The State We're In
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The State We're In - The Last Show: Our Favorites!
Past and present members of TSWI join Jonathan to talk about their favourite all-time interviews and how they capture something essential about the show's spirit.
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Because I Had To
A man from a prominent Shia family in Iraq converts to Christianity and is nearly killed. A man in China fakes health documents to save his wife's life. And a Hollywood producer survives a car crash and is now making movies again.
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The State We're In - The Ex Files
The Ex Files. A former London banker spills the beans, and bile, on investment banks. An ex-ballerina in Italy on starving herself to get roles. A former security guard in California recounts the threats he got from colleagues. And a former neo-Nazi on joining, and then leaving, the far right in Germany.
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The State We're In - The Ex Files
The Ex Files. A former London banker spills the beans, and bile, on investment banks. An ex-ballerina in Italy on starving herself to get roles. A former security guard in California recounts the threats he got from colleagues. And a former neo-Nazi on joining, and then leaving, the far right in Germany.
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The State We're In - Overtime!
A man in North Carolina spends 13 years on death row but was innocent. A woman with cancer learns to laugh at herself. And a photographer in Germany takes photos of dead people to get over his fear of dying.
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The State We're In - Out of the Ordinary
A woman escapes the Taliban and constraints of her own family to become a fashion model. A boy escapes Kabul and now creates landmine detectors. And a romance writer who doesn't care what the world thinks of her, and her 400 million books.
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The State We're In - The Naked Truth
A man felt like a failure until he met with a sex coach. A sex coach explains her career choice. And a legendary sexologist argues that were still getting sex all wrong, even today.
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The State We're In - Keeping Up Appearances
A Canadian writer on the frustrations and humour of going blind. A Brazilian plastic surgeon on what she will, and won't, do to help her patients. An Indian inventor who nearly lost his marriage when he tried to create affordable sanitary napkins. And an Australian doctor-in-training whose bedside manner is a constant challenge: he has Asperger Syndrome.
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The State We're In - I'm Outta Here!
A propaganda poet from North Korea sees Kim Jong-il wearing elevator shoes then flees the country. A musician celebrates his Congolese roots. And a writer from Afghanistan who risked his life to liberalize his country now drives a cab in Canada.
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The State We're In - Breaking the Rules
A Dutch woman nearly becomes an unwitting terrorist bomber. A budding lawyer in Toronto gets picked up by the police for a crime he never committed. A Ugandan ex-officer throws eggs at his president to make a point. 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 - Skin Deep
A man who tests how true your 'true love' really is, a young man with Down's Syndrome searching for love, the Italian founder of 'The Ugly Club', a woman in London and her 'toy boys', and a gay man in the Netherlands on the meaning of Bruckner and latex underwear.
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The State We're In - Skin Deep
A man who tests how true your 'true love' really is, a young man with Down's Syndrome searching for love, the Italian founder of 'The Ugly Club', a woman in London and her 'toy boys', and a gay man in the Netherlands on the meaning of Bruckner and latex underwear.
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The State We're In - Skin Deep
A man who tests how true your 'true love' really is, a young man with Down's Syndrome searching for love, the Italian founder of 'The Ugly Club', a woman in London and her 'toy boys', and a gay man in the Netherlands on the meaning of Bruckner and latex underwear.
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The State We're In - Taking a Stand
You see a tense situation developing. It looks bad, but you're not sure. When do you take a stand? Today's guests all have their own stories about taking a stand: from Nigeria, the US, Russia, Palestine and Kenya.
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The State We're In - To the Rescue
An Australian man whose blood donations have saved over two million babies, a woman who helped make the joyful reunion of former child soldiers and their families possible and a gang member in London turns his life around after a photographer takes pictures of him.
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The State We're In - Confronting history
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 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 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 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 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 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: 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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The State We're In
This week on TSWI... 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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Who am I?
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. It looks bad, but you?re not sure. Do you step in or mind your own business? Today?s 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 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.
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It's complicated
This week on TSWI... It's complicated: a young British man poses as his lover's long-lost son to keep the affair a secret; a Canadian woman stages a public fight with her boyfriend as a way of protesting Valentine's Day, Parsi singles try speed dating to shore up their ever-shrinking numbers and a Dutch photographer puts an ad in newspapers around the world for the worlds most beautiful people to come forward.
