Worldwrite
About this original series
WORLDwrite documentaries are made by volunteers in collaboration with Chew On It Productions. Our documentaries are uncompromising in their campaign for global equality. WORLDwrite the charity arranges events, conferences, global exchanges, documentary filmmaking and free film training to champion aspirations and insist on the best for all. Keen to put its money where its mouth is, the charity also assists partner groups in developing countries with anything and everything from PCs to film schools to funds for a factory. WORLDwrite is volunteer led and run has an open door policy and encourages all-comers to get involved and recognise there are no limits to what's possible.
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# Episodes
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Rating
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Episodes of Worldwrite
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Designer people: is technology making us less hu...
Technological advances have benefitted humanity; we can all see how fitting prosthetic limbs to amputees can raise no moral objections. But how might we respond if designers invite us to upgrade to Arm 2.0 or Brain 4.0? Is there a point where technology transforms what it means to be human and should we be wary or embrace it? Speakers include Daisy Ginsberg, design fellow, Synthetic Aesthetics, Stanford University/University of Edinburgh; Professor Andy Miah, director, Creative Futures Researc...
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Release date
Apr 26, 2012
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Runtime
44:30
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Loyalty in an age of whistle-blowing & Wikileaks
Until recently, leaking confidential information was perceived as disloyal and irresponsible and not only was it rare but involved a moral dilemma. Yet now, it is secrecy, confidentiality and privacy that are stigmatised and Wikileaks is lauded for enabling individuals to spill the beans. Is this development a triumph for transparency or a blow to moral integrity? This debate is superb and speakers include Mick Hume, editor-at-large, spiked; writer, The Times; Joyce McMillan, theatre critic, S...
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Release date
Apr 26, 2012
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Runtime
01:21:46
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Tales from the Missionary Hut: Eco-bricks
Ever thought about building your own house, or putting up a garden wall with just the mud you have around you? Forget expensive builders’ costs and environmentally oh-so-painful machinery to do your work. Here’s how to do it yourself. Do let us know how you get on
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Release date
Apr 26, 2012
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Runtime
03:47
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Open Borders: Natascha’s story
This exciting new strand features volunteer’s stories of migration. Natascha’s story interweaves lessons from history with contemporary political insights. Under apartheid South Africa her mother married a white man at a time when mixed race relationships and marriage were illegal, hence they moved to Germany. Returning to South Africa and to a new school, she was asked what race she was, she wasn’t sure. Racial classification maybe a thing of the past, but today’s border controls are classify...
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Release date
Apr 26, 2012
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Runtime
10:57
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Don’t shout at the telly: The Leveson Inquiry
In this gripping on the sofa discussion, volunteers raise questions on the press and free speech in light of the Leveson Inquiry. The online journal Spiked has launched a campaign against the Leveson Inquiry and spiked journalist Patrick Hayes challenges participants not to go along with the Inquiry’s dangerous underlying assumptions. Support for the Leveson inquiry with its bewigged judges, celebrities and government seeking to control the press, shows nothing but elitist snobbery and contemp...
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Release date
Apr 25, 2012
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Runtime
50:31
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Views On The News: Syria
In this new programme, a group of volunteers reflect on the conflict in Syria. Focussing on the arguments for and against Western intervention, blogger and commentator on the Middle East Karl Sharro answers critical questions with great insight. As the demand that ‘something must be done’ intensifies, Karl provides us with the understanding and principles needed to keep a cool head and examine what’s really going on.
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Release date
Apr 25, 2012
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Runtime
38:35
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The trillion dollar question: is the US economy ...
For most of the twentieth century, the US and the dollar reigned supreme. But economic power is shifting more and more away from the US to China and the other emerging economies. How much longer can the world’s biggest borrower be the leading political power? Filmed at the battle of ideas debate gets heated as speakers move from assessing the state of the US economy to suggesting what’s needed to fix it. Speakers include Professor Iwan Morgan, author and head of US Presidency Centre, Institute...
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Release date
Mar 20, 2012
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Runtime
01:23:57
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Fracking and Fukushima: our energy security fears
Events in the Middle East last year caused panic as oil supplies were threatened, while the spectre of nuclear meltdown at Fukushima offered a grim reminder of the risks posed by moving beyond ‘dirty’ fossil fuels. With renewable energy still a long way from being able to meet the shortfall, many gloomily predict a future of brownouts, deep-sea drilling disasters and even bitter resource wars. But others see shale gas and the ‘fracking’ process as a reason for hope. What role can innovation pl...
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Release date
Mar 20, 2012
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Runtime
58:49
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Unrealpolitik: a new world order?
Have today’s statesmen and women lost the knack of serious, calculated diplomacy? Or is old‐style statecraft simply less relevant in a world increasingly dominated by international institutions? In this fascinating debate filmed at the Battle of ideas, panellists explain what’s changed as they see it and the debate gets heated on the best way forward. Speakers include Dr Kerry Brown, author and head of Asia programme at Chatham House; Dame Ann Leslie, journalist at the Daily Mail; Karl‐Erik No...
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Release date
Mar 20, 2012
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Runtime
01:15:13
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The View On The Streets: Welfare Reform
The Welfare Reform Bill has been hotly debated in both the House of Commons and Lords. By 2013, the government hopes to implement £18 billion in welfare cuts. We are told this will help save cash, get the unemployed back into work and it is only fair that the unemployed do not receive more on benefits than working families on a low‐wage. On the streets of Barking, East London, we asked the public what they thought and the response was instructive.
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Release date
Mar 20, 2012
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Runtime
24:57
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