Category: Documentary
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Theresienstadt – tracing memory, honouring the past
This radio feature illuminates the strange place that was described by one writer as ‘a surrealistic world on the edge of life’. It uses archival material, interviews and music to focus on the concentration camp, Theresienstadt, and the life lived there.
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Fugitive Promises – human rights in the 20th century
A radio documentary looking at the history of international human rights and reflections on how critiques of economic globalism spawned a new generation of human rights activists. The 20th century was a time in which rhetorics of freedom dominated political discourse. How did these rhetorics of freedom mask first world global economic aspirations? This program…
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Clearing the Square – in memory of the victims of Tiananmen Square
A radio documentary featuring personal accounts of the Tiananmen Square massacre which occured between June 3-4, 1989
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Breaking the Silence
The Israel NGO Breaking the Silence was formed as a result of the disillusionment and concerns of a group of former IDF soldiers who realized that most Israeli citizens had no idea what was being done in their name to maintain the illegal Occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the closure of Gaza. Producer…
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Jerusalem, religion and archaeology – an unholy mix
When archaeology is at the sevice of the Israeli state and the Bible is used to justify a national myth and breaches of international law. The 5,000 year history of the ancient city of Jerusalem is layered with the remains of settlements and conquests by many different peoples and cultures, including the early Canaanites, Assyrians,…
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Jerusalem – a divine crime scene
First hand accounts of dispossession in East Jerusalem by Palestinians living under occupation.
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