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Its Complicated...
This week on TSWI... It's complicated: a young British man poses as his lover's long-lost son to keep the affair a secret; a Canadian woman stages a public fight with her boyfriend as a way of protesting Valentine's Day, Parsi singles try speed dating to shore up their ever-shrinking numbers and a Dutch photographer puts an ad in newspapers around the world for the worlds most beautiful people to come forward.
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Neighbourhood watch
In Cairo, Juarez and Poland: people who have had enough will do whatever it takes to change things for the better, even if it means risking their lives.
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Secrets and lies
Steve Lickteig thought he was the adopted son of Kansas farmers, only to discover a shocking truth that everyone in the town but Steve knew. Jerry Winkler was a homeless man in Amsterdam when he discovered his father was a millionaire. Former student Emad tells us about the extraordinary tangled web of lies he told to pass his college internship. And Ugandan journalist Joseph Elunya explains why surviving a bizarre series of close calls, convinced him he's one of the world's luckiest men.
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Us and them
Anthony Shaffer was an American spy whose last mission was in Afghanistan. The military didnt want him to go public with his story of institutional bloat and incompetence, but he did, in a heavily-censored book. Abdul Zaeef was one of the founders of the Taliban. He was imprisoned in Guantanamo for four years, yet still believes in its cause. Plus journalist Hermione Gee visits the "kinder", "gentler" Guantanmo Bay detentions facility.
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Us and them
Anthony Shaffer was an American spy whose last mission was in Afghanistan. The military didnt want him to go public with his story of institutional bloat and incompetence, but he did, in a heavily-censored book. Abdul Zaeef was one of the founders of the Taliban. He was imprisoned in Guantanamo for four years, yet still believes in its cause. Plus journalist Hermione Gee visits the "kinder", "gentler" Guantanamo Bay detentions facility.
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The right fight
Reverend Thomas Butts in Alabama used the pulpit to fight for racial justice, even when it meant death threats. Listener Sonny Hereford IV talks to his dad about their fight to desegregate Alabama. Georges Laraque on becoming a pro ice hockey "enforcer" and now a vegan with the Green Party of Canada. And we tell the tale of two Karen women who run a covert information network inside Myanmar.
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Bloody but unbowed
People who don't give up. A mother in Algeria keeps looking for her son the government 'disappeared'. A swimmer in Sweden loses both legs and an arm in an accident and is now ranked fifth in the world. A woman in Zimbabwe loses her life savings in a swindle, but is still unshakeable in her faith. And an Iranian filmmaker discovers the resilience of underground music in Tehran.
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Producers Picks Year in Review 2010
This week on TSWI...producers picks of their favourite stories from 2010 including Dancing Auschwitz Barry Gibbss Wrongful Conviction Sarajevo Remembered Stealing Coffins in Kenya and The Man Who Disappears People.
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Christmas special
Jonathan Groubert goes with his family to Bosnia for a brandy-soaked holiday ritual that proves to be as poignant as it was fun. An African American living in the Netherlands tries to come to terms with the Dutch holiday tradition of Zwarte Piet or Black Peter. And a New Orleans policeman recalls how he helped reduce crime by 90 percent in some troubled neighbourhoods.
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The art of smuggling
A US Marine Reservist explains why he's willing to risk his life combating the illicit trade in ancient artworks. While an expert in ancient art believes that smuggling antiquities out of corrupt countries is both necessary and moral.
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Unlikely reunions
Sfter a British man was taken hostage in Colombia, he becomes friends with one of his captors, surprising everyone including himself. An auto-rickshaw driver in Bangalore, India returns lost jewelery to rich passengers and saves a woman from being assaulted: all in a day's work. And the reunion of a mother in Uruguay with her son... after 26 years.
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Spilling secrets
An Indonesian man survives the extermination of his village by Dutch forces and why he's not vengeful, Dutch soldiers talk about their participation in the massacres and a man blows the whistle on Swiss banks and their shady dealings with Holocaust victims, and pays a huge price for it.
