November 2010 Archives
Tuesday November 30, 2010
Pink Saris...abused women fight back in India
Michelle Verwey of Indore, India heard Rick's 
interview with filmmaker Kim Longinotto about her film Pink Saris -- referring to the uniform in India of abused women banding together to fight back.
Thank you for the September 23rd show, which I listened to as a podcast just this morning. I particularly enjoyed hearing about the documentary film Pink Sarees. I am a Victoria, B.C. native teaching nursing in Central India. Many of my post-basic BSc students are from states in India where life as a woman is very challenging, such as Orissa, Madhyas Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Chhattishgarh. I am interested in finding a copy of Pink Sarees to see if it would be useful for part of my community health class on social action and women's rights. Is the film available on DVD?
Namaskar
More on Pink Saris and Kim Longinotto
Categories: Your Dispatches
Friday November 26, 2010
Indonesia...western fare displaces tradition here
Sean Isaacs of Almonte, Ontario heard our essay from South Korea on the displacement of the traditional vegetable condiment kimchi by more modern western fare. He writes about witnessing something similar in Indonesia...
Read more »I am Canadian-born, and my wife of almost 20 years is Indonesian. In October of last year, we made a long-overdue return to Indonesia with our two children (7 year-old daughter, and 13 year-old son). It was a special and emotional trip for all of us (our first in 13 years), as not only did our children get to meet their grandmother (and great-grandmother!) for the first time, but we also made a pilgrimage to the rural village in Sumatra that I first spent time in as a teenager on an exchange program almost 25 years earlier. [click below for the rest]
Categories: The View from Here, Your Dispatches
Friday November 26, 2010
Seoul... kimchi, an aid to weight control
Emma Banks of Fort St. John, B.C. heard Nissa Rhee's essay from South Korea on the apparent decline of kimchi, the traditional pickled vegetable combo, and writes...
Listened to your program about kimchi today. There was one important part of the picture missing. The beneficial bacteria present in kimchi! You may have heard about the beneficial bacteria in yogurt helps digestion, well the bacteria kimchi and sauerkraut do the same thing! Eating kimchi helps keep people at a healthy weight, which is very important due to the recent obesity crisis in north america. And if koreans are just eating more american foods and less kimchi, the same weight gain is likely to happen to them! Thanks.
Categories: Your Dispatches
Thursday November 25, 2010
November 25 & 28: from Afghanistan - Bosnia - Ghana - Zimbabwe - Seoul, South Korea - Manila, the Philippines
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Afghan insurgents from "Taliban: Behind the Masks" |
Taping the Taliban. A Norwegian filmmaker is a rare witness to their ambushes and ambitions - and gets kidnapped to boot.
Can animal rights improve human rights? We'll hear why some in Bosnia hope so.
When to kick and when to run. A martial arts expert teaches kids in the Philippines to defend themselves from sex traffickers.
Inside the witch camps of Ghana. A Canadian author's time among women exiled more for spite than for spells.
Kimchi quandry: Time to make it in South Korea is running out and so is the cabbage.
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Categories: 2010 Season, Africa, Asia, Europe, Past Episodes
Wednesday November 24, 2010
Afghanistan...Embedded with the Taliban here
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Paul Refsdal |
Norwegian filmmaker Paul Refsdal went behind the lines with Afghanistan's insurgents. His documentary Taliban: Behind The Masks will be on the US's CNN Network on December 11, presented by Anderson Cooper.
Categories: The View from Here
Tuesday November 23, 2010
Kampala..The Secret Reach Of "The Family"
Susan Rayf of Toronto heard Carolyn Dunn's The View From Here From Kampala and writes:
Anyone interested in the politics of Uganda and the proposed bill to execute homosexuals should listen to the podcast The Secret Political Reach Of 'The Family' on NPR. The Family, an american evangelical right wing group, has much influence in Uganda. A member of The Family sponsored this bill. Click and scroll down the transcript for the discussion of Uganda. Great show. Thanks
Categories: The View from Here, Your Dispatches
Tuesday November 23, 2010
Krakow...The Weather With You here
That Song...Rose Condo of Winnipeg heard Karen Palmer tell of hearing Barry White coming out of a speaker in a fortune teller's hut in Ghana, and sends her own musical story
Read more »Hi Rick,
I'm in my mid-thirties now, but when I was in my late twenties I went traveling through Europe with my dear sister Sue. On our two month journey we encountered countless bizarre moments -- from overnight treks on busses seated next to wacky fellow travelers, to bedbugs in hostels, to strange and wonderful foods to eat, and all sorts of ill-fated attempts at local languages (thank goodness for French classes in high school!).
