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 (20090109)
This week on TSWI... North Korea: Police State, Prison State. ...
This week on TSWI... North Korea: Police State, Prison State. The world has reason to be nervous about the rogue nation and its nuclear program. And people within the country also have reason to be scared -- it 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.
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A fresh start is nearly impossible wherever there's a history ...
A fresh start is nearly impossible wherever there's a history of violence. But today's special new year's program shows that people around the world can make new beginnings with old enemies. Stories include: a Palestinian and Israeli teenager who overcame their fears to become best friends; a Muslim and a Hindu filmmaker whose relationship was tested and strengthened while working in conflict-torn Kashmir; a man in Zimbabwe who now preaches against the intertribal violence he once took part in. We also feature an essay from Sri Lanka about overcoming caste divisions, and another from a survivor of Sarajevo with her reflections on the war crimes trial of Radovan Karadzic.
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This week on TSWI... we let our producers' pick their ...
This week on TSWI... we let our producers' pick their favourite stories for this year's show on the theme of giving gifts. Gifts like the song a boss in Texas got after chewing out her wayward, and then repentant, employees and after Rwandan singer Jean Paul Samputu discovered his best friend murdered his whole family in the genocide there, he gave him the gift of forgiveness.
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The State We're In (20091219)
This week on TSWI... With Uganda considering extremely repressive laws ...
This week on TSWI... With Uganda considering extremely repressive laws against gay people, we talk to one man who fled the country and discovered later that authorities beat his brother to death trying to find out where he'd gone. We also talk to a prominent pastor who believes that being gay is a lifestyle choice and that they are not welcome in today's Uganda.
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The State We're In (20091212)
The right to be left alone: we speak with a ...
The right to be left alone: we speak with a woman from County Mayo, Ireland, who was willing to die in order to prevent Shell from building a natural gas plant near where she lives. We also speak to another woman, whose ex-partner has been stalking her for the last fifteen years and how she manages to live day-to-day.
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The State We're In (20091205)
This week on TSWI... Bhopal, twenty-five years later. We hear ...
This week on TSWI... Bhopal, twenty-five years later. We hear from survivors of what some have called the worst environmental disaster in history, which claimed as many as 8,000 lives. We also hear from the second generation of survivors -- and victims -- who grew up in the toxic wake of the catastrophe, and who still call Bhopal home.
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The State We're In (20091128)
This week, we offer something different on the idea of ...
This week, we offer something different on the idea of giving thanks. We celebrate the 20 years since the end of the Cold War by interviewing the men who say they are responsible for keeping the world safe, namely spies.
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The State We're In (20091121)
This week on TSWI, Dirty Wars, with stories of ex-warriors ...
This week on TSWI, Dirty Wars, with stories of ex-warriors for Islam in Somalia, after 2 decades an Uruguayan mother finds her son after the dirty war there, and a new film in Argentina exposes the terrible treatment of soldiers during the war in the Falklands.
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The State We're In (20091114)
This week on TSWI... we ask both a unionizer and ...
This week on TSWI... we ask both a unionizer and a union buster if there's a right to form a union. We hear the tragic tale of the extrajudicial killing in Mozambique that changed the legal system and we go to Postville, Iowa where an immigration raid nearly destroyed the whole town.
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The State We're In (20091107)
Veterans' Day, Remembrance Day, Armistice Day: from Iraq War vets ...
Veterans' Day, Remembrance Day, Armistice Day: from Iraq War vets making paper from their uniforms, to a KGB general to a Mau Mau rebel in Kenya, we speak with veterans from around the world about how their experience of war has marked them.
