Global Perspective is an annual series in which documentary makers from around the world (including RTHK) bring together stories that offer unique perspectives and thoughts on a single theme. This year's theme is "Old School, New School".
Latest episodes
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28 min
The war of the camphor laurels by ABC 13-5-2012
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 yo…
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28 min
Old School, New School by RTE 6-5-2012
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 teac…
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28 min
Black Broadway & Little Ethiopia By WAMU: American University Radio 29-4-2012
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…
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28 min
BBC World Service - A Family Business 15-4-2012
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 toget…
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28 min
Chatsworth - A Chance for Change By SAfm 22-4-2012
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 ch…
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34 min
The Gristle in the Stew by CBC 8-4-2012
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, Ont…
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28 min
GP2012: Backstage at the Opera by RTHK 1-4-2012
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 m…
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28 min
WAMU-Couscous and Cultural Diplomacy 24-4-2011
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 adapt…
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28 min
SAFM - 'The Ancestors are Calling'
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 contempor…
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27 min
RNZ - ‘Who Says I Can’t…Serve?’
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 g…
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29 min
RNW - Don’t Tell Me I Can’t
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 honoure…
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30 min
CBC - Escape from Honduras
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…
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28 min
BBC - Who says I can’t …Fish?
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 fishin…
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26 min
RTHK - In His Own Right
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 i…
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30 min
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation - The Too Hard Basket
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 J…
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26 min
Soundprint - Feet First
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 larg…
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27 min
CBC - Middle C
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 perfo…
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28 min
RTHK - Longhair
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 re…
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28 min
RNZ – Here and Now
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 th…
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28 min
SAfm - At the Edge in Soweto
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 you…