Special guest Mourad Diouri and Alicia Ludwig share their knowledge and personal experience of the Arab Spring

Also:
Guest contributor Sean Vanonckelen talks about Vladimir Putin's controversial bid to retake the Russian Presidency

Margot Mottaz discusses the state of language learning in British schools

In other news: Darth Vader applies for a plot of land to land his space cruiser... In Colombia, rats are being trained to search for landmines... Calcutta's Howrah bridge is being dangerously corroded by the spit of pedestrians...

Episode 4

In our first show of the new year, special guest Professor Mark Aspinwall, Professor of Politcs and Head of Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh talks to us about what we can expect from 2012, discussing topics as wide-ranging as the repurcussions of the Arab Spring, the Eurozone Crisis and the upcoming American elections.
Guest contibutor Andie Cockrell discusses Russian democracy, or lack thereof

Margot Mottaz informs us about Apple's external audit of their Chinese factories and the release of the iPad 3

In other news: Bouncing eggs provoke a health scare in China... Five killer wales have been named as plaintiffs in an unprecedented legal case in the USA... Zagreb's Museum of Broken Relationships exhibits the pain of failed relationships...


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