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 (20100313)
This week on TSWI... The Culture of Addiction. In London, ...
This week on TSWI... The Culture of Addiction. In London, a rabbi who runs an addiction centre helps Muslims create their own centres. Two problem drinkers, one Irish and one Russian, explain why their cultures are so steeped in alcohol. And an Afghan journalist presents an audio diary about the loss of his best friend to free market medical practices.
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THE STATE WE'RE IN RUNDOWN DATE: 13 March 2010 PRODUCTION ...
THE STATE WE'RE IN RUNDOWN DATE: 13 March 2010 PRODUCTION #: 1013201 HOST: Jonathan Groubert SHOW TITLE: Cultures of Addiction PROGAM TAGS: Addiction, substance abuse, Palestine, Israel, Ireland, St. Patrick's Day, beer, alcoholism, Moscow, jihad, London, terrorism, Afghanistan, Kabul, free market, medical incompetence SEGMENT A: (12:30) RABBI'S RESCUE: Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin runs an addiction centre outside of London, England. Just after the July 2005 bombings, a young Muslim man knocked on his door. He needed help he couldn't get in his own community. Rabbi Sufrin welcomed him and eventually helped the local Muslims start their own addiction centres. TEASER B: Jonathan tells us what's coming up in the B segment MUSIC BED (1:30) SEGMENT B: 18:30 THIS WEEK'S THEME IS Cultures of Addiction WASTED: Brian O'Connell grew up with excessive drinking all around him in Ireland. He became a problem drinker himself and had to fight two battles to become sober: the first against the bottle, the second against the drinking culture of Ireland. He's written a book about what he went through called
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The State We're In (20100306)
This week on TSWI... Land Rights and Rituals. We look ...
This week on TSWI... Land Rights and Rituals. We look at how we treat the land, featuring a persecuted environmental activist in Turkmenistan, impoverished poachers in Uganda and a Mohawk hunter whose life changed while hunting moose.
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This week on TSWI... kidnapping. Yi Okseon was forced into ...
This week on TSWI... kidnapping. Yi Okseon was forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army. Shes still waiting for an official apology. In Colombia, Annie Correals father was kidnapped by insurgents. A radio station helped her family to send messages to him, messages that he says kept him alive.
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The State We're In (20100220)
This week on TSWI... Noman Benotman was a jihadist who ...
This week on TSWI... Noman Benotman was a jihadist who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan. He's still a jihadist but believes that the extremists are "idiots" and immoral. He wants the term restored to its spiritual sense, and is fighting now with words instead of guns to do just that. And we revisit a controversial segment about how Aboriginal people in Australia were offended by a government-issued card which limits how they can spend their money. Many listeners, mostly in Australia, were angered by that segment. This time we speak with two Aboriginal women who support using the card.
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The State We're In (20100213)
This week on TSWI... Love stories: how having an arranged ...
This week on TSWI... Love stories: how having an arranged marriage still isn't a ticket out of dating hell, and how one octogenarian in Mumbai is helping disabled people there hear wedding bells.
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The State We're In (20100206)
PODCAST RUNDOWN: This week on TSWI... Enlisting God: military rabbis ...
PODCAST RUNDOWN: 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 he's repulsed by what he calls 'Holy War'.
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As Uganda considers strengthening it's already homophobic laws this week ...
As Uganda considers strengthening it's already homophobic laws this week TSWI presents a special edition of the programme looking at what it is like to be gay throughout Africa, with voices from Namibia, Ghana, Uganda and SA.
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The State We're In (20100123)
This week on TSWI - Growing Up Right. Stories about ...
This week on TSWI - Growing Up Right. Stories about and from children who've conquered unimaginable odds: a woman in Rio de Janiero who educates street children, despite death threats from police. As well as adult children of sectarian extremists in Northern Ireland, and the son of a child murderer.
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The State We're In (20090116)
The trade in illicit drugs around the world is stronger ...
The trade in illicit drugs around the world is stronger than ever. We zoom in and zoom out on the global trade in conversations with a former street dealer, a drug mule and an addict. We also speak to an expert who consults with governments around the world about what they can do to fight back.
