judge gets fired for telling the truth, and fights back. How an Ethiopian migrant worker escaped her brutal employer in Lebanon. Why women commit suicide in high numbers in rural China. And the tough choice between love or family for a young Indonesian woman. | 4/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100416) The Man With No Memory | This week on TSWI... Jonathan Overfeld lost all memory of himself, and didn't even recognize his life-partner. After playing a piano piece by Bach, his past came back to him, and it was horrifying. Also: rugby versus the Church in Ireland. And what a Ghandian believer in non-violence does when his ashram is bulldozed by government troops. And taking the bus in Warsaw is hard enough at rush hour, but it gets even harder when elderly women scream at you to give up your seat for them. | 4/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100403) Faith and Persecution | This week on TSWI... Rob Fransman attends the trial of an accused Nazi war criminal who worked at the camp where his parents were murdered - even though he believes justice is impossible. | 4/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100327) Bad Therapy | This week on TSWI: bad therapy. Child witches are being horribly abused in southern Nigeria. Women in northern Ghana accused of being witches find refuge in special camps. One man recounts the excruciating aversion therapy he went through as part of a psychiatrist's attempt to cure him of his homosexuality. And a therapist talks about the occupational hazards of treating other therapists. | 3/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100320) The Art of Smuggling | This week on TSWI... the art of smuggling: an expert in ancient art believes that smuggling antiquities is a moral thing. And a US Marine Reservist risks his life combating the illicit trade in ancient artworks. | 3/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100313) | This week on TSWI... The Culture of Addiction. In London, a rabbi who runs an addiction centre helps Muslims create their own centres. Two problem drinkers, one Irish and one Russian, explain why their cultures are so steeped in alcohol. And an Afghan journalist presents an audio diary about the loss of his best friend to free market medical practices. | 3/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In | THE STATE WE'RE IN RUNDOWN DATE: 13 March 2010 PRODUCTION #: 1013201 HOST: Jonathan Groubert SHOW TITLE: Cultures of Addiction PROGAM TAGS: Addiction, substance abuse, Palestine, Israel, Ireland, St. Patrick's Day, beer, alcoholism, Moscow, jihad, London, terrorism, Afghanistan, Kabul, free market, medical incompetence SEGMENT A: (12:30) RABBI'S RESCUE: Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin runs an addiction centre outside of London, England. Just after the July 2005 bombings, a young Muslim man knocked on his door. He needed help he couldn't get in his own community. Rabbi Sufrin welcomed him and eventually helped the local Muslims start their own addiction centres. TEASER B: Jonathan tells us what's coming up in the B segment MUSIC BED (1:30) SEGMENT B: 18:30 THIS WEEK'S THEME IS Cultures of Addiction WASTED: Brian O'Connell grew up with excessive drinking all around him in Ireland. He became a problem drinker himself and had to fight two battles to become sober: the first against the bottle, the second against the drinking culture of Ireland. He's written a book about what he went through called | 3/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100306) | This week on TSWI... Land Rights and Rituals. We look at how we treat the land, featuring a persecuted environmental activist in Turkmenistan, impoverished poachers in Uganda and a Mohawk hunter whose life changed while hunting moose. | 3/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100227) | This week on TSWI... kidnapping. Yi Okseon was forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army. Shes still waiting for an official apology. In Colombia, Annie Correals father was kidnapped by insurgents. A radio station helped her family to send messages to him, messages that he says kept him alive. | 2/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100220) | This week on TSWI... Noman Benotman was a jihadist who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan. He's still a jihadist but believes that the extremists are "idiots" and immoral. He wants the term restored to its spiritual sense, and is fighting now with words instead of guns to do just that. And we revisit a controversial segment about how Aboriginal people in Australia were offended by a government-issued card which limits how they can spend their money. Many listeners, mostly in Australia, were angered by that segment. This time we speak with two Aboriginal women who support using the card. | 2/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100213) | This week on TSWI... Love stories: how having an arranged marriage still isn't a ticket out of dating hell, and how one octogenarian in Mumbai is helping disabled people there hear wedding bells. | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100206) | PODCAST RUNDOWN: This week on TSWI... Enlisting God: military rabbis have been directing Israeli soldiers to see combat as a matter of faith. A former soldier explains why he's repulsed by what he calls 'Holy War'. | 2/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In 20100130 | As Uganda considers strengthening it's already homophobic laws this week TSWI presents a special edition of the programme looking at what it is like to be gay throughout Africa, with voices from Namibia, Ghana, Uganda and SA. | 1/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20100123) | This week on TSWI - Growing Up Right. Stories about and from children who've conquered unimaginable odds: a woman in Rio de Janiero who educates street children, despite death threats from police. As well as adult children of sectarian extremists in Northern Ireland, and the son of a child murderer. | 1/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090116) | The trade in illicit drugs around the world is stronger than ever. We zoom in and zoom out on the global trade in conversations with a former street dealer, a drug mule and an addict. We also speak to an expert who consults with governments around the world about what they can do to fight back. