WorldLink
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WorldLink: The power of words, images and sounds
On this week's show: A Pakistani forced into exile worries about his home and a documentary maker helps convict a dictator in Guatemala. Also, citizen journalists on the streets of Harlem, New York, and soul music striking a nerve in northern England and Japan.
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WorldLink: Inside-out
On this week's show: An unlikely champion of women's rights runs for parliament in Pakistan and a Russian office worker fights for her son's future. Also, Asian bloggers, the Native American occupation of Alcatraz, Italian-born immigrants facing deportation, shiftwork on steroids in Australia and a church for atheists.
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WorldLink: New threats, new possibilities
On this week's show: as more details on the Boston bombers emerge, we'll be hearing how the Chechen community in Russia is reacting, we head to Paraguay to hear about the country's new president and we have a look to the future, with a coverage of children's issues across the world.
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WorldLink: Things we remember, places we have lived
On this week's show: A personal account of running the 2013 Boston Marathon, a playwright's perspective on the Thatcher years, and the South Korean islanders nervous for their future. All that, plus various stories of "home" from around the globe.
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WorldLink: Penalty of death
On this week's show: Three stories behind the statistics released in Amnesty International's annual report on the death penalty. Then: religious conflict in Myanmar, a war amputee from Sierra Leone, an Argentine family taking on the drugs barons and a modern-day hermit in Lebanon.
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WorldLink: Roots and reactions
On this week's show: What South Koreans make of North Korean nuclear threats, a community mourns the murder of a teacher at a Pakistani girls' school, and a man tells his young son he's discovered the secret to human life. Also, flying doctors and sharing food.
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WorldLink: Ethnicity and religion
On this week's show: Myanmar's sectarian violence, Mali's unwanted Tuaregs, Bangladesh cracks down on bloggers, an Israeli journalist gives Iran the news. Also: A Spaniard who's prepared to give up all to get to Canada, a school for shantytown models in Buenos Aires and helping refugees in South Africa get a university degree.
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WorldLink: In times of trouble
On this week's show: Cyprus' stranded cash, Argentina's dirty war and Australia's stolen babies. Also: A crusading Cambodian politician, three US jail escapees, a West Papuan Independence leader and a group of rebellious Turkish musicians.
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WorldLink: Earthly intervention
On this week's show: The world's first South American pope, rebuilding Mali, 10 years since the invasion of Iraq and bringing music to South Africa's gangster youth.
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WorldLink: Captive and captivating
On this week's show: we speak about the referendum on the Falkland Islands with journalist Simon Winchester, fiction meets reality as the Bolshoi acid attacker is unmasked in Moscow and, in the US, Muslims share their own personal definitions of Jihad. In the second half: as part of our coverage of International Women's Day, we have a closer look at women in the media worldwide.
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WorldLink: Hidden
On this week's show: A Kenyan journalist's narrow escape during the 2007 election riots, and the Bangladeshi blogger in hiding from his attackers. In the second half: Rebellion and reform in Argentinian Catholicism, Turkish parents speak up for gay children and Mali's Dogan people are under threat.
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WorldLink: Picking up the pieces
On this week's show: South Africa and a tarnished hero; Louisiana fishers want their oysters back; a devastated city on the mend; a Cambodian tries to heal the wounds of genocide; an architect turns photojournalist as his country is invaded; a news anchor reveals her past as an addict and a Hollywood reporter who's seen it all.
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WorldLink: The inheritance of loss
On this week's show: The mysterious case of 'Prisoner X'; Turkey's missing person crisis; anti-Semitism on the rise in post-revolution Tunisia; An ash-encrusted legacy in Java; A daughter takes on her parents' fight for freedom and the Delhi musician embracing another country's musical heritage.
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WorldLink: Love and Hate
On today's show: A conversation with the director of the Women Under Siege project; Violence as a tool of war in Mali; Using grafitti to fight domestic violence in Brazil; Russian adoption heartbreak and a home for transgender elders in Indonesia.
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WorldLink: Life-changing decisions
On this week's show: Stalingrad remembered, Egyptian football protests explained and Germany's sexism row discussed. Other highlights include a meeting with Ireland's most rebellious priest and a surprisingly uplifting visit to a Syrian refugee camp.
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WorldLink: Home, bittersweet home
On this week's show: A Holocaust survivor in Slovakia, displaced musicians in Mali, an activist on trial in Egypt, a journalist imprisoned in Thailand, a First Nations activist in Canada and an underground electrician in Jamaica.
