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20/05/2013

Selection of BBC World Service Programmes BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.

Crossing Continents

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Sexual Abuse in US Prisons

Duration:
28 minutes
First broadcast:
Thursday 06 December 2012

Linda Pressly investigates why rape and sexual abuse is so common in America's huge prison system - and asks if new measures to fight it will succeed.
Producer: Helen Grady.
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    The Angola 2

    Find out what life has been like for the men who spent 40 years in solitary confinement.

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    24 Hours in Tulsa

    Police officer Jay Chiarito-Mazarrella has a cult following for his Street Story podcasts.

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    The Children of Dushanbe

    Angus Crawford reports on how girls who'd been raped were detained for being 'degenerate'.

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    The Pink Certificate

    Emre Azizlerli reports on the humiliatiing tests homosexual men face in the Turkish army.

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