Guardian focus podcasts Each week, Guardian correspondents and commentators take a detailed look at an issue in the news http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/guardian-focus-podcast/podcast.xml
Guardian Focus podcast: Does microfinance help people escape poverty?
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01/04/11
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Many people like the sound of microfinance because it isn't charity. But are all poor people budding entrepreneurs? And what happens when people cannot repay their loans?
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Guardian Focus podcast: The future of Polish football
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31/03/11
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Jonathan Wilson visits Poland to examine efforts to drag football into the 21st century in time for next year's European Championships
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Guardian Focus podcast: What Poland did right
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06/04/11
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Concluding the Guardian's New Europe series, Chris Bobinski, Andrzej Swidlicki and Matteo Napolitano join Jon Henley to discuss how Poland sailed through the economic crash
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Guardian Focus Podcast: Why is the Olympic sporting legacy off track?
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33:20
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07/04/11
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London won the 2012 Olympics with a promise to turn the UK into a sporting nation the world would envy. So why aren't more people taking up sport?
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Guardian Focus podcast: The AV referendum
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11/04/11
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Michael White talks to MPs, voters, campaigners and experts prior to the referendum on the alternative vote system on 5 May
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Guardian Focus podcast: Afghanistan
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13/04/11
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Jon Snow chairs a Guardian debate at the British Museum in London under the title Afghanistan: What makes a Nation?
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Guardian Focus podcast: The nuclear debate after Fukushima and Chernobyl
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21/04/11
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George Monbiot, Helen Caldicott and Laurence Williams join host James Randerson to debate the future of the UK's nuclear programme following Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant disaster
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Guardian Focus podcast: What role can tourism play in development?
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35:50
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28/04/11
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The World Tourism Organisation argues that responsible tourism can play a significant role in eradicating poverty and meeting the millennium development goals. But is it right?
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NEWSPOD Daily programme highlights from BBC Radio News. Interviews and reports from BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 live, the BBC Asian Network and the BBC World Service. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio/newspod/rss.xml
NewsPod: 28 Apr 11: Royal Wedding guest list controversy
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Britain withdraws Wedding invitation to Syrian Ambassador / The princess dream, is it healthy for girls? / Calm down dear, David Cameron's rowdy day in parliament...
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NewsPod: 29 APR 10 The Royal Wedding
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The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton....
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NewsPod: 25 Apr 11: Syria crushes dissent
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Syria's Government fires on protesters; Hundreds of Afghan prisoners escape through tunnel; Working with Bill Gates; Busby son criticises film...
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NewsPod: 26 Apr 11 Cyberactivism in the Middle East
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Cyberactivism creates news in the Middle East - Andrew Marr accused of hypocrisy after super injunction - poo based coffee...
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NewsPod: 27 Apr 11 UK economy grows modestly
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UK economy grows modestly / Do we need a Royal family? / Hackers target Playstation users...
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NewsPod: 19 Apr 11 Britain sends military aid to Libya
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UK to aid Libyan rebels; Syria's cycle of repression and reform; Cameron says Brown should not head IMF; Post-election violence in Nigeria; Best of Beryl Bainbridge Booker prize...
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NewsPod: 20 Apr 11 Detectives investigate devices sent to Celtic's Neil Lennon
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Police investigate parcel bombs sent to Celtic manager / France, Italy to send advisers to Libya rebels / Prince William's godfather gives him advice for his forthcoming wedding....
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NewsPod: 21 Apr 11 Libya comments on deaths of photojournalists
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Libya says it regrets photographer deaths / British PM 'uneasy' about injunction use / Bats out of Britain....
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NewsPod: 22 Apr 11 US army comments on Libya conflict
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US says Libya heading for stalemate / English bishop urges school places shift / Remembering the 1951 Festival of Britain....
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NewsPod: 18 Apr 11 UN calls for Misrata ceasefire
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Report praises police handling of TUC demo / Did one conman swindle billions of dollars ? / Ancient clay cylinder stirs modern controversy in Iran / Go camping - and be happy !...
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NewsPod: 14 Apr 11 UK immigration
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UK to tighten immigration controls / NATO meeting to reassess Libyan operation / The Miro exhibition at Tate Modern....
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NewsPod: 15 Apr 11 Inside the Libyan city of Misrata
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BBC reporter reaches Misrata / Croatian ex-general gets 24 years / Whale songs....
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NewsPod: 13 Apr 11 Nurses vote against British government health reforms
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British nurses pass 'no confidence' in Andrew Lansley / Mubarak health 'unstable': reports / Obesity surgery 'cuts diabetes'...
