PRI's The World: April 1, 2013
Description
We examine the freedom of expression, post-Arab Spring, in the wake of the detention of a popular comedian in Egypt. Also, how corruption impacts immigrant cab drivers in Boston. Plus, the story behind an interracial punk band that challenged South Africa's apartheid divisions.
Details
Language:
en
Release Date:
03/04/2023 22:30:27
Authors:
The World
Genres:
news
Episodes
Bidding for Tuna at the Biggest Fish Market in the World
Release Date: 4/1/2013
Duration: 5 Mins
Description: Today's Geo Quiz takes us to a famous fish market in central Tokyo. Each morning well before the sun comes up, tons and tons of frozen tuna are unloaded, packed in ice and and spread out for auction. Steve Dolinksy sent us a postcard from the biggest wholesale fish market in the world.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
South African Punk Band National Wake
Release Date: 4/1/2013
Duration: 7 Mins
Description: A documentary tells the story of National Wake, a South African punk band that challenged the country's apartheid divisions in the 1970's. Unfortunately, the group didn't last very long, as reporter Mirissa Neff tells us.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Tattoo Culture Along the Texas-Mexico Border
Release Date: 4/1/2013
Duration: 5 Mins
Description: Tattoos are symbols of identity and self-expression: they can represent attachment to another person or a place. These are trying times at the US-Mexican border, and many of the tattoo designs there reflect that life, as The World's Jason Margolis found out in the Rio Grande Valley, in corner of southeast Texas.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
How a Young Afghan Girl Almost Got Sold in Marriage
Release Date: 4/1/2013
Duration: 1 Mins
Description: A story appearing in the print edition of the New York Times had to be updated online. It told the story of a six year-old girl in a Kabul refugee camp who was going to be sold in marriage to pay off a debt. Her father had borrowed money to cover the cost of his wife's hospital care. But after the Times came out, the newspaper's website included an update that said that "an anonymous donor working through an American lawyer had paid the debt."
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Syrian Armenian Refugees Back President Assad
Release Date: 4/1/2013
Duration: 4 Mins
Description: Among the more than one million Syrians who've fled the war are Syrians of Armenian descent. About 10,000 have made their way to Armenia. Unlike most Syrian refugees, they're Christian. And many of them fear that if Syrian Bashar al-Assad leaves, they can never go home again.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
Comedian Bassem Yousef Tests Freedom of Speech in the New Egypt
Release Date: 4/1/2013
Duration: 4 Mins
Description: The arrest of Egyptian satirist, Bassem Yousef, over the weekend made us ask how freedom of expression has evolved in the nations affected by the Arab Spring. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with middle east expert, Michael Wahid Hanna at the Century Foundation.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
PRI's The World: Latest Edition - 04/01/2013
Release Date: 4/1/2013
Duration: 47 Mins
Description: We examine the freedom of expression, post-Arab Spring, in the wake of the detention of a popular comedian in Egypt. Also, how corruption impacts immigrant cab drivers in Boston. Plus, the story behind an interracial punk band that challenged South Africa's apartheid divisions.
Is Closed Captioned: No
Explicit: No
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