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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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
An American photographer drew attention to the plight of refugees from South Sudan only after focusing her camera on their shoes.Broadcasts
- Sat 8 Feb 2014 04:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Online
- Sun 9 Feb 2014 01:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Online
- Sun 9 Feb 2014 15:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Online
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