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We use foreign-made products every day. Some have components that originate in many different countries. This program explores how international trading connects us with other places. It looks at the history of Western manufacturing and trade and the increasing prevalence of cheaper offshore production, as well as the growth of industries such as tourism and travel in response to our connectedness across the globe.
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This powerful documentary exposes the practice of multinational banks of lending billions of dollars to brutal dictators throughout the world. Viewers are transported to Argentina, South Africa, and the Philippines for a first-hand look at how the incurred debt impacts daily life as essential social services are cut, resulting in restricted access to food, water, electricity, schooling, and health care. Human rights activists, including representatives...
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Joanna continues her adventure following the ancient Silk Road from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea, across the rapidly changing post-Soviet states of Georgia and Azerbaijan. Joanna kicks off her journey in the brash, booming seaside resort of Batumi, where post-Soviet era new money has seen casinos and high-rise hotels built alongside old Soviet tenement blocks. It's a huge change from when it was a small backwater and the border to Turkey was closed....
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Joanna continues her adventure following the ancient Silk Road across the Islamic Republic of Iran, home to one of the oldest civilizations on earth. A land of incredible diversity and phenomenal beauty, Iran was once the thriving heart of the mighty Persian Empire, but nowadays it's little visited by Westerners, and somewhat misunderstood. Joanna's Persian odyssey begins in Iran's capital Tehran, home to 15 million people. Politically and socially,...
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Joanna starts her adventure in Venice, the European terminus of the Silk Road where she discovers how the Silk Road helped the merchants of Venice and the city state itself grow rich and powerful. Joanna witnesses first hand evidence of Marco Polo's silk road booty, and sees how that all-important commodity, silk, cemented Venice's reputation as a centre of luxury and conspicuous wealth.
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In this 2010 Falling Walls lecture video, social and cultural anthropologist Shalini Randeria addresses the dynamics of accumulation by dispossession in India, with an extensive documentation of ethnographic case studies from various regions of the country. This lecture explores social issues including the expropriation of farmers, fishing communities, and slum dwellers; the destruction of hill villages; the curtailment of rights of nomadic pastoralists;...
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This final episode sees Joanna Lumley travel across the post-Soviet, Central Asian states of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, the heartland of the Silk Road. Almost never seen on television, this little-known corner of the world is blessed with hyperbole-defying scenery - mighty mountains and glittering cities - that have played host to centuries of war, trade, guts, glory and espionage. Joanna's journey begins in north-west Uzbekistan's Kyzl-Kum desert,...
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To manage the country, we must first control the waters, is an ancient Chinese saying that is more true today than ever. This program documents farmers' hardships-droughts that leave Shanxi Province bone-dry and floods that inundate the lands bordering the Yangtze River-and discusses the exacerbating effects of deforestation and urban growth. Also, potential remedies are showcased, including new dams, increased water conservation, sustainable agricultural...
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We travel to several Polish cities to bring you the stories of exciting innovators in modern Poland. Just a quarter of a century since the fall of communism, Poles are making great strides in innovation, production and technology. You will hear the stories of innovators in the fields of cosmetics, fashion, video game production and solar technology. We explore Krakow's emerging technology hub and travel to Przemysl, the home of makeup empire Inglot....
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Nowhere is evidence of the economic boom in South America more apparent than in Brazil, but in this program Jonathan Dimbleby finds the road to riches is paved with dilemmas for both Brazil and the wider world. In the Amazon, architects and cattle ranchers are grappling with environmental tension. On the coast, descendants of runaway slaves are fighting to protect their land from the expansion of a satellite launch facility. And in Rio, Dimbleby joins...
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As Jonathan travels across Colombia and Venezuela, he discovers that they have strikingly divergent modern realities. Colombia, for so long synonymous with drug wars, is also a country of hope and resilience. Jonathan cycles with a visionary mayor around the streets of Bogotá, meets a reformed FARC fighter, goes to a coffee farm in the Andes, visits a cemetery in Medellín, and enjoys watching a group of breakdancing kids from the notorious hillside...
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In Chile, Jonathan discovers a nation transformed since the demise of General Pinochet, but still working to heal the scars left by his rule. He meets the editors of a satirical magazine, rides with Chile's first female rodeo rider, crosses the Atacama Desert to a ghost town where he visits with poet Jorge Monteleagre - who says that under Pinochet the town was turned into a concentration camp where he was detained - then reaches the ocean, where...
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For decades Greek islanders have migrated to the mainland in search of economic opportunity. But now, due to long-term unemployment and increasingly constrictive austerity measures, many of these city-dwelling professionals are moving back to their home villages, bringing with them ideas that they hope will solve not just their own financial problems but their country's as well. This program introduces some of the men and women in the vanguard of...
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"The Vikings" conjures up images of fierce warriors with horned helmets who ruled the seas and raided towns. However, unknown to many, the Vikings were the international tradesmen of their time. In Constantinople or modern day Istanbul, they traded silk and gold. Sumnima Udas visits an archeologists and a ship reconstruction expert in Roskilde, explores using innovative technology for modern shipping routes, and examines the lucrative amber trade...
16) Italy
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Finally, our journey must come to an end in Italy, a country once made rich from its maritime trade. Our final voyage begins in Venice, the birthplace of merchants like Marco Polo, whose exotic tales from the east strengthened trade all those centuries ago. Sumnima Udas visits the MOSE project, Libreria Acqua Alta, Mantero silk factory, and the World's Expo on this episode of Silk Road: Past, Present, Future.
17) Brazil
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In this program, Jimmy Doherty goes to Brazil, where he discovers how to turn poisoned land into a powerhouse of world food production, joins sugarcane cutters to see how the country has replaced half of its gasoline use with biofuel, and finds a way to save caimans from poachers. In the Amazon, Jimmy meets an unlikely cattle rancher who claims he can save the rain forest.
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Jimmy Doherty visits the wheat belt of western Australia in this program to see if farmers there can overcome the global problem of soil salinity. Next, he heads deep into the outback to catch wild animals - then takes a trip to the Murray-Darling river basin to see if its vineyards can still produce good wine despite now having only half as much water as in the past.
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