Chef Gary Thomas has a lot on his plate. That’s because he’s in the business of feeding thousands of people a day on a ship in the middle of the ocean. Not just any ship – the Star of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world. 

The Weekend Intelligence’s senior producer Barclay Bram braved a trip to the Bahamas to try to figure out the secret behind one of the most impressive food operations in the world. 

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Seventy years ago, a small Christian community in rural Georgia became an unlikely battleground in America’s fight over civil rights. Koinonia was founded on a radical idea: that black and white families should live, work and worship together as equals. For the people of nearby Americus, that belief was heresy. What followed was years of boycotts, gunfire, cross burnings and isolation.

Lenny Jordan grew up in the middle of it. As a child he learned to distinguish the sound of a passing car from the sound of one slowing to shoot. His father, Clarence Jordan - farmer, preacher - refused to compromise his principles, even as the Klan targeted his family and the community was boycotted.

This autumn, our Southern correspondent Rebecca Jackson travelled with Lenny back to the farm. There he confronts the scars of a childhood spent in the crosshairs - and asks what it means to cling to your convictions when your country feels like it is slipping backwards.

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In Japan, the last witnesses to the horror of nuclear destruction are approaching the end of their lives. And as they die out, nuclear weapons no longer seem to induce the same degree of revulsion they once did. The arms control architecture built up during the Cold War is crumbling and existing nuclear powers are modernising their arsenals. More states are considering acquiring nuclear weapons. Now, more than ever, we need survivor stories to remind us of the consequences of their use. 

In this episode of The Weekend Intelligence our East Asia Bureau Chief, Noah Sneider meets the hibakusha, the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and asks how do we keep their memories alive?

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