The State We're In
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
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It's complicated
This week on TSWI... It's complicated: a young British man ...
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.
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Neighbourhood watch
In Cairo, Juarez and Poland: people who have had enough ...
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.
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Secrets and lies
Steve Lickteig thought he was the adopted son of Kansas ...
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.
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Us and them
Anthony Shaffer was an American spy whose last mission was ...
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.
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The right fight
Reverend Thomas Butts in Alabama used the pulpit to 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.
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Bloody but unbowed
People who don't give up. A mother in Algeria keeps ...
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.
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Producers Picks Year in Review 2010
This week on TSWI...producers picks of their favourite stories from ...
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.
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Christmas special
Jonathan Groubert goes with his family to Bosnia for a ...
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.
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The art of smuggling
A US Marine Reservist explains why he's willing to risk ...
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.
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Unlikely reunions
Sfter a British man was taken hostage in Colombia, he ...
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.