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WorldLink: Taken hostage
On this week's show: Fears grow for the safety of French hostages in Mali, An Eritrean activist broadcasts the screams of torture victims in the Sinai desert, the tech community mourns information activist Aaron Swartz and a Jewish mayoral candidate praises ethnic tolerance in Sarajevo.
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WorldLink: Transformations
On this week's show: How the riots in Belfast are about identity, corruption in the Himalayas and a survivor of 19 years in China's labor camps. Also, the Russian Gerard Depardieu, a transgender priest, a fish-seller turned YouTube star and a fateful trip that leads a Muslim to become a Jew.
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WorldLink: A new year begins
On this week's show: We speak to lawyer Vrinda Grover about rape in India, visit the US town where it's illegal NOT to carry a weapon, and take a trip through Kurdistan with aid workers helping Syrian refugees. As the world heads back to work, we'll also be learning about some unique jobs and finding out why Richard Wagner is still relevant in 2013.
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WorldLink: A bundle of laughs
WorldLink's comedy special brings you jokes galore in the company of comedian and guest co-host Andy Valvur. Spoiler alert: This show features German and Aboriginal stand-up, a Jewish cartoonist with ink on his face and a group of extremely angry young Russians
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WorldLink: Christmas stories with a difference
On this week's show: Genocide survivor Isaac Mugabi shares his story of Christmas in Kigali. Then, what are fir trees doing growing in Jamaica? We introduce a selection of festive stories from the places you least expect!
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WorldLink: Where it all began
On this week's show: We mark the second anniversary of the Arab Spring with stories from Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain. We'll also be talking human rights with Afghan activist Sima Simar, following the fate of homeless veterans in the US and welcoming Palestinian artist-duo Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme to the studio.
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WorldLink: Human rights and arts in adversity
On this week's show: We follow the plight of women under the Islamist insurgency in northern Mali, track down criminals wanted for crimes against humanity, and ask why Palestinians are welcoming an Israeli energy company to the West Bank. Then, arts in adversity - how creative expression can thrive, even under the most oppressive of conditions.
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WorldLink: Oil and blood
On this week's show, we take an audio journey along an oil pipeline, sample life in the shadow of Iron Dome and investigate the roots of Catalonian nationalism. We also mark World AIDS day with the stories of people living with the disease, and get to grips with a very different form of bank.
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WorldLink: Looking to Gaza and West Bank
Journalist Zouheir al Najjar tells the story of his bombed out offices in Gaza - Palestinian children continue to be arrested by Israeli security forces in the West Bank - Kurdish rapper Serhado tries to give hope to his people in Turkey - A ban on preachers on buses causes controversy in Jamaica and a unique NGO in Ghana gives poor kids and youths a chance at an education.
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WorldLink: Taking a stand
On this week’s show: as Australia is engulfed in a child abuse scandal, a victim's father opens up - Hunger strikes in Turkey from Kurdish prisoners - Refugees in Germany continue to camp out in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - A British couple take on the owners of a hotel who refused them a bed because they are gay and a rock star throws his support behind Bradley Manning in the US.
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WorldLink: Personal stories from around the globe
On this week’s show: China's leadership changes, but dissidents' struggle remains the same - New Yorkers take to their bikes in order to combat post-hurricane blackouts - one woman’s fight against sexual harassment in Cairo - Goths take over a Women’s Institute in Britain and Egyptian heavy metal fans deny Satanism slurs.
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WorldLink: United States election special
On this week's show: Hispanic voters make themselves heard, a Florida woman stands up for Medicare, an Egyptian dual national reflects on Obama's early overtures to the Arab world, Hurricane Sandy wreaks havoc in New York and beyond, an innocent man speaks from death row, photographer Arthur Grace captures four decades of American life, and a US-Haitian deportee discovers meaning in music.
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WorldLink: The personal stories behind the headlines
On this week's show: Heavyweight boxer Vitali Klitschko takes aim at Ukraine's political establishment, Israeli border communities prepare for the worst, Portugal's economic crisis rattles the media, Tunisian women fight back, Europe is failing its Roma, Kurdish basketball players on the rebound, a North Korean satirist in exile, and the scourge of pirate fishing in Sierra Leone.
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Targeted and transferred
Taking on Mexico's kidnapping industry, breaking the silence over Canada’s missing indigenous women, stirring up Jamaica’s tourism industry, reshaping Rio's shantytowns and upgrading Indians’ credit rating.
