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BBC Radio World Service 2007 - World Stories - award-winning documentary series



BBC World Service journalists come from every corner of the world. Balanced news reporting is their job - covering the news minute-by-minute is what drives them most of them time.



There are some stories that are important, but are more difficult to tell, stories that mean taking a couple of steps back, giving a different perspective. Often there`s a bigger message about life on our planet: emotive, human stories that humble us.



What is life like farming in the Amazon rainforest? If your baby daughter gets ill and your crops begin to fail what do you do? What can you do?

If you`re (the only) black half-Nigerian in Dnieprodzerzhynsk in the Ukraine, how do you find your father if he left home and went back to Nigeria 25 years ago?



These world stories offer extraordinary insight across cultures. Uniquely, they tap into the extraordinary diversity of World Service journalism. Real people, their lives connecting across the globe in a network of voices that give an alternative vision of humanity.



These are the stories our journalists have always wanted to tell.



Ten episodes of approx 20 minutes each in high quality MP3.



Episode 1: Medellin Transformed

Medellin, Colombia, was infamous for decades as one of the most violent cities on the planet. Drug cartels, urban guerilla and paramilitary cells fought to take control, killing thousands and spilling rivers of blood.

However, in the last few years rates of violence have drastically decreased and the city is living a renaissance of peace and hope. To what does Medellin owe this new phenomenon?

BBC World Service Journalist/Presenter, Luis Fernando Restrepo returns to the city where he was born and grew up, to investigate reasons for its transformation. Through his personal account he describes life amidst urban warfare during the years of his youth.



On his journey, Luis Fernando interviews survivors of massacres and bomb attacks, people who worked with the drug baron Pablo Escobar and political leaders of Colombia, such as President Alvaro Uribe, the Vice-President Francisco Santos and the Mayor of Medellin, Sergio Fajardo, who is considered instrumental in the transformation of the city.



Episode 2: Czech Gypsies

The Roma population of the Czech Republic have experienced a history of friction in their relationship with the rest of the Czech population.

Marina Denysenko from neighbouring Ukraine, travels through the Czech Republic talking to all parties and discovers just how far this relationship has diminished.

What has gone wrong with this relationship? Were there less problems under Communism, or was discrimination just better hidden then?





Episode 3: A House in Jerusalem

In 1948 the British government promised Jewish leaders a homeland in Palestine, which was at that time under British control.

As a result, many Jews looking for a home after the trauma of the holocaust, decided to immigrate to Palestine.

There was one problem: there was already another people in Palestine who had been living there for centuries, Palestinian Arabs.

In this programme, made almost 60 years on, Khaled Ezzelarab challenges Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem to talk to each other about the common themes of displacement that both sides have had to endure.



Episode 4: Surviving the Century

Nestled at the foot of the Tibetan plateau, Lake Lugu, also known as the `Kingdom of daughters`, is the home to 30,000 Mosuo people.

On the shores of Lake Lugu, the ancient people of Mosuo developed a culture that is shockingly different from the rest of China.

Here paternalistic family values are turned on their heads, women rule the roost and couples do not marry.

A book called `Leaving Mother Lake` written in 1997 by a young Mosuo woman Yang Erche Namu put the lake and her people on the tourist map.

Painted as this mysterious otherworldly paradise, tens of thousands of Chinese tourists flock to Lake Lugu every year for a glimpse of this small matrilineal society.

In this special programme, Haimo Li travels to China to find out how many traditional values the Mosuo have held onto, despite the invasion of tourism and popular culture.

What do the Mosuo themselves think about cultural preservation and getting their share of the 21st Century?



Episode 5: Muslim Army

Many of the Arab-Americans serving in the US Army simply see it as their duty to serve their homeland, America.

Others who`ve ended up on the frontlines in the so-called `war on terror` have suffered a crisis of conscience, having had to fight fellow Arabs and Muslims as the `enemy`.

The US army has been eager to recruit Arabs, especially as translators, to go and serve in hotspots like Iraq where their language skills and cultural knowledge is badly needed.

What does it mean for the young Arab men and women who choose to join and are they prepared for the consequences, especially the potential wrath of their own community?

In this programme, three Arab-American marines tell their stories and relive the hard lessons they`ve learned from their experience.



Episode 6: In Prison without Hope

The `undertrials` of India are those many thousands who have committed a minor offence, and then spent years in jail waiting to appear in court.

As their families fall apart outside they sit behind bars and gradually lose all hope.

Rupa Jha travels to India to learn why people have got lost in the county`s judicial system. Is anyone trying to find them?



Episode 7: Teenage Mums

Edwige Sorgho was born and raised in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, West Africa.

In Ouagadougou many teenage girls become mothers, but having a child so young brings shame upon the girls` families.

When Edwige came to London three years ago, she was stunned to find that there were teenage girls having children, leaving school to be single mothers.

`This happens often at home...how could it be happening in a country with so much education, so much access to sexual health advice and so many rights for women?`, says Edwige.

These realisations led Edwige to make this special programme for BBC World Service, exploring the experiences of teenage mothers on two different continents.

Teenagers are having the same experiences in Ouagadougou and London, but who is better off, and how can you judge?



Episode 8: Marrying into Conflict

Two young women were once neighbours and school-mates in the Soviet Union. They expected to grow-up together and live similar lives, but this all changed with the collapse of the USSR in the early `90s.

Instead they were plunged into a long-standing conflict as one made her home in Lebanon, the other in Israel.

Separated by war, a firmly sealed border and ideology, they cook the same food, read the same books and tell the same stories to their children. They still remember their native city and their old school vividly.

Can the seemingly unbridgeable gap between the two schoolmates, be narrowed by their common past? Or have the more recent memories of shelling, evacuation and suicide bombers erased everything they have in common?



Alexander Koliandre meets these two women and attempts to reignite their childhood memories.



Episode 9: Fetish in Japan

In Japan, every sexual fantasy or fetish has its outlet.



From so called image clubs where men can pretend they are in a train groping fellow passengers, and the `maid cafes` where clients are served and called `master` by girls dressed in French maid outfits, to a magazine dedicated to silicon `love dolls`, the streets of Tokyo hide an incredible variety of business catering to sexual desires. Japan is a country of apparent contradictions. Japanese people have very formal work and interpersonal relationships. On the other hand, there is an extremely kinky underground world.

Are these two spheres of Japanese society really as different as they seem? Or is one the direct consequence of the other?



Reporter Ilana Rehavia set out on a Japanese adventure to find the answer and understand what is really behind this intricate and highly specific sex industry.



Episode 10: Letters from Partition

In the summer of 1947 a letter is received by Chaudri Latif, the Muslim occupant of a house in Lahore, Pakistan.

The letter is from the house`s former owner, Harkishan Das Bedi, a Lahori Hindu who has fled east as the partition of the Indian sub-continent turned to tragedy and mass murder.

The contents of that letter would lead to a relationship between the two men that each would rely upon to survive, whilst they remained caught on opposite sides of the conflict generated by the hasty departure of the British colonial power.



What exactly did that letter say and what happened to these two men?



Arif Shamim of the BBC`s Urdu Service travels back to the contemporary Punjabs of both India and Pakistan to hear the story of Chaudri and Harkishan.

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