Money: The Power to Shape our Lives
Four 大象传媒 journalist share their stories about money and how it continually shapes lives.
As part of the Money and Power season, Pascale Harter presents a special live edition of the programme from outside New Broadcasting House 鈥� the home of the 大象传媒 in the heart of London. As all foreign correspondents know money, and the power it can wield, continually shape and reshape the world we live in:
Ahead of elections in Mexico, Shaimaa Khalil finds that despite the rich and poor living in seemingly different worlds they are united in their fear of rising levels of violence.
The 大象传媒鈥檚 Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet searches for hope within Afghanistan鈥檚 constant power struggles and its forever war. "Will it now get better?" people are asking again.
Ben Zand discovers that life is cheap in Venezuela as he meets one of the kidnap gangs that prowl the capital and manages to escape with his life and his watch 鈥� just.
And as Justin Rowlatt prepares to leave India and auctions off his belongings, he learns that you can put a price on just about anything.
Producers: Lizzy McNeil and Joe Kent
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- Fri 29 Jun 2018 10:32GMT大象传媒 World Service except News Internet
- Sat 30 Jun 2018 02:06GMT大象传媒 World Service Americas and the Caribbean, East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
- Sat 30 Jun 2018 21:06GMT大象传媒 World Service except Americas and the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East & News Internet
- Sat 30 Jun 2018 23:06GMT大象传媒 World Service Americas and the Caribbean & Europe and the Middle East only
- Sun 1 Jul 2018 02:06GMT大象传媒 World Service except Americas and the Caribbean, East and Southern Africa, News Internet & West and Central Africa
- Sun 1 Jul 2018 08:06GMT大象传媒 World Service except News Internet
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