Snow, Slaves, Shoes and Gary Shteyngart
How climate change might make it harder to find future Winter Olympics host cities.
We look at the findings of a new report suggesting that climate change might make it increasingly difficult in the decades ahead to find a city suitable for hosting the Winter Olympics. We also hear how American evangelists and missionaries are whipping up anti-gay sentiment in Russia and elsewhere overseas. A young woman who escaped domestic servitude discusses America鈥檚 modern-day slavery problem. The story of how a photo-journalist got her editors in the US to pay attention to refugees from South Sudan by focusing her lens on the refugees鈥� shoes. And novelist Gary Shteyngart on growing up as an 茅migr茅 from Soviet Russia in 1980s America.
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Climate Change and the Olympics
How warming weather patterns could make it difficult to stage future Winter Olympic Games
Duration: 04:01
Anti-gay Campaigners
American evangelists and missionaries play a role in anti-gay sentiment overseas
Duration: 04:45
Modern-Day Slavery
How one woman became the property of a family in Egypt at the age of eight
Duration: 04:35
Refugee Shoes
The photos of shoes that put the spotlight on the plight of South Sudan's refugees
Duration: 03:25
Gary Shteyngart
Russian-American satirist on his new memoir Little Failure
Duration: 04:43
Made in the USA
A TV ad by Italian-owned Chrylser reminds Americans that they are still an American icon
Duration: 03:36
Shoes
An American photographer drew attention to the plight of refugees from South Sudan only after focusing her camera on their shoes.Broadcasts
- Sat 8 Feb 2014 04:32GMT麻豆社 World Service Online
- Sun 9 Feb 2014 01:32GMT麻豆社 World Service Online
- Sun 9 Feb 2014 15:32GMT麻豆社 World Service Online
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