2025-12-20
29 分钟The Economist Each Saturday we transport you somewhere different.
This year we've taken you to Tokyo,
to Moscow and on to Adak Island in the Pacific as well as Ukraine.
We've dropped you into prisons, boarded migrant ships and hung out with professional violinists.
Though our episodes vary in scale and scope, and some pinpoint a moment just months ago,
whereas others take a long sweep of history, every story has one thing in common.
We trace how world events shape our individual human experience.
As is the case with journalism, we typically drop in and then move on.
But today we want to revisit some of our favourite episodes and the characters we met.
We'll also hear from the correspondents who reported them lifting the lid on how we make the stories that make it to you every weekend.
In February, Sarah Burke returned to Damascus after more than a decade away.
I left Damascus a year into the uprising and I honestly thought I'd never be able to come back.
Or that if I did, none of my old friends would be here.
She was longing to see how the city had changed after the fall of Assad only a couple of months earlier.
Though people could finally speak more freely,
she found that Syrians were haunted by decades of silence and divided between its past and future.
How does it feel now to think I didn't know my friends.
I didn't know really what they felt about anything.
From my heart, I don't feel happy when I know my friend.
She's against of government, but she cannot say to me that.