Nature Podcast: 13 October 2016
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🗓️ 12 October 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Yes! I just can't believe! |
| 0:02.4 | This Christmas, you could be a millionaire. |
| 0:05.2 | Get your lotto ticket for tonight's draw. |
| 0:07.0 | The National Lottery. Rules and procedures apply. Players must be 18 or over. |
| 0:12.9 | This week, the mental health epidemic facing the world's refugees. |
| 0:17.4 | A substantial portion of these people never will recover without treatment. |
| 0:21.8 | And how dramatic films could help with the fight to end female genital cutting. |
| 0:26.2 | So we work together with a very well-known scriptwriter and movie maker. |
| 0:30.9 | So he was in charge of really making, first of all, a good entertaining movie for a Sudanese audience. |
| 0:36.9 | Plus a neural network with a memory. |
| 0:39.8 | This is the Nature Podcast for October 13, 2016. |
| 0:43.5 | I'm Adam Levy. |
| 0:44.7 | And I'm Kerry Smith. |
| 0:49.3 | Our first story this week is about a way to change cultural attitudes to the controversial |
| 0:58.2 | practice of female genital cutting, removing all or part of a girl's external genitals. |
| 1:04.1 | Jeff Marsh reports. |
| 1:06.0 | Female genital cutting is still rife in many parts of the world, particularly in Africa, |
| 1:11.7 | but also in some countries in the Middle East and Asia. It's performed on more than two million girls every year. |
| 1:17.6 | International agencies and governments have tried to stop it over recent decades, but it hasn't |
| 1:22.3 | worked. Even making it illegal doesn't seem to help, and in some instances has been shown to |
| 1:27.4 | drive it underground, |
| 1:28.6 | potentially stifling local efforts to change people's attitudes. |
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