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The kindness of strangers
An Australian man recounts how he's saved 160 people from committing suicide by offering them a cup of tea. An Egyptian-American woman moved to Cairo to be closer to her cultural roots, but constant sexual harassment forces her to leave; a Canadian woman turns in a lost wallet but then enters comedy of errors, leaving her suspected of being the thief. And a listener tries to make the case that bullfighting can be ethically ok.
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Talk to Me
A man with Asperger's Syndrome talks about not talking for much of his adolescence. A Northern Irish woman is shocked by what she reads in the diary she wrote nearly 40 years ago. And why perfect strangers in London are sharing intimacies about their lives with each other in public.
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Talk To Me
This week on TSWI... a man with Asperger's Syndrome talks about not talking for much of his adolescence. A Northern Irish woman is shocked by what she reads in the diary she wrote nearly 40 years ago. And why perfect strangers in London are sharing intimacies about their lives with each other in public.
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War Mementos
This week on TSWI: War Mementos. Why a Dutch woman adopted the grave of an American soldier and has visited the man's family in the US, even though she never met him. How a young widow eventually got the one thing she wanted when her Air Force husband crashed: his wedding ring. Why two former US servicemen ripped up their uniforms to turn them into paper. And a Korean woman reunites with her sister in North Korea, only to realize that reunification of the two countries isn't worth it.
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Beasts of Burden
Beasts of Burden: a former bullfighter now staunch animal rights activist tells us about his revelation. We meet the worlds only serving MP whose constituency is not human and we hear about human ants, great masses of Chinese white collar workers looking for jobs.
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The right to press freedom
This week on The State Were In... a Darfuri journalist tells us why reporting from Holland makes him a better local journalist in Darfur. How China uses lunch to control journalists. And a Colombian journalist reports on the drug wars there, despite death threats. We also meet Ismael Khatib, a Palestinian father who, when his son was shot by Israeli soldiers, donated his son's organs to Israeli children. We close with two dads: Aad and Ron Disssel de Boo who take in children no one else...
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For the Record
This week on TSWI... for the record. Yi Okseon, now in her 80s, is still waiting for the Japanese government to accept full responsibility for forcing her and at least 200,000 other women into sexual slavery during WWII. A former Imperial soldier admits that he used comfort stations during WWII. A Japanese historian talks about his struggle to set the record straight in Japan. And Swedish statistician Dr. Hans Rosling challenges your mind-set to match his data-set.
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Stuck
What do you do when you find yourself stuck? We talk to a woman who was stalked by her former partner for 15 years, unable to lay down roots anywhere and sick of moving around. Now, finally, she's able to breathe a little more easily. A Cambodian cartoonist escapes two deadly regimes, and now has making political cartoons read by thousands back home. And an Italian lawyer talks about why he let his professional judgement take a back seat while defending a child molester.
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Cheating Death
This week on TSWI - A bomb disposal officer, a tsunami survivor and a mountaineer talk about the prospect of nearly losing their lives, and what life means to them now.
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Keeping the Faith(s)
This week we look at novel ways to navigate the currents of tension between Islam and Christianity. Former Catholic priest turned Imam Idris Tawfiq tells us why he hates to proselytise, while a Lebanese evangelical describes it as a way of life. Comedy writer Ariane Sherine explains how one article she wrote sparked public anti-religious advertisements all over the world. We learn of Nigerias Chrislam, a blend of Christianity and Islam and Professor Brandon Robshaw returns to the show to...
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Back to School
(20100918) This week on TSWI - Back to School: a woman in Rio de Janeiro educates street children, despite death threats from police. Former child actor Paul Peterson's fight for the rights of child performers. Maestro Luis Szaran on why it's worth teaching kids in the slums to play the classics and The Laugh That Wouldn't Die.
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The State We're In (20100911) Fighting For A Future...
Fighting For A Future: Afghanistan.We speak with one woman who ran for political office in Kandahar and was targeted for assassination four times by the Taliban; a Norwegian filmmaker who embedded himself with the Taliban to put (he says) a human face on them; an Afghan poet who used a state occasion to insult President Karzai and his corrupt government.
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The State We're In (100904) RELEASED!
