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5 months ago
Why should I be happy?
Governments and policy makers are concerned over our individual happiness. This year, the UK's Office of National Statistics (ONS) began compiling ...
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2 years ago
Chill out about DDT
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Scientist Joe Kaplinsky takes a sober look at the controversial chemical DDT, noting that it is one of the most effective pest...
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2 years ago
Share the pain
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As we head into the deepest recession since the 14th century, a new report published today by the Mutual Agony Foundation reve...
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2 years ago
Tales from the Missionary Hut: Solar Ovens
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An invention sure to impress and change the world is the solar oven. Made out of cardboard and tinfoil with a lick of black pa...
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2 years ago
On the run against immigration controls
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Meet the women who made it their mission to run the 5K Adidas Challenge in Londons Hyde Park to put the case for Open Borders ...
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2 years ago
Dont stop me now: The Calais jungle & No Borders Camp
French immigration minister Eric Besson has said he will clear the makeshift tents in Calais known as the jungle. This report by Onyeka Igwe, revea...
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3 years ago
The Swan Gala night
A drag ballet dancer performs The Swan and Africans want flushing loos in this glimpse of WORLDwrite's Gala night. Director Ceri Dingle explains, "...
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3 years ago
Taking Liberties: The fight for rights and rights handed down from on high (Part 1)
WORLDbytes volunteers gained an exclusive peek at the British Librarys Taking Liberties exhibition, including an interview with curator Matthew Sha...
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3 years ago
Taking Liberties: The fight for rights and rights handed down from on high (Part2)
WORLDbytes volunteers gained an exclusive peek at the British Librarys Taking Liberties exhibition, including an interview with curator Matthew Sha...
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3 years ago
Taking Liberties: The fight for rights and rights handed down from on high (Part 3)
WORLDbytes volunteers gained an exclusive peek at the British Librarys Taking Liberties exhibition, including an interview with curator Matthew Sha...
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3 years ago
Change4Life or life for a change?
In an exclusive interview for WORLDbytes, Hackney GP Dr Michael Fitzpatrick dams the government's Change4Life campaign which aims to tackle obesity...
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3 years ago
Modern movement protest in support of third runway
In an interview for WORLDbytes a Modern Movement co-founder explains why they have planned a protest in support of the Third Runway at Heathrow and...
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3 years ago
Flush it
This is the trailer for Flush it. This compelling documentary interweaves concerns about local water shortages, global water scarcity and toilet hi...
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3 years ago
Alien Zlog and sidekick Asbo investigate ...
Alien Zlog and his sidekick Asbo report back to their planet, Zorlich, on the terrible plight of robotic shoppers, known as people. From Eastenders...
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3 years ago
London Behind the Scenes
Transporting you through time from the creation of the docks to the present day, the Docks and Dockers tour tells the truth about trade and the cha...
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3 years ago
The women who ran for Open Borders
Volunteers made freedom of movement the issue on the 5k women's challenge. If you find immigration laws as backward, restrictive and repulsive as w...
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3 years ago
Chill out with our scientist on water
On the WORLDbytes Chill Out Desk scientist Joe Kaplinsky helps us realise water is not something we should worry about.
In 1858 London suffered wha...
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3 years ago
Solutions to spoon crime dessert experts
Spoon gangs roam the street armed with big ladles, little pointed teaspoons and plastic un-recyclable spoons. One spoon crime victim tells us she w...
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3 years ago
Aliens are flummoxed by our ethical shopping habits
Reporting on the humanoid ethical shopping phenomenon that makes us both happy and smug, alien correspondent Asbo hits the streets to find out more...
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3 years ago
Are we what we eat?
Historically, food was about sustenance and survival; for too much of the world in the twenty-first century, it still is. But as societies develop ...
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3 years ago
Think BIG
Think BIG showcases Ghanaians with big aspirations and big plans. Flash hotels, fab homes and full-on modernity are where it's at; dependence makes...
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3 years ago
A letter to Geldof
Bob Geldof visited Ghana for the TV series Geldof in Africa and wrote about it in the accompanying book, describing his crowning as the Chief of De...
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3 years ago
I'm a subsistence farmer... get me out of here! Premiere
Don't miss the premiere on Sunday 16th December in London! For more details visit: www.worldwrite.org.uk/subsiste
ncefarmer As Westerners celebrate...
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3 years ago
Cash Back
Shot in Brick Lane in the heart of London's East End, this film reveals the extent of remittances.This is money sent by migrants and Diasporas to f...
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3 years ago
Checkmate
This is a film made by Amin Ali, a WORLDwrite volunteer, who for years has also organised - voluntarily - football tournaments for hundreds of youn...
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3 years ago
Monitoring Sexual Orientation
Monitoring of volunteers' sexual orientation is becoming as accepted a method of promoting "good practice" in the voluntary sector as asking people...
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3 years ago
WORLDwrite Newsreel: Who should we trust?
The latest WORLDwrite news programme examines the new vetting laws coming into force in August 2008, which may impact seriously on volunteering in ...
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3 years ago
The More the Merrier Trailer
The More the Merrier examines the impact of immigration. Through inspired argument and the story of one young Indian woman's desire to stay in the ...
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4 years ago
G8 Uncovered
A film to coincide with the 2007 G8 summit in Germany
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4 years ago
Keeping Africa Small Premiere
Don't miss the premiere on Sunday 16th December in London! For more details visit: www.worldwrite.org.uk/keepinga
fricasmall From small scale proje...
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I'm certainly not richer than 10 years ago, but I'm definitely happier. And as Daniel Ben-Ami says, it's impossible to be 12 out of 10 happy, which is me if we go by Action for Happiness' scale!
The government interfere way too much in our lives as it is; nobody, especially the government, has th...