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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The State We're In (20100724) Getting Off the Warpath
This week on TSWI: Sudanese child soldiers who put down ...
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.
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The State We're In (20100717) A Note of Resistance
This week on TSWI A Note of Resistance: how musicians ...
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.
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The State We're In (20100710) The will to win
This week on TSWI A swimmer in Sweden loses his ...
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.
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The State We're In
This week on TSWI A swimmer in Sweden loses his ...
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.
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The State We're In (20100703) Spy vs. Spy
This week, The State We're In Against the backdrop of ...
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.
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The State We're In (20100626) Last Respects
This week on TSWI All over the world, 6,500 times ...
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.
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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 ...
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.
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The State We're In (20100612) The Beautiful Game
This week on TSWI... against the backdrop of the World ...
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.
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The State We're In (20100605) Crossing the Border
This week on TSWI. Crossing Borders. The promises and perils ...
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.
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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. ...
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.
