JAMES WOLFENSOHN INTERVIEW - Wednesday 1st Nov., 2007
An
Australian internationalist we probably don't hear enough from here at
home. Depending on your level of scepticism, it may seem contradictory
that a man with a personal fortune estimated at around $350 million has
been called a spokesperson for the world's poor.
But that's how they
described James Wolfensohn when he headed up the powerful, but hugely
controversial World Bank. Of Jewish descent, a master networker not
without his fierce critics, more recently the former Sydney lawyer and
merchant banker, served as an envoy to the Middle East. George Negus
spoke with him via satellite from New York.
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DR SEIN WIN INTERVIEW - Wednesday 18th October, 2007
George
Negus speaks with Doctor Sein Win, the Prime Minister of the National
Coalition Government of the Union of Burma."
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ISRAELS' ULTRA ORTHODOX - Thursday, 18 October, 2007
It
seems that the unending conflict between the Israelis and the
Palestinians is never out of the news, but there is another battle in
the Jewish state that is far less obvious to outsiders.
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THE POVERTY BUSTERS : Grameen Bank founder Dr Muhammad Yunus
- Wednesday 3rd October, 2007
A
quick turnaround, 24-hour window of opportunity, to be in the country
of Bangladesh, for a very special reason, George Negus is actually in
Dhaka, the capital of a cripplingly poor, disastrously flood-prone, and
currently politically turbulent nation, for a very special reason.
Dhaka, by the way, is known as the rickshaw capital of the world.
George can't imagine why. And we think we've got traffic problems.
George has come to interview arguably one of Bangladesh's most famous
sons, Dr Muhammad Yunus. But first this steamy teeming, troubled place,
Bangladesh.
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Please Note: More interviews will be added as time permits.