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Podcast notes for July 23, 2008
Guardian Weekly Podcast No 70
Presented by Jon Dennis
This week, Europe's most wanted man, Radovan Karadzic, is under lock and key after being arrested in Belgrade. Karadzic was indicted over the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica and the siege of Sarajevo. Martin Bell, a former BBC correspondent and independent MP, comments on the arrest. The Guardian's diplomatic editor, Julian Borger, explains how Karadzic was finally captured.
Barack Obama has already won the support of many environmental groups, such as Friends of the Earth. But his Republican challenger, John McCain, is not a climate change skeptic like George Bush and says that he intends to tackle global warming. The Guardian's New York correspondent, Ed Pilkington, weighs the candidates' green credentials.
A major exhibition on the Roman emperor Hadrian opens this week at the British Museum. For most British people he is known by the wall that he built separating England and Scotland. But the exhibition, Hadrian: Empire and Conflict, reveals the man behind the myth. The exhibition's curator, Thorsten Opper, explains.
How do you become an astronaut? Having lots of money doesn't hurt. Richard Garriott is a computer games tycoon who wants to follow in his father's footsteps and become an astronaut. He told the Guardian's science correspondent, Ian Sample, how he became a space tourist.
Each week we like to feature a slice of life from one of our listeners or readers of the print edition of the Guardian Weekly. This week, in his Letter from Peru, Pete Browne meets an unusual group of weavers.
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