Small Changes

Small Changes

125 episodes

Small Changes is a podcast series of one-on-one interviews with people who've seen a problem in the world and set out to change it – often in small and unexpected ways

Podcasts

Weekend: episode two of a new podcast

Published: April 1, 2022, 2:48 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 39 seconds

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Weekend: episode one of a new podcast

Published: Feb. 5, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 45 seconds

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Comfort Eating with Grace Dent: episode one of a new podcast

Published: July 1, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 46 seconds

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Reverberate: episode 1 of our new series

Published: Feb. 8, 2021, 2:10 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 34 seconds

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Innermost: another episode of our new series

Published: Aug. 3, 2020, 4:26 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 21 seconds

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Innermost: episode 1 of a new series

Published: June 25, 2020, 10:21 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 34 seconds

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'The blood lady': the medical start-up founder saving lives in Nigeria

Published: Dec. 19, 2018, 9:28 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 41 seconds

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'What happened to me will not happen to my daughters': sexual violence in war

Published: Dec. 12, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 48 seconds

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Defying the Taliban: Afghanistan's secret schools for girls

Published: Dec. 5, 2018, 6 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 50 seconds

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'I live in the 21st century, not the 10th': the first female judge in a sharia court

Published: Nov. 28, 2018, 9:08 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 15 seconds

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'Suddenly you have to run for your life': a film-maker's take on life in Sudan

Published: Nov. 21, 2018, 12:12 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 47 seconds

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My father's murderers are still free: taking on Mexico's violent underworld

Published: Nov. 14, 2018, 11:46 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 4 seconds

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'Disability is not the end of the world': reinventing yourself after becoming blind

Published: Nov. 7, 2018, 6 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 9 seconds

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'It's a long fight': the communities devastated by Brazil's dam collapse

Published: Oct. 31, 2018, 6 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 40 seconds

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Capital offence: tackling harassment on public transport in Bogota

Published: Oct. 24, 2018, 6 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 30 seconds

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'Inequality is a poison': campaigning for Muslim women's rights

Published: Oct. 17, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 14 seconds

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Fighting for LGBT rights in a country where lesbians are caned

Published: Oct. 10, 2018, 12:34 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 49 seconds

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Fighting the advance of the desert: the forest maker of the Sahel

Published: Oct. 3, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 16 seconds

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The Mosul historian who risked his life to blog about life under Isis

Published: Sept. 26, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 59 seconds

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'I'm a living manifestation of possibility': South Africa's emissary on disability

Published: Sept. 19, 2018, 6 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 45 seconds

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'It came at a great cost but it was worth it': Bangladesh protests

Published: Sept. 12, 2018, 6 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 50 seconds

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'Dance has done so much for me': the leader of Kenya's slum ballet school

Published: Aug. 22, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 25 seconds

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'Girls who leave militias get rejected': helping child soldiers go home

Published: Aug. 15, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 33 seconds

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The football-loving lawyer moving the goalposts for girls rights in Kenya

Published: Aug. 8, 2018, 6 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 16 seconds

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'I was always a rebel who stood up for my rights': rise of a Tunisian activist

Published: Aug. 1, 2018, 9:56 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 34 seconds

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How opera found an open ear in South Africa's townships

Published: July 25, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 22 seconds

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Resistance 101: the video game going to war on malaria

Published: July 18, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 18 seconds

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The cashless taxi system that's reducing Rwanda's traffic accidents

Published: July 11, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 48 seconds

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The Palestinian engineer using ashes and rubble to rebuild Gaza

Published: July 4, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 24 seconds

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'Half of Indian children are sexually abused': a survivor speaks out

Published: June 27, 2018, 4 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 46 seconds

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The doctor from Myanmar faced with 1 million patients and a plague of rats

Published: June 20, 2018, 4 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 49 seconds

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Executed, disappeared, tortured: the risks of defending human rights

Published: May 30, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 45 seconds

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'Every girl is forced by our culture into FGM': battling for change in Kenya

Published: May 23, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 14 seconds

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'Children were dying of hunger': the doctor fighting for Ecuador's poor podcast

Published: May 16, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 39 seconds

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Could this man end the 35-year tyranny of Cameroon's President Biya?

Published: May 9, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 48 seconds

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'It's everywhere in factories, in the bedroom': fighting India's gender violence

Published: May 2, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 47 seconds

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Sun, sand and thousands of refugees: the Lesbos volunteer

Published: April 25, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 49 seconds

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From cattle herder to big pharma expert: one man's fight to end malaria

Published: April 18, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 36 seconds

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The woman who braves bullets and bombs to uphold her father's legacy in Somalia

Published: April 11, 2018, 11:52 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 20 seconds

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Human experience will always speak louder than any campaign

Published: April 4, 2018, 6 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 37 seconds

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Block like an Egyptian: roller derby team get women's rights on track

Published: March 28, 2018, 6 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 17 seconds

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'Oxfam allegations are tip of iceberg': sexual harassment and aid workers