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NewsPod: 12 Apr 11- Surprise drop in UK inflation
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Inflation is down in the UK - The campaign to create happiness - Royal Wedding red tape....
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NewsPod: 11 Apr 11 Laurent Gbagbo arrested in Ivory Coast
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The former president of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo, who had refused to give up power, has been arrested - New proposals for the UK banking sector - The cost of the Royal Wedding, is it worth it?...
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NewsPod: 08 Apr 11 University tution-fees controversy
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No NATO apology for Libya airstrike that killed rebels / Integrated schools teaching lessons in harmony in N. Ireland / Revelations about cancer cases in UK....
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NewsPod: 07 Apr 11 NATO air-strike kills Libyan rebels
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Portuguese government to ask for financial bailout / Teachers' strike at Lancashire school / Allegations over British treatment of Kenyan rebels / Prescription of anti-depressants rises in England / Acclaimed pianist to perform in art-gallery....
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NewsPod: 06 Apr 11 Coalition wants feedback on NHS reforms
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Impact of changes to UK tax and benefits / Is it all over for Laurent Gbagbo ? / Berlusconi goes on trial / Continuing Muslim-Christian tension in Nigerian city....
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NewsPod: 04 Apr 11 Major NHS reforms
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Abidjan awaits new assault / On the front-line in eastern Libya / Why eminent broadcaster was termed a "security risk" / A new Bible - for atheists....
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NewsPod: 05 Apr 11 Clegg on UK social mobility
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UK government's efforts to boost social mobility / Possible cease-fire in Ivory Coast / Gadaffi's son speaks to BBC / High-tech sniffer-dogs for Russian Army...
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NewsPod: 01 Apr 11 Libya crisis
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Libya air raid 'killed civilians' / Massive search in Japan for tsunami victims begins / Prince William speaks of pride at RAF job....
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NPR: 7AM ET News Summary Podcast A five-minute NPR News summary you can take with you. http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=500001&uid=n1qe4e85742c986fdb81d2d38ffa0d5d53
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Talk About English (Learn English) http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/tae/rss.xml
The English We Speak: 'Sick': 4 April 2011
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In this series you can learn authentic English words and phrases. This week's word is 'sick' which can have a different meaning to the one you'd expect....
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The English We Speak: Swizz: 11 April 2011
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In this series you can learn authentic English words and phrases. This week, find out how Li became the victim of a swizz....
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The English We Speak: Two Ticks: 18 April 2011
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In this series you can learn authentic English words and phrases. This week we find out what it means when someone says "I'll be with you in two ticks", and other related phrases....
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The English We Speak: Touchy-feely: 25 April 2011
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In this series you can learn authentic English words and phrases. This week's phrase is touchy-feely....
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Thinking Allowed http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/ta/rss.xml
TA: Street Politics and Tahrir Square
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Street Politics: protests, policing, revolution and just getting about - Leif Jerram and John Clarke discuss how the geography of cities have contributed to the development of society. Laurie also talks to Jeffrey Alenxander about 'perfoming' the...
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TA: Catholic Police in NI and Facebook in Trinidad
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Mary Gethins tells Laurie about her in-depth study of Catholic police working in Northern Ireland. He discusses Facebook in Trinidad with Daniel Miller and David Wall....
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TA: BSA 60th Conference
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Laurie speaks to Valerie Walkerdine about the impact of redundancy on a former steel town and hears from Vicki Harman about her study of ballroom dancing as he visits the British Sociological Association's 60th Conference....
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TA: Craft & Community and Hunting
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Does making things really make us happy? How does craft contribute to bringing people together? David Gauntlett and Richard Sennett join Laurie to discuss...
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WITNESS history as told by the people who were there. Five days a week we will be talking to people who lived through moments of history to bring you a personal perspective on world events. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/witness/rss.xml
Witness: Ivory Coast civil war
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In 2002, a brutal civil war in Ivory Coast turned the city of Abidjan into a place of fear for African migrants and westerners. Paul Welsh covered the conflict for the BBC....
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Witness: Edward and Mrs Simpson
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9:09
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01/04/11
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Edward VIII was the new British King but he had fallen in love with an American divorcee. Soon he had to choose between his throne and the woman he loved. Part of a series of Royal Wedding Witnesses....
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Witness: The Gotti trial
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9:01
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04/04/11
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John Gotti was a New York mafia boss who had escaped prison for years. But in April 1992 he was finally convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment....
