15/04/2009

Human stories from behind the global headlines. With Lucy Ash.

On today's programme: Bernard Madoff's lawyer; Native American pt 3; and the public speaking judge.

Madoff's lawyer
Attorney Ira Sorkin represents Bernard Madoff, the US financier who has pleaded guilty to fraud for having stripped thousands of people in the United States of their life savings. So how does it feel to defend one of the world's greatest conmen? Ira Sorkin told Lucy Ash that he's been receiving hate mail and death threats.

Native America Part 3
In the third part of her series looking at what it means to be Native American in today's USA, Siobhann Tighe visits the Reservation of Acoma and finds out about the community's health and drug problems.

John Amaechi
John Amaechi is a former NBA basketball star, trained psychologist and motivational speaker, and he is now a judge on the British TV talent show The Speaker - a contest to find the best young public speaker in the UK. He told Outlook why he thinks public speaking makes for entertaining and worthwhile television.