Crossing Continents
Series focussing on foreign affairs issues
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Linda Pressly witnesses Mongolia's 'deep freeze' which has devastated much of the country.
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Steve O'Hagan reports on the explosive growth of Pentecostalism across Latin America.
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Julian Pettifer reports on British Columbia's plans to combat global warming.
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A story of human trafficking in Moldova and its social legacy.
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Jon Leyne investigates how Jordan is coping with hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees.
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Richard Hollingham visits Iceland to report on a project to create a massive dam.
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Hugh Levinson hears the best of Officer Jay Chiarito-Mazarrella's Street Stories.
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Lucy Ash on the economic threat to France posed by high unemployment among the young.
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Humphrey Hawksley retraces an extraordinary journey undertaken by Graham Greene.
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Investigating the sixth trial of a black man over the murder of four people in Mississippi
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Lyse Doucet reports on the US army's new counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan.
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Lyse Doucet reports on the influence of the mobile phone in Afghanistan.
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Lucy Ash reports from Angola, China's biggest African trading partner.
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The Australian government's intervention in the remote Aboriginal areas.
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Lucy Ash travels to Belarus to ask the post-Soviet generation where their future lies.
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David Goldblatt reports from a small town in India that is nurturing academic excellence.
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Cambodia is selling vast swathes of its land to global investors - but at what price?
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Can a controversial economic theory improve the lives of Peru's poorest?
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Lucy Ash investigates the treatment of women in Chechnya.
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Marijke van der Meer talks to young Chinese about China's one child policy.
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Michael Montgomery tells the story of a former gang leader turned police informant.
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The controversy around Muslims converting to Christianity in the Arab World.
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Matt Prodger examines the effects of organised crime and corruption in Croatia.
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The son of a Gujarati Maharajah is working to protect gay men from the HIV/Aids virus.
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Melanie Abbott explores the counterfeit drug industry in Europe.
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Julian Pettifer explores the Mediterranean tourist industry.
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Linda Pressly investigates the housing crisis in Cuba.
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Ray Furlong reports on a landmark court case involving the education of Roma children.
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Who are the winners and the losers as Delhi rebuilds itself for the Commonwealth Games?
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Bill Law looks at the gender equality issue in the Arab world.
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Magdi Abdelhadi explores what kind of Egypt President Mubarak will leave when he dies.
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Peter Greste visits the Kenyan tribespeople under threat from a hydro-electricity project.
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Julian Pettifer reports on British Columbia's plans to combat global warming.
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Jonny Diamond meets French protesters who have taken action due to the housing crisis.
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The young gangsters in Vancouver who are building a multi-billion dollar drugs industry.
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Angus Crawford travels to Georgia to find poverty at the heart of the Christmas tree trade
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Chris Bowlby asks if the economic crisis has killed the Euro dream for Ireland and Greece.
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Bill Law looks at a controversial mining project by Vancouver-based Goldcorp in Guatemala.
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Kati Whitaker examines the American commitment to the gun.
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Orin Gordon looks at the struggle for Haitians to feed themselves as food prices soar.
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Six months after the earthquake is life in Haiti improving?
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How Muncie in Indiana reflects the impact of the economic crisis on the US middle class.
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Paul Henley investigates the human impact of the economic crisis in Iceland.
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Lucy Ash follows a frequently illegal timber trade from the Siberian forests to China.
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Emilio San Pedro examines the influence of Mexico's drug cartels on local communities.
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Mukul Devichand reports on a scheme that may solve the developing world's slum problem.
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Alpa Shah gains rare access to an Indian community controlled by the Maoist movement.
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Julia Rooke tells the story of Leila, an Iranian sold into prostitution at the age of nine
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Bill Law investigates the extent of Islamist extremism in Canada.
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David Goldblatt reports on the changing fortunes of football club Beitar Jerusalem.
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Examining an Israeli TV comedy that sees the funny side of Arab lives in the Jewish state.
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Ulli Schauen visits Korea to find out why Koreans are such fervent evangelists.
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Michael Montgomery reports on hidden alleged atrocities in Kosovo.
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Kate Clark goes behind the image of a prosperous, democratic Kurdistan.
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Prostitution is legal in Nevada, but not in Las Vegas. Rosie Goldsmith hears the arguments
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Nadene Ghouri goes undercover to expose the trade in Liberian children.