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090109) | This week on TSWI... North Korea: Police State, Prison State. The world has reason to be nervous about the rogue nation and its nuclear program. And people within the country also have reason to be scared -- it has 154,000 political prisoners in six camps across the country, and its human rights record is atrocious. We speak to a former prisoner, and to a former prison guard about what they went through. | 1/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In | A fresh start is nearly impossible wherever there's a history of violence. But today's special new year's program shows that people around the world can make new beginnings with old enemies. Stories include: a Palestinian and Israeli teenager who overcame their fears to become best friends; a Muslim and a Hindu filmmaker whose relationship was tested and strengthened while working in conflict-torn Kashmir; a man in Zimbabwe who now preaches against the intertribal violence he once took part in. We also feature an essay from Sri Lanka about overcoming caste divisions, and another from a survivor of Sarajevo with her reflections on the war crimes trial of Radovan Karadzic. | 12/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In | This week on TSWI... we let our producers' pick their favourite stories for this year's show on the theme of giving gifts. Gifts like the song a boss in Texas got after chewing out her wayward, and then repentant, employees and after Rwandan singer Jean Paul Samputu discovered his best friend murdered his whole family in the genocide there, he gave him the gift of forgiveness. | 12/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20091219) | This week on TSWI... With Uganda considering extremely repressive laws against gay people, we talk to one man who fled the country and discovered later that authorities beat his brother to death trying to find out where he'd gone. We also talk to a prominent pastor who believes that being gay is a lifestyle choice and that they are not welcome in today's Uganda. | 12/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20091212) | The right to be left alone: we speak with a woman from County Mayo, Ireland, who was willing to die in order to prevent Shell from building a natural gas plant near where she lives. We also speak to another woman, whose ex-partner has been stalking her for the last fifteen years and how she manages to live day-to-day. | 12/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20091205) | This week on TSWI... Bhopal, twenty-five years later. We hear from survivors of what some have called the worst environmental disaster in history, which claimed as many as 8,000 lives. We also hear from the second generation of survivors -- and victims -- who grew up in the toxic wake of the catastrophe, and who still call Bhopal home. | 12/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20091128) | This week, we offer something different on the idea of giving thanks. We celebrate the 20 years since the end of the Cold War by interviewing the men who say they are responsible for keeping the world safe, namely spies. | 11/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20091121) | This week on TSWI, Dirty Wars, with stories of ex-warriors for Islam in Somalia, after 2 decades an Uruguayan mother finds her son after the dirty war there, and a new film in Argentina exposes the terrible treatment of soldiers during the war in the Falklands. | 11/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20091114) | This week on TSWI... we ask both a unionizer and a union buster if there's a right to form a union. We hear the tragic tale of the extrajudicial killing in Mozambique that changed the legal system and we go to Postville, Iowa where an immigration raid nearly destroyed the whole town. | 11/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20091107) | Veterans' Day, Remembrance Day, Armistice Day: from Iraq War vets making paper from their uniforms, to a KGB general to a Mau Mau rebel in Kenya, we speak with veterans from around the world about how their experience of war has marked them. | 11/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20091031) | This week on TSWI... Afghanistan's runoff election is in a shambles. And so we speak to Mir Mahdavi. He was editor of a newspaper in Kabul and was accused of insulting Islam and nearly executed -- with President Karzai's approval. We also look at the right to a dignified old age: American retirees moving to Mexico, Japanese villages populated by the elderly and the fragile position of widows in India. | 11/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20091031) | This week on TSWI... with a run-off election looming in Afghanistan, we speak to Mir Mahdavi. He was editor of a newspaper in Kabul and was accused of insulting Islam and nearly executed -- with President Karzai's approval. We also look at the right to a dignified old age: American retirees moving to Mexico, Japanese villages populated by the elderly and the fragile position of widows in India. | 10/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20091024) | This week on TSWI, we ask if there's a right to a big corporate bonus. Is there a right to smile? We meet a woman who can't. A Palestinian woman recounts the repercussions of a smile at an Israeli checkpoint. And we meet a French priest who is almost single-handedly uncovering the events of the Holocaust in Ukraine. | 10/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20091017) | This week on TSWI we look at how we treat 'the other' after 'the other' has tried to kill us. We discuss the right to be in uniform and out of the closet, and we speak to Malian musician Salif Keita about albinism. | 10/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20091017) | This week on TSWI we look at how we treat 'the other' after 'the other' has tried to kill us. The right to be in uniform and out of the closet, and we speak Malian musician Salif Keita about being albninism. | 10/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20091010) | This week on TSWI, we commemorate Columbus Day with a look at the rights of indigenous people around the world, with stories from Australia, the US, Bolivia and a report on how native Hawaiians feel about 50 years of being an American state. | 10/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20091003) | We return to the thorny question: do we have a right to assisted suicide? And from gender selection to abortion, we look at the right to design our children. That's in this week's The State We're In. | 10/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090926) | This week on TSWI... we look at how people treat each other in bad economic times with stories from Argentina and Russia. Plus is there a right to get married and NOT to get married. A former Catholic priest tells us why marriage was worth being defrocked and an English woman explains how she escaped from an arranged marriage. Plus Bluegrass banjo legend Eddie Adcock plays for us with a hand kept free of tremors by electrodes in his brain. | 9/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (19 September 2009) | We talk to a documentary maker whose film on child soldiers in the Congo is being used as evidence in the first trial at the International Criminal Court. We ask how we treat each other on line and the creation of 10 blogging commandments. And we consider whether rules for airplane security are overly strict or simply necessary. | 9/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090912) | This week on TSWI, we look at how the swine flu is affecting how people treat each. Plus we ask if there's a right to complain and hear from Israeli singer and songwriter Aviv Geffen, who was standing next to Yizhak Rabin when he was assassinated. | 9/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090905) | This week on TSWI, a Labor Day special on the right to a good boss. With stories from the United States, Canada, Argentina, Italy and South Korea. From the worst to the best, to having no boss at all. | 9/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090529) | This week on The State Were In... a former St. Petersburg cop, now journalist, tells us just how dangerous the Russian police have become. And we speak with a