The story of a library in a besieged Syrian town which was a lifeline to the community
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How two amateur data detectives revealed the pandemic’s impact.
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Ex Bank of England Governor Mark Carney: building a human-values based economy | RNZ
Mark Carney is the UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Finance Adviser for COP26. He was Governor of the Bank of England until last year, and prior to that was Governor of the Bank of Canada. His new book, Value(s): Building A Better World For All challenges free market fundamentalism and blames it for damaging the values upon which a good society is based. He calls for change in a post-Covid world, where values of sustainability, solidarity and responsibility are embedded into decision-making as a framework to build a better world.
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Calling Home: David Shearer in Juba, South Sudan | RNZ
David Shearer has just delivered his final briefing to the UN Security Council as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General United Nations Mission in South Sudan, capping off a remarkable four-year tenure in Juba.
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Shot in ‘revenge’ for 9/11, Rais Bhuiyan tried to save his attacker’s life
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Roy Jenkins explores why Wales is a spiritual magnet to Christians from abroad.
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Ruth Coker Burks: caring for AIDS patients | RNZ
As a young single mother in Arkansas with no medical training, Ruth Coker Burks cared for around 1000 men dying from AIDS through their final days. This was in the 1980s and 90s when the disease carried such a stigma that patients were shunned by their own families, and neglected by the medical profession at large. She tells the incredible story in her book All The Young Men.
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Mike Berners-Lee: Carbon counting for a liveable future | RNZ
Counting carbon has become a quagmire for consumers trying to understand quite how much impact their travel or work is having on the environment. Quite what the carbon footprint of a business is can be a bit of a moving target and some companies are able to hide their carbon in all sorts of places.
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Tim Harford reports on the global race to vaccinate the world against Covid-19.
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Benjamin Ferencz: last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor | RNZ
100 year old Benjamin Ferencz is a lawyer, writer, thinker and pacifist who investigated Nazi war crimes after the Second World War, and is the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. He was chief prosecutor for the US Army at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, one of the 12 military trials held by the U.S. authorities at Nuremberg in Germany from November 1945 to October 1946. He later became an advocate for the establishment of an International Criminal Court to make war criminals accountable for their actions. In his book Parting Words: 9 Lessons for a Remarkable Life he shares his extraordinary life story and some of the things he has learned along the way. He was also the subject of the 2018 documentary "Prosecuting Evil".
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