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Dispatches Podcast

Dispatches host Rick MacInnes-Rae knows what it is like to be an eyewitness to history. Go beyond the headlines with correspondents on assignment all over the globe.

The Dispatches podcast is updated Thursdays at noon.

Dispatches November 19 2009 Washington, London, Washington, Peja Kosovo, Mumbai India, New York, Bangalore India, Toronto

Elections coming. Americans leaving. Tensions rising. A view from the barricades in Iraq. And from the land behind God's back, meet the "Burnesh" of the Balkans. Women who lead their lives as men. A year since the Mumbai attacks, some wounds have healed but life for one survivor has never been the same. Then, how Israel's military culture helps make it the start-up-company capital of the world And, India's tired of losing. We'll hear its plan for dominating the world in international sport

Right click to Download Dispatches November 19 2009 Washington, London, Washington, Peja Kosovo, Mumbai India, New York, Bangalore India, Toronto
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Dispatches November 12 2009 Prague, Milan, Denver.

Revisiting The Velvet Revolution when the streets of Prague rang with dissent 20 years ago. Plus Communism`s lingering legacy in the Czech Republic. American health care: it's the only developed country that hasn't accepted it as a human right. An Italian court humiliates the U.S. rendition policy by convicting 23 Americans for kidnapping.

Right click to Download Dispatches November 12 2009 Prague, Milan, Denver.
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Dispatches November 5 2009 Leipzig Germany, Budapest Hungary, Berlin, London,

Twenty years since the fall of the Wall; Germany's revolution then and now. From the demonstrations in Leipzig to the present-day classrooms of Berlin, we'll look at some successes and ironic failures. And, what of Eastern Europe's other revolutions of the time? "A promise not fulfilled" says a correspondent who was there. We'll look at why they may not have realised their potential. And Inside the vaults of The British Spy Service.

Right click to Download Dispatches November 5 2009 Leipzig Germany, Budapest Hungary, Berlin, London,
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Dispatches October 29 2009 Shanghai, Mexico City, Kep Cambodia, NewYork,

This Week China wants more folks drinking from the double-happiness cup because world's most populous nation needs more people. Kicked out of the factories and sent back to their farms; the crackdown on illegal workers is hurting America and illegals alike. Speakers in the trees; how Canada's contributed to creating town criers in rural Cambodia. "The Teeth May Smile But The heart Does Not Forget:" a new book revisits the crimes of Idi Amin that Ugandans had agreed to ignore.

Right click to Download Dispatches October 29 2009 Shanghai, Mexico City, Kep Cambodia, NewYork,
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Dispatches October 22 2009 Toronto/Kandahar, Monrovia Liberia, Berlin, Molokai Hawaii

The CBC's Afghanistan correspondent on covering the conflict, the dangers of a runoff election, and the soldiers of Generation Facebook. The country that became interesting for all the wrong reasons. How Iceland went from Cool, to the cleaners. So you think you know hula "Pops" Pilippo, he knows hula. And he teaches how to dance it with integrity And; soldiers spread the virus that causes AIDS. So why won't the U.N. test its peacekeepers? We look at the polemic and military policy.

Right click to Download Dispatches October 22 2009 Toronto/Kandahar, Monrovia Liberia, Berlin, Molokai Hawaii
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