PODCAST RUNDOWN: RELEASED: a man wrongfully imprisoned wins a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the police. Another man admits he deserved his incarceration for dealing XTC, but didn't deserve the treatment he endured in America's
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The State We're In (20100828) New Orleans Stories
PODCAST RUNDOWN: This week on TSWI: New Orleans stories: a former rogue cop tells all, a Katrina Hurricane love story, an inside look at Bounce music, a scene populated by
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The State We're In (20100821) THE RESILIENCE OF MOTHERS
This week on TSWI... The Resilience of Mothers: A mother continues to campaign for her son 'disappeared' by the Algerian government. Debbie Brewer tells Jonathan what it has taken to finally turn her life around and come off crystal meth. Annette and her daughter Ayanna discover that through illness, violence and escaping to another country that some bonds can't be broken and listener Gayle Fleming gets to discuss her story during the Civil rights era with Alabama pastor Thomas Lane Butts.
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The State We're In (20100814) Enlisting God
This week on TSWI... Enlisting God: military rabbis have been directing Israeli soldiers to see combat as a matter of faith. A former soldier explains why hes repulsed by what he calls holy war. A Palestinian doctors belief in God helps him forgive the loss he endured when three of his daughters were killed by Israeli tank fire. And Samuel Maoz, director of the film Lebanon talks about his time as a tank gunner in the 1982 war, and the morality of kill-or-be-killed situations.
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The State We're In (20100814) Enlisting God
This week on TSWI. Enlisting God: military rabbis have been directing Israeli soldiers to see combat as a matter of faith. A former soldier explains why hes repulsed by what he calls holy war. A Palestinian doctors belief in God helps him forgive the loss he endured when three of his daughters were killed by Israeli tank fire. And Samuel Maoz, director of the film Lebanon talks about his time as a tank gunner in the 1982 war, and the morality of kill-or-be-killed situations.
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The State We're In (20100807) Being Gay in Africa Special
TSWI presents a special edition of the program looking at what it is like to be gay throughout Africa with voices from Namibia, Ghana, Uganda and South Africa.
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The State We're In (20100731) BRIDGING DIVIDES
This week on TSWI... Bridging the Divide. The Reverend Thomas Butts explains his role in helping desegregate Alabama beginning in the 1950s -- and how he nearly lost his job and life doing so. We also talk to a couple whose relationship during and after their divorce was better than when they were married. And two young women, one Palestinian and one Israeli, recount how they became best friends, despite their own preconceptions and anger.
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The State We're In (20100724) Getting Off the Warpath
This week on TSWI: Sudanese child soldiers who put down their guns and create a new life for themselves. And a woman in Australia gets over the trauma of living through a massacre by learning how to shoot. Plus: deaf and blind kids in Beirut create and perform their own theatre pieces.
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The State We're In (20100717) A Note of Resistance
This week on TSWI A Note of Resistance: how musicians in Tibet, Iran, Sudan keep hope alive that the weight of history can be thrown off and a new era of freedom may yet be born.
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The State We're In (20100710) The will to win
This week on TSWI A swimmer in Sweden loses his legs and one arm in a train accident but is now ranked in the top five swimmers in the world. A soccer fan in Mogadishu lost two friends to the Islamist militia, Al Shabab, killed them for watching the World Cup. He still watches sports, but now as an act of political defiance. South African dancer Mamela Nyamza explains why courting controversy is a good thing, while a Zimbabwean human rights lawyer defends the idea of arguing unwinnable cases.
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The State We're In
This week on TSWI A swimmer in Sweden loses his legs and one arm in a train accident but is now ranked in the top five swimmers in the world. A soccer fan in Mogadishu lost two friends to the Islamist militia, Al Shabab, killed them for watching the World Cup. He still watches sports, but now as an act of political defiance. South African dancer Mamela Nyamza explains why courting controversy is a good thing, while a Zimbabwean human rights lawyer defends the idea of arguing unwinnable cases.
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The State We're In (20100703) Spy vs. Spy
This week, The State We're In Against the backdrop of the US identifying a group of Russian spies operating in America, we talk to two spies, one from the former Soviet Union, the other from the UK. They talk about their experiences working on opposite sides of the Cold War.
