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 - A Second Chance
A woman discovers the magical powers of laughter after the ...
A woman discovers the magical powers of laughter after the tragic death of her brother. A Russian playwright puts corrupt officials on trial in her play. A Nigerian pastor and imam on their journey from religious hatred to brotherhood and a woman in the US who was estranged from her mother for decades - and then reunites with her.
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The State We're In - Faking It
A small lie lands a promising politician in prison. A ...
A small lie lands a promising politician in prison. A Dutch artist on the joys of forging works by great painters. A Nigerian man on how he scams women into love relationships just to swindle their money. And a woman who cannot remember peoples' faces confesses how she fakes remembering past meetings.
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The State We're In - The Extra Mile
A British woman recounts being rescued by a Nazi U-Boat ...
A British woman recounts being rescued by a Nazi U-Boat commander - the man responsible for torpedoing the ship she was on. A Dutch woman tracks down the father she never knew and finds him living on the streets in Australia. And a long-distance runner from Western Sahara competes for a nation that isn't yet recognized.
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The State We're In - The Path of Most Resistance
A New Orleans cop tries to clean up a dirty ...
A New Orleans cop tries to clean up a dirty police force from the inside. A Peruvian priest leads farmers in their protest against a multinational mining corporation - and wins. A budding lawyer in Toronto gets picked up by the police for a crime he never committed. And a man in Nevada helps out a stranger lying in the middle of the road and years later nearly inherits 150 million dollars.
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The State We're In - Above and Beyond
The Wall Street overseer who got fired for investigating insider ...
The Wall Street overseer who got fired for investigating insider trading, the Kenyan man who got blinded in the US Embassy attack and later climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and an Australian man whose blood donations have saved over two million babies.
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The State We're In - Great Escapes
A Tunisian escapes prison and runs 35 kilometres to be ...
A Tunisian escapes prison and runs 35 kilometres to be with his wife giving birth. A Cambodian cartoonist escapes two deadly regimes, and now has making political cartoons read by thousands back home. And an Iranian woman escapes from a forced marriage and oppressive theocracy and finds new life as a comedian in Sweden.
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The State We're In - Making it Right
This week, a woman who helped make the joyful reunion ...
This week, a woman who helped make the joyful reunion of former child soldiers and their families possible. A university professor recalls nearly becoming the teacher he hated and a woman from Honduras who risked everything to save her husband from government brutality.
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The State We're In - Identity Crisis
A Dutch woman nearly becomes an unwitting terrorist bomber. A ...
A Dutch woman nearly becomes an unwitting terrorist bomber. A former bullfighter one how the bulls he killed still haunt his dreams while a British philosopher talks about why he became a bullfighter. And an Irish journalist recounts being incarcerated, wrongly, for internet fraud. A victim of identity theft, she struggles to clear her name.
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The State We're In - Loverboys
A woman in Mumbai on what beauty really means after ...
A woman in Mumbai on what beauty really means after her husband throws acid in her face. A young Dutch woman reveals how she became a prostitute - and then a recruiter - for so-called 'Loverboys'. And the mother of a 'Loverboy' victim explains how shes fighting back.
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The State We're In - Us and Them
Anthony Shaffer was an American spy whose last mission was ...
Anthony Shaffer was an American spy whose last mission was in Afghanistan. The military didn't want him to go public with his story of institutional bloat and incompetence, but he did, in a heavily-censored book. Abdul Salam Zaeef was one of the founders of the Taliban. He was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay for four years, yet still believes in its cause. Anthony Shaffer returns to tell us how he interrogates prisoners, without resorting to torture.
