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Burmese Bling
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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Jun 14, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Paul Mason meets protesters in Spain finding new ways to signal their worries and anger about how their government's tackling the financial crisis.
Lucy Hooker declines to join the stampede of foreign customers in the gem markets of Rangoon in Burma.
Rana Jawad contends that while Libya's in a state of 'civilised anarchy', its people believe near-anarchy now might be the price to pay for the tyranny of the Gaddafi years.
As some European footballers have been taken to visit the site of Auschwitz in Poland, David Shukman has retraced his own family history in a nearby vilage.
And Anu Anand went a good deal further than the Internet to delve into the roots of her family tree. Finding out about ten generations of Anands involved a trip to the River Ganges, special priests and a search for an ancient banyan tree.
Lucy Hooker declines to join the stampede of foreign customers in the gem markets of Rangoon in Burma.
Rana Jawad contends that while Libya's in a state of 'civilised anarchy', its people believe near-anarchy now might be the price to pay for the tyranny of the Gaddafi years.
As some European footballers have been taken to visit the site of Auschwitz in Poland, David Shukman has retraced his own family history in a nearby vilage.
And Anu Anand went a good deal further than the Internet to delve into the roots of her family tree. Finding out about ten generations of Anands involved a trip to the River Ganges, special priests and a search for an ancient banyan tree.
Released:
Jun 14, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
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