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WorldLink: Targeted and transformed
On this week's show: Why a Dutch woman became a FARC celebrity, taking on Mexico's kidnapping industry, breaking the silence over Canada’s missing indigenous women, Cambodia’s uphill struggle against acid attacks, hiking for Congo's displaced, stirring up Jamaica’s tourism industry, reshaping Rio's shantytowns, upgrading Indians’ credit rating, and airwaves to change the weather. Hosted by Kate Laycock and Neil King Production team: Kate Laycock, Neil King, Nancy Isenson and Angelique Mller....
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WorldLink: Terror and tenacity
On this week's show: Why the Taliban are afraid of a 14-year-old girl from the Swat valley, how the Pussy Riot camp are reacting to the release of activist Yekaterina Samutsevich, a torture experiment Romania would rather forget and the psychological scars of Liberia's civil war. All this, plus a second-half jam-packed with all you ever wanted to know about food and ethical consumption. Hosted and produced by Neil King and Kate Laycock Editor: Nancy Isenson Who's afraid of Malala...
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WorldLink: Power, politics and Identity
On this week's show: A septuagenarian broadcaster controversially jailed in Cambodia, the campaign to clear the name of computer pioneer Alan Turing and a personal account of life in cold war Germany. We'll also be hearing from French feminists, Moroccan builders and Indian photographer Poulomi Basu. Hosted and produced by Neil King and Kate Laycock Editor: Nancy Isenson Mam Sonando jailed in CambodiaSeventy one year old Mam Sonando is a vocal critic of Cambodia's ruling party. Now, he faces...
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WorldLink: Living the present, confronting the past
This week we talk about resistance with political theorist Gene Sharp and former Stasi prisoner Rainer Schubert. We'll also be hearing from IRA victims in the UK, a returned adoptee in Korea and the relatives of the disappeared in both Turkey and Argentina. All this and more, on WorldLink. Presented and produced by Charlotte Collins and Kate Laycock. Editor: Nancy Isenson. Gene Sharp on resistance to powerGene Sharp, one of the winners of the 2012 "Alternative Nobel Peace Prize", has devoted...
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WorldLink: Speaking out
On this week’s show we hear from opposition activists staging unusual protests in Belarus, a Zimbabwean trade unionist forced into exile over treason charges, the widow of the Russian dissident killed by polonium poisoning - and we tell you what krumping is and why it's catching on in Liberia.Krumping hits the dance floors in LiberiaKrumping, short for “Kingdom Radically Uplifted by Mighty Praise”, is a dance that started in churches in the Afro-American communities of Los Angeles. Now it's...
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WorldLink: Freedom of information
On this week's show, we hear from a Turkish lawyer defending journalists apparently accused of doing their job, a British woman fighting to prevent her son's extradition to the US, and computer hackers determined to do good. Tracking down computer hackersSnuffing out hackers is a lot more difficult than stopping a political organization. Report: Ashley Cleek Collateral damage over WikiLeaksThe American public appears to have forgotten Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of perpetrating...
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WorldLink: Facing the future
On this week's show, we hear from an openly gay member of the Syrian opposition, take a trip to New York on the anniversary of 9/11, meet an aspiring female president of Afghanistan and hear about education issues in Hong Kong, Hungary and Argentina.Syrian gays uncertain what the future may holdMahmoud Hassino has started an online magazine to raise awareness about gay rights in Syria. Report: Reese Erlich Rebuilding Ground ZeroWe go behind the scenes at One World Trade Center in the company...
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WorldLink: Water and disabilities
On this week's show: to mark World Water Week, we bring you stories and conversations about water, its consumption, pollution, exploitation and control - And, in honor of the Paralympic Games in London, we consider the topic of disability, with extraordinary personal stories from Korea and Uganda.Water activist Maude BarlowMaude Barlow is co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works internationally for the human right to water. She also chairs the board of Washington-based Food and...
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WorldLink
On this week’s show: We hear from the brother of one of those killed in the South African miners strike - We're off to Israel where the army is recruiting enthusiastic young Jewish Americans - We bring the story of women in Zimbabwe, who are being harassed by police - And a profile of the woman tipped to be the first female president of South Korea. South Africa mournsOn August 16th, 34 miners were gunned down by police at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine, where they had been striking over...