Categories: Your Dispatches
Tuesday November 23, 2010
Germany...neeles ant peens here
That Song...Elisabeth Jastrau of Kitchener points to a piece of music from her travels:
Read more »As a university student on an exchange program in German many years ago, I had the good fortune to share an apartment with a German student. At the front of our apartment, which was on the ground floor, was a tailor shop. The shop owner was a young German seamstress, very enthusiastic and full of life. It was always a pleasure to speak with her and she was great company for a homesick foreign student.
Categories: Your Dispatches
Saturday November 20, 2010
Thanks for finding your way to a new feature
Notes from where the far-away there is here...
In the Dispatches spirit that world news, big and small, is best reported by people on the scene, we've introduced The View From Here. It's a blog where CBC correspondents and Dispatches contributors -- and our listeners on the move -- can report about the things you can only find out by being there.
Right now, we're getting word about That Song, a piece of music you associate with events you've witnessed in far-off places, and descriptions of some exotic feasts.
Email this page to a friend Send us a View From Here dispatches@cbc.ca
Categories: The View from Here
Thursday November 18, 2010
November 18 & 21: from Kampala, Uganda - the Thai-Burmese border - Hilversum, Netherlands - Beirut, Lebanon - Dakar, Senegal - Chennai, India - Nanoori, Ghana
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Burmese journalists working in darkness on the Thai border (photo/Michelle Cheung) |
Sudan gears up for a groundbreaking referendum by cracking down on critics.
Rumours of war: our correspondent on the new tensions in Lebanon.
Broadcasting from exile: Myanmar's refugee reporters try to get truth on the air in Burma.
Then, why one of the best jobs in Indian journalism comes with surveillance and wiretaps.
And in Senegal they say, you gotta eat the chilis before you get the honey. And female cabbies eat a lot of chilis.
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Categories: 2010 Season, Africa, Asia, Middle East, Past Episodes
Wednesday November 17, 2010
Shatila refugee camp...guns are common here
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Posters, some showing Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian Authority leader, cover a wall in Shatila. (Nahlah Ayed/CBC) |
CBC's Nahlah Ayed is in Lebanon, reporting on the fate of the Palestinian refugees there.
Exiles Without End on cbc.ca
Here's an excerpt from her blog:
Read more »If we are to believe what some Shatila residents tell us, guns are pretty common here.
"Are they common? They're in every second house," one camp official told us when the issue came up during a casual conversation.
"Guys are always showing off about how many bullets they have at home," a young man told me in passing.
Categories: The View from Here
Tuesday November 16, 2010
Kampala...battling homosexuality here
CBC's Africa correspondent Carolyn Dunn spoke with some leaders of Uganda's anti-homosexual crusade, to produce pieces for several CBC news programs.
At The House of Parliament Carolyn met MP David Bahati, member of the ruling National Resistance Movement and author of the private-members bill that proposes the death penalty for some homosexuals. This is the extended edition of that interview.
Categories: The View from Here
Monday November 15, 2010
Zimbabwe...Waiting For The Rain here
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That Song ...Jim MacKinnon, Southern Africa program manager for Oxfam Canada, was studying at McGill in 1980, when Zimbabwe won its independence:
Read more »When this newly independent country lowered the Rhodesian flag at midnight and raised the Zimbabwean flag, Bob Marley played to a delirious crowd at Rufaro football stadium late into the night. It was at this moment that I knew I had to travel to Zimbabwe.
