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 - Confronting history
A British man finds out his grandfather was not only ...
A British man finds out his grandfather was not only a card-carrying Nazi, but a dedicated member of the SS. After a young neo-Nazi skinhead in Poland discovers his Jewish roots, he turns to a rabbi for guidance. And an Egyptian man who fled Egypt is now considering moving back to be with his son after living apart for 8 years.
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The State We're In - Notes of change
How an exiled reggae artist from Ivory Coast has been ...
How an exiled reggae artist from Ivory Coast has been protesting the dictatorship of Lauren Gbagbo through music, how an Australian composer turned grief into a requiem after the tragic loss of his son and how a Senegalese hip-hop artist returns to her home village to break the taboos about female genital mutilation... and succeeds.
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The State We're In - Seeking Justice
William Browder on the outrageous theft of his investment fund ...
William Browder on the outrageous theft of his investment fund by Russian authorities and their virtual assassination of his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky. Mo Shaoping tells us what it's like to be a human rights lawyer in China, of all places. And finally: an office bully gets his come-uppance through a crafty use of the vice-president's chair and decaf coffee.
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The mob and I - The State We're In
How an anti-mafia journalist names mob names on his TV ...
How an anti-mafia journalist names mob names on his TV station in the heart of Mafia country, and gets away with it... so far. How land once owned by the mob are now used to make wine. And an ex-Mafia princess explains her struggle to go straight.
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The State We're In - New chapters
A man fought jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan until ...
A man fought jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan until he realised how extremists had hijacked the term. Now he's fighting a war of ideas against the radical view of jihad. A Swedish man loses his family in the tsunami of 2004. But he was joyfully shocked by finding a new wife and starting a new family. A woman in Australia is traumatised by a mass murder, losing her musical abilities. But she regains them after she takes up... shooting lessons.
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FYI
Sometimes getting information out there becomes a life's work. An ...
Sometimes getting information out there becomes a life's work. An Indonesian man explains how helping out tsunami survivors turned into a fight for gay rights. A Pakistani doctor recounts the funny and sometimes poignant tale behind getting a sex education book published in Pakistan. And a Pashtun-Pakistani journalist recounts how he was nearly assassinated.
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Fighting the system
People who've taken on giant opponents: Wall Street, the Securities ...
People who've taken on giant opponents: Wall Street, the Securities and Exchange Commission, international criminal courts, the Turkish government, corporations... and won.
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Who am I?
Who are we? One American writer knew exactly who she ...
Who are we? One American writer knew exactly who she was, but didn't know who was using her name and her image to promote a porn site that thousands were flocking to. A single mother-of-four in South Africa discovers photography to recreate herself. And a philosopher-theologian speculates that robots could maybe do have souls.
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STEPPING IN
This week on TSWI... You see a tense situation developing. ...
This week on TSWI... You see a tense situation developing. It looks bad, but youre not sure. Do you step in or mind your own business? Todays guests all have their own stories about stepping in, from Nigeria, the US, Sri Lanka.
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Let it go
Imagine the biggest loss you could ever face, loved ones ...
Imagine the biggest loss you could ever face, loved ones killed, your life savings stolen. Now imagine forgiving those who hurt you so badly. That's what today's guests have in common in this surprising, uplifting episode.
