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Jojo Mehta was happy being an armchair activist. But a moment of outrage led her and her best friend to try and change international law – and put the crime of ecocide on the map.

Simon Chambers was initially a reluctant carer, he looked after his exuberant, cantankerous and very theatrical Uncle David for the last 5 years of his life. In the process he learned a lot about how to live and die well.

The death of a whale doesn’t usually make headlines globally but Hvaldimar who was found dead recently was no ordinary whale. He had been suspected of being a ‘spy whale’ for the Russians in the icy waters off Norway. Back in 2021 Emily Webb spoke to the cod fisherman Joar Hesten who befriended the Beluga whale and had hoped to reunite him with his pod.

Gustavo Gorriti has charted the worst of Peru’s recent turbulent history, he exposed human rights abuses committed by the Shining Path guerrillas and the military and later revealed links between drug money and government. His reporting made him extremely unpopular with those in power. His mantra is ‘fear cannot be your editor’.

Presenter: Asya Fouks
Producer: Erin Riley

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