Published: Feb. 14, 2018, 6 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 37 seconds

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'Everything was clouded by Trump in 2017': a challenging year for poor nations

Published: Dec. 19, 2017, 1:10 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 25 seconds

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'It was unbelievable horror': the Rohingya crisis

Published: Dec. 7, 2017, 9 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 57 seconds

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'Famine as mass atrocity': in conversation with Alex de Waal

Published: Nov. 23, 2017, 12:01 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 5 seconds

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'Making war is easier than making peace': in conversation with Colombia's President Santos

Published: Nov. 8, 2017, 7 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 22 seconds

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'Some people believe disability is contagious': breaking down barriers in Mozambique

Published: Oct. 10, 2017, 9 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 9 seconds

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We need to talk about ... Population and climate change

Published: Oct. 7, 2017, 5 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 19 seconds

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'Without health, people have nothing': Tanzania seeks a political salve podcast

Published: July 28, 2017, 6 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 54 seconds

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Why we need to get contraceptives to teenagers

Published: July 6, 2017, 6:03 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 42 seconds

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How do you solve half a century of bloodshed in Colombia?

Published: April 27, 2017, 12:38 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 15 seconds

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Why is east Africa facing a hunger crisis and what can be done? podcast

Published: March 23, 2017, 1:12 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 20 seconds

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Is child labour always wrong? The view from Bolivia

Published: Feb. 23, 2017, 11:15 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 1 second

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El trabajo infantil en Bolivia: puede justificarse?

Published: Feb. 23, 2017, 11:14 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 40 seconds

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African women form a united front in the battle for equality

Published: Jan. 19, 2017, 7 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 45 seconds

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Zika, drought, conflict: what 2016 meant for the world's poorest

Published: Dec. 21, 2016, 11:21 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 33 seconds

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Como llego Cuba a la mayoria de edad en el desarrollo de la primera infancia

Published: Nov. 16, 2016, 2:55 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 23 seconds

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How Cuba came of age on early childhood development

Published: Nov. 16, 2016, 2:28 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 43 seconds

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How Sri Lanka bit back at mosquitoes and wiped out malaria podcast

Published: Oct. 24, 2016, 8 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 24 seconds

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Why are 63 million girls missing out on education?

Published: Sept. 19, 2016, 6:01 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 7 seconds

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Why Obama's ambition of an Aids-free generation is a pipe dream

Published: Aug. 1, 2016, 8 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 22 seconds

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Africa and the tech revolution: what's holding back the mobile continent?

Published: July 26, 2016, 6 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 42 seconds

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Let's talk about sex: why do we need good sex education? podcast

Published: June 15, 2016, 8 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 57 seconds

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Why are so many children around the world out of school?

Published: May 19, 2016, 2:29 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 20 seconds

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Dentro de La Ciudad de las Mujeres en Colombia

Published: May 12, 2016, 4:02 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 45 seconds

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Inside Colombia's City of Women

Published: April 20, 2016, 9:56 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 34 seconds

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Where drought is the new normal: El Nino worsens food shortages in Malawi and Zimbabwe

Published: March 30, 2016, 8 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 21 seconds

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Democrats v autocrats in Africa: is there a winning formula? podcast

Published: Feb. 25, 2016, 2:11 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 44 seconds

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In the eye of El Nino: landslides and flooding in coastal Peru

Published: Jan. 30, 2016, 7 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 24 seconds

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Paris climate talks turn up the heat on world leaders

Published: Dec. 10, 2015, 1:38 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 53 seconds

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Why are there so few women in power?

Published: Nov. 30, 2015, 4:22 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 57 seconds

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Measuring up: how open data could spur drive to meet global goals

Published: Nov. 4, 2015, 11:17 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 15 seconds

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Can Beyonce, Ed Sheeran and Coldplay make the global goals famous?

Published: Oct. 5, 2015, 12:49 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 26 seconds

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Africa's children: 10 years on

Published: Aug. 31, 2015, 9 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 1 second

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Counting the cost of the Boko Haram crisis

Published: July 30, 2015, noon
Duration: 37 minutes 41 seconds

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Financing the sustainable development goals

Published: June 23, 2015, 9:01 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 58 seconds

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What causes conflict and how can it be resolved?

Published: May 20, 2015, 11:01 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 57 seconds

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Water and sanitation in health centres in Mali

Published: April 28, 2015, 8 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 20 seconds

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Women's human rights defenders under threat

Published: April 2, 2015, 6 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 11 seconds

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Doubled-edged bitcoin: are virtual currencies a plus for poor countries?

Published: Feb. 27, 2015, 10:25 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 32 seconds

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How middle-income countries became fat

Published: Feb. 3, 2015, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 5 seconds

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Climate change to Ebola: what happened next?

Published: Dec. 22, 2014, 3:23 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 36 seconds

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What kind of climate deal will we get in Lima?

Published: Dec. 4, 2014, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 35 seconds

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What does the Ebola crisis reveal about the state of global health?

