The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

Amanda Knox's dream of studying abroad spun into a nightmare that saw her locked up in an Italian prison, accused of murdering of her roommate. In her only interview with a Canadian broadcaster, we rebroadcast her discussion with Anna Maria in May.

Now that New York State is forcing pro sports leagues to make it clear they don't discriminate based on sexual orientation, will anything really change for the pro gay athletes who feel they have to pretend or suffer in silence?

The violence in Chicago has gotten so bad that it's earned the Windy City a new nickname. Some residents have taken to calling it Chi-raq - a mash up of Chicago and Iraq. We find out what authorities are doing to bring back peace and order.

Line in The Sand is the best of The Current's stories about the ethical dilemmas that define us. Today, exploring the lives of people who buy and sell kidneys, the argument for giving monetary incentives to donors, and dissecting medical tourism.

Today we devote our entire program to survivors of catastrophic events we can scarcely imagine until they happen, what they've lived every day since, and their messages to the people of Lac Megantic.

You may be familiar with novelist Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections and Freedom ... But what about naturalist Jonathan Franzen? The author is appalled by the plight of songbirds in the Mediterranean. In this feature interview, he explains why.

Evelyn Amony was a Ugandan schoolgirl when she was abducted by Joseph Kony's Lords Resistance Army. She wasn't the only one but by speaking out she reveals a world Kony controls and a man no one has been able to stop.

We explore new revelations that some aboriginal people were kept intentionally malnourished for government nutritional experiments.

When his mother was diagnosed with a terminal illness, Will Schwalbe knew just what to do: Pick up a book. And another . And Another. They read and discussed literature together and formed the End of Life Book Club.

International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound didn't make many friends in the Jamaican track and field world when he said Jamaican athletes were hard to find and hard to test. Less than a year later, Jamaica has been hit with a rash of positive tests.

The stains from Argentina's Dirty War continue to surface in unexpected and appalling ways. We hear from a woman who learns a terrifying secret about the people she thought were her parents and their role in the fate of the people who gave her life.

Line in The Sand is the best of The Current's stories about the ethical dilemmas that define us. Robert Semrau on the day that ended his military career and sparked a national debate on soldiers ethics and the idea of mercy killing.

Anti-oil protesters in Maine blockaded a rail line before the deadly derailment of a train carrying crude oil through Lac-Megantic, Que. We visit the oil transport debate in Maine.

While the Trayvon Martin verdict has outraged many, some say we should not blame the U.S. justice system for doing what it was designed to do -- and that the issue goes much deeper than one jury's verdict.

The Current's Gord Westmacott travelled to Lac-Megantic, and found a town that will never look at itself again the same way. In this segment, he brings us tales of a town transformed.