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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Spilling secrets
An Indonesian man survives the extermination of his village by ...
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.
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The kindness of strangers
An Australian man recounts how he's saved 160 people from ...
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.
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Stealing children
A father hatches a plan for his son to escape ...
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.
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Talk to Me
A man with Asperger's Syndrome talks about not talking for ...
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.
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War Mementos
This week on TSWI: War Mementos. Why a Dutch woman ...
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.
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Beasts of Burden
Beasts of Burden: a former bullfighter now staunch animal rights ...
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.
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The right to press freedom
This week on The State Were In... a Darfuri journalist ...
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.
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For the Record
This week on TSWI... for the record. Yi Okseon, now ...
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.
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Stuck
What do you do when you find yourself stuck? We ...
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 molester.
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Cheating Death
This week on TSWI - A bomb disposal officer, a ...
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.
