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UPDATED RELEASE: Security Check: Confronting Today's Global Threats

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Globalization confers a mixed blessing upon the world. Threats to health and security move across national borders as easily as information and capital. Can we find global responses to these global challenges? "Security Check: Confronting Today's Global Threats" will focus on personal stories illustrating some of the most dangerous threats facing the world today: weapons of mass destruction, HIV/AIDS, civil war, small arms, interstate conflict, terrorism, and organized crime. These stories will be woven with the relevance and potential impact on America and Americans, as well as the latest efforts to find collective answers to these shared problems. David Brancaccio, host and editor of the PBS weekly series NOW hosts and reports for the special one-hour documentary. "Security Check: Confronting Today's Global Threats" is produced by Simon Marks, Kristin McHugh, and Keith Porter. "Security Check: Confronting Today's Global Threats" is a Stanley Foundation production in association with KQED Public Radio.

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Review of UPDATED RELEASE: "Security Check: Confronting Today's Global Threats" - A Documentary Special

This well produced programme works on the central thesis that today’s major global threats are all interconnected: conflict, poverty, disease, terrorism are all global problems that need global solutions.
Short, on-the- spot pieces illustrate the theme. The ongoing civil conflict in Uganda, the vulnerability of Russia’s nuclear material to hijacking, the link between terrorism and organized crime, the AIDS situation in Thailand and Columbia’s drug and para military related instability. The documentary is capped with an interview with Kofi Anan who talks of the link between security and development. An articulate narration by anchor David Brancaccio ties them together.
The pieces are all succinct, have good interviewees (though as a European broadcaster I do prefer longer sound bites than the ones featured here) and they link the global threats very well. The piece on Uganda and the threat of children being kidnapped by the venal Lords Resistance Army was good – it’s a subject that certainly should get more airplay than its been getting – though I found Kristen McHugh’s chanting delivery irritating.
The programme is tightly written, uses illustrative sound well, and stays well focused in its presentation of the central theme. But it is perhaps a bit too stuffed with good information. It’s a programme that demands concentrated listening – but a listener prepared to give that would be well compensated.

Broadcast History

"Security Check: Confronting Today's Global Threats" was originally released as part of the 2005 Public Radio Collaboration.

THIS RELEASE CONTAINS ADDED CONTENT AND DOES NOT REFERENCE THE COLLABORATION.

Timing and Cues

00:00 ? 00:59 Billboard (CD Track One)

01:00 ? 05:59 Insert Newscast (5 minutes of silence embedded)

06:00 ? 21:09 Program (CD Track Two)
Segment A
Outcue: ?I?m David Brancaccio. More after this.?

21:10 ? 22:09 Break
:59 music bed followed by one second of silence

22:10 ? 42:12 Program
Segment B
Outcue: ?I?m David Brancaccio. More after this.?

42:13 ? 42:43 Break
:59 music bed followed by one second of silence

42:44 ? 58:59 Program
Segment C
Outcue: ??on the Web at stanleyfoundation.org.?

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Related Website

http://radio.stanleyfoundation.org/securitycheck