RTHK：Global Perspective

Stand at the Bellingen look-out, high above one of the many river valleys on the north coast of Australia’s New South Wales, and waves of camphor laurel trees spread out beneath you. Camphors and more camphors as far as the eye can see… Huge exotic inv...

In this week's episode of our Global Perspective series "Old School, New School", RTE Radio 1 Ireland's Sarah Blake travelled to the Gambia, West Africa, where a group retired teachers are bringing the lessons they have learned as educators in Ireland ...

In this week’s episode of our Global Perspective series “Old School, New School”, presenter Andrea Wenzel of WAMU American University Radio visits a historically Black neighborhood in Washington DC. When Ethiopian businesses moved in , they caused some...

The BBC World Service Mair Bosworth visits A Family Business in the East end of London to find out some of the conflicts involved when two generations of the same family work together.

15-4-2012

SAfm presents you a story of addiction in the township of Chatsworth near Durban. Chatsworth was set up as an Indian township under apartheid in the 1960s and retains its Indian character today.

Chervon Chetty who grew up in Durban with relatives i...

Late November 2011, Ontario Superior Court Justice Patrick Moore set a trial date, September 2013, for the first of a series of class actions suits against three, nowshuttered, Ontario institutions for the developmentally disabled.

Former residents,...

To the untrained ear and eye, Cantonese Opera is bewildering. It’s a highly stylized art form that dates back perhaps eight hundred years and involves complex costumes, elaborate make-up and hair, formalized gestures, story lines from Chinese history a...

In this last episode of the Global Perspective series, WAMU producer Andrea Wenzel finds out how a gay couple runs an Algerian American restaurant — and wrestle with cultural adaptation, American identity, and small town politics. (Sun 8.30am~9am) 24...

In this week's Global Perspective’s, Lesego Mangwanyane of SAFM radio in Johannesburg in 'The Ancestors are Calling' explores the role of sangomas, traditional healers in contemporary South African life, and wonders anxiously if she herself is destined...

In this Radio New Zealand contribution to the 2011 Global Perspectives series, we feature the story of a gay naval officer, Lieutenant-Commander Kevin Sanderson. Along with other gay and lesbian Defence personnel, Kevin Sanderson is able to serve his c...