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WorldLink: Future scenarios and ethnic minorities
We begin this show with scientist Stephen Emmott's chilling vision of a future in which ten billion people inhabit the planet. In the second half, we hear from members of ethnic and religious minorities facing various challenges in the countries they live in.
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WorldLink: Stories from behind the headlines
This week: The consequences of gun crime, Syrian refugees, and Ramadan in Cairo. We'll also be hearing a science-fictional take on the Curiosity landing and meeting a whole host of youngsters learning to swim in a South African township. All this and more, on WorldLink. Life after the shootingsChristian Heyne lost his mother in a gun attack. Now he's a campaigner for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. Studio interview Syrian refugees in LebanonIn the areas along Lebanon's border with Syria,...
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WorldLink: Daring to dissent
This week, we'll be hearing about political protest in Mexico, press freedoms in Turkey and sponsorship policing in the UK. Also on the show: The life and work of Gore Vidal, 50 years of the German Bundesliga and living with HIV AIDS in Liberia. Taking on a presidentTeacher Marco Tellez explains why he's decided to join his students in protesting Mexican president Enrique Pea Nieto. Report: James Blears Journalist Nedim Sener faces prison in TurkeyTurkey holds the unenviable record of...
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WorldLink: Tears and laughter
On this week's program: Self-immolation in Israel - An Iranian comedian in Canada - An Iowa farmer and his parched fields - Brits complain as the Olympics open - Kosovo's first Olympian - France and its fencing tradition - Fighting to save a race track - Using a skateboard to roll over social injustice - Delhi kids sing themselves from the streets
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WorldLink
On this week's program: We meet the photographer who's sifting through the photos he took before last year's massacre on Norway's Utoeya island - As the world gears up for the Olympics, we hear from one angry Londoner - The Italians going to great lengths to crack the American ice cream market - Technology start-ups flourish in post-Mubarak Egypt - and we meet a philanthropic traveller.Survivor's storyThis weekend, Norway marks the first anniversary of the July 22 terror attacks which killed...
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WorldLink: Law and Order
On this week's program we discuss the International Criminal Court celebrating its 10th anniversary. We hear about sectarian violence in Nigeria, and soup kitchens opening up in Greece to help victims of the economic crisis. We meet an entrepreneur introducing Mongolian yurts to Canada, and Californian man who’s worried that the law allowing him to use marijuana as a painkiller may change.10 years of the ICCThe International Criminal Court in the Hague celebrates its 10th anniversary on July...
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WorldLink
On this week's program: As Greece adjusts to a new government, we hear from a member of the 'potato movement' - We meet the German volunteers supporting the Syrian opposition - Indiginous activists stage a counter-protest in Rio - A preschool opens in a shanty town in Buenos Aires - Why the UN has criticized 'baby boxes' - And we attend a singing lesson in Germany. Greek potato movementThe people of Greece who don't fancy their government's chances of sorting out the country's financial...
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WorldLink: Elections and the environment
On this week's program, female activists in Egypt fight against sexual harassment, a band brings us the sound of the Egyptian revolution and we get to know the French community in London on this election weekend. We also look at the upcoming Rio+20 summit, meet a recycling entrepreneur in Liberia and an Ukrainian man who lives with wolves. Egyptian women's struggleAs Egypt holds landmark presidential run-off elections, female activists in Tahrir Square are being sexually harassed. Report:...
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WorldLink: Sport and tourism, tradition and taboos
Among this week's stories: the Euro 2012 football tournament opening in Poland and Ukraine, student protests in Montreal, and cheese makers in Italy . We also hear about a new sex manual for Germany's youth, theater in Transylvania, masculinity in Argentina and Celtic music in Serbia. Canada's Maple SpringVoices from the ongoing protests in Quebec. This is a movement which is about far more than just student fees, they say. Report: Sian Griffiths. Italian cheese makers count the cost of the...
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WorldLink: Syra, Haiti and people fighting for home
This week Nadim Houry of Human Rights Watch tells us about the horrific stories to come out of Syria’s Houla massacre. Also on the show: a Canadian Mounted Policewoman in Haiti, an unlikely spokesperson for mal gender issues in Germany and a whole host of folks fighting to protect their homes in Brazil, Ecuador and Zimbabwe. Nadim Houry talks to WorldLink about the massacre in SyriaCoporal Briand, a “Mountie” in HaitiYann-Christoph Pelz speaks up for menFavela dwellers resist eviction in...
