Essential Guide

Anticipating living in the 21st Century and an in depth look at its current issues

World Service,73 episodes

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Workers Without Frontiers - Factory Workers
A look at the lives of migrant Mexican workers in El Paso, Texas
28 Sep 2001,28 mins
Workers Without Frontiers - Nurses
Nurses from developing countries can earn a good salary in the West
05 Oct 2001,28 mins
Workers Without Frontiers - International Business
What drives international business people to work away from their home countries?
09 Oct 2001,28 mins
Workers Without Frontiers - Call Centres
The international nature of call centres - and the growth industry in India
19 Oct 2001,28 mins
My Fellow Countrymen - Chile
How the Armed forces staged the military coup of 1973
26 Oct 2001,28 mins
My Fellow Countrymen - Ghana
The motivations behind the military coup d'etat in Ghana, Africa
02 Nov 2001,28 mins
My Fellow Countrymen - Pakistan
How do army men behave in political office and can they make good politicians?
09 Nov 2001,28 mins
My Fellow Countrymen - Bolivia
Bolivia has had more coups than any other country
19 Nov 2001,28 mins
Faith and the State - Egypt
Mike Wooldridge explores the relationship between faith and state in Egypt
19 Jan 2002,28 mins
Faith and the State - India
Mike Wooldridge explores secularism, Hinduism and Islam in India
21 Jan 2002,28 mins
Faith and the State - Russia
How the Russian Orthodox church is losing its way in post-Communist Russia
23 Jan 2002,28 mins
Long Train to Lublin
Ernst Krombach's journey from Dusseldorf to a death camp in Lublin, Poland in 1942
11 Jun 2002,27 mins
One Night in Gibraltar
General Władysław Sikorski and the controversy surrounding his death in an air crash
13 Jun 2002,27 mins