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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 Language : English Also Listed as: City : Madison State/Province : WI Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Here on Earth - Global Radio Conversation Podcasts Methings.com listings of Here on Earth - Global Radio Conversation Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Here on Earth - Global Radio Conversation Becoming Americans The story of American immigration has often been told by those already here. Becoming Americans, the new anthology edited by Mexican-American Jewish writer Ilan Stavans tells it from the inside, gathering four centuries of writing from 17th century Jamestown to contemporary Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reflecting on Fort Hood As we try to make sense of the Fort Hood tragedy, how should we understand the Muslim faith of the alleged gunman, Nidal Hasan? We discuss our national and personal reactions with inter-faith expert and inter-cultural advocates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who's Bringing the Pie Evan Kleiman's love for pie began when she was a little girl and asked for an apple pie instead of a birthday cake. She still has a birthday pie to celebrate her birthday every July, but this summer was different. She baked a pie a day for the whole summer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hajj One of the world's longest-lived religious rites, the hajj to Mecca, is even older than Islam. It has been described as a universal journey for transcendence and peace, but will that change this year given the fear surrounding H1N1? What does it mean to 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lion's Eye: Seeing in the Wild All her life, Joanna Greenfield dreamed of traveling to Africa to study wild animals. She got a once in a lifetime chance to follow wild chimpanzees in East Africa while she was still in college, an adventure strangely enhanced by her impaired vision. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Competence Barack Obama has it. George W. Bush didn't. It's called global competence and according to experts in higher education, it's something everybody needs, the ability to understand complex issues in a globalized world. We talk to educators and students about what global competence really means. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Language of Cancer Mary Cappello, the author of Called Back, a stunning memoir about surviving breast cancer, says cancer is like entering a foreign country where you have to learn a foreign language. Some people shut down and live like strangers in a strange land. Mary fought back, questioning everything, the pamphlets, the blogs, the kitsch and the pink ribbon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Au Revoir To All That French food is not what it used to be, or so says journalist and wine columnist Michael Steinberger. In his latest book, Au Revoir To All That, he investigates the decline of quality in French cuisine and finds reasons that go beyond food. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Vanishing Face of Gaia Scientist James Lovelock is best known as the originator of the Gaia Theory, which has taught scientists and laypeople alike to see the Earth holistically as a giant living organism. He joins us to discuss his new book, The Vanishing Face of Gaia, in which he issues a dire warning: It is too late to halt global warming, we must now learn to live in an altered climate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wandering Souls Storytelling seems to be a huge coping skill for Vietnam vets, and Wayne Karlin has quite a story to tell in Wandering Souls, about the courage of a soldier who returned the soul of the man he killed to that man's family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herta Muller: Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature Throughout her life and her work, German-Romanian writer Herta Muller has fought a lonely fight against repression. Even though winning the Nobel Prize in Literature this year has catapulted her into the media spotlights, few people are familiar with her unsettling and meticulous prose and poetry. In the light of Romania's painful past under communist dictatorship, we explore the meaning of Muller's life and work for our world today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Save the Deli Pastrami on Rye with a kosher pickle, anyone? Join us, and add to our list of reasons why it is imperative to save the Jewish deli. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fall of the Berlin Wall Do you remember November 9th, 1989? Journalist Michael Meyer and scholar Konrad Jarausch join us as we relive that day when the Berlin Wall fell and retrace Germany's difficult transitions through unification and integration, up to today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arab Bodies The German poet Novalis once wrote that the only real temple in this world is the human body. If that is true, Joumana Haddad, who just launched Jasad magazine in Beirut (Jasad means Body in Arabic), is doing her best to restore the body to its rightful place, and raising a lot of eyebrows in the process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poker: An American Metaphor Playing poker was a key networking tool in Barack Obama's early political career. Bill Gates collected many of his business strategies and a sizable fund to start Microsoft from his all-night poker games. Eisenhower and JFK used poker tactics to resolve crises with China and the Soviet Union. How did a French aristocratic parlor game turn into a training ground for American risk-takers and power brokers? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Muslim Next Door Although Americans hear about Islam on a daily basis, there remains no clear explanation of Islam or its people. Jean Feraca talks to a scholar of Islamic law about growing up in California and balancing her South Asian, Muslim, and American identities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Think Again: Asia's Rise Don't believe the hype you hear about the decline of America and the dawn of a new Asian age. Minxin Pei, director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, joins us to pick apart this familiar narrative. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gourmet Today Exciting new ingredients are available everywhere, expanding our culinary horizons, and a new culinary world calls for a new cookbook. Ruth Reichl, long-time editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine and a best-selling author in her own right, joins us to talk about her new book, Gourmet Today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Language of Body Music Keith Terry is a body musician, someone who makes music purely with their body. His obsession runs so deep that last year he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the first to go to a body musician. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Best International Reporting Words Without Borders devotes its October issue to International Reporting. From the killing fields of Cambodia to the swarming streets of Tehran, on the ground and in the trenches, these writers document the news of the world with artful urgency. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website