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Last broadcast on Thu, 16 Feb 2012, 11:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Can Greece ever come back from this crisis? Paul Mason's on the road to Patras and encountering a deep sense of gloom as the country's debt drama moves into a new phase. Andrew North is in the Maldives where there's been regime change and little in the way of opposition from the international community. As relations between Russia and the West nosedive amid arguments over Syria, a tale from Steve Rosenberg about the time when two Englishmen used football to boost productivity in Russian textile factories. Africa's big football match - Tamasin's Ford's at a sweltering screening in a refugee camp in Liberia. And very different weather in County Mayo: the winds howl and the hail lashes down as Kieran Cooke inspects a construction causing controversy in the far west of Ireland.
Chapters
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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
Paul Mason finds out how the economic crisis is affecting lives and livelihoods beyond the Greek capital, Athens.
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Chapter 3
On a visit to Achill Island, off the far west coast of Ireland - up a mountain and in the middle of a bog - sits a magnificently mysterious and modern monument locals are calling Achill-henge.
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Chapter 4
In the capital Male, Andrew North finds there is little opposition from the international community over the country’s recent regime change.
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Chapter 5
Steve Rosenberg reflects on how two Englishmen used football to boost productivity in Russian textile factories and finds out what Russians really think about Westerners.
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Chapter 6
In a refugee camp in Liberia, Tamasin Ford watches a screening of a football match, where there appears to be more at stake than winning or losing the game.
Broadcast
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Thu 16 Feb 201211:00
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