victim of Russian police brutality who is trying to take his attackers to court. We ask if there's a right to silence with stories from the U.S. Britain and India. In our occasional series on dilemmas, a professor of philosophy tells us what he did when, the day he was giving a lesson on the meaning of tolerance, a student walked in shrouded from head to toe in a Burqa. And 21-year-old Nathan Royle from Adelaide, Australia explains he came to realize he was 'asexual'. | 8/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In | This week on The State Were In an American primary care doctor tells us how insurance companies chased her out of the business. Is there a right to a childhood? A Zimbabwean orphan tells us about how she became head of her household when she was 12 and former child actor and Mouseketeer Paul Peterson expounds on his fight for the rights of child performers. And we meet Azim Khamisa whos only son had been killed by a 14 year old gang initiate. Azim dedicated the rest of his life to teaching forgiveness and trying to rescue children like his sons killer from gang violence. | 8/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090815) | With Charles Taylor facing charges in The Hague of war crimes committed in Sierra Leone, we talk to a man who lived through the horrors of that war - and makes a journey to The Hague to see the man whose very voice still makes him shake with fear and outrage. | 8/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In | This week on The State Were In...we look at how film and TV can help bring war victims together. Just in time for summer, we ask if there's a right to be naked! And can you be Muslim and gay? We investigate. | 8/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090801) | This week, a special edition of The State We're In: the right to bike around the world. We compare life in the bike lane in two cities: San Francisco and Amsterdam. We also hear from a man for whom having a bike is a matter of life and death -- he's a bicycle ambulance driver for his village in Uganda. And we talk to a committed cyclist in Manhattan who lost twenty bikes to thieves and reached a point where he became an unwitting bike thief himself. | 7/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090725) | Hosted by Jonathan Groubert, the programme explores global events by talking to people directly affected. The focus is on human rights in the broadest sense of the term. | 7/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090718) | This week on The State Were In... a former Somali pirate tells us why he took to the seas. We ask if there's a right to make yourself beautiful with a report on cheap plastic surgery in Brazil and an 'ugly club' in Italy. And we hear of a little known minority in Sri Lanka called the Kaffirs. | 7/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090711) | This week on The State Were In...we speak with the organiser of non-profit casino and ask if there's a right to gamble. Plus, is there a right to proselytise? A Southern Baptist from Lebanon does it every chance he gets. But a former Catholic priest turned Muslim says it's better to speak and live as an example. And we meet Ariane Sherine who sparked a movement that placed anti-religious advertisements all over the world. | 7/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090704) | This week on The State We're In, we look at independence. The Kurds are the world's largest ethnic group without a homeland. Should their fight for independence go on? We meet the Prince of an independent nation located on a platform off the coast of England, and we hear the story of a young woman escaping slavery. | 7/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090627) | This week on The State Were In... we speak with Ilham, an Iranian woman who talks about the role women have played in the protests. We look at prisoners' education in California, a Bolivian prison that lets women raise their kids and British ex-con Peter Woolf talks about his life of crime and how a meeting with one of his victims changed both their lives forever. | 6/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090620) | A former leader of the student protests in Serbia advises Iranian protesters that they must not fight with the police, if they want to win. We ask if fair trade really is fair with stories from Ghana and Kenya. An Indian domestic worker talks about her fight for fair pay, and a writer from Sarajevo tells us about food and fairness under siege. | 6/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090613) | This week on The State Were In... a tale of press freedom victory and defeat as we speak with a Somali journalist who was shot just doing his job and a Lithuanian journalist speaks of his role in the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Plus we debate about the right to be fat and an insurance detective talks about tailing and exposing the cheats. | 6/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090606) | THE STATE WE'RE IN DATE: 6 June 2009 PRODUCTION #: 1011785 HOST: Jonathan Groubert SEGMENT A: Persecution of China's rights lawyers PROGAM TAG: (:29) DEFENDING THE DEFENDERS: On June 1, the Chinese government refused to renew the licenses of lawyers it sees as hostile to its interests. Lawyer Mo Shaoping has defended many so-called 'sensitive' cases, including many lawyers who fight for civil or human rights. He tells Jonathan about the risks and struggles in his work. PERSECUTION OF LAWYERS: Nicholas Bequelin of Human Rights Watch talks with Jonathan about the restrictions now being put on lawyers who take on cases critical of the Chinese government. TEASER B: Jonathan tells us what's coming up in the B segment MUSIC BED (1:30) SEGMENT B: 18:30 THIS WEEK'S THEME IS | 6/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080530) | This week on The State Were In...Jonathan talks about the killing of Ken Saro-Wiwa with an Ogoni rights activist. We look at the Right to Read with stories from Canada, Turkey and India. And, how Beijing is trying to erase the memory of Tiananmen Square through house demolitions. | 5/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090523) | This week on The State Were In former Tamil Tiger Nirmala Rajasingam tells us why she's relieved but saddened at the news of the LTTE's defeat. Both a doctor and a patient explain why they think there's no right to health insurance in the U.S. We meet Ismael Khatib, a Palestinian father from the West Bank City of Jenin who, when his son was shot by Israeli soldiers, donated his son's organs to Israeli children. And Kannan Arunasalam explains why he's breaking his vow to return a statue of Ganesh to its temple in the war-ravaged north of Sri Lanka. | 5/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090516) | Gay rights marches in Moscow, a gay Indian man's right to divorce, Kuhl, the ancient Islamic form of divorce and the man who helps people divorce amicably. Plus the story of a couple divorced with no hard feelings and a gay American man ponders the value of marriage. | 5/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090509) | This week on The State Were In: we hear from schoolgirls in Pakistan's embattled Swat valley who just want to keep learning. And from a woman in Somaliland who beat all the odds to establish a hospital. | 5/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090502) | A Press Freedom Day Special: a Darfuri journalist tells us why reporting from Holland makes him a better local journalist in Darfur. An Afghani student talks about the download that put him on death row. China is using lunch to control journalists and we meet the Colombian journalist who reports on the War on Drugs there, despite death threats. And bloggers from Israel, Syria and Iran join our panel discussion on free press in the Middle East. | 5/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090425) | This week on The State Were In... Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh talks about her underage death row clients. We ask if there's a right to know the past with stories from Turkey, Italy and Cambodia. A South African woman explains why she never taught her daughter about apartheid. And Kannan Arunasalam in Sri Lanka goes on a pilgrimage with an elderly aunt to a Hindu shrine featuring a god of war. | 4/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090418) | Is there a right to trade small arms? An arms dealer defends his work. Is there a right to migrate for work? We go to Mexico and China. We speak with the comedians from Allah Made Me Funny. We talk to a Cuban-American woman about the change in US law that will allow her to visit her family back in Cuba as often as she likes. And we hear the dilemma of a woman who wants to leave her dentist - but doesn't want to be considered a bigot. | 4/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090418) | Is there a right to trade small arms? An arms dealer defends his work. Is there a right to migrate for work? We go to Mexico and China. We speak with the comedians from Allah Made Me Funny. We talk to a Cuban-American woman about the change in US law that will allow her to visit her family back in Cuba as often as she likes. And we hear the dilemma of a woman who wants to leave her dentist - but doesn't want to be considered a bigot. | 4/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090411) | This week, we ask if there's a right to borrow money. Our theme is the right to smile: we visit a hospital for children with cleft palates, and consider the passport photo without the smile. | 4/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090404)) | This week on The State Were In... 15 years since the genocide in Rwanda, Tutsi musician Jean Paul Samputu came home to discover that his best friend Vincent, a Hutu, had murdered his family. After years of drinking and drug abuse Jean Paul went back to Rwanda, found Vincent and forgave him. We look at the right to stay and go and speak with Australians who decided to stay behind to save their homes during last February's devastating forest fires. And we report on how the Israeli government is using red tape to try to drive its Arab population out of East Jerusalem. | 4/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090328) | This week on The State Were In, a female Afghan MP discusses the present and future of women's rights in Afghanistan, the right to teach and learn in Zimbabwe, China and Germany and philosophers debate whether animals have any rights at all. | 3/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090321) | This week on The State Were In, the right to bonuses in the sullied world of high finance. And the right to legal and diplomatic representation. | 3/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090314) | This week on The State Were In: how we treat each other in the midst of an economic meltdown with stories from Iceland and Russia. And the right to music, even in war zones. Stories from Afghanistan, Paraguay (not at war) and Kosovo. Plus bluegrass legend Eddie Adcock talks about why he put electrodes in his head to stop a hand tremor. | 3/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090307) | This week on the programme, a special looking at the plight and hopes of Zimbabweans. A long-time opposition politician tells us about his first handshake with his old enemy, Robert Mugabe. We meet a group of women who explain the struggle to keep a home running, and an Anglican priest reflects on the spiritual struggle facing his people. | 3/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090307) | This week on The State Were In, a special looking at the plight and hopes of Zimbabweans. A long-time opposition politician tells us about his first handshake with his old enemy, Robert Mugabe. We meet a group of women who explain the struggle to keep a home running, and an Anglican priest reflects on the spiritual struggle facing his people. | 3/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090228) | In the wake of banks collapsing in Antigua and Venezuela, we consider the right to withdraw your cash. The right to marry, or not. We hear from a British woman who escaped forced marriage, a polygamous husband in Kenya, a man who left to priesthood to marry the woman he loved and Jasvinder Sanghera tells us why she ran from a forced marriage. Finally, we look at the rise of hate crimes in Moscow and commentator Daisy Mohr remarks on Tehran's jolly new murals. | 2/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090221) | This week on The State Were In... A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer disappears. We talk to a fellow lawyer about human rights work in China. In many parts of the world people don't have the right to drugs they need to survive. Employers are spying on their employees. We find out why. | 2/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090214) | This week in The State Were In, as unemployment grows around the world, we look at the right to work locally versus the right to migrate for jobs. Our theme this week is the right to escape your past. And we ask whether we should have the right to send objects into orbit and leave them there. | 2/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090207) | This week on The State Were In, we talk to a documentary maker whose film on child soldiers in Congo. We also discuss the right to own pets, and we consider whether rules for airplane security are overly strict or simply necessary. | 2/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090131) | This week on The State Were In an aspiring Somali pirate tells us why he feels he has the right to hijack ships. People in Zimbabwe and Argentina explain why they should have a right to objective television coverage. And we look at mental health in Gaza. | 1/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090124) | This week on The State Were In, we look at new regulations in the US regarding the rights of conscience for health care workers, the right to refuse, and the dangers of defending rights in Russia. | 1/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090117) | This week on The State Were In, we look at the right to access for the disabled, architecture and human rights, a prison in Australia designed on the basis of human rights, and language and politics in Sri Lanka. | 1/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090110) | Divided families in the programme this week. We look at the right to free movement for Cubans, meet a family divided between Gaza and the West Bank, and meet a mother who was sentenced to three years in prison, while her children were left to fend for themselves. | 