Five years later I was teaching in rural Zimbabwe... the country was overflowing with confidence and hope... Musicians such as Oliver Mtukudzi, Thomas Mapfumo were staple listening, and so was the legendary South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela. This was also the time when Paul Simon held two concerts in Harare at the same Rufaro stadium and recorded Graceland with Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Zimbabwe was the leader of the frontline states against apartheid and the music reflected this.
Categories: The View from Here, Your Dispatches
Monday November 15, 2010
Khartoum... Radio Dabanga broadcasters detained
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In our November 11/14 program we reported that we'd been trying to reach Radio Dabanga, an independent radio station in Sudan's capital city of Khartoum. Police raided its studios and offices of local human rights organizations on October 30.
We managed to make contact with Radio Dabanga, and discovered police are still holding 13 journalists and human rights workers incommunicado at an unknown location, with no access to legal or medical assistance.
We reached Radio Dabanga director, Hildebrand Bijleveld, in The Netherlands
Categories: Africa, The View from Here
Thursday November 11, 2010
November 11 & 14, 2010: from Cambodia, New Delhi, Mali, Israel
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U.S. President Richard Nixon and Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (with Henry Kissinger) agreed in 1969 that Israel would adopt a policy of "ambiguity" about whether it had nukes. Photo/Nixon Library |
Israel has nukes but nobody can talk about them. An Israeli author says that's unacceptable. He reveals what his government won't.
Mystery bones: In Cambodia, scientists looking for tigers found human bones. But whose bones are in those lost jars?
For the poor of India,"trickle-down" means a soaking from the latest monsoon. We look at why it's so hard to create a social welfare system that works there.
The long hello: A lesson from the Dogon. The politest people on earth?
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Categories: 2010 Season, Africa, Asia, Middle East, Past Episodes
Wednesday November 10, 2010
Tallinn...tradition sings for the future here
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Negotiating the cobble-stones and winding lanes of Estonia's world-heritage capital, Tallinn, is to trip through history.
The medieval Toompea Castle looms on the hillside, dominating the upper town. In the lower town there is the buzzing square - the Raekoja Plats - where one can still imagine the traders of centuries-past selling their wares here. These days, coffee-drinking, souvenir-hunting tourists dominate.
For all its old-world charm, this is a country that also produced Skype, and boasts one of the most advanced E-economies in the world. Despite that, Estonia was one of the EU countries hit hardest by the financial crisis; the unemployment rate hit 19%, as the public and private sectors shed jobs in one of the most severe austerity programs in the region.
Over the past hundred years, Estonians have shown themselves to be resilient and resourceful - during the presence of the Nazis, and the Soviet occupation. They have a lot of history to see them through tough times. And they have song... (more pictures and music)
Read more »Categories: The View from Here
Monday November 8, 2010
Herat, Afghanistan...fighting for playgrounds here
Keith Reynolds is on his third visit to Afghanistan, representing Playground Builders, a Canadian charity NGO that creates safe play areas for children in war torn areas of Iraq, the Palestinian Territories and Afghanistan.
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Keith sent this dispatch, from Herat...
Read more »In a country where the Taliban pays $10 a day, we pay $7 plus lunch. But our workers go home safely at the end of the day and they learn new skills while building a gift for the future -- a playground for their own children.
We're in Herat to organize our first playgrounds in this region. We travel without security. We are always called Americans and often mistaken for soldiers.
Herat is relatively secure, for Afghanistan that is. An attack four days earlier on the UN building left seven attackers dead. The night before we arrived, a roadside bomb killed its target plus other family members. A local friend of ours visited the morgue to pay respects to his newly married 22-year-old friend.
Categories: The View from Here
Friday November 5, 2010
China, Japan and rare earth in context
My name is Alexander Muir. I'm a Canadian who emigrated to the US a long time ago, so my spelling is off, and now I live in China...
Your story on the China/Japan dispute (Nov 4) was completely one sided. While it is certainly true that in this most recent incident China has acted like a bully towards Japan and has perhaps encouraged the halt in rare earth shipments to Japan, previous incidents show the Japanese (or Taiwanese or Hong Kongers) to be the aggressors. By not giving the history of the dispute, you bias your listeners' opinions in favor of Japan against China.
