July 2010 Archives
Thursday July 29, 2010
July 29 & August 1: from Buenos Aires - Havana - Qihang Salvation Training Camp, China - Jos, Nigeria - Rome
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The stuff of Italian TV. Getty |
Italy's fascination with prime-time porn. Why televison there treats women like sex toys.
A suitcase full of cash. A suspect singing like a canary. Did a foreign government try to buy Argentina's election?
In China, Deng Senshan spent all his time on the internet. So his parents sent him to boot camp, where the cure proved fatal.
Meanwhile, in Cuba, very few are allowed to go on it. We'll hear from some enterprising webheads dodging state control.
And, kill or die. The violence between Christians and Muslims in a Nigerian village.
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Categories: 2010 Season, Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Past Episodes
Wednesday July 21, 2010
July 22 & 25: from Beirut - France - Siberia - Mumbai
Yaks and thugs and 160 flat tires; the cyclist who pedalled halfway around the world to take on his own fears.
From the can't-win-for-losing department;: musicians in Lebanon win acclaim for singing in Arabic. Then lose it, for singing in Arabic.
Why France takes the cake. Insights into a country that views pastry as culture, and how chefs become kings.
And from Mumbai, why Mary Colaso can't go home. The elderly of India are being moved out, not in.
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Categories: 2010 Season, Asia, Coming Up, Europe, Middle East, Past Episodes
Thursday July 15, 2010
July 15 & 18, 2010: from Cape Town - New York - Kabul and San Remo, Italy
The Cape Town crimewave. How a South African beauty spot came to be plagued by a bunch of hairy, snarling crooks.
Oilman J. Paul Getty once said, "the meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights." A new book says those rights can cause a lot of wrongs.
Landmines, crowns and castles were just some of the surprises in store for an Afghan-Canadian searching for his roots.
And in Italy, old regional dialects are getting new respect, especially if you sing them.
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Categories: 2010 Season, Africa, Asia, Europe, Past Episodes
Thursday July 8, 2010
July 8 & 11: from Washington - Sierras de Rocha, Uruguay - Yankassa, Sierra Leone - Montreal - Kabul
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The country where every schoolkid gets a laptop. You knew it would happen someday. You may be surprised as to where.
Then, do Sunni Muslims have a future in Iraq? A new book says they've been eclipsed and the country will be worse off without them.
A look at the land-grab business. Agribusiness is in the global market for arable land, but is the developing world selling off its future food security?
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Thursday July 1, 2010
July 1 & 8: from Gobi Desert, Mongolia - Tajikistan - London - Nicaragua - Damascus
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| Mongolian schoolchildren: the front line in the fight against fossil poachers in the Gobi desert (Photo/Danielle Nerman) |
The many ways Canadians bring you the world.
An all-Canadian effort, starting with a Calgary reporter in search of fossil thieves thwarting Canadian scientists in the Gobi Desert.
Then, a Canadian back from working in Tajikistan, which he describes as the Sopranos run by Fred Flintstone but too important to ignore.
We have a Canadian documentary-maker who bought himself a little piece of heaven in Nicaragua and found himself in a world of land craziness.
And, a Syrian-Canadian who took in Ladies Hour at the ancient Bath of Roses in Damascus, where they still dip like the Romans did.
Finally, a CBC journalist recalls going for gold in the Defend-Canada-From-The-British-Media Olympics. No place for false starts.
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Categories: 2010 Season, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Past Episodes
- October 2011
- Mon., 17 – More on thorium, the "cleaner" nuclear fuel
- Thu., 13 – Bailing out the Greeks' devalued psyche
- Sat., 8 – Famine aid: giving cash instead of food
- Fri., 7 – Rick and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Fri., 7 – 5 convicted in Argentina torture/murder
- Thu., 6 – Your climate-change reports
- Thu., 6 – October 6, 2011: from Peshawar, Pakistan - Guatemala City - Misrata, Libya - Mendoza, Argentina
- Wed., 5 – China's surfer girl goes global
- September 2011
- Tue., 27 – Al Qaeda: up close with the bosses
- Thu., 15 – Peace and death on Tripoli Street
- Mon., 12 – Asian carp threat: eat invasive species
- Thu., 8 – Listeners Remember Lamont Tilden
- Thu., 8 – Lamont Tilden remembered
- Thu., 8 – Asian carp approach Great Lakes
- Thu., 8 – 30 Mosques/30 days goes worldwide
- Wed., 7 – Stamping out secret hate messages
- Fri., 2 – Adrienne Arsenault on terrorism's future
- Thu., 1 – The Sky Cries Blood, Afghanistan 2002.
