RN Documentary: Running with Atalanta
Series: RN Documentaries
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Length: 00:29:30
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Ten years ago, two young women were studying law ? one in The Netherlands and the other in Latvia. Years later their lives would intersect in what the United Nations has called the fastest growing criminal activity in the world: human trafficking. Both women have written about their experiences ? Ruth Hopkins as an advocate and Anna Ziverte as a victim of trafficking. And both women are critical of the Dutch system that tends to view the victims as criminals themselves. Their stories are told within a tale from Ovid?s Metamorphoses. The virgin huntress Atalanta could outrun any man. She was defeated only with the intervention of Venus and the tempting allure of three golden apples. The program is produced by David Swatling.
Transcript
?Running with Atalanta?
Produced & Presented by David Swatling
Sound Engineer: Peter Bos
SCRIPT
VOX INTRO: Radio Netherlands presents Vox Humana. I?m David Swatling. The theme of this year?s international collaboration Global Perspective is Crime. According to the United Nations, human trafficking has become the fastest growing criminal activity in the world. The number of women trafficked and exploited in the sex trade in Europe is estimated to be as high as 700,000 per year ? with nearly a third trafficked from Eastern European countries. But victims of trafficking in The Netherlands are sometimes viewed as criminals themselves. I explore attempts by two young woman to change this contradictory perception in ?Running with Atalanta.?
MUSIC1: ?The Feeling Begins? ? Peter Gabriel
Track 1 ? From Start
READING ? OVID:
Perhaps thou may'st have heard a virgin's name,...
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The Feeling Begins CD Passion Virgin RWCD1 P.Gabriel P.Gabriel 8?00?
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Michael Johnson
Posted on April 26, 2006 at 10:13 PM | Permalink
Review of RN Documentary: Running with Atalanta
Radio Netherlands David Swatling presents this edition of Vox Humana, with an eye on human trafficking, from the perspective of a Latvian woman who was herself a victim, and an author.
Woven with passges from Ovid, courtroom hearings and personal interviews, it is deeply affecting.
It is a story which play out in letters and music writ with somber tones, but as a weekday evening programming, listeners will again know why they listen to public radio.