1/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20090103) | In this special edition of The State Were In, we speak to human rights defenders from across the globe, including Uzbekistan, Burma, Congo, Brazil and Iran. And we present a portrait of the British lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith. | 12/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20081227) | This week on The State Were In... another chance to hear some of the best pieces of 2008, including The Right to Silence, The Right to Sex and one of our favourite interviews, featuring Geert van Kesteren, author of Baghdad Calling, a book that depicts life in wartime Iraq through cell phone pictures. | 12/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20081220) | We ask if there is a right to a functioning government, with a look at the total collapse of government services in Zimbabwe. Then, the right to reproduce: we hear from a woman who was forced to have an abortion in China. And we discuss the protection of children with two South African women who run a home for abused young people. | 12/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20081213) | This week on The State Were In, we look at the rights of the body in respect to organ donation. Then we ask if there is a right to wear whatever you want, with a Kenyan MP fighting to wear traditional clothes in Parliament. And, the right to be warm for survivors of the Sichuan earthquake in China. | 12/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In 20081206 | This week we mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We talk with musician Angelique Kidjo about how she uses music to spread the importance of human rights. And we look at the intersection of technology and human rights. | 12/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20081129) | This week on The State Were In, we look at the crisis in the Gaza Strip, the poor state of education in the Arab world, a university student trapped in Gaza, Koranic schools in Nigeria, and a group of moms in Chicago who completely spruced up their neighbourhood school. | 11/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20081122) | This week on The State Were In, we look at efforts to combat violence against women. Then, how we treat each other online. Sometimes people are nicer through the internet, other times meaner, and sometimes they just lie. Then, we look at discrimination against the Roma in Italy. | 11/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In | We look at the right to die with 'dignity' with a Dutch nurse who has assisted numerous suicides, and a campaigner who is opposed to the practice. Then, we look at how walls and fences influence how we treat each other. We hear about a Palestinian village surrounded by a wall, meet Texans who don't want a border fence with Mexico, and learn how Greenland has a prison system without walls. And we take a look at the prejudice facing lesbians in Malaysia. | 11/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20081108) | We look at how the United States has treated different parts of the world - and what President Elect Barak Obama will have to change - from Kenya, Iran and the Netherlands. Then, the right of gays and lesbians to serve in the military. And we mark Remembrance Day of World War I. | 11/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20081101) | This week: the right to affordable food and who's responsible to provide it. We look at the right to healthy food. And caste in India: we meet an inter-caste couple fighting discrimination. | 10/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In | This week, we look at education for women in Afghanistan. Then, we continue with a look at the Afghan culture lost in decades of conflict. We meet a group of women in Western Sahara who prize their education, and meet an Iranian student who sued the government over discrimination in university admissions. | 10/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20081018) | This week in The State Were In: civil disobedience. We hear about women in Iran using the hijab as a social protest. Then, we look at whether we are losing our right to use civil disobedience as a form of protest, and we hear from grandson of Gandhi. And a look at the American ex-convicts who have lost the right to vote. | 10/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20081011) | This week on The State Were In, we mark Colombus Day by looking at the rights of indigenous peoples. We hear about the struggle of the people of the Chagos Islands to return home, the rights of Mohawk women, the Maoris, Inuits, and Berbers. | 10/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20081004) | This week on The State Were In... we meet an American who can't sell his house or get a loan and speak with the Kenyan organization giving loans to the elderly. Do we have a right to explore space? We hear about the dangers of space trash, meet the first woman space tourist and talk to the Association for Autonomous Astronauts, who offer uplifting instructions on building DJ powered spacecraft. | 10/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In | This week on The State Were In... we meet an American who can't sell his house or get a loan and speak with the Kenyan organization giving loans to the elderly. Do we have a right to explore space? We hear about the dangers of space trash, meet the first woman space tourist and talk to the Association for Autonomous Astronauts, who offer uplifting instructions on building DJ powered spacecraft. | 10/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080927) | This week on The State Were In, we look at the right to obtain information from the authorities, the right to sleep and sleep-related problems, and the difficulties of being gay and African. | 9/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080920) | This week on The State Were In, we look at the role of technology in promoting human rights. First, Facebook and blogs in the Middle East. Then, a site that counts the murdered in a Brazilian state, radio for justice in DRC, and a collection of mobile phone images of violence in Iraq. | 9/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080913) | This week on The State Were In, we look at the right to a comfortable retirement, the right to a toilet, transgender toilets in Thailand, and a Sri Lankan puts a dot on her forehead and faces problems at checkpoints. | 9/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080906) | This week on The State Were In, we look at the right to unionise, the right to be fat, being fat in Africa, and a mock-up of Guantánamo outside the Republic Convention. | 9/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080830) | Three years ago Massood Janjua left for work and never returned. We hear about one of the thousands of people who disappeared in Pakistan. And as North America enjoys a Labour Day holiday we look at labour rights from Cambodian factory workers to Dutch sex workers. | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080823) | This week on The State Were In, we ask if everyone has a right to clean drinking water. This weeks theme is the right to the medical treatment of your choice, be it conventional or alternative. And we talk to a Dutch man fighting for the right to grow his own marijuana for medical