- August 2011
- Fri., 26 – How To Fix A Football Match
- Fri., 26 – Berlin's anti-Nazi cleaning lady
- Thu., 25 – Pakistan's untold stories
- Thu., 25 – Sleeper cells and secret deal took Tripoli
- Thu., 18 – Sudan's Machine Gun Preacher
- Tue., 16 – Urumqi, China's underground 6 City
- Tue., 16 – Uyghur Thriller Soundtrax
- Fri., 12 – The Redemption Of General Butt Naked
- Wed., 10 – For Haitian women, credit buys confidence
- Mon., 1 – U.S. Ramadan Road Trip
- July 2011
- Fri., 22 – From Yunnan: golf in the new China
- Wed., 13 – Nothing but mammals, baby...
- Mon., 11 – This Is Not America
- Fri., 8 – Where an uncorrupt official is big news
- June 2011
- Thu., 30 – June 30 & July 3: from Israel - Colombia - Berlin - Democratic Republic of Congo - Agra, India
- Wed., 29 – Guca, Serbia: brass bands and nationalism
- Wed., 29 – The Khmer Rouge and Foxy Lady
- Mon., 27 – Remembering Andrew Princz
- Fri., 17 – A Space Shuttle, a premier, and an ocean
- Thu., 16 – June 16 & 19: from Gudvangen, Norway - India - Dakar, Senegal - the Balkans - Guca, Serbia
- Mon., 13 – Jerusalem...covering the never-ending story
- May 2011
- Wed., 25 – Radio's eyes, The Human Kind Of Eye
- Wed., 25 – Kampala...words of hope from a gay bar
- Sun., 22 – A not so gay memory
- Sun., 22 – Notes on homophobia in Uganda
- Wed., 11 – May 12 - 15: from Liberia - Berlin - Nigeria - Sarajevo, Bosnia - Cheonan, South Korea - Beijing
- Fri., 6 – Apologies...
- Fri., 6 – Response re: Zimbabwe
- Fri., 6 – Lessons about withstanding an earthquake
- Fri., 6 – Two takes on our coverage
- Fri., 6 – Barbie goes to Greece
- Mon., 2 – War brides return to Britain on QM2
- April 2011
- Wed., 27 – April 28 & May 1: from Coban, Guatemala - Zimbabwe - Benghazi, Libya - Kolkata, India - Belize.
- Tue., 19 – Kampala...home of Gadhafi's fan club?
- Sat., 16 – Cairo...security file free-for-all
- Fri., 15 – Kampala...home of the Gadhafi Fan Club!
- Thu., 14 – Tokyo...in the shadow of Fukushima
- Mon., 11 – Dakar's wrestling sandbox millionaires
- Mon., 4 – Jordan's protests run deep
- March 2011
- Thu., 31 – Grand Forks, ND: misinformation on the menu
- Mon., 28 – Mexico: fear of narco-censorship here
- Wed., 23 – March 24 - 27, 2011 from: Noda and Sendai, Japan - Chernobyl - Tunis - Benghazi, Libya - Berlin
- Tue., 22 – Listeners respond to Larry Joe
- Tue., 22 – Noda, Japan...pictures, pieces of lives
- Tue., 22 – The screwy Saudi security syndrome
- Thu., 17 – Beijing...ice swimming and loving it
- Thu., 17 – Kabul... Ormiston on Afghanistanization
- Tue., 15 – Mendoza, Argentina...a witness to brutality
- Mon., 14 – Xinjiang, China...getting around here
- Mon., 14 – Addis Ababa...renting the news of revolution
- Fri., 11 – Plaza del Mayo... marching, remembering
- Fri., 11 – Margaret Evans' Mideast overview
- Thu., 10 – China rolls back reforms
- Wed., 2 – Tunisians demand democracy now!
