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Who Runs Your World? Saturday 17 September to Monday 3 October on ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service
Programme Information - week 39
All times are UK time.
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Play Of The Week – Lysistrata
6.30 to 7.30pm, Saturday 24 September
´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service and bbcnews.com/yourworld
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As part of the Who Runs Your World? Season, ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service presents a version of Aristophanes' Greek classic, Lysistrata.
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The play is over 2,000 years old, but its relevance to the balance of power in the world was brought starkly into relief in 2003 when, in protest against the looming conflict in Iraq, actors in 49 countries staged readings of the play.
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Adapted by Ranjit Bolt, Lysistrata is a ribald, raw comedy in which a group of angry Greek women decide to withhold sex from their husbands in order to end the 28-year Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens. Ìý
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Aristophanes felt the war was about greed, not justice, and wrote the play to stir up people against it, using women as the central characters to show the power he believed they had.ÌýÌý
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Kristine Landon-Smith, co-founder of Britain's Tamasha Theatre Company, directs Lysistrata in this fiery version featuring an all–Asian cast.Ìý
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Producer: Kristine Landon-Smith
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Reporting Religion Debate – The Role Of Religious Media
7.30 to 8.00pm, Saturday 24 September ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service and bbcnews.com/yourworld
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From Evangelical TV stations to religious radio in Iran and the Pope's radio station, Vatican Radio, Reporting Religion debates the role of religious media on people's lives - as part of the World Service's focus on power: who has it, who wants it, how it's used and how it's changing. Ìý
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Presenter: Trevor Barnes
Producer: David Stead
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The Changing Face Of Power: Episode One
9.05 to 9.30am, Monday 26 September
´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service and bbcnews.com/yourworld
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In late 2003, Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill asked his analysts to run a series of projections based on everything currently known about how economies and societies develop, to see what the world would look like in 2050.
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The results surprised everybody.
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If the projections are at all on target, by the year 2050, not only will the USA no longer be the world's biggest economy but only the US and Japan will still merit places in the G6 (the world's six richest countries).
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The projections indicated that the new economic superpowers will be Brazil, Russia, India and China (collectively dubbed the BRICs). Ìý
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In this series, part of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service's in-depth exploration of power and how it is changing around the world, award-winning Global Business presenter Peter Day asks what the implications of this shift will be for the rest of the world.
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The series also looks at the state of the BRICs today, their comparative strengths and the reasons why they might be the economic powerhouses of the future.
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It also asks what other countries can learn from them and explores the factors – from Aids to ecological collapse – that could derail their progress.
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Presenter: Peter Day
Producer: Vicki Barker
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Health Matters – Who Runs Your World?:Ìý Episode Two 10.05 to 10.30am, Monday 26 September
´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service and bbcnews.com/yourworld
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In 1978, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that there would be "health for all" by the year 2000. The reality today is somewhat different. Ìý
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Komla Dumor, of Ghana's Joy FM, travels to Geneva, home of the WHO, to join a panel of experts to discuss what prevents countries such as Sierra Leone and Uganda from rivalling the health services of countries such as Japan.
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The panel also explores what needs to be done to ensure access to basic health care for all, wherever they live.
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Presenter: Komla Dumor
Producer: Deborah Cohen
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The Word – How To Get Published:Ìý Episode Two
10.30 to 11.00am, Monday 26 September ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service and bbcnews.com/yourworld
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Harriett Gilbert continues to follow the progress of Ghanaian writer Nii Ayikwei Parkes through the literary minefield, as he tries to find a publisher for his first book, The Cost Of Red Eyes.
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The series joins Nii as he submits his unpublished novel to a writers' circle for critique and then tries to find an agent and publisher. Ìý
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Harriett also takes a look at the end game – who gets picked for review and media interviews – and asks if readers' recommendations are the most important part of the whole process. Ìý
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Presenter: Harriett Gilbert
Producer: Jennifer Chevalier
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I Challenge: Episode One
9.05 to 9.30am, Tuesday 27 - Friday 30 September
´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service
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I Challenge looks at four very different individuals who have one thing in common. They are all challenging power of some kind, whether established or sub-cultural.
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As part of the Who Runs Your World? Season, I Challenge asks what motivates them and how they have found a voice.Ìý
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Dorothy Ake'Nova is the founder of a non-governmental organisation (NGO) promoting sexual health and rights in the traditional, northern Nigerian Shari'a state of Niger.Ìý
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But this is no ordinary NGO. At the International Centre for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights (INCRESE), nothing is off-limits. On sexuality, Dorothy has made it her business to challenge every taboo, so there are workshops on unsafe abortion, seminars on rape and discussions about teenage pregnancy.