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Witness: The death of Kurt Cobain
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9:00
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05/04/11
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17 years ago, Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of the grunge rock band Nirvana, was found dead in his Seattle home....
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Witness: The Rwandan genocide
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9:01
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06/04/11
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A wave of killing in Rwanda started on April 6 1994. Almost a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus lost their lives. Jean-Francois Gisimba lived through it all, expecting to die on a daily basis....
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Witness: The Brixton riots
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9:03
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07/04/11
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In April 1981 the streets of South London erupted in violence. A former rioter, and a former policeman tell their very different stories.
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Witness: Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams
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9:02
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08/04/11
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When a young African chief fell in love with a white English girl in post-war London they both expected their families to object. But soon he had to give up his throne for his wife....
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Witness: Jackie Robinson
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8:56
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11/04/11
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Jackie Robinson was the first black Major League baseball player in the USA. He broke the colour bar in professional baseball long before the civil rights movement of the 1960s had got underway....
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Witness: Yuri Gagarin
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8:56
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12/04/11
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It is 50 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. It was a triumph for the Soviet space programme....
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Witness: Windscale
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9:00
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13/04/11
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In 1957 a reactor at a nuclear plant in the north of England caught fire. We hear from 2 workers who helped to bring things under control at Windscale....
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Witness: The Hama massacre
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9:05
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14/04/11
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In 1982 an uprising against the Assad regime in Syria was met by a violent response. Two men who lived in the northern city of Hama as children recall what happened....
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Witness: Grace Kelly and Prince Ranier
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8:55
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15/04/11
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She was a Hollywood superstar, he was Prince of a tiny European state. Their wedding was to become a media frenzy. Part of a series in the run-up to Britain's Royal Wedding....
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Witness: Bay of Pigs invasion
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18/04/11
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It is 50 years since a band of Cuban exiles attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro with the help of the US government. It was called the Bay of Pigs invasion....
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Witness: Waco siege
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19/04/11
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In 1993, around 80 members of a Christian cult died when a fire broke out at the end of a siege in Waco, Texas. Sam Henry lost his entire family in the blaze....
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Witness: Gandhi's Salt March protest in India
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20/04/11
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How Gandhi's Salt March against British rule in India showed the power of peaceful protest....
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Witness: A Romanian orphan discovers her partisan past
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21/04/11
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A Romanian orphan goes in search of her parents and finds that she was born in a cave -- the daughter of anti-communist, partisan guerrillas....
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Witness: Prince Charles and Lady Diana
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22/04/11
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As part of our series in the run up to Britain's Royal Wedding we remember the marriage of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer....
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Witness: The Hitler diaries hoax
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25/04/11
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In 1983 a German magazine believed it had discovered Adolf Hitler's wartime diaries. But at least one British journalist didn't think they could be real....
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Witness: The bombing of Guernica
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26/04/11
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German bombers attacked Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. They were on the side of Franco's fascist forces and they virtually destroyed the Basque town. It was to go down as one of the worst atrocities of the war....
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Witness: Rock against Racism
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27/04/11
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In April 1978, tens of thousands of music fans attended an anti-racism concert in London. It was the biggest demonstration against fascism since the Second World War. Witness speaks to one of the organisers, and to the musician, Billy Bragg....
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Witness: The first space tourist
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28/04/11
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Ten years ago an American multi-millionaire became the world's first space tourist. His name is Dennis Tito and he's been talking to Witness....
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Witness: Ukraine famine
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29/04/11
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In the 1930s, a combination of bad weather and Soviet policy led to a devastating famine in Ukraine. Alan Johnston brings together archive accounts from a survivor and a visiting journalist. The programme was first broadcast last year....
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Woman's Hour: News, Politics, Culture http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/whnews/rss.xml
WHNews: Unpopular Children 28 Apr 2011
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Throughout the Second World War, women played a crucial role in the war effort. Virginia Nicholson, whose new book, 'Millions Like Us' tells the story of women's experience during the War and in its aftermath. We consider the...
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WHNews:Andrew Morton 26 Apr 11
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Jenni Murray talks to author Andrew Morton about his book about Prince William and Catherine Middleton; We discuss women's rights in Poland with Dr Agnieszka Graff of the University of Warsaw and Dr Elwira Grossman of the University of Glasgow; We...
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WHNews: Ovarian Cancer 27 04 11
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Presented by Jenni Murray. NICE issue new guidance on ovarian cancer: GP's are advised to offer women a blood test which can help with diagnosis. Primogeniture has given men preference to the throne since 1701, but who are the queens we may have...
