China's Contamination Crisis

Available for over a year

Twenty per cent of Chinese farmland is contaminated with toxic chemicals. Cadmium, nickel and arsenic have been detected in large quantities. The FT's Lucy Hornby, in Beijing, investigates. Follow a Syrian woman trying to rent an apartment in Beirut, where prices have doubled since the start of the civil war. Hear what's hot at the New York Auto Show as manufacturers bounce back after years in the doldrums. The University of Melbourne's Professor Danny Samson is with presenter Rob Young throughout the programme, giving his own take on the state of Australia's economy, and Kai Rysdall from our US sister show, Marketplace, learns all about the men who sold the moon.