An enormous amount of our everyday programming -particulary in journalism- deals with power and the practice of power. Yet we almost never delve deeply into the reality of power, its use and abuse, its tendency to corrupt. These three programmes do just that. First: a parable from Gabon. Second: a marriage of fact and dramatic recreation from Canada. Third: a Senegalese drama. Each, inits own way, explores the them of the corruption of power. Together they make the uncomfortable and universal statement that, while there are, of course, many variations in the ways our different societies uses and abuse power, we share a common failing-as both societies and individuals are too easily corrupted by it.
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