Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,24 Jan 2011,25 mins

24/01/2011

Outlook

Available for over a year

AFTERMATH OF THE BRAZILIAN MUDSLIDES Fifteen year old Pedro tells Matthew Bannister about being rescued from the mudslides by his father Magno de Jesus Andrade, and his father describes how he had to break Pedro's leg in order to save his life. Also, we hear from Mauricio Berlim who runs an undertakers in Teresopolis and has helped hundreds of people to identify the bodies of their loved ones. THE ROMA PEOPLE Tessa Dunlop reports on the fate of the Roma people who were forced out of France last summer and have ended up living back in Romania. HEATHER CIROTA Heather Cirota tells Matthew about her life as a shadcan, or traditional Jewish matchmaker, helping young people in Jerusalem's ultra orthodox Haredi community to find a partner. She explains why she believes that it's her human intuition that matches couples so successfully.

Programme Website
More episodes