11/05/2009

Human stories from behind the global headlines. With Matthew Bannister.

On today's programme: A miscarriage of justice; sacred election; and generation 2012.

Miscarriage of Justice
TJ Jimenez from Chicago was 13 when he was arrested for a murder he didn't commit. He has just been released after serving 16 years in prison. TJ's mother, Victoria Jimenez, tells Matthew Bannister what it was like to be reunited with her son after all these years.

Sacred Election
Anthropologist Dr Mukulika Banerjee tells Outlook about the importance of voting in the elections for India's poorest and most illiterate people.

Generation 2012
Outlook's Jane Chambers meets Danielle Harriette - another of the teenagers living in the shadow of London's Olympic village site, who we are following in the run up to the big event.