17/03/2012
What were former paramilitaries and police from Northern Ireland talking about over dinner by the seaside in Cape Town? Fergal Keane was there and tells all.
A hundred million plus hits on the internet. Our Africa correspondent Andrew Harding on the film about warlord Joseph Kony and why it's received the thumbs down from an audience in Uganda.
A group of former paramilitaries and police officers from Northern Ireland have been to South Africa to see how combatants in the apartheid era there are now trying to come to terms with their troubled past -- Fergal Keane joined them.
'A steady pulse of pleasure' as Simon Worrall sails to the fabled Spice Islands in the wake of the great nineteenth century naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace.
Joanna Robertson's been to the cinema in Paris seeing how French children are being educated to become the film experts of the future.
And Peter Day describes the extraordinary Chinese ghost town -- empty streets, half-finished buildings -- which suggests to some that the great real estate bubble there has finally burst.
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Introduction
Duration: 00:30
Lessons in reconciliation
Fergal Keane accompanies former paramilitaries and police officers from Northern Ireland as they travel to South Africa to see what they can learn from the reconciliation process there.
Duration: 05:32
‘Unwelcome memories’
Andrew Harding explains that a film about Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, while proving a huge hit on YouTube, is not so popular in Uganda itself.
Duration: 05:07
Ghost town
In Inner Mongolia, Peter Day says a newly built city now stands largely empty, suggesting that China’s building boom - which did so much to fuel the country’s economic growth – may be over.
Duration: 05:14
‘Robinson Crusoe islands’
Simon Worrall sails among the Spice Islands of Indonesia to learn about the work of a British Victorian naturalist and his association with Charles Darwin.
Duration: 05:50
France’s ‘fifth art’
In Paris, Joanna Robertson goes to the cinema with a group of French children and sees how they are taught to appreciate film from an early age.
Duration: 05:36
Broadcast
- Sat 17 Mar 2012 11:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
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