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Snow, Slaves, Shoes and Gary Shteyngart

How climate change might make it harder to find future Winter Olympics host cities.

We look at the findings of a new report suggesting that climate change might make it increasingly difficult in the decades ahead to find a city suitable for hosting the Winter Olympics. We also hear how American evangelists and missionaries are whipping up anti-gay sentiment in Russia and elsewhere overseas. A young woman who escaped domestic servitude discusses America’s modern-day slavery problem. The story of how a photo-journalist got her editors in the US to pay attention to refugees from South Sudan by focusing her lens on the refugees’ shoes. And novelist Gary Shteyngart on growing up as an émigré from Soviet Russia in 1980s America.

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27 minutes

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Sun 9 Feb 2014 15:32GMT

Chapters

  • Climate Change and the Olympics

    How warming weather patterns could make it difficult to stage future Winter Olympic Games

    Duration: 04:01

  • Anti-gay Campaigners

    American evangelists and missionaries play a role in anti-gay sentiment overseas

    Duration: 04:45

  • Modern-Day Slavery

    How one woman became the property of a family in Egypt at the age of eight

    Duration: 04:35

  • Refugee Shoes

    The photos of shoes that put the spotlight on the plight of South Sudan's refugees

    Duration: 03:25

  • Gary Shteyngart

    Russian-American satirist on his new memoir Little Failure

    Duration: 04:43

  • Made in the USA

    A TV ad by Italian-owned Chrylser reminds Americans that they are still an American icon

    Duration: 03:36

Shoes

Shoes
An American photographer drew attention to the plight of refugees from South Sudan only after focusing her camera on their shoes.

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  • Sat 8 Feb 2014 04:32GMT
  • Sun 9 Feb 2014 01:32GMT
  • Sun 9 Feb 2014 15:32GMT

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