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 - It AIn't Over
It Ain't Over. A 101 year old man on leaving ...
It Ain't Over. A 101 year old man on leaving his infant daughter on a neighbour's doorstep during the Warsaw Uprising. And how an Ethiopian migrant worker escaped her brutal employer in Lebanon.
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The State We're In - Taking the Reins
William Browder on the outrageous theft of his investment fund ...
William Browder on the outrageous theft of his investment fund by Russian authorities and the virtual assassination of his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky. A woman suffering from cancer discovers she has no health insurance and takes to lying to get what she needs. And a Kuwaiti man, repulsed by western stereotypes and Muslim fanatics, makes superheroes based on Allah's attributes. He tells Jonathan how it became a spectacular success that made him enemies.
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The State We're In - The Real Me
A 13-year-old street hawker in Kabul dreams of becoming a ...
A 13-year-old street hawker in Kabul dreams of becoming a pilot. A Kurdish woman struggles with breast cancer and her culture's punitive view of it. And a man in Denver talks about his 20 year struggle to beat sex addiction.
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The State We're In - Deal With It
A documentary filmmaker from Congo helps convict a warlord of ...
A documentary filmmaker from Congo helps convict a warlord of war crimes, a young woman from Baghdad fights for a new Iraq on the basketball court, a woman in Cairo copes with sexual harassment on the street, in cars, even on horseback and a faithful couple suspects each other of cheating.
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The State We're In - By the Book
A woman in Berlin makes it her life's work to ...
A woman in Berlin makes it her life's work to scrape off neo-Nazi graffiti, even if it puts her in danger, a long-haired leftie loses his locks and enters high finance, a journalist in Sri Lanka is rattled after his documentary screens publicly, and a librarian from Iran is trying to start a revolution through books.
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The State We're In - Sounds Like Home
An Aboriginal soprano decides to write an opera for her ...
An Aboriginal soprano decides to write an opera for her people - and discovers her own family history. A composer travels to Cyprus and Palestine to unite broken communities with music, and one of TSWIs producers rediscovers her Spanish roots - a little too late.
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The State We're In - For the Record
A former US serviceman on founding America's first black platoon ...
A former US serviceman on founding America's first black platoon of paratroopers. A journalist from Ghana on why he went undercover to expose wrongdoings. And a Senegalese hip-hop artist on returning to her home village to break the taboos about female genital mutilation.
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The State We're In - It's Not Me - It's You!
A British comedienne with cerebral palsy on the laughable attitudes ...
A British comedienne with cerebral palsy on the laughable attitudes about whats 'normal'. An American woman on teaming up with African American mothers to shut down an abusive juvenile prison. An inventor in India who was called "psycho" for trying to invent sanity napkins poor women can afford. And an openly gay Nigerian woman living in Europe on her decision not to tell her parents about the birth of a baby daughter.
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The State We're In - Valentine's Special 2012
How a Palestinian Romeo crept through illegal tunnels to be ...
How a Palestinian Romeo crept through illegal tunnels to be with his Juliet in Gaza. Why an American sociologist thinks that monogamy virtually guarantees cheating. What happened when a woman in Toronto answered an ad for female escorts. And how a man annoyed a woman so much on a flight... she married him.
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The State We're In - The Fight of Your Life
A young woman in Kabul boxes to change her life ...
A young woman in Kabul boxes to change her life and her country. A philosopher believes virtue can be taught in the boxing ring. And a Kenyan women who was attacked while running for election is determined to run again.