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WorldLink: Access to Justice
In the week that Amnesty International publishes its annual report, we look at the issue of access to justice in different countries around the globe. We'll be hearing from a Palestinian hunger striker, a Tibetan refugee, a Syrian dissident and many more besides. Vugar Adigozalov fights homophobia in AzerbaijanLGBT activist Vugar Adigozalov says that being openly gay in Azerbaijan can be extremely dangerous.... even at Eurovision time.Palestinian Hunger Striker Khader AdnanKhader Adnan went...
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WorldLink: Protesting the system
At the Cannes film festival, 22 films are in competition for the year's Palme d'Or... all of them by male directors. A good time then, to hear from French feminist group La Barbe! The theme of protest continues, as both Kiev and Chicago gear up for demonstrations... Sexism at CannesWe speak to Celine Mouzon, member of the French feminist group La Barbe who are protesting the absence of female directors at Cannes.Feminism in the UkraineInna Shevchenko is a leading figure in Femen, the...
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WorldLink: The inevitable and the great outdoors
Fighting the inevitable: We hear from Putin protesters in Russia, pro-Iranian peacemakers in Israel and online identity dodgers in the USA. Then it's out into the great outdoors with tales of coracle fishing, snow leopard protection and pursuing fitness in the wild. Protesting PutinOut on the streets with the young people determined to loosen the not-really-so-new president’s grip on power.Israel Loves IranThat, at least, is the message of a short video in which ordinary Israeli people...
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WorldLink: Struggle and defiance
On this week's show we meet a FARC hostage, South Sudanese refugees in Cairo, Palestinian filmaker Sameh Zoabi and the daughter of imprisoned Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko. After that, we spend a half hour in the company of Pussy Riot and a whole host of other iconoclasts and intellectuals.Yevgenia TymoshenkoIn recent weeks, Yevgenia Tymoshenko has emerged as one of the most passionate and outspoken critics of the treatment of her mother, jailed Ukrainian politician Yulia...
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WorldLink: Disabilities and ethical business
In the week that Charles Taylor was found guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes in Sierra Leone, we meet people who lost their limbs in the conflict. Also on the show: the hotel giving people with mental illness a chance to belong, the Portuguese magazine reporting exclusively on good news and an ethical clothing pioneer in Beirut. Sierra Leone soccer challengeThis week, the former Liberian leader Charles Taylor was found guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes in neighbouring Sierra...
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WorldLink: Survival stories from around the globe
As the trial of Anders Behring Breivik unfolds in Norway, we'll be hearing from Utoya survivor Ali Esbati. Other survival stories include Colin Goddard, who was shot during the Virginia Tech massacre, and Zeinaba Hardaga, who was rescued from a siege in Sarajevo by the Jewish neighbors her family had hidden during WWII. All that, plus thirty minutes of election-inspired stories from France. Surviving UtoyaThe Norwegian writer and economist Ali Esbati was on the island of Utoya when Anders...
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WorldLink: A hunger for politics
It's time for electioneering and food. Whether it's Myanmar, South Australia or the Pirate Party of Europe, everyone knows the day after the election is the first day of the next campaign. And it can make you hungry! You can listen to the show online or subscribe to WorldLink as a podcast. The cult of Suu KyiThe past week saw something happen that some people thought never would. Aung San Suu Kyi - the elder stateswoman of Myanmar's democracy movement - won a parliamentary seat in landmark...
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WorldLink: Remembering the Falklands
We mark the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War in the company of veterans from both sides of the conflict. Is Britain still as determined as ever to defend the sovereignty of this far-flung archipelago? And why do the Falklands continue to hold such sway over the Argentinean national psyche?Britain remembers the FalklandsBritain’s claim to the Falkland Islands has always been hotly disputed by Argentina. In 1982, Argentina’s ruling junta launched a campaign to regain the archipelago. The...
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WorldLink: Busting barriers and borders
First stop - Arizona - and the US border with Mexico - a fatal wall of divide between the two Americas. Next stop - Tel Aviv. Then, the sound of minds clashing in art and science.Arizona border activist fights the lawThe desert region just north of the US-Mexican border has become a deadly proving ground for immigrants in search of a better life. DW profiles one activist who is working to make the region a little more humane. Report: Sonya Angelica Diehn, Tucson, Arizona CERN artist collides...
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WorldLink: Manipulation of Culture
This week we complete our two-part look at cultural manipulation with stories from Hungary, Portugal and Zimbabwe. We'll also be hearing the voices of elderly people enriching the lives of younger generations.