use. | 8/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080816) | In this edition of The State Were In, we look at the right to a level playing field in sports, the rights of visual artists to express themselves, and the right to wear what you want in Washington DC and Kenya. | 8/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080809) | In this edition of TSWI, we examine the impact of the Olympic Games on trash recyclers in Beijing, the human rights legacy of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the right to compete, and we mark the tenth anniversary of the US embassy bombings in Africa. | 8/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080802) | In this edition of TSWI, we focus on education, looking at the right to schooling in times of war. We also examine what should be taught in school and how, and finally we hear about the consequences for a Yemeni woman of being denied an education | 8/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080726) | In this edition of TSWI, we look at a report that claims, in some cases, former child soldiers do better than one would expect when they return to their homes. Then, a look at the rights of veterans when it comes to treatment for mental health disorders. We end with a look at the Pieds Noirs, French colonists to Algeria, who are returning to their former homes. | 7/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080719) | This week, we look at the place of flying in modern society, and what to do as prices skyrocket. Then, the right to a holiday: why some of us get more time off than others, how families with sick kids get a break, and why visiting tourists to Latvia may want to behave themselves. And, 25 years after Black July in Sri Lanka, we hear the story of one man who reaches across divides to protect his friends | 7/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20080712) | This week on The State Were In... we ask if there is a right to affordable fuel. Then, a look at language rights, and we finish with a visit to Beijing as the Chinese learn to queue up properly ahead of the Olympics. | 7/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080705) | This week we look at the rights of stateless inmates at Guantanamo Bay. Our theme this week is the right to a name, with stories from Nicargua, China, Australia and the Dominican Republic. And finally we feature three stories about bicycles and the way we treat each other. | 7/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080628) | This week on The State Were In... we look at how African American victims of crime in Newark have so little faith in law enforcement and so great a fear of retribution, that they have simply stopped reporting crimes. We look at the right to clean air with Dutch environmental scientists, a denizen of Bangkok tells us that polluted air is a class thing and a Dutch SUV owner explains why he feels he has the right to pollute the air if he can afford it. Finally, journalist Pieternel Gruppen tells Jonathan how radio is now being used to convince former to come out of the bush and home to their communities. | 6/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080621) | This week on The State Were In... we look at the violence and hopes ahead of Zimbabwes presidential election. Also, an investigation into the right to banking around the world. Then, we hear about a controversial plan to stop the violence in one Washington, D.C. neighbourhood. | 6/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080614) | We investigate how children are treated after the Sichuan quake. We look at the right to fight with fighter/philosopher Sam Sheridan, a scientist proves aggression feels good and our essayist recalls his first street fight. Plus Indian Gujjars fight for the right to reduce their caste, a Tuskegee Airman reminisces and we look at how cattle rustling in East Africa has turned deadly. | 6/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20080608) | A look at the right to food for cyclone survivors in Myanmar, then a look at the right to nudity. Is public nakedness really a problem? And, returning home, we hear from two Liberian refugees considering repatriating, followed by the story of a woman struggling to return to Beirut when civil war erupts. | 6/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080531) | This week we ask Who defends the defenders? of human rights and speak with the head of Policy of Amnesty International. We look at THE RIGHT TO BE MUSLIM AND GAY with stories from Egypt, Turkey and even a gay Imam in Cape Town. We meet Malalai Joya who has been called Afghanistans bravest woman. And we hear about the rise in attacks against Turkeys Christian community. | 5/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080524) | Corporate philanthropy, three stories of the right to sex, kiva.org, an organisation that gives loans that change lives, and disappearances in Sri Lanka. | 5/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080517) | We ask if the Myanmar government has the right to refuse aid, we hear three stories about the right to read, and we hear two stories about international crime. | 5/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080510) | This week on The State Were In, Israel turns 60, three stories on the theme of girl power, and youth gangs in Washington, DC and El Salvador. | 5/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080503) | This week on The State Were In, we mark World Press Freedom Day, we look at the legacy of World War II sixty-three years after the liberation of Europe, and we hear two perspectives on female suicide bombers. | 5/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080426) | We hear how film is changing lives - film for freedom, film for reconciliation, and film to heal the wounds of war. We also hear three stories about homeland - caught between homes, a home away from home, and losing a home. | 4/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080419) | This week on The State Were In, a look at the right to compete or boycott the Olympics, along with the mood in China in the wake of the torch protests. Plus, we consider the rights of victims of terrorist attacks, a look at food scarcity in Venezuela, and how Sri Lankans have learned to like fighting. | 4/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080412) | This week on The State Were In... food prices around the world are skyrocketing; the right to silence; Palestinian high school production of Romeo and Juliet | 4/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080405) | This week in TSWI, we look at the causes behind the recent violence in Cameroon in which up to 100 people have been killed. Changing the System from Within has interviews with a stock trader who quit his job to start an online resource for ethical investing, Bolivian sweat shop workers in Argentina fight for their rights and Irish kids are taught how to ask for healthier school food. Plus we speak with a man whose computer program can accurately predict hot spots around the world and, 40 years after his assassination, the former PR advisor of Martin Luther King talks about how his ideas have affected today's politics. | 4/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080329) | This week on The State Were In... Dutch politician Geert Wilders finally releases