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 (20100522) Gone Missing
This week on TSWI... we present stories of the disappeared. ...
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.
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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 ...
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.
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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 ...
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.
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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 ...
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.
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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 ...
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.
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The State We're In (20100417)
This week on TSWI... A Russian judge gets fired for ...
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.
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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 ...
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.
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The State We're In (20100403) Faith and Persecution
This week on TSWI... Rob Fransman attends the trial of ...
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.
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The State We're In (20100327) Bad Therapy
This week on TSWI: bad therapy. Child witches are being ...
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.
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The State We're In (20100320) The Art of Smuggling
This week on TSWI... the art of smuggling: an expert ...
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.
