Sanne, Tom and Bo are young and idealistic. And like many of their friends and contemporaries, they can’t afford a home at current Amsterdam prices, so they followed a time honoured Dutch tradition: they found an empty apartment building and with a ...

This week, from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, “Who says I can’t” takes on a double meaning. There is the defiance of Eduardo Lopez, and the price it exacts. And then there is the story of those in authority…those who say, you can’t.

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Around one billion people in the world rely on fish as their primary source of protein, but fishermen in many parts of the world are having greater restrictions put on their fishing because of concerns about the level of fish stocks. In this week’s Glo...

In Hong Kong, Bun Chai has been struggling to regain control over his life. He was paralysed from the neck down in an accident twenty years ago. After spending more than a decade in a hospital bed, he made a public appeal for the right to die.

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Disabled people are rarely touched in a loving way or thought of as sexually desirable yet they have the same need for a sexual life as everyone else. In this confronting program John Blades, who has a major disability himself, talks to sex workers abo...

In late August of 2009, an arsonist started a fire that burned more than 160,000 acres in the mountains around Los Angeles County. Known as the Station Fire, it was one of the largest fires in the community's history. Flames reached reported lengths of...

In this first person documentary, Tristan Whiston chronicles his yearlong gender transition, from woman to man, through the change in his singing voice. Tristan Whiston first performed as solo soprano at the age of six. Years of hard work led to an...

Leung Kwok Hung, or “Longhair” as he is better known, has been an active Marxist for forty years. His political activism has led him to be jailed on several occasions and yet in recent years he’s found enough support in traditionally conservative Hong ...

New Zealand is renowned for its sweeping natural landscape, safe, clean-green environment, and ready access to adventure sports and tourism. But how does the landscape influence the character and mentality of those who inhabit it?

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On the South Western edge of Johannesburg, densely populated Soweto is where Freddy and Sibusiso, both young men in their 20s, live and are looking for work. Unemployment among young people there is over 40%, higher than the national average in South A...