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The State We're In
Features first-person stories from around the world about human rights, human wrongs and how we treat each other.
Radio Show: Cultures of addiction
The State We're In, 13 March 2010. 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 alc...
Radio Show: Land rights and rituals
The State We're In, 6 March 2010. 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 moos...
Radio Show: Kidnapped
The State We're In, 27 February 2010. Yi Okseon was forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army. She’s still waiting for an official apology. In Colombia, Annie Correal’s father was kidnapped by insurgent...
Radio Show: Taking back jihad
The State We're In, 20 February 2010. 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...
Radio Show: Love stories
The State We're In, 13 February 2010. 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....
Radio Show: Enlisting God
The State We're In, 6 February 2010: 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”. A P...
Radio Show: Being gay in Africa - special
The State We're In, 30 January 2010: As Uganda considers strengthening its already homophobic laws, this week we present a special edition of the programme looking at what it's like to be gay throughout Africa with voice...
Radio Show: Growing up right
The State We're In, 23 January 2010: Stories about and from children who’ve conquered unimaginable odds: a woman in Rio de Janeiro who educates street children, despite death threats from police. As well as adult c...
Radio Show: The global drug trade
The State We're In, 16 January 2010: 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....
Radio Show: North Korea: police state, prison state
The State We’re In, 9 January 2010: 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 pr...
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