Published: Oct. 31, 2014, 1:34 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 13 seconds

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What does the Ebola crisis mean for long-term progress in Sierra Leone and Liberia?

Published: Oct. 2, 2014, 10:04 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 11 seconds

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The future for Mali

Published: Aug. 28, 2014, 1:24 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 18 seconds

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Are boys better than girls?

Published: July 24, 2014, 1:28 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 1 second

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Why can't we have human rights and economic growth?

Published: June 27, 2014, 3:25 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 10 seconds

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Should aid be used to boost private enterprise?

Published: May 29, 2014, 10:21 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 32 seconds

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The global battle for clean air

Published: April 24, 2014, 9:44 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 27 seconds

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Debunking myths about Africa

Published: March 31, 2014, 12:45 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 40 seconds

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Are women's movements a force for change?

Published: Feb. 20, 2014, 10:12 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 40 seconds

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Rwanda's health service evolution

Published: Jan. 20, 2014, 2:03 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 7 seconds

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Big philanthropy: are the critics right to be suspicious?

Published: Dec. 19, 2013, 10:38 a.m.
Duration: 5 seconds

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The truth about the cashew trade

Published: Nov. 25, 2013, 10:54 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 58 seconds

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Climate talks: will the COP19 debate in Warsaw help poor countries?

Published: Nov. 11, 2013, 2:08 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 28 seconds

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Global development podcast: Big ideas for development after 2015

Published: Sept. 25, 2013, 10:21 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 7 seconds

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Road safety in the developing world

Published: Aug. 30, 2013, 3:33 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 3 seconds

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Global development podcast: can FGM be eradicated in a generation?

Published: July 29, 2013, 1:35 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 54 seconds

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Global development podcast: why care about mental health?

Published: June 25, 2013, 10:04 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 49 seconds

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Global development podcast: what's at stake at the G8?

Published: May 22, 2013, 9:35 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 16 seconds

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Global development podcast: modern-day slavery in focus

Published: April 18, 2013, 9:28 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 55 seconds

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Global development podcast: water, water everywhere?

Published: March 22, 2013, 10:38 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 23 seconds

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Global development podcast: ending violence against women

Published: Feb. 20, 2013, 10:26 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 34 seconds

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Global development podcast: what is the impact of migration on development?

Published: Jan. 31, 2013, 11:22 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 4 seconds

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Global development podcast: hopes and fears for 2013

Published: Dec. 19, 2012, 1:23 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 1 second

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Global development podcast: farmers, GM crops and agriculture's future

Published: Nov. 21, 2012, 12:17 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 38 seconds

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Global development podcast: what's the key to good urban planning?

Published: Sept. 27, 2012, 12:38 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 30 seconds

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Global development podcast: does sport have a role to play in development?

Published: Aug. 21, 2012, 11:09 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 49 seconds

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Global development podcast: hunger in the Sahel

Published: July 18, 2012, 4:34 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 58 seconds

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Global development podcast: focus on family planning

Published: July 2, 2012, 1:21 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 58 seconds

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Global development podcast: what can Rio+20 achieve?

Published: May 31, 2012, 11:47 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 50 seconds

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Global development podcast: does Kony 2012 offer the right solutions?

Published: April 20, 2012, 10:35 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 8 seconds

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Global development podcast: spotlight on the battle against global poverty

Published: March 27, 2012, 3:34 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 54 seconds

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Global development podcast: focus on the fair trade movement

Published: Feb. 27, 2012, 10:25 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 24 seconds

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Global development podcast: Tunisia, Egypt and the global jobs crisis

Published: Jan. 26, 2012, 7:44 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 18 seconds

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Global development podcast: a look at the big global issues of 2011

Published: Dec. 21, 2011, 11:25 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 55 seconds

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COP17: the issues at stake for developing countries

Published: Nov. 28, 2011, 12:48 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 58 seconds

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Global development podcast: aid and Afghanistan's economy

Published: Oct. 24, 2011, 2:06 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 52 seconds

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Global Development podcast: gender equality

Published: Sept. 26, 2011, 11:38 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 20 seconds

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Global development podcast: coming soon

Published: Sept. 20, 2011, 11:27 a.m.
Duration: 19 seconds

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Global development podcast: population growth

Published: July 27, 2011, 9:24 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 58 seconds

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Global development podcast: what does the future hold for southern Sudan?

Published: June 30, 2011, 12:49 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 52 seconds

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Global development podcast: are we on the brink of a new global food crisis?

Published: May 31, 2011, 9:02 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 14 seconds

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Global development podcast: what role can tourism play in development?

Published: April 28, 2011, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 49 seconds

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Global development podcast: does microfinance help people escape poverty?

Published: April 1, 2011, 11:52 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 5 seconds

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Global development podcast: the securitisation of aid

Published: Feb. 10, 2011, 9:24 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 46 seconds

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Global development podcast: land grabs in Africa

Published: Jan. 28, 2011, 9:42 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 9 seconds

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