Past Episodes: May 2011 Archives
Thursday May 26, 2011
May 26 & 29: from Hainan Island, China - San Diego - Malaysian Borneo - French Mayotte Island - Dublin
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The USS Makin Island is the hybrid "Prius" of aircraft carriers. It saved $2-million in fuel on its first mission. Photo/US Navy |
The American military goes green, saving gas and soldiers' lives.
Then, the boat people you don't hear about, fleeing by the thousands across the Indian Ocean.
Did an Irishman save the life of young Adolf Hitler? Disturbing new documents have come to light in Dublin.
Skulls on the ceiling and big-screen TV: a tradition in transition in Malaysian Borneo.
And, another cultural change arrives in China. On a surfboard.
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Wednesday May 18, 2011
May 19 & 22: from Kampala, Uganda - Israel - Montebaducco, Italy - Sarajevo, Bosnia - Nanjing, China - Robben Island, South Africa
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Campaigns against gays in Uganda have included "outing" gay members of society in the newspaper, and calling for public punishment (Photo/AP) |
Being gay in Uganda: it turns out no one will go to the gallows for it after all, but the threat's not past.
A subject few in Israel want to talk about: how the state uses and abuses Arab informers.
A look at a black politician in South Africa who's been running on racism.
The story of the Suicide-Catcher of Nanjing. Why does a man devote his life to prevent people leaping off a bridge? Perhaps to save his own?
Can animal rights improve human rights? We'll hear from some in Bosnia who sure hope so.
And, it may be time to reconsider the humble donkey. After all, some Italians think of it as a hairy dairy.
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Wednesday May 11, 2011
May 12 - 15: from Liberia - Berlin - Nigeria - Sarajevo, Bosnia - Cheonan, South Korea - Beijing
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People fleeing chaos in Ivory Coast are flooding refugee centres like this one in nearby Liberia. Photo/Bonnie Allen |
A story of the human spirit under pressure in Liberia. The tale of a farmer and the want of some seed.
Bosnia on the boil. With a perfect storm of looming ethnic conflicts, we ask if it's a viable post-war country or just a bunch of bickering cantons?
Sampling death: a slice of life from the Coffin Academy, where South Koreans go to ward off suicide.
From Germany, pressure to rename streets that honor some of the worst offenders from its colonial past.
Blues for the reds: words and music from the journalist who stumbled into stardom playing the blues in China. And the fury and the music of Nigeria's Seun Kuti, the son of a legend with a rebel pedigree.
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Wednesday May 4, 2011
May 5 & 8 from: Glasgow - Florence - Uljanovsk, Russia - Butare, Rwanda - Delhi
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Newspaper seller in Pakistan. With Bin Laden gone, where will al-Qaeda surge next? Photo/Reuters |
al-Qaeda after bin Laden. An expert says it's certainly on the run from old hideouts, but on the rise in new places.
From Italy, the quest for the crypt containing the Mona Lisa smile.
In Scotland, the return of vicious sectarian soccer songs brings police on pitch.
Rwanda resorts to spies and stifling free speech to downplay the legacy of genocide.
And, a new documentary film on a stubborn Russian journalist who refuses to "bootlick" the state that wants rid of him.
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