Past Episodes: August 2011 Archives
Thursday August 25, 2011
August 25 & 28: from Berlin - Mozambique - India - Chiapas, Mexico
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Irmela Mensah-Schramm removes a poster with the inscription "Foreigners Out" at a street in Berlin's Rudow district. Photo/ Markus Schreiber/AP |
How to make something out of nothing. The pros and cons of India's can-do work ethic.
Then, an odyssey where sexual assault is an acceptable risk. The peril facing Latina migrants on the road.
And a playground merry-go-round that doubles as a water pump. A perfect labour-saving device for undeveloped countries. So why isn't it working?
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Thursday August 18, 2011
August 18 & 21: from Ghana - Uganda-Sudan border - Detroit - Senegal - London - Germany
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American preacher Sam Childers set up an orphanage in Southern Sudan, then went hunting for the most fearsome of rebel leaders. Photo/Lionsgate Productions. |
The machine gun preacher of Sudan; why a reformed biker's waging holy war on one of the most feared rebel movements in Africa.
Selling America by the pound. Meet the author who's documented the end of a Detroit auto plant, and its rebirth in Mexico.
Inside the witch camps of Ghana. A Canadian author's time among women exiled more for spite than for spells.
They call it chessboxing and our correspondent is ringside as a merry cult of combatants battle for self-control on the canvas and the board..
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Thursday August 11, 2011
August 11 & 14: from Monrovia, Liberia - Voss, Norway - Ghana - Swarthmore, Pennsylvania - Urumqi, China
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| High-school students tuck into a meal of smalahove in Norway (photo/Nachammai Raman). |
The sound of Uyghur music: A minority in China listens to its past, for clues to its future.
Meet the Indiana Jones of lost languages. who scours the planet to save endangered tongues.
And, fancy another helping of sheep cheeks and watery eyes? Norwegians are lining up for an acquired taste.
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Thursday August 4, 2011
August 4 & 7: from Port-au-Prince, Haiti - the United States - Huntsville, Alabama - Ulvohamm, Sweden
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A branch of Fonkoze, Hait's largest microcredit bank (photo/Amber Hildebrandt/CBC) |
From Haiti, the story of a remarkable bank that provides literacy along with its loans
Thirty days. Thirty states. Thirty mosques. A Ramadan roadtrip reveals a faith of many faces.
Is the key to clean energy buried beneath Nevada? We have the story of thorium.
And what a stinky fish dish says about the Swedish national identity.
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