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Fri, May 25
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The State We're In - Two Enemies, One Heart
Two soldiers, one Iraqi and one Iranian, meet on the battlefield. The Iranian saves the Iraqi's life, risking his own in the process. That was 1982. Nearly 20 years later, and on the other side of the world, sheer coincidence brings the two men together again in a life-saving drama. And a man in Amsterdam sees a WWII photograph and suddenly recalls how close he was to being sent to a concentration camp.
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Fri, May 18
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The State We're In - One More Time
A rags-to-riches entrepreneur in Mogadishu gets kidnapped by Al Shabaab, but makes both his escape and fortune. A Chilean man confronts the man who tortured him, while an American writer recalls the truth about a family story. We end with a repeat of our interview with Don Ritchie, who passed away this week in Sydney, Australia after helping stop approximately 160 people from ending their lives.
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Fri, May 11
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The State We're In - It's All in the Mind
A woman's personality changes after a parachuting accident, a businessman wakes up a new man after a stroke, and the two meet and fall in love. What life is like as 'The Human Google'. And an author explains how brain research cant explain away free will.
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Fri, May 4
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The State We're In - Building a Better You
We meet a researcher who believes death may be conquered in his lifetime. A British DJ recounts the excruciating aversion therapy he went to "cure" him of homosexuality. A Dutch photographer discovers "the worlds most beautiful people". And a former student reweaves the tangled web of lies he told to pass his college internship.
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Fri, Apr 27
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The State We're In - World Press Freedom Day
A Swedish filmmaker on facing down a multinational corporation which wanted to silence him, a Libyan journalist who was tortured for telling the truth, and two Ghanaian women who have a lot of fun talking about sex on their blog.
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Fri, Apr 20
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The State We're In - Street Warriors
A man in Belarus fights for gay rights and loves it. A woman in Barcelona takes on pickpocket gangs and wins. A woman in Zimbabwe buys a van to start a business but it gets stolen. And a scientist in New York State uses evolutionary science to improve life in his town.
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Fri, Apr 13
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The State We're In - Pranks!
A Belgian comedy troupe pranks the country's biggest telecommunications company with the reputation for the worst customer service. A Nicaraguan woman plays a witch on local radio to name and shame men into treating their wives properly. An American writer discovers her name and image were being used to promote a porn site that thousands were flocking to. And an anti-mafia journalist names names on his TV station in Sicily and gets away with it... so far.
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Fri, Apr 6
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The State We're In - It AIn't Over
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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Fri, Mar 30
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The State We're In - Taking the Reins
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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Fri, Mar 23
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The State We're In - The Real Me
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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Tue, Mar 20
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The State We're In - Deal With It
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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Fri, Mar 16
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The State We're In - Deal With It
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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Fri, Mar 9
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The State We're In - By the Book
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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Fri, Mar 2
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The State We're In - Sounds Like Home
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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Fri, Feb 24
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The State We're In - For the Record
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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Fri, Feb 17
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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 about what?s '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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Fri, Feb 10
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The State We're In - Valentine?s Special 2012
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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Fri, Feb 3
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The State We're In - The Fight of Your 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.
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Fri, Jan 27
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The State We're In - Freedom's Road
The first Western media interview of Imad Ghalioun, the Syrian politician who defected recently, a Wikileaks pioneer and politician from Iceland who helped make public the 'collateral murder' video, and a former East German cyclist who defected just before he went to the Olympics.
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Fri, Jan 20
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The State We're In - Border Crossings
A man from a poor village in Kenya gets an unexpected hand from Sweden to study at Harvard. A Bulgarian orphan on the verge of dying finds a loving home with South African parents. A Nigerian man betrays his parents to start a new life in the UK. And an Afghan refugee in the Netherlands lives in legal limbo.
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Fri, Jan 13
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The State We're In - The Call of Duty
After almost 70 years, a former Dutch resistance fighter admits she assassinated the wrong man. A Canadian woman tries to help the homeless and learns a life-altering lesson about herself. A South African photographer tries to create beauty in the face of the violence she and other gay women face. And an ex-Mafia princess explains why she took over the family business, and her recent struggle to go straight.
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Fri, Jan 6
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The State We're In - Family Ties
Steve Lickteig thought he was the adopted son of Kansas farmers, only to discover a shocking truth that everyone in town knew, except him. Jerry Winkler was a homeless man in Amsterdam when he discovered that his late father was a millionaire. And an Australian composer turns grief into a soaring requiem after the tragic loss of his son.
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Fri, Dec 30 2011
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The State We're In - Producers' Picks 2011
Producers Belinda, Diana and Mignon pick their favourite stories of the year, featuring Egyptian blogger Sandmonkey, a man pretending to be his dead-lover's son at a funeral, the creator of amazing Strandbeesten (or Beach Beasts) and a man who chases down the Ponzi schemer who cheated him.
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Fri, Dec 23 2011
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The State We're In - Don't Shoot the Messenger
A man frustrated in his search for spiritual answers decides to become a guru. His message, don't fall for fake gurus - become your own. An African American who lives in Holland wonders if the Dutch holiday tradition of Zwarte Piet is not only zany good fun, but also deeply racist. And a man in Afghanistan believes poetry not only gives us wisdom and beauty, but hope - and he should know. He turned to poetry when his son got kidnapped.
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Fri, Dec 16 2011
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The State We're In - Still Here
As Libya continues to go through an uncertain rebirth, two people are watching with heightened interest: a Palestinian doctor and a Bulgarian nurse. Both were part of the "Benghazi Six" ? foreign medical workers accused of infecting 400 babies with HIV. They speak together for the first time about their ordeal, liberation, and dreams. Also: an American man rediscovers the sister his parents had institutionalized decades earlier, and rekindles the joyful, playful rapport he had with her as a...
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Fri, Dec 9 2011
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The State We're In - Betrayal
A Norwegian filmmaker on joining anarchists in their fight against neo-Nazism, and the betrayal she regrets to this day. A Dutch decorator and his comic odyssey in becoming part-owner of one of the most expensive soccer clubs in the world. And a 97 year old veteran on the Warsaw Uprising who was jailed by the country he put his life on the line for.
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Fri, Dec 2 2011
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The State We're In - The Breaking Point
An Iranian doctor and writer on why he fled his beloved homeland, an ex-border patrol agent in America on why he is now an immigration activist, a non-violent follower of Ghandi whose ashram was bulldozed by Indian authorities and a failed actress in Brazil on how taking a walk changed her life.
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Fri, Nov 25 2011
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The State We're In - Tough Guys
A "snatchback" detective who returns children to their parents in other countries. A mountaineer who was left for dead on Mount Everest, but lived to tell the tale. Georges Laraque, the ex-pro hockey "enforcer" who?s now a Green Party vegan. And a man named Bill whose sex drive was the bane of his existence... until he castrated himself.
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Fri, Nov 18 2011
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The State We're In - A Second Chance
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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Fri, Nov 11 2011
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The State We're In - Faking It
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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