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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Keeping the Faith(s)
This week we look at novel ways to navigate the ...
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.
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Back to School
(20100918) This week on TSWI - Back to School: a ...
(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.
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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 ...
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.
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The State We're In (100904) RELEASED!
PODCAST RUNDOWN: RELEASED: a man wrongfully imprisoned wins a multi-million ...
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
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The State We're In (20100828) New Orleans Stories
PODCAST RUNDOWN: This week on TSWI: New Orleans stories: a ...
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
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The State We're In (20100821) THE RESILIENCE OF MOTHERS
This week on TSWI... The Resilience of Mothers: A mother ...
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.
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The State We're In (20100814) Enlisting God
This week on TSWI... Enlisting God: military rabbis have been ...
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.
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The State We're In (20100814) Enlisting God
This week on TSWI. Enlisting God: military rabbis have been ...
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.
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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 ...
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.
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The State We're In (20100731) BRIDGING DIVIDES
This week on TSWI... Bridging the Divide. The Reverend Thomas ...
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.
