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Produced by Wisconsin Public Radio and hosted by Jean Feraca, "Here on Earth" is a live cultural affairs call-in talk show that introduces extraordinary people from across the world whose stories instill passion and connect deeply with listeners each week. The show airs live at 3-5pm Eastern time on Saturdays and Sundays with live stream audio on hereonearth.org. Primary Format : Public Radio Also Listed as: International news Interviews People stories Public Radio City : Madison State/Province : WI Country : USA Country : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: Talk Radio | Car talk | Talk | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of Here on Earth - Global Radio Conversation Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of Here on Earth - Global Radio Conversation Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of Here on Earth - Global Radio Conversation Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Alliance for Climate Protection The Gore-led Alliance for Climate Protection, an all-out marketing blitz, launched this month with plans to "ignite" Americans into taking action on global climate change. Jean Feraca talks to the associate director of the alliance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Sanctuary in Hectic Modern Life A BBC television series about five laymen living the monastic life for 40 days became a surprise hit in UK. What did they learn to find sanctury in the hectic modern life? Jean Feraca talks with the host of the series, Abbot Christopher Jamison, who also guided the men into a new approach to life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Whaling Industry Although commercial whaling largely ended in the l980's indigenous people around the world still consider the harvest of whales central to their culture. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guests examine how traditional whaling fits into the modern world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Israel's Dilemma For an unflinching analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with an equally bold and unflinching solution, Jean Feraca talks with London-based Palestinian physician, Dr. Ghada Karmi, a 1948 refugee from Jerusalem, and the author of "Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lila Downs'Ranchera Music We break stride with our Food Friday tradition today to welcome the star of the 2005 Madison World Music Festival, Lila Downs, back to Madison. The daughter of a Mixtec cabaret singer, Downs has been touring internationally performing native Mesoamerican music in Mixtec, Zapotec and Maya. She was featured in the movie Frida. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking to Michael Morwood Is Jesus God? Tomorrow's Catholic. From Sand to Solid Ground. All you have to do is consider the titles of Michael Morwood's books to understand why they've been banned across Australia. Morwood believes the greatest challenge to Christian churches is not in dwindling numbers, but in connecting faith with contemporary knowledge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sum of Our Days "More than a family, we're a village," Isabel Allende writes in her new memoir, "The Sum of our Days," the story of her tribe over the past decade. Allende's American House of the Spirits is full of eccentric characters and haunted by the guiding spirit of her daughter Paula. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border Juan Felipe Herrera has devoted his many talents as a writer, performer, and activist to the politics of immigration and identity in the Latino community. Best known for "Super Cilantro Girl" and "Calling the Doves," his newest book is "187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fermat's Room Four mathematicians are invited by a mysterious host to spend a weekend solving a great enigma. The space they are given to work in is a red shrinking room that will crush them to death if they don't succeed. Welcome to Fermat's Room. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Royal Baker's Daughter Barbara Goldberg is a poet raised on a diet of stone soup and the occasional royal treat. In her new collection, "The Royal Baker's Daughter," (which just won the Felix Pollak Prize) cooking itself stands for devotion to the fruits of the earth and to the creation of human hopes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Linguists For a sneak preview of 2008 Wisconsin Film Festival, join us for a discussion of The Linguists, a film that features two scientists racing to document languages on the verge of extinction. Their round-the-world journey takes them deep into the heart of cultures, tongues, and communities at stake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unrest in Tibet Will the fallout from Beijing's military crackdown on Tibet have the power to disrupt the Olympic game? Are we looking at soft power versus hard power? Does moral authority trump military might? Jean Feraca and her guests have an in-depth discussion about the situation in Tibet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Sustainable Education Parker Palmer says American higher education gives people the skills to manipulate the world but very little in the way of self-knowledge. We have teamed him up with the director of the Schumacher School in the UK where people attend seminars in ecological and spirituality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart High school students in Finland rarely get more than a half-hour of homework a night, and yet Finnish teenagers are among the smartest in the world, earning some of the top scores of students tested in 57 countries. American educators are trying to figure out what makes Finnish kids so smart. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tastes Like Cuba Esteemed playwright Eduardo Machado tells his life story, from his childhood in Cuba during the revolution to his life in America, through the culinary memories of his homeland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy Eric Wilson tried jogging, yoga, tai chi, Frank Capra movies, and finally decided to embrace his gloominess and write a diatribe against the quintessentially American pursuit of happiness, buoyed up by Prozac and shopping malls, the mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness, the superior man exults in his gloom. Which one are you? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Folk-Rock Band from Kazakhstan Roksonaki is Kazakhstan's most experimental folk-rock band that has pioneered arrangements that combine ancient Kazakh instrumentation with contemporary rock and jazz. We will hear the band play live and talk with producer and ethnomusicologist Helen Faller, who is traveling with the band on their tour of the United States. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Young America and Middle East Iranian American writer Reza Aslan and Jewish American journalist Gideon Yago have been touring American universities talking to students about the Middle East. They join us this hour. The two are part of this year's University of Wisconsin Distinguished Lecture Series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Secrets of Longevity There are three towns in the world where people live the longest: Okinawa in Japan, Ovodda in Sardinia, and Loma Linda in the US. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guests discuss the secrets that keep residents there live long. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mate: The Ancient Drink of Health and Friendship Coffee, tea, or mate? The Turks have their coffee, the Japanese have their green tea, but in South America, the stimulant of choice is mate. For many Argentinians, mate is more than a drink, it is a social ritual with a rich history first developed by the people of the pampas. And it may be coming soon to a bar near you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spring Equinox Poetry Circle of the Air March 30 is Vincent Van Gogh's birthday. He was named after an older brother, and infant who died. The haunting story of being named for the other, dead brother, is the subject of a beautiful, rich poem by Northern Irish poet Kate Newman. This hour on Here on Earth, Jean Feraca and Molly Peacock discuss the Van Gogh poem and others that have a quality of spring light, the light of the equinox. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of the Iraq War John McCain wants a Hundred Years War. Barack Obama wants us out of Iraq in six months. Are these two presidential hopefuls actually not that far apart? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, News Analyst John Nichols and anchor of BBC World News America, Matt Frei, join Jean Feraca to talk about the future of the war in Iraq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Manga Bible You think you know what is in the Bible? Think again! In a re-configured Manga Bible, Jesus has come as a Samurai. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wisconsin Idea Goes to Japan Robert Gard, the founder and director of the Wisconsin Idea Theater, published a seminal work called "Grassroots Theater" which has just been translated into Japanese. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with the translator and find out why community development through the arts is suddenly such a hot topic in Japan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Zen of Fish: Sushi Galore! Jean Feraca and her guest discuss how sushi became one of America's most popular fast foods. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic A writer uses her favorite examples from languages dead, difficult, and just plain made-up to reveal how language study is the ticket to traveling the world without leaving the comforts of home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website And The Winner Is... For the last two millennia human beings have fought the most over religions. And the winner is ...? According to the guest this hour, historians may one day look back on the next few decades, not as yet another era when religious conflicts enveloped countries and blew apart established societies, but as the era when secularization took over the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Psycho-Spiritual Healing Once you have faced a physical trauma, how do you mend the mind and the spirit? Dr. Charika Marasinghe of Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka's largest charitable organization, discusses psycho-spiritual healing, an integration of western science and eastern philosophy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tasting Menu Tapas, Mezze, Sushi. Is "gnoshing" our way through dinner about to displace the great American entree? How other dining traditions are influencing the way restaurants plan our meals. Join us for a food fight, when Caryl Owens makes her debut hosting this Foodie Friday on Here on Earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blue Horizons Is sailing around the world high on your Bucket List? Beth Leonard, author of Blue Horizons, which just won the 2007 National Outdoor Book Award, shares insights that have come from a deeply felt and fully-lived life circumnavigating the globe on a sailboat, not just once, but twice. She joins us from Patagonia! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taxi to the Dark Side "Taxi to the Dark Side," a film about American torture, just won this year's Oscar for Best Documentary. We'll talk with Alfred McCoy (A Question of Torture) who served as a consultant to the film, and Marnia Lazreg (Torture and the Twilight of Empire), who traces the roots of the Bush administration's use of psychological torture back to the Algerian War. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darfur and the Olympics Getting ready for this summer's Olympics in Beijing, Olympic athletes have been pressuring China to influence the government of Sudan to halt the genocide in Darfur, and it seems to be working. We'll talk with American speedskater Joey Cheek, the founder of "Team Darfur," and Jerry Fowler, chief of "Save Darfur." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Restroom Revolutio Remember when the Ladies Room became the Women's Room? Turns out the restroom revolution has only just begun. Brace yourself for the Unisex Bathroom, a green design from the other WTO, the World Toilet Organization. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Real Fortune Cookie What is the origin of the fortune cookie? Los Angeles and San Francisco both lay claim to it. Chinese and Japanese restaurants both offer them. But is it only American after all? This hour we crack open the fortune cookie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dancer and the Thief What better way to learn about the real post-Pinochet Chile than to talk with one of its greatest novelists? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with Antonio Skarmeta, the author of Il Postino, whose latest novel, The Dancer and the Thief, makes it impossible to separate the good guys from the bad guys. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Closing the Food Gap s affluent Americans demand more and more local, organic, and high quality food, just as many of the nation's poor struggle to put more than hot dogs and chips on the table. Join us for Closing the Food Gap. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The World's Silver Lining We seize every opportunity to bring you good news. So when John Parker, former bureau chief for The Economist, wrote an article detailing all the reasons why the world is becoming a prosperous and more peaceful place we knew right away we wanted him on the program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flying the Third World Ever wonder what air travel is like in India and Africa? We'll get the skinny from "Ask The Pilot" columnist Patrick Smith, (Salon.com) and international airline safety expert William Voss. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rice as Self In Java they call her Dewi Sri. In Bengal, she is the Hindu goddess Annapurna, and in Japan, one out of four shrines is dedicated to the Rice Mother. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with Japanese anthropologist Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney about Rice as Self and food as identity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Out of Poverty Krishna Thapa, a dirt-poor Nepali farmer, went from barely surviving to earning almost five thousand dollars a year -- upper middle-class by local standards. He did this with the help of Paul Palok, a former psychiatrist, who designs tools and develops markets to lift the world's poor out of poverty. We'll meet him this hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turkish Head Scarves Debate Turkey's Parliament took a major step earlier this month toward lifting a ban against women wearing head scarves at universities. The head scarf ban and the push to repeal it by Turkey's new Islamist government has become a hotly debated issue, pitting observant Muslims against a secular elite who fear what a change in the law might mean for Turkey's future. We'll hear from all sides. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hope and Change Long before Barack Obama began preaching the mantra of hope and change, Richard Harwood had made it the centerpiece of his message as the founder of the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation. What makes hope and change real for people? What's the difference between real change and empty promises? And what kind of change are Americans expecting of their next president? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Here on Earth Open Line We turn the mic over to you this hour. After hearing from your fellow listeners, leave your thoughts on Jean's blog at HereOnEarth.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chinese Food Culture (Encore Presentation) In China, food is language. To have work is to have grains to chew. To lose one's job is to have broken the rice bowl. Food is also literature. Many poems were inspired and created at banquets in Chinese history. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest explore the place of food in Chinese culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Couchsurfing and the Hospitality Club (Encore Presentation) Jean Feraca and her guests talk about the websites Couchsurfing and Hospitality Club, where local residents around the world offer travelers a couch to sleep on and a host to show them around. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Full Body Project (Encore Presentation) Do you know that Leonard Nimoy, a.k.a. Mr. Spock from Star Trek, is actually an accomplished photographer? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks to him who has turned his considerable talent to an unusual topic: Fat Babes! Jean will also talk to a New York Times reporter about body image in the news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lives of Others (Encore Presentation) What it was like to live under constant surveillance? What is the power of arts and literature? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with the director and writer of the Oscar winning film, The Lives of Others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The World Without Us (Encore Presentation) Jean Feraca and her guest discuss what the world would look like if humans disappeared. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space Food (Encore Presentation) What kind of food do astronauts eat in space? Why do astronauts eat tortillas instead of bread? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guests talk about space food. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Edith Piaf and Street Singers in Paris (Encore Presentation) There is something in Edith Piaf's songs that is universal and belongs to all of us. What makes her music popular across generations and language barriers? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Soul-Searching Again in Germany Germany confronts its past, again. When is enough enough? Where in the world has one ever seen a nation that erects memorials to immortalize its own shame? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guests look into Germany's new round of soul-searching at the 75th anniversary of the day Hitler and the Nazi Party took power in the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Up With Girls In South Korea, it's Up with Girls! Once one of Asia's most rigid patriarchies, South Korea is witnessing that its centuries-old preference for baby boys is in fast receding, with fewer female abortions and a popular slogan that asserts "One daughter raised well is worth 10 sons." This hour on Here On Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest look into the reasons for the rapid change and find out if it's likely to spread elsewhere in Asia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Abolishing Modern Slavery How do we free today's slaves? From the charcoal pits of Brazil to the brothels of Thailand, Kevin Bales knows the issues of modern slavery from the inside out. As the President of Free the Salves he has a controversial plan to abolish slavery in the twenty-first century. Find out this hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders with Jean Feraca. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Epic History of Italian Food Why did Mussolini love risotto? How did pasta really get to Italy? How did the Italians come to eat so well? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest talk about the epic history of Italian food. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website High Tech Trash What happens to our cast-off computers and cell phones? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest examine the environmental and health impacts of discarded electronics dumped on places like New Delhi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Genesis Farm What's the place of the Earth in your spirituality? Jean Feraca talks with the founder of Genesis Farm, an Ecological Learning Center located in New Jersey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dead Beat: The Art of Obituaries How would you like to be remembered? What do obituaries say about our culture? Join Jean Feraca for a talk with two leading obituarists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Animals in Translation A world-reknowned animal behaviorist talks about her life with autism and her remarkable understanding of animal conciousness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mardi Gras Feast A Cajun chef talks about how to make a real Mardi Gras feast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reverential Ecology This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks to Satish Kumar, one of the world's leading spiritual thinkers, about rediscovering nature and finding inner peace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding America in France This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest discuss rediscovering the rural America in the French countryside. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wisdom of Indigenous Grandmothers This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca discusses the survival of tribal wisdom with her guests from the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Community School This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with the co-founders of a charter school in Atlanta inspired by Martin Luther King Jr., where American students learn together with immigrants and refugees from over 40 countries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Twist to Soul Food The first cookbook authored by an African-American gives a new twist to soul food. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest explore the 19th-century cookbook that serves up complex, cosmopolitan food inspired by European cuisine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Women In Security This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guests discuss how women can have full participation in peace and security processes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making News How do the BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera cover news? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guests discuss the challenges of objectivity in reporting and the future of news-making. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating A World Without Poverty This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus about how to create a world without poverty. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Against the Odds This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks to the host of a new public radio show that tells stories of triumphs of the underdog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat What if there were a land where people lived longer than anywhere else on earth, the obesity rate was the lowest in the developed world, and women in their forties still looked like they were in their twenties? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca's guest reveals secrets to the enduring health and beauty of Japanese women. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ganesha Goes To Lunch As India accelerates its rapid modernization, its mythic past is still alive and well in a country where disciples of Lord Shiva still walk barefoot, and dreadlocked holy men speed around on bicycles. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest discuss tales from mythic India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tribalism The contested election in Kenya is described in the media as a tribal conflict. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, join Jean Feraca and guest for a discussion on tribalism, and what makes the term problematic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Kind of Tourism in Northern Ireland This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and guests discuss how Northern Ireland is turning its violent history into a tourism boom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charlie Wilson's War What do you think of the movie, Charlie Wilson's War? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks to two guests who know Charlie Wilson in person. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ralph Nader's 17 Traditions Best known for his activism and two presidential bids, Ralph Nader has a softer private side as the son of Lebanese immigrants. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, he talks to Jean Feraca about what went on at the family table when he was growing up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kindle and the Act of Reading The act of reading is a miracle. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest discuss the extraordinary evolution of reading and the latest electronic book reader from Amazon, Kindle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International News with John Nichols This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and Here on Earth news analyst John Nichols take a look at the current international news stories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website (Encore Presentation) The Power of Song This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with a legendary American folksinger and activist, Peter Seeger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website (Encore Presentation) Project Ice Cube: an Underground Telescope This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest talk about an underground telescope being built in Antarctica to study neutrinos and solve the last riddle of the universe. UW Chancellor John Wiley called it equal to the building of the Great Pyramids. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website (Encore Presentation) Turkish Coffee This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and Her guest talk about the grand tradition of Turkish coffee, including a lesson on how to read the coffee grinds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Family and Other Saints When a son decided to quit school and leave home to seek enlightenment with a guru, what would his family do? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca's guest tells the story of her family's journey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our Inner Ape We are closely related to other apes, but how similar are we really? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest explore human nature by looking at our two closest animal relatives, the chimpanzees and bonobos. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website (Encore Presentation) Christmas in Auschwitz The great Italian humanist, Primo Levi, much to his surprise, received a package of goodies for Christmas while he was in Auschwitz. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest talk about Levi's essay, "Christmas in Auschwitz." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website (Encore Presentation) Santa Claus: A Biography What does Waukesha, Wisconsin have to do with the evolution of modern-day Santa? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and guest take an entertaining and often surprising look at the life of the world's most influential fictional character. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website French Twist of the Christmas Feast This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks to Wisconsin-born/Paris-based chef Patricia Wells and French-born/Wisconsin-based chef Monique Hooker who give a French twist to the Christmas feast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Winter Solstice Poetry Circle of the Air This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and Molly Peacock discuss a set of sonnets that poet Marilyn Hacker wrote while undergoing surgery for breast cancer during the holidays, an irony all too commonplace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The First Christmas This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks to two major religious scholars who give a brand new and controversial interpretation of the first Christmas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Claus: A Biography What does Waukesha, Wisconsin have to do with the evolution of modern-day Santa? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and guest take an entertaining and often surprising look at the life of the world's most influential fictional character. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Celtic Songs of the Season This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and Navan, a Celtic music band, celebrate Celtic songs of the season. Sung in the original languages, the songs are mostly hair-raising, sometimes jazzy and mysterious that give fascinating insights into the pagan underpinnings of Yuletide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christmas in Auschwitz The great Italian humanist, Primo Levi, much to his surprise, received a package of goodies for Christmas while he was in Auschwitz. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest talk about Levi's essay, "Christmas in Auschwitz." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Studying in America What is the image of the United States for young people in Japan, India, Saudi Arabia, and Denmark? After a semester in U.S., will they change their perception? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks to four international students, winners of the International Student Essay Contest at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Winter Solstice This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Lori Skelton and her guests celebrate winter solstice, the longest night of a year with stories from different religions and cultures around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Literary Role Models for Young Girls This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Lori Skelton talks with two authors about contemporary literary role models for young girls and the challenge of crafting an identity when the world around you is far from stable. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Paradox of Ganga This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest talk about the paradox of Ganga: India's most sacred river and its pollutants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Taste of Conquest This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest talk about how three legendary cities' single-minded pursuit of spice helped create the western diet and set in motion the first great wave of globalization. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Radio Netherland: Overconsumption This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca catches up with Jonathan Groubert and his new program from Radio Netherlands. This week's edition is, appropriately enough, about overconsumption. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond Caudillo: Chile's Woman President This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest talk about Chile's woman president, Michelle Bachelet, who is taking her country beyond the legacy of Pinochet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science and Religion Stem cell, cloning, genetically modified food. Are scientists playing God? It depends on your religion, says Jean Feraca's guest. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with a biologist about the clash of science and religion at the frontier of biotechnology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UN Human Rights Day The UN gets a report card on its Declaration of Human Rights created in 1948, almost 60 years ago. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with members of Wisconsin's Governor's Commission on the UN, the only body of its kind in the US. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space Food What kind of food do astronauts eat in space? Why do astronauts eat tortillas instead of bread? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guests talk about space food. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Seed Bank What is the ultimate protection for the worlds agricultural biodiversity? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest talk about the world's first global seed bank in Svalbard, Norway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An American in Afghanistan Former NPR Middle East correspondent Sarah Chayse has been in Afghanistan developing a soap and body oil business hile dodging bullets from the Taliban. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks to her about what is really going on in Afghnistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Witness: One of the Great Correspondents This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks to one of the greatest journalists of the 20th century about her extraordinary experiences as a foreign correspondent and Herald Tribune photojournalist who helped rescue thousands of Jews. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rain in a Dry Land: Survive in America as Refugees How do you measure the distance from an African village to an American city? What does it mean to be refugee in today's global village? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with a filmmaker who documented two Somali families' effort to survice in America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Here on Earth Promo Learn what the Here on Earth show brings you from the world. 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