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The State We're In (20100626) Last Respects
This week on TSWI All over the world, 6,500 times an hour, someone somewhere dies. This episode confronts the final frontier in a light-hearted way: from cremating a 500lb man to the latest in funeral bling.
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The State We're In (20100619) Bhopal Survivors: Then and...
PODCAST RUNDOWN: This week on TSWI... as outrage continues to simmer in India over the Bhopal case, we hear from survivors of the 1984 disaster - and from the second generation of survivors who grew up in the city's toxic wake.
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The State We're In (20100612) The Beautiful Game
This week on TSWI... against the backdrop of the World Cup, we present stories of how the game has changed people's lives: a transsexual in Australia starts playing with women and causes a huge controversy, but scores a huge political victory; and a former professional talks about the moment when the opposing goalkeeper collapsed and he chose to help him rather than score. And one man explains why the beautiful game is so beautiful off the field.
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The State We're In (20100605) Crossing the Border
This week on TSWI. Crossing Borders. The promises and perils of crossing the Mexican and American borders to work in the US. What it's like to cross from a Palestinian checkpoint into Israel to work. And how child labour can actually be a good thing.
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The State We're In (20100529) North Korea: Police State,...
This week on TSWI... North Korea: Police State, Prison State. The world's attention has once again refocused on North Korea over allegations that it sank a South Korean ship. Its actions on the world stage are mirrored by the harshness of its secret prison camps: the rogue nation 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. And we remember...
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The State We're In (20100522) Gone Missing
This week on TSWI... we present stories of the disappeared. Carol Hrdlicka explains why, thirty-five years after her husbands plane was downed in Vietnam, shes still looking for him. Veteran journalist Sydney Schanberg (whose story inspired The Killing Fields) says he has proof the US government is hiding the truth about POW/MIAs. We also meet a detective who can make you disappear from society. And documentary maker David Bond explains why he tried to erase himself.
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The State We're In (20100515) Flirtation, Love, Romance...
This week on TSWI...Flirtation, Love, Romance and Polyamory. We speak with a polyamorous couple, a wedding musician shares her observations, older Chinese couples married under Mao renew their visual vows, we meet a women who teaches the art of seduction and a TSWI producer talks about his unforgettable meeting with Queen of Romance Barbara Cartland.
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The State We're In (20100508) Babahs Day in Court, Right...
This week on TSWI...a second chance to hear our Gabriel Award winning piece Babah's Day in Court in which a man from Sierra Leone finally goes to the Charles Taylor trial in The Hague to confront the man whose very voice still makes him shake with fear and outrage. Plus the right to sex featuring the tempting tale of 63 year old vixen Wendy Salisbury and the real life Lysistrata perpetrated by Kenya's women. And 21-year-old Nathan Royle from Adelaide, Australia explains he came to realize he...
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The State We're In (20100501) World Press Freedom Day...
This week on TSWI...is a special honouring World Press Freedom Day. Mike Bonanno of the Yes Men talks activist stunts, two exiled Middle Eastern writers explain why exile isn't as free as you'd think and an ex Jihadist regrets his interview with a Christian broadcaster. And the man known as the father of European undercover journalism talks about a life in character.
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The State We're In (20100424) A Cure for Sex Offenders?
This week on TSWI...we ask if there's a cure for sex offenders. Jesse White tells us about how his assault on an underage girl landed him in jail, and how he feels the chemical treatment he received has turned his life around. We also speak with the doctor who treated Jesse. Finally we talk to Bill - not a sex offender - but someone who felt his sex drive was the bane of his existence...until he castrated himself.
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The State We're In (20100417)
This week on TSWI... A Russian judge gets fired for telling the truth, and fights back. How an Ethiopian migrant worker escaped her brutal employer in Lebanon. Why women commit suicide in high numbers in rural China. And the tough choice between love or family for a young Indonesian woman.
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The State We're In (20100416) The Man With No Memory
This week on TSWI... Jonathan Overfeld lost all memory of himself, and didn't even recognize his life-partner. After playing a piano piece by Bach, his past came back to him, and it was horrifying. Also: rugby versus the Church in Ireland. And what a Ghandian believer in non-violence does when his ashram is bulldozed by government troops. And taking the bus in Warsaw is hard enough at rush hour, but it gets even harder when elderly women scream at you to give up your seat for them.
