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Keeping the Peace for US market

The Like It Is series, "Keeping the Peace" has been picked up by Boston's PRI The World to be broadcast across the US. Audrey Brown travelled to Liberia to speak to peacekeepers and Liberians themselves about the challenges of the past and present.

Race and Reconciliation on the World Service

Audrey Brown investigates the issue of racism in the new South Africa. Can the notions of race and reconciliation sit comfortably side-by-side? Shortlisted for an AIB award and selected as Radio Choice by The Times - "an excellent three part series".

Cry Rape makes headlines

"Cry Rape" which was broadcast on BBC 1Xtra has generated debate and interest across the BBC - being featured on the home page of BBC News Online, BBC World Service, Radio 1's Newsbeat and on a number of local BBC stations across the UK.

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Womb for Rent
BBC World Service, January 2012
Producer: Dawn Trump
Womb for Rent

Is outsourcing pregnancy to India exploitative or mutually beneficial?

With surrogacy costing up to $70,000 in the U.S.A. compared to only $12,000 in India, many Western women are outsourcing pregnancy abroad. It's a multimillion dollar industry that sees rural Indians receive the equivalent of 10 years' salary. Over the course of nine months, this documentary follows the lives of two women who in each other seek solutions to the problems of poverty and infertility. (more)

An African Asian Affair
BBC Radio 4, November 2011
Producer: Vivienne Perry
Presenter: Vishva Samani
An African Asian Affair

Vishva Samani, a descendent of British Asian Ugandans, returns to the country of her family and witnesses the rekindling of a relationship with the land her parents left behind almost 40 years on.

Set against the trauma that came with being expelled from Uganda in 1972 and the fierce resilience of the Asian community in re-establishing their lives and livelihoods in the UK, Vishva explores the motivations and the current challenges faced by those British Asians who have chosen to make Uganda their focus. (more)

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