Ciudad Juarez is one of the world's most violent cities -- Katya Adler's there as new police recruits prepare for the battle against the drug cartels. It's the presidential election in Ukraine and James Coomarasamy finds the electorate disillusioned with their politicians; Christopher Hogg discusses the gender imbalance in China and learns that many men are now doomed to a lonely old age; Twenty years after Nelson Mandela walked to freedom Andrew Harding in Johannesburg meets his old lawyer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
FOOC: BBC Radio 4, 04 Feb 2010As China prepares for the Year of the Tiger, Chris Hogg tells us about the confidence felt about the country's growing economy -- Bill Law reveals the fears of Kenyans living in the Tana Delta wetlands -- Will Grant asks who is to blame for the power cuts in Venezuela -- Mark Lowen is in Serbia, hearing why you must never sing at the table and must always call a new baby ugly -- and Christine Finn takes a walk through California's high-tech capital - Silicon Valley.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
FOOC: Radio 4 30 Oct 08This week: Jim Muir in Baghdad explains why hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians have fled the country since the coalition invaded in 2003; in Washington DC Rajini Vaidyanathan considers the state of the US economy over a bowl of french fries in an historic diner; while much of the rest of the world faces recession Humphrey Hawksley discovers that there are jobs aplenty in Romania; Nick Nugent reveals why the people of the mountainous republic of Dagestan are missing out on the boom wh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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