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The State We're In (20100403) Faith and Persecution
This week on TSWI... Rob Fransman attends the trial of an accused Nazi war criminal who worked at the camp where his parents were murdered - even though he believes justice is impossible.
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The State We're In (20100327) Bad Therapy
This week on TSWI: bad therapy. Child witches are being horribly abused in southern Nigeria. Women in northern Ghana accused of being witches find refuge in special camps. One man recounts the excruciating aversion therapy he went through as part of a psychiatrist's attempt to cure him of his homosexuality. And a therapist talks about the occupational hazards of treating other therapists.
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The State We're In (20100320) The Art of Smuggling
This week on TSWI... the art of smuggling: an expert in ancient art believes that smuggling antiquities is a moral thing. And a US Marine Reservist risks his life combating the illicit trade in ancient artworks.
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The State We're In (20100313)
This week on TSWI... The Culture of Addiction. In London, a rabbi who runs an addiction centre helps Muslims create their own centres. Two problem drinkers, one Irish and one Russian, explain why their cultures are so steeped in alcohol. And an Afghan journalist presents an audio diary about the loss of his best friend to free market medical practices.
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The State We're In
THE STATE WE'RE IN RUNDOWN DATE: 13 March 2010 PRODUCTION #: 1013201 HOST: Jonathan Groubert SHOW TITLE: Cultures of Addiction PROGAM TAGS: Addiction, substance abuse, Palestine, Israel, Ireland, St. Patrick's Day, beer, alcoholism, Moscow, jihad, London, terrorism, Afghanistan, Kabul, free market, medical incompetence SEGMENT A: (12:30) RABBI'S RESCUE: Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin runs an addiction centre outside of London, England. Just after the July 2005 bombings, a young Muslim man knocked on his...
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The State We're In (20100306)
This week on TSWI... Land Rights and Rituals. We look at how we treat the land, featuring a persecuted environmental activist in Turkmenistan, impoverished poachers in Uganda and a Mohawk hunter whose life changed while hunting moose.
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The State We're In (20100227)
This week on TSWI... kidnapping. Yi Okseon was forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army. Shes still waiting for an official apology. In Colombia, Annie Correals father was kidnapped by insurgents. A radio station helped her family to send messages to him, messages that he says kept him alive.
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The State We're In (20100220)
This week on TSWI... Noman Benotman was a jihadist who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan. He's still a jihadist but believes that the extremists are "idiots" and immoral. He wants the term restored to its spiritual sense, and is fighting now with words instead of guns to do just that. And we revisit a controversial segment about how Aboriginal people in Australia were offended by a government-issued card which limits how they can spend their money. Many listeners, mostly in Australia, were...
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The State We're In (20100213)
This week on TSWI... Love stories: how having an arranged marriage still isn't a ticket out of dating hell, and how one octogenarian in Mumbai is helping disabled people there hear wedding bells.
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The State We're In (20100206)
PODCAST RUNDOWN: This week on TSWI... Enlisting God: military rabbis have been directing Israeli soldiers to see combat as a matter of faith. A former soldier explains why he's repulsed by what he calls 'Holy War'.
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The State We're In 20100130
As Uganda considers strengthening it's already homophobic laws this week TSWI presents a special edition of the programme looking at what it is like to be gay throughout Africa, with voices from Namibia, Ghana, Uganda and SA.
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The State We're In (20100123)
This week on TSWI - Growing Up Right. Stories about and from children who've conquered unimaginable odds: a woman in Rio de Janiero who educates street children, despite death threats from police. As well as adult children of sectarian extremists in Northern Ireland, and the son of a child murderer.
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The State We're In (20090116)
The trade in illicit drugs around the world is stronger than ever. We zoom in and zoom out on the global trade in conversations with a former street dealer, a drug mule and an addict. We also speak to an expert who consults with governments around the world about what they can do to fight back.
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The State We're In (20090109)
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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The State We're In
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...
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The State We're In
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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The State We're In (20091031)
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 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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Featuring first-person stories from around the world about how we treat each other.The State We're In is a weekly radio programme from Radio Netherlands Worldwide.
