The Weekend Documentary: CEO Guru
Length: 23 minutes
Available to broadcast: Through May 4th
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Description: Author and management expert Steve Tappin talks to a range of top chief executives about their values, their dreams and how they hope to lead their companies to success in the 21st century.
With China now becoming the world’s second biggest economy it looks increasingly as if Asia will provide much of the impetus for global growth for many years to come. But as the center of economic gravity begins to move from West to East, what impact will there be on the world of business? What new challenges will companies face as the center of economic gravity begins to shift? And how can business leaders ensure that they steer their enterprises in the right direction?
In the Balance: The Root of All Good?
Length: 23 minutes & 26 minutes 30 seconds
Available to broadcast: Through May 3rd
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Description: In this hour long special of In the Balance we look at The Root of All Good? Capitalism has done more to lift people out of poverty in emerging markets than all the aid of western governments. For that reason alone, doesn’t it make sense to embrace an economic system that creates much needed wealth? Or does capitalism represent an unhealthy love of money, which leads to an elite becoming very rich whilst vast swathes of society are excluded?
The debate will be hosted by Justin Rowlatt, with the program’s in-house regular contributor Colm O’ Regan on hand with his mixture of wit and good humor.
Voices from the Ghetto
Length: 53 minutes
Available to broadcast: Through June 23rd (TBC)
Clock: This program is unclocked. It is 53 minutes of content without breaks
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Description: The Warsaw Ghetto exists now only as a memory, virtually all physical traces were destroyed in 1943 along with its inhabitants. A handful of photographs and official Nazi film give a distorted picture of its unnatural life. But a unique history of verbatim accounts, documents and artifacts represents the most powerful and accurate memory of this vanished city. These are the archives of Oyneg Shabbat (Joy of the Sabbath) – the codename for an astonishing, secret project to record the history, life and death of the Jewish Ghetto.
The archive begins even as the Germans created the grotesque prison city of the ghetto, forcibly separating the Jewish population of Warsaw from their Catholic neighbors and destroying the city both physically and as the center of Eastern European Jewish life.
Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum, the archive included surveys on schooling, smuggling, the life of the streets, the bitter jokes, the price of bread. Members of the project gathered posters, songs, newspapers, pamphlets and even tram tickets that together convey the essence of the Ghetto. As the half-million strong community was pulled from its apartments, transported to Treblinka and murdered, these researchers collected scraps of testimony scribbled in notebooks and thrown from train windows.
Nearly all those who worked on the project were murdered, including Ringelblum himself. But in the final days of the Ghetto and the Uprising that followed, the archive was buried in the ruins to be finally recovered after the war.