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WHNews: Edith Piaf 18 Apr 11
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On today's programme with Jane Garvey, the benefits to women of the Alternative Vote; the Polish singer Tatiana; India's national census and a new biography of Edith Piaf...
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WHNews: Chocolate Brownies; Anxiety & Teenage Girls
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In the latest of our 'Cook the Perfect..' series Jane finds out about chocolate brownies; Teenage girls and anxiety; Women's football and the launch of the FA's Women's Super League; The life and work of the children's writer, Ursula Moray Williams....
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WHNews: Victorian Lady Travellers 20 Apr 11
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'Hints to Lady Travellers: at Home and Abroad', first published in 1889, has just been reprinted and offers a glimpse into the world of the travelling Victorian lady. We hear about plans to reform legal aid, which critics suggest could put women at...
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WHNews: Emmylou Harris 21 Apr 11
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Presented by Jenni Murray. Lycra, fabric of leotards, leggings and ironing-free clothes. Twelve-time grammy winner Emmylou Harris performs 'Darlin Kate', a song dedicated to the late Kate McGarrigle. Anita Newcourt talks about being named "Anita the...
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Woman's Hour: 22 APRIL 11
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Fathers and the CSA; Martha's memories; childbirth anaesthesia; the politics of tea-making Listen now...
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WHNews: Cat Deeley 24 Apr 2011
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With Jenni Murray. Cat Deeley on 'So You Think You Can Dance'; Kay Gilderdale, who was cleared of the attempted murder of her daughter Lynn; and wedding dresses...
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Woman's Hour 15 Apr 11
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With Jenni Murray, including Shanna Bukhari, the young woman who wants to be the first Muslim to represent Great Britain in the Miss Universe contest; Rachel Beer, the first woman to edit a national newspaper back in 1894; Does it matter that women...
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WHNews: Freezing Eggs; Jodi Picoult
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With Jenni Murray. Lord Robert Winston has recently warned that freezing eggs as an insurance against future infertility is a giant con trick, Dr Gillian Lockwood thinks otherwise. The
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author Jodi Picoult on her latest novel "Sing You Home", which...
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WHNews: Margaret Harrison 11 Apr 11
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Maternity services - are super units the way forward? Parkour - the excitement of freerunning. Electric rebel - Ursula Sladec who has helped transform energy supply in Germany. V & A Jewellery - The Heneage or Armada Jewel. Margaret Harrison - one of...
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WHNews: 12th April 2011
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With Jenni Murray. The actor Celia Imrie has just published her autobiography, 'The Happy Hoofer'. She talks to Jenni about friendships, single parenthood - and Alan Bates. Tomorrow, Domestic Violence Homicide Reviews will become law. Jenni is joined...
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WHNews: Woman's Hour 11 April 2011
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Maternity services - are super units the way forward? Parkour - the excitement of freerunning. Electric rebel - Ursula Sladec who has helped transform energy supply in Germany. V & A Jewellery - The Heneage or Armada Jewel. Margaret Harrison - one of...
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Woman's Hour: 08 APR 2011
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Sofie Grabol; elections in Saudi Arabia; women and cycling; testosterone deficiency in men...
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WHNews: What are "raven mothers"? 07 Apr 11
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Jane Garvey talks to Fawzia Koofi, who's standing for the Afghan presidency; "Raven Mothers" in Germany; and Rebecca Hamilton, young human rights activist, on Darfur....
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WHNews: The Sex Talk 06 Apr 11
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She might not have won X-Factor but former supermarket cashier Mary Byrne's first album was this week's highest new entry in the official UK charts, beating Britney Spears and Radiohead. We discuss comments by David Willetts, Universities Minister,...
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WHNews:Woman's Hour 4th April 2011
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Mary Berry joins Jane Garvey in the Woman's Hour studio to talk about simnel cake and to launch the new podcast series on top tips for perfect well known dishes. What happens if you suddenly find yourself unemployed in your 50s, having spent all your...
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WHNews: the middle-aged brain 05 Apr 2011
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With Jane Garvey. The science writer Barbara Strauch on the formidable middle-aged brain; will a recent courtcase involving a brothel force more women back onto the streets? The artist Rose Hilton in her Cornish studio; and Ines de la Fressange's...
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WHNews: Woman's Hour from Manchester: 01 April 2011
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Jenni Murray presents. Have changing attitudes to homosexuality shifted perceptions of masculinity? Mark McCormack from Brunel university discusses his new research with John Amaechi, the first openly gay basket ball player. A head for business - can...
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