Alcohol is a drug that has been around for thousands of years – and enjoyed by hundreds of millions of people – but attitudes to how it is used are changing, particularly amongst the young.

In a major new series at the BBC World Service we investigate alcohol.

Part One: Young drinkers of Kenya and Great Britain

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Part Two: The Industry

The production of alcohol is a multi-billion dollar industry hungry for new markets.

One of the industry’s main targets are countries where most people don’t drink.

In the second part of the series, Nigel Wrench travels to India where drink is becoming part of an elite lifestyle.

As he hears there’s not only big money at stake, but cultural tradition too.

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Woe is Carl Bordelon, a police officer for the town of Ball, La. His dashboard camera captured (below) his questioning of Richard Lee McNair, 47, on Wednesday. Earlier that same day, McNair had escaped from a federal penitentiary at nearby Pollock, La., reportedly hiding in a prison warehouse and sneaking out in a mail van. Bordelon, on the lookout, stopped McNair when he saw him running along some railroad tracks. What follows is a chillingly fascinating performance from McNair, who manages to remain fairly smooth and matter-of-fact while tripping up Bordelon. The officer notices that the guy matches the description of McNair — who was serving a life sentence for killing a trucker at a grain elevator in Minot, N.D., in 1987 — observes that he looked like he’d “been through a briar patch” and had to wonder why he would choose appalling heat (at least according to that temperature gauge in the police car) to go running, without any identification, on a dubious 12-mile run. But he doesn’t notice when McNair changes his story — he gives two different names (listen for it) — and eventually, Bordelon bids him farewell, saying: “Be careful, buddy.” McNair remains on the loose. (Note: Video is more than eight minutes long but worth it.)

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“Given that the Age of Entertainment is upon us, it is astounding how little attention contemporary scholars have given to understanding what it is that draws us to entertainments and what, in cognitive and emotional terms, we get out of succumbing to the lure of these entertainments.”

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Channel 51 goes benearth the veil to reveal conspiracy, secret knoweldge, government cover-ups, and paranormal activity.

“What is a border? How much is real and how much is in your mind? P.O.V.’s Borders is an on-going web-original series that explores the borders in our lives with new themed installments launched annually. For this second episode, we’ve chosen environment as our theme. . .”

Everyday we make choices about what we eat, drink and breathe. . .
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