He suggests this website and this one.
Categories: Your Dispatches
Friday November 5, 2010
Got your goat shopping done?
In our Nov. 4 program, Newfoundland filmmaker Christopher Richardson told us about going to Zambia in search of the goats he had been donating in friends' names, in lieu of Christmas presents.
Della Webster of Sudbury witnessed similar gifts reaching their targets:
Read more »I enjoyed listening to your piece on the "Gift a Goat' program in Africa. From January to July of this year, I was a CUSO-VSO volunteer in Choibalsan, Mongolia. I became acquainted with a group of 10 families who had lost all their herds as a result of the last two severe winters in Mongolia. They were living in a derelict, abandoned Russian Army building which had boarded up windows and a leaky roof. Basically they were destitute. (she continues, and more letters -- click below)
Categories: Your Dispatches
Friday November 5, 2010
From Burma to B.C.
Shauna Jimenez of Calgry responded to our Nov. 4 piece from the Thai/Burmese border:
Thanks for your coverage on the fake elections in Burma. Canadian Friends of Burma are holding protests November 6 in many Canadian cities.
Here in Calgary, we will have a table at the Peace Fair November 6 at St. David's United church, with Karen, Burmese, Mon folks explaining the refugee and election situation. Our group also advocates and sponsors Burmese and Karen refugees.
(East Kootenay Friends of Burma resettles special needs Karen refugees to Interior BC, with 100% volunteer support).
Categories: Your Dispatches
Thursday November 4, 2010
November 4 & 7, 2010: from Berlin - Zambia - Mae Sot, Thailand - Hainan province, China - Guca, Serbia
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No joke: What's an Elvis impersonator have in common with this weekend's election in Burma? Both are pretending to be something they're not.
Japan vs. China. Why rare earth, wind and fiery rhetoric have them in a diplomatic throwdown.
Serbian discord: The sweet sound of celebration sours as nationalism invades a gathering of brass bands in Serbia.
Charity got your goat? They say you'll help a villager in some far away place if you buy him or her one. A Canadian went to Zambia to see for himself.
Art for art's sake? Berlin's grungy art house called Tacheles is on prime real estate. The tourist landmark may be too valuable to keep.
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Categories: 2010 Season, Africa, Asia, Europe, Past Episodes
Wednesday November 3, 2010
Nunavut...caribou-head has many flavours here
Doug Stern of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut heard our piece about the Norwegian sheep's-head dish (smalahove, Oct 28/31) and also heard us ask if anybody had a story like it.
Yes I do, and it's not from another country, but ours, Canada.
In the central Arctic where I live, a traditional delicacy is cooked caribou head. Especially this time of year when caribou are close to town on their annual migration to the coast.
I'm originally from southern Ontario [Burlington], but after 28 years, a well cooked head is my favorite food. In the past 3 days I've had 'neaquq' [literally 'head'] for supper twice.
Yes its an aquired taste. and like the Norwegian students and some adults who are 'disgusted' by the look, so too are the younger generation of Inuit not quite so enamored of this meal. So it's becoming a meal more and more enjoyed by an older minority. But I count myself one of the converted. Brain, eyeball, optic nerve, jaw meat, nose, even the fat in the head tastes different. Couldn't ask for a better smorgasbord of flavours and textures.
Doug's smorgasboard, fresh from the oven!
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Categories: The View from Here, Your Dispatches
Tuesday November 2, 2010
San José Calderas, Guatemala and Postville, Iowa
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Last season Rick spoke with filmmaker Greg Brosnan about his film In The Shadow Of The Raid. The documentary looks at the devastating consequences of an immigration raid on a Central American village and a small US town. He and his partner have been nominated for a Rory Peck Award.
