Crossing continents : highlights.

Date:
[2001?]
  • Audio

About this work

Description

Crossing Continents tells stories, from all over the world, which go beyond news reports. This programme has a selection of highlights from coming programmes. 1) Agent Orange from the Vietnam War. Is poison still in the soil? Why are there so many severely disabled children? 2) AIDS in Zambia. 25% of the popn is affected so some people have to care for a great many orphans. 3) Israel. There is a new phenomenon of draft dodging. Profile 21 allows people to fail the medical by proving mental illness. 4)Jamaica. Jamaicans are starting to take more responsibility for their violent society. 6) Iran. A Muslim cleric has created software to save 30% of the study time to qualify as a mullah. 7) Norway. Wolves in Norway are now a protected species. 8) Gibraltar. Every day bodies are floating in the sea - migrants who failed to reach Spain.

Publication/Creation

London : BBC Radio 4, [2001?]

Physical description

1 sound cassette (30 min.)

Copyright note

BBC Radio

Notes

Recorded on Thursday, 2nd March 2001

Creator/production credits

Presented by Julian Pettifer.

Type/Technique

Languages

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