Augusto Boal
Monday 7 April 2008 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Gabriel Gbadamosi talks to journalist and historian Misha Glenny about his new book McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers, which explores the world of international crime networks. The product of three years' research in five different countries, the book argues that the shadow economy now accounts for as much as 20 per cent of the world's GDP.
He also talks to innovative Brazilian theatre director and politician Augusto Boal, recently nominated for the Nobel Peace. Boal is noted for having pioneered the Theatre of the Oppressed, a type of popular drama aimed at engineering social change through eliciting audience participation in the narrative.
Memorial to the late Viktor Kulivar Karabas
Memorial to the late Viktor Kulivar Karabas
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Mischa Glenny
On Nightwaves Gabriel Gbadamosi talks to journalist and historian Misha Glenny talks about his new book McMafia, Crime without Frontiers, which explores the terrifying world of international criminal networks. The collapse of communism and the Soviet Union has led to the emergence of transitional and failing states. This, coupled with the liberalisation of the global financial markets, has triggered an enormous growth in global organised crime.
McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers is published by The Bodley Head
Augusto Boal
Gabriel talks to Augusto Boal, founder of the radical theatre movement, the Theatre of the Oppressed and who is considered to be one of the most influential theatre practitioners on the world stage post war. His method - which has empowered thousands of people around the world to demand their rights - started in the Arena Theatre in Sao Paulo in the late 1950s. Boal has been nominated for this year's Nobel peace prize.
Zimbabwe
As Zimbabwe waits to learn whether the court will demand the release of the election results, Gabriel Gbadamosi is joined by Knox Chitiyo Head of the Africa Programme, the leading forum in the UK for national and international Defence and Security and Patrick Smith editor of the magazine Africa Confidential to talk about the way in which the affair is being portrayed in the media, both here and in Southern Africa itself. Is the coverage perceived as balanced and reflecting the reality on the ground, is it possible for Western media, particularly British, to cover a situation neutrally in the context of its colonial past. Is the media itself a new kind of colonialism?
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