Read more »Categories: The View from Here
Monday November 1, 2010
China in Africa...no Chinatowns here
Dispatches intern Gene Law used his Chinese language skills and experience in China to track down a few stories on the internet for us. Here's an essay he wrote that explains why there aren't North American-style Chinatowns in Africa, even though hundreds of thousands of Chinese are on the continent.
Read more »"I've been in Africa for too long and my brain is getting dumber," writes Guan Yuanyuan in her blog. "Everyday I just know how to go online, eat, work, and sleep; I don't know what books are anymore."
On her blog she shares, in Chinese, her sense of isolation living in an unfamiliar country so far from home. "There's no sense of security like back in China, here I've been robbed and cheated and there aren't any of the conveniences of China," she writes. (read more, click below)
Categories: The View from Here
Monday November 1, 2010
Sarawak, Borneo...what headhunters eat here
Dr Iain F. Clayre, a retired missionary from Edmonton, Alberta, wrote to us about his food adventures:
Read more »I listened with some amusement to your story about Norwegian sheep cheek (Oct 28/31), especially as I can understand Norwegian from my Danish background. I spent five years among the headhunters of Borneo in the late 1960s, up in the central highlands of Sarawak. You will be glad to know that they no longer took heads as trophies. They did, however, make two kinds of "jaroc", a wild pig-meat and a fish jaroc. (more after the jump)
Categories: The View from Here, Your Dispatches
Monday November 1, 2010
The case for Thorium power continued...
Daniel Donaldson of Toronto heard Rick's October 28/31 interview with Kirk Sorensen about thorium, the energy source both men advocate to replace nuclear power. (More discussion in earlier letters below.)
I have only the highest esteem for Mr McInnes-Rae as a journalist. But my estimation rose with your segment on LFTR (liquid fluoride thorium reactor) with Kirk Sorensen.I was a life-long anti-nuclear advocate, but about three years ago I read about the incredible promise that the technology Mr Sorensen advocates for. I've spent many hours searching for the downsides of this technology, and I haven't found a compelling argument against yet.
Yet, my searches have also failed to turn up much of anything in the press or media about Thorium. Your program is one of the first I've heard to focus on this enormously promising possible future.
Canada, with its history of nuclear engineering, including a focus on approaches different from the US mainstream, and huge Thorium reserves;to say nothing of the shameful despolation of the Tar Sands should be a world leader in this technology. Perhaps your piece will catch the ear of someone in Ottawa or AECL who will show some intellectual curiosity, and perhaps a little courage, and put us on this path.
Thanks again.
Categories: Your Dispatches
Monday November 1, 2010
Nicaragua...the remains of a DC-3 here
That song: Derek Blackadder of Cobourg, Ontario hears an '80s Bruce Cockburn song that made a lot more sense to him later.
In March of 2006 my partner and I joined an 'exposure tour' with a Canadian international Development NGO called Horizons of Friendship. We spent several wonderful weeks wandering around Nicaragua...
...we had an afternoon in a village of less than 100 homes near the Honduran border. On a small hill overlooking the village was a DC-3 that had been used by the Samoza air force during the revolution as a bomber. It had regularly attacked the village, eventually being shot down by the village militia's rifles.
It had been dragged to the hill top and turned into a monument and a point of pride for the entire village.... Every time I hear Bruce Cockburn's If I Had A Rocket Launcher I can close my eyes and see that village below the hill.
Categories: The View from Here, Your Dispatches
- 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
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- February 2010
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- December 2009
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- September 2009
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- An Afghan legislator says conservative lawmakers have blocked approval of a law that aims to protect women's freedoms, saying parts of it violate Islamic principles.
- French president signs gay marriage into law
- French President François Hollande has signed a law authorizing gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples.
- Commuter trains collide in Connecticut
- Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five with critical injuries, Gov. Dannel Malloy said.
- North Korea fires 3 short-range missiles, South Korea says
- A South Korea official says North Korea has launched three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters.
- WHO concerned coronavirus spreading person to person
- The World Health Organization has issued a blunt assessment of the coronavirus outbreak in Saudi Arabia, acknowledging for the first time that there are concerns the virus may be spreading from person to person, at least in a limited way.