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Features first-person stories from around the world about human rights, human wrongs and how we treat each other.
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The State We're In is a weekly hour-long radio programme from Radio Netherlands Worldwide, the Dutch international service in Hilversum and WAMU Public Radio in Washington D.C.

Tell us your story

So, we constantly ask ourselves: what is the state we're in?

 

TSWI on the web
The weeks' main stories are displayed on the TSWI homepage. Most stories are accompanied by an audio report or interview. To find older stories, go to the TWSI tags page and search using keywords.

Most importantly this website allows you to tell the world what you think and to engage with others across the globe to discuss issues that affect us all. So, get talking on our forum in which a new issue will be put in the spotlight. Join in and vote in the poll on the TSWI homepage. Or respond to our main stories by giving your opinion at the bottom of the page.

Also, we're interested in the state you're in. What are the issues that are important to you? Mail your stories, pictures or videos to . Perhaps we will publish them on the web or use them in the weekly radio programme. 

TSWI on air

Hosted by Jonathan Groubert, the State We're In is also a weekly hour-long radio programme from Radio Netherlands Worldwide, the Dutch international service in Hilversum and WAMU Public Radio in Washington D.C. In the radio programme archive you can listen the most recent broadcast of the programme online. The programme is also broadcast worldwide.

Our selected shows of The State We're In

Radio Show: The art of smuggling

The State We're In, 20 March 2010. 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....

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...

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