Podcast: Pick of the Commonwealth

Pick of the Commonwealth - Our monthly podcast

'Pick of the Commonwealth' is a 30-minute monthly radio programme funded by the Commonwealth Secretariat and produced for the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA).

The views expressed in these programmes and interviews are not necessarily those of the Commonwealth Secretariat.

Download full programme - MP3, 12.1mb (28 Mins 58 secs)

May 2009

• vast areas of central and southern Africa underwater
• the new president of the Maldives talks about his first few months in office
• South Africa's Jacob Zuma — will he be a divisive president
• are Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers finished
• and how Malaysia's Penan people are under threat from loggers, dammers and bio fuels

Download full programme - MP3, 12.3mb (29 Mins 17 secs)

April 2009

• abductions and witchcraft in the Gambia - what is the president up to?
• as the Commonwealth celebrates its 60th birthday, we ask what do the young think of the organisation;
• Canada's indigenous Beaver Lake Cree people fight the oil companies, who they claim are ruining their land and their traditions;
• and with Fiji on the verge of expulsion from the Commonwealth we hear from the New Zealand foreign minister.

Download full programme - MP3, 12.6mb (28 Mins 43 secs)

March 2009

• the new president of the Maldives moves out of the presidential palace and sells off the presidential yacht.
• What's behind the ritual murder of albinos in Tanzania?
• We look at ambitious plans to preserve the Commonwealth's fish stocks.
• and a chance for the Commonwealth's artists and craftsmen to travel the world.

Download full programme - MP3, 11.7mb (29 Mins 15 secs)

February 2009

The Sri Lankan army overpowers Tamil Tiger rebels. Is the war really over? Or will there be retaliation? We look at how the civilians are faring in the war zone, and ask what damage has been done to Sri Lanka's press freedom.

Also: the heated debate about the death penalty in the Caribbean; oil rich Nigeria on the financial rocks and a special anthem for the Commonwealth's 60th birthday.

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January 2009

There's a massive turnout for elections in Bangladesh, after a year's delay.

Also in the programme: a New Zealand journalist arrested and deported in Fiji; the Commonwealth celebrates 60 years of the UN's human human rights charter (but is there much to celebrate?); a new party is born in South Africa; and why does underpopulated Seychelles need to build a town in the sea?

Download full programme - MP3, 12.7mb (28 Mins 57 secs)

Previous editions can be downloaded from the following URL:

http://www.cba.org.uk/pick/index.php