Welcome to the openDemocracy poDcast.
Six weeks into a US troop surge in Iraq, openDemocracy columnist Paul Rogers analyses its effects and explains why the Bush Administration cannot allow the strategy to fail.
Our technology writer Becky Hogge on data trails - why tracking our daily actions will lead to a loss of privacy unless access to information is better protected by the law
Indian filmmaker Mira Nair talks to Maryam Maruf about the diversity of Indian culture and why the Bengali diaspora is the focus of her latest film, The Namesake.
Plus, Rob Cawston reviews the documentary Camden 28 from the Human Rights Watch Film festival in London.
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The music you can hear in this poDcast is "Modern Jazz Samba" by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com).