his anti-Islam film "Fitna"; we'll look the right to free speech in the Netherlands and find out why Moslem communities are under much more pressure in Europe than they are in North America. We'll also hear about the relationship between culture and conflict, day to day life in Zimbabwe as people there choose a government, and the rights of prostitutes in Bolivia. | 3/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We re In (20080322) | The Dalai Lama says that cultural genocide is taking place in Tibet. Does the term exist in International Law and what does it mean from a moral perspective. We ask a legal expert and a Tibetan refugee. Surveillance is our theme this week including a look at a man who decided to spy on himself and we have a peep at the One World Film Festival that has been taking place in Prague. | 3/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We're In (20080315) | We ask Baghdadis what their city is like, 5 years on from the American led invasion of Iraq. We go off the beaten path literally and figuratively. Host Jonathan Groubert recounts a lonely time in Bosnia, Penny Bergen recounts life in the Australian outback. German marine biologist Birgit Obermueller discusses her life in Antarctica and spiritualist Miek Pot talks about her 12 year vow of silence in a nunnery. Finally, we ask an American civil rights lawyer what should happen with the prisoners in Guantanamo who could be free, but have no place to go | 3/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20080308) | The usual stunning array of human rights themed tales from around the world. This week the show focuses on the right to land, and how the struggle for ownership affects the poor and powerless, be they in Russia, South Africa or India. | 3/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20080301) | This week, we look at the conflict in Darfur, which started 5 years ago this week. We ask if one man\'s trash truly is another man\'s treasure with Catadores who live off Brazil\'s garbage and an Indian man who makes films from thrown away trailer reels. And form French colonists, Pied Noir, return to Algeria for the first time in half a century. | 2/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20080223) | War correspondent reports on situation in Baghdad; Television and breaking taboos in Holland, Georgia and the Middle East; Kosovo and the right to national independence; the rights of sperm donors | 2/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20080216) | As Kenya calms, we speak with a woman who\'s been taking in refugees. We look at the right to health care, infant euthanasia, and mental health in Northern Ireland. A war correspondent explains why he\'s glad to be back in Baghdad, we report on the doco Standard Operating Procedure and we visit the Dutch Divorce Fair. | 2/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20080209) | This week on The State Were In, the debate over new video evidence in the Natalee Holloway case, how we make amends, dissidents and refugees in China, and Sri Lanka\'s state of Emergency. | 2/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20080202) | This week on The State Were In, we hear the latest from the Gaza Strip, explore the right to sport in Africa and get down with Iraq\'s most well known heavy metal band, Acrassicauda. | 2/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20080126) | -- | 1/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20080119) | This week on The State Were In police corruption in South Africa and corruption around the world, Buddhist monks helping HIV sufferers in Thailand and the Chinese love of beauty and beauty competitions. | 1/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20080112) | This week on The State Were In we hear from troubled Kenya, find out how international businesses can practise ethically, we get the latest from Sri Lanka amid raised security concerns and hear how minefields are being adopted in Mozambique. | 1/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20080105) | This week on The State Were In, the United Nations-backed tribunal for Cambodia prepares to bring the last surviving Khmer Rouge leaders to justice, two stories of discovering the unknown side of people considered close, and the top issues for 2008 from a round table of leading human rights experts. | 1/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20071229) | This week on The State We`re In: a Bosnian Christmas carol; Beauty - how our perceptions of it inform our treatment of others; and the story of Vincent Cochotel, a humanitarian worker who was kidnapped in Chechnya, and lived to tell us the tale. | 12/24/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20071222) | This week on The State Were In we look at labour conditions in China, how living by the book affects the way people treat each other, we hear from a French priest documenting the holocaust in Ukraine and talk to this year\'s winner of the International Children\'s Peace Prize. | 12/21/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20071215) | This week on The State Were in, we look at the war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia, discover how journalists get their stories around the world, investigate the freedom of expression online and find out about the legacy of the war in Liberia. | 12/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20071208) | We take a look at cluster bombs. If they cause so much damaged to civilians, why are countries so slow to ban the ban. This week, the theme is The Ethics of Every day Living, with ethicist Peter Singer. We have reports on stealing electricity in India, and the 10 commandments of driving from the Vatican. And we have a round up of the top human rights news of the week | 12/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20071201) | This week on The State Were In, we look at the right to religious freedom in Egypt, the taboo of AIDS, a personal story of life as a human commodity, and the legacy of the war in Vietnam. | 11/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In | This week on The State Were In, the debate over biofuels, three stories of consumption - and overconsumption, a champion hot dog eater, and a journey from Argentina to Alaska. | 11/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20071117) | This week on The State Were In, a personal story of violence in Mogadishu, three stories of impunity, the second part in our Legacy of War series, and finally, drama in an Italian prison. | 11/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20071110) | This week on The State Were In we talk about torture, prison, and deportation as well as how size affects the way we treat each other - tall, short, thin, fat, when does size matter? | 11/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20071103) | This week on The State Were In... we look at Zoe\'s Ark and international adoption, the right to happiness - and unhappiness, and evangelising on the streets of Belfast. We\'ll also hear the last piece in our series on Zimbabwe and how we treat each other in space. | 11/2/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20071027) | We ask Mo Ibrahim about his prize for good governance in Africa; how we treat each other in the virtual world; we look at multiplayer games, speak with a psychologist and ask a