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Program Highlights
We're proud of everything we've put on the air.
But we've selected a few prize-winning items and special programs
from past seasons that you might want to hear.
AWARD WINNERS:
Jody's War -- Rick MacInnes-Rae won a silver medal in the 2007 New York Radio Awards for his sensitive bedside report with a Canadian soldier, back in Canada, who lost both feet to a trip-wire bomb in Afghanistan. Jody's War ran on February 8, 2007.
 Listen to Jody's War
CBC's Jennifer Westaway's piece on homelessness in Los Angeles won Amnesty International Canada's audio/video media award for 2006.
She looked at how the second-largest city in America is, in the words of the its own mayor, the capital of homelessness in America, and why it includes so many African-Americans
Listen to Jennifer's award winner
Impeach, Inform And Unite -- Dispatches was one of the CBC programs that were honoured at the 2006 New York Radio awards. Our program of June 15, about the hardening of politics in The United States,
received a silver medal.
Listen to Impeach, Inform And Unite
The program featured documentaries by the CBC's Michael Colton and Rick MacInnes-Rae.
The Garbage People Of Cairo -- September
24, 2003
The Zabbeleen have built a social revolution from
things most people throw out. Rhoda Metcalfe's documentary on
how modernisation now threatens to force them back down the
food chain won both a 2003 Canadian Association Of Journalists
award and a Gabriel Award for 2003.
Too Many Reasons To Die: the
culture of death in rural Turkey. (June 4, 2003) How ritual,
honor and tradition conspire to kill women. Declan Hill's
story of murder, suicide, Mustafa Seven, and the stoning of
Shamsiye Allack won Amnesty Canada's Boradcast Media Award
for 2003.
Listen to
Part One of Declan's documentary
Listen to Part Two of Declan's
documentary
Water Wars: The Middle East
is staring at a water shortage. And with water, as with oil,
the emergence of haves and have-nots is loading tensions on
a troubled region. Margaret Evans feature of January 29, 2003
was a Canadian Association of Journalists finalist. Listen
to Part One of Margaret's documentary
Listen
to Part Two of Margaret's documentary
Jordan's late King Hussein used
to say he couldn't imagine that his country would ever again
go to war with Israel, except over water." It's a commodity
with a great peacetime potential. But in Israel's complicated
hydro-politics, it can also be a provocation. Listen
to Part Three of Margaret's documentary
Muna's Story January
17, 2001; Honorable Mention 2001 Amnesty International
Canada Award) is Vera Frankl's report on how music helped
rehabilitate a child victim of torture.
Gee's Bend: The Crossing February
14, 2001; Winner 2001 Amnesty International Canada's Braodcast
Media) is Bruce Edwards's story of a mostly-black and a mostly-white
town on opposite sides of the Alabama River - and plans to
restore a ferry that was shut down during civil-rights protests
in the 60s.
Who Killed Father One Speed? September
5, 2001; Finalist for best radio documentary Canadian
Association of Journalists 2002) is Rick MacInness-Rae's account
of a Canadian priest murdered in Jamaica in the spring of
2001.
The Headchoppers May
16, 2001; Gold Medal, New York Radio Awards 2002 (finalist,
CAJ 2002) is Rhoda Metcalfe's documentary on how right-wing
paramilitaries take over a town in Colombia.
SPECIALS:
May 7, 2007 - Justice And The Next Life CBC's Michael McAuliffe's journey through Cambodia, to find most people in this Buddhist country believe that cleansing the souls of the millions who were murdered in the genocide there -- and allowing them to pass into the next life -- is more important than tribunals for the few surviving mass murderers.
Listen to Justice And The Next Life
Dispatches and the CBC News Democracy Project -- an ongoing series of insights into the successes and setbacks of democracy in the world today. It began with an extended edition of Dispatches, December 21, 2006.