- February 2011
- Mon., 28 – New on The View
- Mon., 28 – Kabul's curbside cops
- Wed., 23 – February 24 & 27: from French Guiana - Kwa Dabekaa, South Africa - Mumbai, India - Liberia
- Wed., 23 – Urumqi, China..underground music here
- Fri., 11 – Haiti classics -- A Canadian Grammy nominee
- Wed., 9 – Nairobi...Togetherness Supreme here
- Tue., 8 – Joie de vivre in BBC's Bush House
- Mon., 7 – London...cuts to BBC World Sevice here
- Mon., 7 – BBC World Service sold shortwaves in BC
- Mon., 7 – God speaks to the Machine Gun Preacher
- Thu., 3 – Cairo...re-charging in a mosque here
- January 2011
- Thu., 27 – Ladino: The Jewish music of Spain sung here
- Wed., 26 – Yak manure: from poo to petrol
- Wed., 26 – South Sudan...a new national anthem here
- Fri., 21 – Our man from China assesses India
- Thu., 20 – Haiti...just another death by cholera
- Wed., 19 – Goma, Congo...Clever Boys here
- Tue., 11 – Spain - no more matadors on TV here
- Fri., 7 – Hezbollah and temporary marriage
- Thu., 6 – Juba...boatloads of celebration here
- Thu., 6 – January 6 & 9: from Juba, Sudan - Brunei - Diego Garcia - Serra da Guia, Brazil - Rohtak, India
- December 2010
- Thu., 30 – December 30 & Jan 2: from Kibera, Kenya - Montevideo, Uruguay - Dublin, Ireland - New York
- Mon., 20 – The soundtrack of a randy taxi driver
- Thu., 9 – December 9 & 12: from Kabul - Goma, DRC - Monrovia, Liberia - Honduras - Vigo, Spain - Los Angeles
- Fri., 3 – Colombia's Kidnap Radio on the air
- Fri., 3 – Kabul...the roadside pension plan here
- Thu., 2 – Pop up Player code
- November 2010
- Fri., 26 – Seoul... kimchi, an aid to weight control
- Wed., 24 – Afghanistan...Embedded with the Taliban here
- Tue., 23 – Kampala..The Secret Reach Of "The Family"
- Tue., 23 – Krakow...The Weather With You here
- Tue., 23 – Germany...neeles ant peens here
- Sat., 20 – Thanks for finding your way to a new feature
- Wed., 17 – Shatila refugee camp...guns are common here
- Tue., 16 – Kampala...battling homosexuality here
- Mon., 15 – Zimbabwe...Waiting For The Rain here
- Fri., 5 – China, Japan and rare earth in context
- Fri., 5 – Got your goat shopping done?
- Fri., 5 – From Burma to B.C.
- Mon., 1 – China in Africa...no Chinatowns here
- Mon., 1 – The case for Thorium power continued...
- Mon., 1 – Nicaragua...the remains of a DC-3 here
- October 2010
- Fri., 29 – Washington...Franzen, Freedom and Obama here
- Thu., 28 – London...the tale of MI-5 from here
- Thu., 28 – October 28 & 31, 2010: from Rio de Janeiro - Dublin - Voss, Norway - Huntsville, Alabama - London
- Mon., 25 – NYC 9/11...What's Going On here?
- Fri., 22 – Manila..."offending religious feelings" here
- Fri., 22 – Clean cookstoves r you...
- Thu., 21 – Havana...sticking like crazy glue here
- Wed., 20 – Haiti...Rumours Of Glory here
- Wed., 20 – Who do you pay to be in the news here?
- Tue., 19 – New York City...living in tunnels here
- Mon., 18 – The Cuban diet...continued
- Fri., 15 – Falkland Islands...music of the long march
- Fri., 15 – Lusaka, SA...Tracy Chapman echoes here
- Fri., 15 – When in Cuba, eat as the Cubans eat
- Fri., 15 – India's secret war
- Thu., 14 – October 14 & 17, 2010: from Miami - Cuba - Arizona - Tripoli, Lebanon - Berlin - La Paz, Bolivia
- Tue., 12 – Khao Lak, Thailand...song from the Tsunami
- September 2010
- Thu., 30 – September 30 & October 3, 2010: from Paris - New York - Afghanistan - Chiapas - Culver City, CA
- Mon., 27 – Dispatches wins gold in New York
- Tue., 14 – Award winners
- Mon., 13 – Special shows
- Sun., 12 – The Essay Project
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- Thu., 17 – Assam, India...childbirth can be deadly here
- Wed., 16 – Listener dispatches....on the Middle East
- Mon., 7 – I'm a stranger here myself
- May 2010
- Mon., 17 – pop-up test
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
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- A team of 15 Canadian soldiers has been dispatched to Kandahar on a month-long assignment to assess whether dozens of military containers are still seaworthy enough to be brought home.
- Iran hangs 2 men convicted of spying
- Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA spy agency.
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