Belorussian blogger how cyberspace has encouraged a free press in his land. Finally we ask what North Koreas know about the outside world, meet a Burmese artist and present the 2nd in our series on essays from Zimbabwe. | 10/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20071020) | This week on The State Were In... we hear different sides of the debate over Blackwater, three stories of star crossed lovers, mothers on a hunger strike to demand a new school for their kids in Chicago and an essay on the terrible economic situation in Zimbabwe symbolized by the luxury of eating one egg. | 10/19/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20071013) | This week on The State We\'re In: Two past and present Nobel Peace Prize winners, counting democracy, stories of mental health from around the world, a bomb disposal technician in Basra, and fallout on Bikini Atoll. | 10/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20071006) | This week on The State Were In, we hear about the situation of women in Afghanistan, various views on the theme fidelity, about street children in Kiev, and about interpreters in South Africa. | 10/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20070929) | This week on The State Were In, we look at the situation in Myanmar, we ask what education should be about, and we look at the story of 400 missing women in a Mexican border town. We wrap up with a story of a 3-year journey in the footsteps of Ghengis Khan. | 9/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20070922) | This week on The State We\'re In, we start in The Congo where we look at the use of rape as a weapon. From there we go to Zimbabwe for the first of three stories on the theme of The Right to a Roof. | 9/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20070915) | The State We`re In: the story of a Dutch woman who joined the Colombian FARC; Leaving the Faith: people who gave up on a religion, a battle, or a career; the fight against | 9/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20070908) | This week on The State Were In: The British pull out of Basra - what this means to locals and soldiers; Lying: why we do it and what happens when we do; and the story of Vincent Cochotel, a humanitarian worker who was kidnapped in Chechnya and lived to tell us the tale. | 9/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20070901) | Hosted by Jonathan Groubert, the programme explores global events by talking to people directly affected. The focus is on human rights in the broadest sense of the term. | 9/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20070825) | UGANDA: Peace or Justice? HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS THIS WEEK\'S THEME IS: Elderly | 8/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20070818) | PARTITION: Pakistan has been celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of partition - the separation from India. HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS THIS WEEK\'S THEME IS: plastic surgery | 8/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We\'re In (10 Aug 2007) | The Role of Women in Sierra Leones Election Interview with Palestinian Doctor Released from Libyan Prison Human Rights News The theme of Surveillance with artist Hasan Elahi, former Stasi prisoner Vera Lengsfeld, and Director of Sound Intelligence Senegalese migrating to the Canary Islands | 8/10/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We\'re In (3 Aug 2007) | Khmer Rouge Trial British Troops Leave Northern Ireland Human Rights News Dr. Ruut Veenhoven on Happiness GDH - Gross Domestic Happiness in Bhutan The Right to be Unhappy Laszlo Foldenyi on Happiness and Melancholy Art & Politics | 8/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (27 July 2007) | JONATHAN SPEAKS WITH IRAQI REFUGEE MAY IRAQI CHRISTIAN REFUGEES: Dorian Jones tells Jonathan about his tour of Istanbul\'s Iraqi-Christian refugee community. HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS HOTTENTOT VENUS UGLY STEP SISTER: MISS ABILITY: IRISH KILLER & THE MEDIA THE MANHATTAN PROJECT BECOMES AN OPERA | 7/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We\'re In (21 July 2007) | Turkey Election - Should Women Fear a Religious Government? Kurdish Hopes in Turkish Elections Disability and Staring Essay on Staring Varieties of Staring Ramba Zamba - Theatre of the Disabled Granting Permission to Stare Dutch \'Police Action\' in Indonesia | 7/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We\'re In (13 July 2007) | THE STATE WE\'RE IN DATE: July 14, 2007 HOST: Jonathan Groubert ZIMBABWE INFLATION COMMENTARY ANTI TERRORISM SONG IN PAKISTAN HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS PERSONAL ESSAY ON HOMELAND KOREAN HOMELAND BURIAL IN CALIFORNIA DIEGO GARCIA ENVIRONMENT AND HOMELAND IN THE NETHERLANDS WAR REMEMBRANCE OF THE BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE | 7/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In | THE STATE WE\'RE IN DATE: July 6, 2007 HOST: Jonathan Groubert (groo-BEHR) BURMA RED CROSS: BURMA PHIL THORNTON: HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS: THIS WEEK\'S THEME IS | 7/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State We\'re In (30 June 2007) | THE STATE WE\'RE IN DATE: June 29, 2007 HOST: Jonathan Groubert (groo-BEHR) CLUSTER BOMBS: I FAILED STATES COMMENTARY: HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS: DUTCH CALVINISTS: BA\'HAI IN SLOVAKIA: CONFUCIANISM 1: CONFUCIANISM 2: BERNADINE DOHRN: RIGHT TO WEAR PAJAMAS: | 7/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20070630 09:07:00 - 09:59:00 UTC) | Hosted by Jonathan Groubert, the programme explores global events by talking to people directly affected. The focus is on human rights in the broadest sense of the term. | 6/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20070623 09:07:00 - 09:59:00 UTC) | -- | 6/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20070616 09:07:00 - 09:59:00 UTC) | -- | 6/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20070609 09:07:00 - 09:59:00 UTC) | -- | 6/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The State Were In (20070602 09:07:00 - 09:59:00 UTC) | -- | 6/2/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 270 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Interesting topics
For the most part, I really enjoy listening to these - interesting topics that you might not otherwise even think about. Some are really intriguing (video apologies for war atrocities, maternity hospital in Somali-land), but some are just plain lame (right to bike? Who cares, man!). Kind of oscillates from really important topics (women's rights around the world) to these sort of obscure and uninteresting ones (right to have recreational sex - believe me, sounds a lot more interesting than the podcast actually was). Seems to be about a 75/25 split right now - so enough to keep me coming back.
Hideous website. Great Content.
The website looks to have cost about $50. The logo stolen from a janitorial company? But the interviews, from all parts of the world are touching, concise. The reporters are warm and knowlegable. It's worldly. Not American centered. Sort of This American Life-meets-The World.
Fantastic stories
I'm addicted to this program. The stories are worth being told and definetily worth listening to. Keep them coming.
