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 (20091031)
This week on TSWI... Afghanistan's runoff election is in a ...
This week on TSWI... Afghanistan's runoff election is in a shambles. And so we speak to Mir Mahdavi. He was editor of a newspaper in Kabul and was accused of insulting Islam and nearly executed -- with President Karzai's approval. We also look at the right to a dignified old age: American retirees moving to Mexico, Japanese villages populated by the elderly and the fragile position of widows in India.
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The State We're In (20091031)
This week on TSWI... with a run-off election looming in ...
This week on TSWI... with a run-off election looming in Afghanistan, we speak to Mir Mahdavi. He was editor of a newspaper in Kabul and was accused of insulting Islam and nearly executed -- with President Karzai's approval. We also look at the right to a dignified old age: American retirees moving to Mexico, Japanese villages populated by the elderly and the fragile position of widows in India.
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The State We're In (20091024)
This week on TSWI, we ask if there's a right ...
This week on TSWI, we ask if there's a right to a big corporate bonus. Is there a right to smile? We meet a woman who can't. A Palestinian woman recounts the repercussions of a smile at an Israeli checkpoint. And we meet a French priest who is almost single-handedly uncovering the events of the Holocaust in Ukraine.
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The State We're In (20091017)
This week on TSWI we look at how we treat ...
This week on TSWI we look at how we treat 'the other' after 'the other' has tried to kill us. We discuss the right to be in uniform and out of the closet, and we speak to Malian musician Salif Keita about albinism.
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The State We're In (20091017)
This week on TSWI we look at how we treat ...
This week on TSWI we look at how we treat 'the other' after 'the other' has tried to kill us. The right to be in uniform and out of the closet, and we speak Malian musician Salif Keita about being albninism.
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The State We're In (20091010)
This week on TSWI, we commemorate Columbus Day with a ...
This week on TSWI, we commemorate Columbus Day with a look at the rights of indigenous people around the world, with stories from Australia, the US, Bolivia and a report on how native Hawaiians feel about 50 years of being an American state.
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The State We're In (20091003)
We return to the thorny question: do we have a ...
We return to the thorny question: do we have a right to assisted suicide? And from gender selection to abortion, we look at the right to design our children. That's in this week's The State We're In.
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The State We're In (20090926)
This week on TSWI... we look at how people treat ...
This week on TSWI... we look at how people treat each other in bad economic times with stories from Argentina and Russia. Plus is there a right to get married and NOT to get married. A former Catholic priest tells us why marriage was worth being defrocked and an English woman explains how she escaped from an arranged marriage. Plus Bluegrass banjo legend Eddie Adcock plays for us with a hand kept free of tremors by electrodes in his brain.
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The State We're In (19 September 2009)
We talk to a documentary maker whose film on child ...
We talk to a documentary maker whose film on child soldiers in the Congo is being used as evidence in the first trial at the International Criminal Court. We ask how we treat each other on line and the creation of 10 blogging commandments. And we consider whether rules for airplane security are overly strict or simply necessary.
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The State We're In (20090912)
This week on TSWI, we look at how the swine ...
This week on TSWI, we look at how the swine flu is affecting how people treat each. Plus we ask if there's a right to complain and hear from Israeli singer and songwriter Aviv Geffen, who was standing next to Yizhak Rabin when he was assassinated.
