24 August, 2007 - Published 14:59 GMT

On Outlook this week

Outlook reporter Anton Foek seems to have a thing about place names.

Hot on the heels of his reports from the towns of Outlook in Washington State and Paradise in Northern California, he's now in Bobbywood in Rio de Janeiro.

Bobbywood - not internationally famous - is the nickname for the corner of a favela or shantytown in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, which an English expatriate has made his home.

64-year-old Bob Nadkarni - a friend of Anton Foek's - originally moved to Brazil as a foreign television news reporter.

And, as we'll hear on Wednesday's programme, he's still involved in film but he's also an artist, jazz venue host, and runs a small hotel in his home, known as The Maze.

Before that...

On Monday we'll be talking to one of the people who, just over a week ago, was on board a hijacked plane in Turkey.

And we'll hear how enterprising but unemployed students in Cameroon are using their spare time to good effect by mending the country's roads.

On Tuesday we'll be hearing from television reporter Christiane Amanpour who's just produced a new film called God's Warriors. The film profiles extremists in Christianity, Islam and Judaism who believe life and politics should be dictated by religion.

And we'll be talking to Meredith Hooper, who chronicles the life of Adelie penguins in Antarctica in her book the Ferocious Summer.

On Wednesday, in addition to our visit to Bobbywood, we'll be talking to a man who tried to find a wife by setting up a website called 'are you my wife?'

And TV presenter Bruce Parry will join us to talk about living with different tribes all over the world for his TV series 'Tribe'.

On Thursday Afro-American listener Leslie O'Neil goes home after letting her hair grow naturally for the first time. She explains why natural/straightened is so controversial back home.

And on Friday we'll be hearing from J.B Rutagarama, the Rwandan filmmaker who was adopted as a child by a US reporter during the genocide but who has now returned to Rwanda.

So, all in all, quite a few filmmakers, TV presenters and authors this week...

I wonder whether any of them have worked in Bobbywood?

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