December 21 Dispatches, The Paradox of Democracy, and links to other parts of the CBC News Democracy Project
cbc.ca's part of this CBC News democracy project
offers background and interactive material as well as posting further reports from our correspondents -- that also aired on CBC Radio News's The World At 6 and The World This Weekend.
click here to get to cbc.ca's The Democracy Project
June 15, 2005 - Zimbabwe: The Exodus Within
In a full-edition special, our documentary looks at how president Robert Mugabe uses terror tactics to push people out of Zimbabwe's major cities and into the countryside, with devastating effect. And in an exclusive interview, the Catholic Archbishop some call Zimbabwe's Desmond Tutu, says Mugabe is suffering brain damage, compounded by megalomania. And its time the people put him out of office. . Listen to the entire program in RealAudio
March 16, 2005 - The Plight of the Pygmies
From Camaroon's rain forest, reporter Carolyn Dempster reports on the struggle of the Baka. Listen to Carolyn's documentary
March 09, 2005 - The Marshall Islands
There's something wrong in the Marshall Islands. Babies are born with old faces, and worse. And the culture of this distant atoll has been deformed too. Nearly 60 years ago, the Americans went looking for someplace to set off nukes. The people there moved aside for the tests, but they didn't move far enough, as we learned in this documentary from David Kattenburg.
January 2005 - Tsunami Coverage
Thailand - CBC correspondent Michael McAuliffe reports from Phuket,Thailand soon after the waves hit.. Listen to Michael's debrief
Indonesia - The CBC's James Murray's files from Indonesia, a country that suffereed the brunt of casualites. Listen to James's debrief
Sri Lanka - The CBC's Bruce Edwards reports. on the flow of aid to Sri Lanka.
India - A look at how India's caste system affects aid to a group known as the Untouchables. Canadian journalist Richard Phinney has spent a good deal of time among them and explains their lowly place in the culture. Listen to Richard's report. Annie Namala is with the National Campain on Dalit Human Rights. Listen to her account of the aid situation three days after the Tsunami.
January 2005 - Same Bed, Different Dreams : China's Great Leap to Capitalism.
Cars and Capitalism - Listen to Rick's full-edition report from Shanghai onhow cars are the driving force of change in China.
Profits for Pirates - Listen to Rick's documentary about the culture of counterfetiting in China.
Communism and Cola - Listen to Bruce Edward's documentary on Wahaha Cola China's answer to Coke.
Little Emperors - a look at the sometimes-spoiled offspring of China's one-child policy. Listen to Rick's documentary on the Little Emperors
Migrant Workers - Listen Rick's documentary on the widening gap between rich and poor in China.
China's rising, but what about its competitors? Listen to Jonathan Kent's documentary on the impact China is having on its neighbours.
September 08, 2004 - War by Other Means
Rick returns to Bosnia to uncover deadly contradictions of post-war Bosnia.
Nine years after the war, the country is still a minefield. So are its politics, and its memories. So why is it being called "a little miracle of peace", by some; by others, "a perfect nightmare?" Listen to War By Other Means
May 2, 2004 Dispatches and
CBC Radio's Global Village teamed up for a 90-minute special
-- India: Tradition And Transformation -- featuring CBC reporters
Piya Chattopadhyay and Stephen Puddicombe. Hear
the audio, see the pictures they took -- and read their reports.
February
25, 2004 Skull And Cellphones; life and death
in Haiti. CBC's David Gutnick found one woman in Montreal's
Haitian community who alone supports 47 people back home.
He followed her meagre money from Canada to Haiti, as it trickles
down to the poorest.
September 10, 2003 Privatized Peacekeepers; contracting
out international security.
January
22, 2003 -- The United States embraces State Sponsored
Assassination.
November
13, 2002 -- War Crimes And The War Correspondents' Dilemma
-- should they testify at War Crimes Tribunals and risk becoming
targets too?
September
11, 2002 -- Homeland Insecurity: Muslims in America.
September
4 2002 -- Power and Instability: Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia
and Pakistan.
January
30, 2002 -- Foreign Aid Fiddle; The IMF and Mali.
September
26 and October
3, 2001 -- The World Reacts To Terrorism
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When Warriors Become Children Again (December
19, 2001) is David McLauchlin's look at children kidnapped
and forced to kill for the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.
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