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Tim Whewell examines why memories of WW2 are being politicised in East European countries.
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The story of John Majok, one of the many boys orphaned or displaced during the civil war.
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Basketball superstar Luol Deng returns to the Sudanese town where he was born and raised.
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How is Madagascar coping with an economic crisis following the 2009 coup?
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Rosie Goldsmith reports from Milan and Prato, centre of Italy's troubled textile industry.
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Mukul Devichand reports on tensions building up between Malaysian ethnic groups.
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Tanya Datta visits Manipur, a small state in the north east of India.
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Pascale Harter reports on health problems in Mauritania, where being fat is encouraged.
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Allan Little investigates the sensitivities around Medjugorje, the Lourdes of Bosnia.
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Alan Johnston returns to the West Bank town of Nablus to see how life has changed there.
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Robert Hodierne reports on the high proportion of Native Americans joining the US military
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American presenters Stephen Smith and Nick Spitzer offer a cultural tour of New Orleans.
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A profile of Nichi Vendola, the new hope of the left in Italy - and across Europe.
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Callum Macrae reports from a region devastated by civil war.
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Najlaa Abou Merhi investigates the taboos surrounding virginity across the Arab world.
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Bill Law investigates if Pakistani youngsters are in danger of joining the Taliban.
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An ex-heroin dealer returns to the mountain hideout where he received drugs rehabilitation
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Bill Law reports on the ongoing battle over the future of Pakistan's schools.
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Linda Pressly travels to Kerala to examine the silent revolution in palliative care.
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Will the economic crisis change Puerto Rico's uneasy relationship with the US?
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Lucy Ash asks if the authorities can end the rule of gangs and guns in Rio de Janeiro.
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Sheena McDonald asks why millions of people die on the world's roads each year.
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How is Romania coping with a healthcare system on the verge of collapse?
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David Goldblatt examines Senegalese wrestling; Africa's sporting spectacular.
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Rob Walker asks how successful Ethiopia's military intervention in Somalia has been.
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Rosie Goldsmith investigates the process of land reform in South Africa.
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Julian Pettifer reports on the extraordinary popularity of online games in South Korea.
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Grant Ferrett investigate claims that Sudan is sliding back to civil war.
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The growing antagonism between Spain's Socialist government and the Roman Catholic Church.
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Geoff Adams-Spink visits Spain to talk to Thalidomide survivors fighting for compensation.
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Roland Buerk investigates the Sri Lankan army's war against the Tamil Tigers.
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Can the government and army that won the war in Sri Lanka now win the peace?
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Kerri Miller reports on the conflict between poverty and conservation in Tanzania.
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Andrew Brown tries to find out if the rural heart of Sweden lives on in the modern age.
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Lina Sinjab investigates the impact of corruption and bribery in Syria.
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Linda Pressly reports on efforts to prevent human trafficking in El Salvador and Nicaragua
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Lucy Ash travels to the heartland of Thailand's Red Shirt protesters.
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Angus Crawford reports on efforts to rescue vulnerable girls in Tajikistan.
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Christopher Landau explores the explosive growth of Christianity in China.
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Are Rwandans in France and Germany controlling a deadly African militia?
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Rosie Goldsmith reports on the rise of the far right in eastern Germany.
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How the son of a Gujarati Maharajah is working to protect gay men from the HIV/Aids virus.
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Caroline Hawley meets an Iraqi boyband formed towards the end of Saddam Hussein's rule.
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A report from Swaziland, where children are learning to read and write in informal schools
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Owen Bennett-Jones investigates the grievances that lie behind Pakistan's Taliban movement
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Lucy Ash asks why six young men in Russia's Far East waged a guerrilla war on the police.
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Bahrain says it's modern and progressive - but political opponents face jail and torture.
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Tim Whewell travels to Kayseri to discover who's behind the ruling AK Party.
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Tim Whewell investigates the causes of a horrific spate of child sacrifices in Uganda.
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Bill Law investigates the causes of social and religious tension in Bahrain.
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Natalia Antelava asks whether the Ilkhom Theatre can survive after its founder was killed.
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Linda Pressly investigates the burgeoning relationship between Venezuela and Iran.
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Julian Pettifer scours the airwaves to find out what life is like in Zimbabwe today.