December 13th, 2012

PREVIEW: CNN International Programme Information 2013 – Weeks 1 & 2

Living Golf 

Shane O’Donoghue with Branden Grace

Shane O’Donoghue with Branden Grace

 
Thursday 03 January at 1030 GMT / 1130 CET and 1730 GMT / 1830 CET
Saturday 05 Januaryat 0830 GMT / 0930 CET and 2200 GMT / 2300 CET
Sunday 06 January at 1730 GMT / 1830 CET
Saturday 12 January at 1730 GMT / 1830 CET
Sunday 13 January at 0830 GMT / 0930 CET and 2230 GMT / 2330 CET
Duration: 30 Minutes
 
 In January, ‘Living Golf’ is in South Africa – a nation that’s produced three different Major champions in the past three years, had more Major Championship victories than any other country outside of America since the Second World War and is the nation that’s launching this season’s European Tour, hosting six ET tournaments in total.

Host Shane O’Donoghue (pictured left) spends time relaxing with Branden Grace (pictured right), the outstanding breakout player from the 2012 European season, and he also has a private clinic with Dr Sherylle Calder, the woman who taught reigning Open Champion Ernie Els how to putt again.

Plus, ‘Living Golf’ looks at how far South African golf is moving, post-apartheid, to reach beyond its traditional white heartland in the search for new black and Indian talent.

 

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@shaneodonoghue
 
 

Inside the Middle East 

Khalil Gibran stage play, Abu Dhabi

Khalil Gibran stage play, Abu Dhabi

 
Wednesday 02 January at 1030 GMT / 1130 CET and 1730 GMT / 1830 CET
Saturday 05 January at 0530 GMT / 0630 CET and 1930 GMT / 2030 CET
Sunday 06 January at 1330 GMT/ 1430 CET
Saturday 12 January at 1330 GMT/ 1430 CET
Sunday 13 January at 0530 GMT / 0630 CET and 1930 GMT / 2030 CET
Duration: 30 minutes
 

For the first show of 2013, ‘Inside the Middle East’ travels to Tunisia, the nation where, in 2011, the Arab Spring protest movement was born. Upset by a lack of opportunities Mohammed Bouazizi – a young Tunisian fruit vendor – self-immolated, sparking a wave of popular anger that quickly swept across the tiny North African nation and eventually much of the Middle East.

Two years later, what has changed?  Where the economy is concerned, not much, say many young Tunisians.  The country is, however, becoming much more conservative – especially with regard to arts and culture. The programme meets several artists whose work has recently been deemed ‘un-Islamic’, as well as a conservative Salafist sheikh who explains why some forms of expression should be contained.

‘Inside the Middle East’ also visit the north coast of Egypt, where millions of World War II landmines and other unexploded ordnance left buried in the desert sands are still – 72 years after the crucial Allied victory at the Egyptian town of El Alamein – creating problems for Bedouins living in the area.

The programme also takes a look at a new play being staged in Abu Dhabi which brings to life the work of Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran, exploring the heroic – and occasionally dark – history of Gibran.

 

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CNN Business Traveller

Emirates airliner – Bloomberg via Getty images

Emirates airliner – Bloomberg via Getty images

 
Thursday 10 January at 0830 GMT / 0930 CET
Friday 11 January at 0530 GMT / 0630 CET
Saturday 12 January at 0730 GMT / 0830 CET
Sunday 13 January at 0400 GMT / 0500 CET
Duration: 30 minutes
 

Hosted by Richard Quest, January’s ‘CNN Business Traveller’ looks at how the gulf states of UAE and Qatar are asserting an ever increasing influence over the aviation industry.

Eighty-six per cent of the world’s population, and sixty-three percent of the world’s GDP, is within an eight hour flight of Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha. Add to the mix the fact that the local carriers are owned and operated by oil rich, corporately unfettered royal families and it quickly becomes apparent why the gulf carriers are shaking up the airline alliances, to create the new epicentre for global travel.

This month, ‘Business Traveller’ speaks to the CEOs of Emirates (Tim Clarke), Etihad Airways (James Hogan) and Qatar Airways (Akbar Al Baker) about the future of air travel to the region’s cities primarily as transfer hubs, but also as ambitious destinations in their own right.

 
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