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Young people flock to INCRESE for classes from all of Minna's ethnic and religious communities, and there is some surprising outreach work in small communities.Ìý Ìý
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Fundamental to Dorothy's approach to sexual health is a commitment to teaching people about sexual pleasure. She believes that enhancing sexual pleasure not only improves all kinds of communication, but crucially, can diminish domestic violence. Ìý
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In I Challenge, Dorothy talks about her life and work, and introduces listeners to Nigeria's underground lesbian network – an organisation she set up to address the sexual and health needs of women who are attracted to other women.ÌýÌýÌýÌý
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Producer: Sue Ellis
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I Challenge:ÌýEpisode Two
9.05 to 9.30am, Wednesday 28 September
´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service and bbcnews.com/yourworld Ìý
Heavily tattooed Rene Enriquez is a 43-year-old Latino serving several life sentences for murder, and has been in and out of Californian jails for more than 25 years.
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He joined the notorious Mexican Mafia gang while serving his first prison sentence, aged 19. All of his crimes since then have been committed on behalf of the Mexican Mafia.Ìý
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Enriquez served much of his sentence in California's Pelican Bay State Prison – one of America's largest maximum security establishments. The prison is also the headquarters of some of America's biggest, most violent prison gangs, and there's evidence the gangs also control crime beyond the prison walls.
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Enriquez was locked up in his cell for 22 hours a day, but that didn't stop him serving as a leading member of the Mexican Mafia and controlling gang activity, not only inside the jail, but also out on the streets.
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"There's nothing they can do to stop us. They can't stop me from killing people on the streets. They can't stop me from communicating."
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But one day, Enriquez decided he'd had enough of the gang, and enough of life in solitary. The final straw came when some members proposed targeting the families of rivals – and Rene decided to challenge the gang's grip on his life and defect. He tells his story in I Challenge. Ìý
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Producer: Sue Ellis
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Heart And Soul - Family Power:ÌýEpisode Three
10.45 to 11.00am, Wednesday 28 September
´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service and bbcnews.com/yourworld
Ìý Shazia Khan concludes her exploration of who runs people's religious and cultural worlds at the family and community level, through the eyes of immigrant families in the UK.Ìý
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It's a story of role reversal in this final programme.
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A gifted young man from Guyana, the product of a Christian family, tells how he converted to Islam against huge opposition from his mother and eventually persuaded the rest of the family to follow suit. They did and are very happy with their decision.Ìý
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Presenter: Shazia Khan
Producer: Kristine Pommert
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I Challenge: Episode Three
9.05 to 9.30am, Thursday 29 September
´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service
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For many Muslims, the idea of a female Imam is unthinkable even though women play a significant role in the Koran – the wife of the Prophet was a scholar and one of the four Imams was taught by a woman.
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This, says Selma, is completely overlooked. She believes it is time for women to be accepted in the life of the Mosque.ÌýÌý Ìý
Even though Selma's husband and family support her fully in her studies, there are many in the wider community who oppose the idea of female Imams.
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Earlier this year, an American academic received death threats after becoming the first women ever to lead Friday prayers in a mixed congregation in New York.ÌýÌý
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Currently, China is the only country in the world with women-only mosques. Indonesia allows groups of women to recite the Koran in mosques. Even in Saudi Arabia, women are pushing the boundaries to gain more recognition within their religion.
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A significant number of Muslims in Britain and America feel that women like Selma represent the future. But can she reconcile the conflicting demands of traditional Islam with a more liberal vision?Ìý
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Producer: Sue Ellis
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I Challenge: Episode Four
9.05 to 9.30am, Friday 30 September
´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service and bbcnews.com/yourworld Ìý
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I Challenge examines Stalin Kay's mission to challenge the stranglehold of power that officials, in all walks of life, hold over ordinary citizens. Ìý
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Following the Gujarat earthquake in 2001, Stalin and some colleagues set up the groundbreaking community radio project Parda Faash (Ripping Away The Veil).
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It aimed to challenge corrupt officials – especially those who had siphoned off donations intended for earthquake victims. Ìý
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The programme's reporters were mainly village women who, though they could barely read or write, proved especially tenacious in getting the story and exposing wrong-doing.Ìý
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Since then, Stalin's project has exposed doctors who make illegal charges to their patients, and Government departments that are failing to pay their workers.
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They've uncovered illegal convictions and reported on the children cheated out of their school dinners.Ìý
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Producer: Sue Ellis
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