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WorldLink: Sound and vision
Ottawa's bus riders fight for driver Yves Roy's right to sing at the wheel; Moviegoers get their fill and more at the Berlin International Film festival; Jazz musicians in Panama use their sounds to break down class barriers.
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WorldLink: Rebuilding society from scratch
On this week's show: Stephane Hessel, the WW2 resistance fighter who believes that now is the "Time for Outrage!", Tahrir protesters a year after Mubarak's resignation and former guards at a Jewish internment camp in Cyprus. All these voices and more, on World Link.
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WorldLink: Let's talk about sex...
... and all things related. Like the experiences of an LGBT activist in Brazil, for example. Or the Senegalese musician using her lyrics to battle female genital mutilation. Or the Ms Pink winner who became Nepal's first transgender politician. Or the Romanian woman who has taken on the country's notorious sex trafficking gangs.... join us for all these stories and more.
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WorldLink: Return to Tahrir
Join us as we mark the first anniversary of the Egyptian revolution by hearing from the people who made it happen. Also on the show: the Syrian protester whose injuries give him away and the Tunisian blogger enjoying newfound freedom on the web.
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WorldLink: Making a statement
This week we meet people making statements through art and culture. We'll be hearing from the British mining community picketing ‘The Iron Lady’, the Indonesian hip-hop star rapping against corruption, the Kenyan puppeteer pulling the strings of change and the radio station broadcasting messages of hope to political prisoners. All this and more, on World Link.
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WorldLink: The Great Divide
On this week's show we'll be looking at division and separation. We'll be hearing from Korean families stuck on opposite sides of the demilitarized zone, Georgian refugees struggling to remake their lives in the wake of conflict and an Indonesian couple whose baby was sold for adoption when they were unable to pay their hospital bills...
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WorldLink: The times they are a changing...
We begin 2012 by meeting a selection of people from across the globe who are determined to draw a line under the mistakes of the past. From Russia to Syria and from Morocco to Hungary: the times they are a changing...
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WorldLink: World Link - Real life stories behind the...
Join us on a tour of this year's most exciting stories as seen through the eyes of the reporters who covered them. We'll encounter a novel take on the Arab Spring, a personal account of the effects of climate change in Bangladesh, a cynic's guide to African elections and much, much more...
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WorldLink: World Link - the real life stories behind the...
On this edition of World Link we'll be taking a closer look at matters of faith, it being Christmas. We’ll be meeting a shaman priest keeping holy traditions alive in modern Korea, the Muslim keeper of the keys to one of Christianity’s holiest sites and the Cambridge University graduate who dropped everything to become a Buddhist monk.
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WorldLink: The real life stories behind the headlines
In a week marked by anti-government protests in Russia, we talk with journalist Oleg Kashin and other people who have fought against the state. We also introduce you to people who have live their lives against the grain: Israeli scientist Danny Shechtman - whose work once drew laughs, but has now earned him a Nobel Prize; and the band E-Play, determined to show Serbians that women can rock.
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WorldLink: The real life stories behind the headlines
On the eve of the next big Afghanistan conference in Bonn, we find out what it's like to grow up in a country that has been in turmoil for three decades; we get a new view of the London Underground by taking a ride with someone in a wheelchair; we hear the sounds of Morocco's most controversial political rapper.
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WorldLink: World Link - the real life stories behind the...
This week we're looking at two very different familiy dynaties: the political dynasty of the Pakistani Bhutto clan, and the musical dynasty of Nigerian Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti. We'll also be exploring borders and boundaries in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and in Hebron, the city within a city.
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WorldLink: World Link - the real life stories behind the...
On this week's program we meet people who have changed careers in the current tough economic times - like the taxi-driving engineer in Portugal or the sausage-selling banker in Frankfurt; We also talk to people who have committed their lives to just one thing: their people's liberation struggle.
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WorldLink: World Link - the real life stories behind the...
On this week's show we talk to opposition Syrian and Yemeni exiles; an Italian on hunger strike; and a Burmese dissident
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WorldLink: World Link - real-life stories behind the...
This week we'll be talking to reporter Masood Jahesh about growing up in Afghanistan and why he believes that journalism can help secure a better future for his country. Also on the program: Angolan musician Victor Gamba, US Film maker Robert H. Lieberman and disability access campaigner Youcef Bezzecoub. Listen to World Link from Saturday as audio-on-demand or subscribe to the podcast through our Media Center.
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