Hanging On for Dear Life
Stories from the migrant-ship graveyards of south Italy; Saudi Arabia's luxurious jails for militants; a Japanese brain-training laboratory, and the boa-infested island of Aruba
Pascale Harter introduces tales of bravery, guile and foolhardiness from reporters and writers around the world.
Daniel Gordon visits the migrant-ship graveyard in the Sicilian ports of Pozzalo, and hears how Italy and Italians are dealing with this summer's influx of people arriving via the Mediterranean Sea; Barbara Plett Usher visits some surprisingly well-appointed prison cells in Saudi Arabia, destined to house those associated with Islamic State and other jihadi groups; Adam Shaw racks his brain (but still loses against an eightysomething veteran) in a maths-game contest at a Japanese neuroscience laboratory; and Rob Crossan braves the scrubby expanses of Arikok National Park in Aruba, now full of feral boa constrictors which have learned how to hitch-hike their way around the island.
Photo: A rescued migrant is identified with a number after disembarking at the Sicilian harbour of Catania on April 24, 2015. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images)
Last on
More episodes
Previous
Broadcasts
- Sat 9 May 2015 13:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
- Sun 10 May 2015 02:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
- Sun 10 May 2015 08:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online
- Sun 10 May 2015 21:05GMT大象传媒 World Service Online