The following recordings are made possible with the kind permission of the BBC, the Open University and Prof Tim Allen at LSE:
Making a Difference:
|Four half-hour radio programmes exploring aspects of Development Management through the experience of Uganda. Made in Summer 2002.
50 Years of Development Aid|
Tim Allen interviews Hans Singer and Peter Bauer. The programme reviews half a century of development aid through their eyes. Hans Singer was one of the architects of development aid, whilst Peter Bauer was one of its most formidable critics
The Benefits of War|
Tim Allen expores aspects of contemporary war. Are there aspects of wars at the turn of the 20th Century which set them apart from those of the past? Has warfare become entrenched in ways of life? The programme contains interviews with Mary Kaldor. Philippa Atkinson, David Keen and John Keegan.
Institutional Change at the World Bank and IMF|
Development in China|
Does Dropping the Debt miss the point?|
Gender and Development|
Human Rights and Development|
This programme explores different views of human rights. Can civil and political rights be separated from a right to development? Is the promotion of civil and political rights little more than the promotion of 'Western' value systems and strategic interests? Are there other, culturally specific forms of human rights? Tim Allen interviews Professor John Taylor, the East Timorian activist Jose Ramos Horta, and staff at Amnesty International.
Making the World Secure|
This programme looks at the role of the UN Security Council.
Refugees - who cares?
|Ths programmes looks at the changing role of UNHCR in the 1990s under Sadako Ogata. To what extent has its expansion into a massive humanitarian aid agency compromised its capacity to protect refugees? Can the agency avoid being the instrument of the major powers? Tim Allen interviews Ogata, Dennis McNamara, and Michael Williams of UNHCR, and two of the organisation's critics, Michael Barutciski and Guy Goodwin Gill.
Smart Johannesburg|
UNICEF - from primary health care debate to Rights of the Child|
Whose Knowledge Counts?
|Tim Allen interviews Robert Chambers about his work and influence. Several critical voices are also heard, drawing attention to the limitations with the participatory strategies he has so successfully promoted.
Whose Right to Intervene?|
The programme discusses the emergence of interventionist humanitarian agencies since the Biafra war. Tim allen interviews Bernard Kouchner, as well as staff at the ICRC and MSF, who are keen to distance themselves from some of Kouchner's ideas.
World Bank 1995|
Interview with Wolfgang Sachs|
Tim Allen introduces the ideas of Wofgang Sachs, and Sachs explains his critical perspective on development. The programme takes up issues raised in The Development Dictionary (Zed Books, 1992).