Dutch photographer Michel Szulc Krysanowski put an ad in ten newspapers, in ten countries, asking people who considered themselves to be “the most beautiful in the world” to contact him. Exactly what “beautiful”...
The State We're In has won a Gabriel award for best documentary. It won with 'Two Enemies, One Heart', which aired 10 September 2011 and was produced by Mignon Aylen. It told the story of two combatants, one Iraqi and one Iranian, each of...
The State We're In, 21 April 2012. 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...
The State We're In, 14 April 2012. 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...
The State We're In, 7 April 2012. 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. Comment on this...
The State We're In, 31 March 2012. 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...
The State We're In, 24 March 2012. 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...
The State We're In, 17 March 2012. 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...
Sarah Wali left Egypt largely because of the sexual harassment she experienced. But when the Mubarak regime was toppled, she decided to return. Only to find that the harassment was as bad as ever: on the street, in the car, even on...
The State We're In, 10 March 2012. 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...
Editor - Greg Kelly
Host - Jonathan Groubert
Producers - Mignon Aylen, Belinda Lopez, Diana Steenbergen
Web producer - Sid Fordham