Monday September 13, 2010
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We're proud of everything we put on the air, but there are some pieces that really stand out. From time to time, we feature some of them here.
Shovelling the Rain Away
Justice And The Next Life
Zimbabwe: The Exodus Within
The Plight of the Pygmies
The Marshall Islands
Shovelling the Rain Away
June 1, 2009
When Dispatches first started reporting from Afghanistan in early 2002, there was a heady sense of optimism, a sense that good things were possible in a country which had endured years of bad ones.
We know now it hasn't worked out that way. By most barometers, Afghanistan is a country under great pressure as Dispatches contributor Naheed Mustafa witnessed after a Kabul rainstorm.
Listen to Shovelling the Rain Away
Justice And The Next Life
May 7, 2007
CBC's Michael McAuliffe's journey through Cambodia, to find most people in this Buddhist country believe that cleansing the souls of the millions who were murdered in the genocide there -- and allowing them to pass into the next life -- is more important than tribunals for the few surviving mass murderers.
Listen to Justice And The Next Life
Zimbabwe: The Exodus Within
June 15, 2005
In a full-edition special, our documentary looks at how president Robert Mugabe uses terror tactics to push people out of Zimbabwe's major cities and into the countryside, with devastating effect. And in an exclusive interview, the Catholic Archbishop some call Zimbabwe's Desmond Tutu, says Mugabe is suffering brain damage, compounded by megalomania. And it's time the people put him out of office.
Listen to the entire program.
The Plight of the Pygmies
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| Nuclear explosions, like this U.S. military test in the Marshall Islands in 1946, released isotopes into the environment, permeating the soil and ending up in natural oils used to make paint. (Associated Press) |
March 16, 2005
From Cameroon's rain forest, reporter Carolyn Dempster reports on the struggle of the Baka.
Listen to Carolyn's documentary.
The Marshall Islands
March 9, 2005
There's something wrong in the Marshall Islands. Babies are born with old faces, and worse. And the culture of this distant atoll has been deformed too. Nearly 60 years ago, the Americans went looking for someplace to set off nukes. The people there moved aside for the tests, but they didn't move far enough, as we learned in this documentary from David Kattenburg.
David's documentary
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