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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:

The Folly of Fools Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers claims that natural selection seems to favor self-deception, and that in order to deceive others we often have to deceive ourselves first. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Pirates of Somalia Jay Bahadur tracks the Pirates of Somalia to their safe havens in the Horn of Africa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2011 Hours Against Hate Launched by the State Department, the 2011 Hours Against Hate campaign wants to stop bigotry by getting young people to pledge to spend time in a community different from their own. Hannah Rosenthal and Farah Pandith join us to talk about the campaign. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arrivederci, Berlusconi! Silvio Berlusconi dominated and divided Italian politics for over 17 years, more than anyone since Mussolini. Dr. Patrick Rumble and Dr. Grazia Menechella join us to talk about the end of his scandal-ridden reign. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Updating Vintage Holiday Recipes Food is like language: to be alive it must be constantly changing. New York Times food columnist Melissa Clark understands this. A whole section of her new cookbook is devoted to Holiday Food that features vintage recipes with updated variations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bless This Food (Encore) Giving thanks for food is the most common form of prayer found the world over. In anticipation of Thanksgiving, we celebrate this universal cultural tradition with Adrian Butash, author of Bless This Food: Ancient and Contemporary Graces Around the World. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Big Voice Michael Schmudlach and Janice Rice talk about the impact of precious archive of photographs on a community. "People of the Big Voice" now a book, is an eloquent portrayal of the Ho Chunks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Never the Hope Itself Join us in our conversation with Gerry Hadden about his life reporting from some of the most volatile regions of the world - Latin America and Haiti. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Free Will and the Science of the Brain The "father of cognitive neuroscience," Michael Gazzaniga, makes a powerful and provocative argument for free will in his newest book 'Who's in Charge?' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Table Comes First When food becomes fashionable, do we still enjoy intimate moments around the dinner table with friends and family? Adam Gopnik explores the intricate connections between what's on the table and what happens around it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America A sixty-year-old biker rides the length of America's northern and southern borders to explore America's conflicted relationship with its neighbors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Yoga Won the West Vivekananda introduced yoga into the national conversation, back in 1893, at the Parliament of Religions, where he dazzled the audience with his show-stopping improvised talk on eastern culture - and yoga. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peace Corps Writers The Peace Corps community is churning out a whole new genre of writing: Peace Corps Literature." Two returned Peace Corps volunteers talk about the Peace Corps experiences that inspired their writing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Listen to This! Does music have the power to transcend time and place? New Yorker music critic, Alex Ross, believes that music has to power to transport us to places and times we might never visit otherwise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Family Recipe for Veterans' Day Cookbook author Wini Moranville tells the story of touring World War II battlefields in Normandy and a chicken recipe she discovered that uses the famous apple brandy of the region. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It Calls You Back: One Man's Break with Gang Life Luis Rodriguez chronicled his early life in L.A. as a young Chicano gang member in Always Running, a book that became a classic. Now, in his second memoir, he shows just how difficult it can be to break with the past. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All-American Muslim Are we ready for a Muslim Cosby Show? We talk to Alon Orstein and Mike Mossalam about All-American Muslim, a new reality series that explores what it means to be Muslim in post-9/11 America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Story of Charlotte's Web Jean Feraca and Michael Sims discuss the children's literature classic Charlotte's Web and why talking animals occur in stories all over the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Muslim-American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said In 1807, Omar Ibn Said, a wealthy Muslim scholar was captured and brought to the American south as a slave. Late in life, Omar was persuaded by abolitionists to write down his life story which has been newly edited and translated by Ala Alryyes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cooking Like Our Grandmothers Tamar Adler discusses how to cook like our grandmothers, with instinct, using all five senses and every part of an ingredient, and elevating simple food to the sublime. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Confronting Female Genital Cutting In 1997, a group of women from a Senegalese village took a public stand against the practice of female genital cutting (FGC) in their village. Since then, over 5,000 villages across Africa have joined them in saying no to a centuries-old tradition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Road from Lubumbashi Dan Banda talks about conflict minerals and how our consumer choices may contribute to violence and poverty in Central Africa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guantanamo: An American History Harvard historian Jonathan Hansen talks about the deep history of Guantanamo Bay. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making an Exit Sarah Murray talks about her book Making an Exit, an account of her survey of funeral rites from around the world - from the magnificent to the macabre. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twain's Feast In 1879, as he was traveling through Europe, Mark Twain wrote a fantasy menu of the American dishes he missed the most. The discovery of the menu lead Andrew Beahrs on a journey across America and through the country's culinary history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website India Calling Anand Giridharadas grew up in America but returned to India, his parents' country, to get a closer look at how the India they left had turned into the economic powerhouse that the whole world is watching. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Powering the Future Two centuries from now, when we run out of fossil fuels, will we still be able to generate electricity, run cars, and fly jet planes? Nobel Prize winning Physicist, Dr. Robert B. Laughlin believes we will-but only by using alternate sources of energy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vikings in America What does it mean to grow up Scandianvian? In his new book, Eric Dregni tracks down and explores the significant, and quite often bizarre historic sites, tales, and traditions of Scandinavia's peculiar colony in the Midwest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Songs of Kabir Almost 500 years after his death, Kabir remains one of the world's most beloved poets. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, one of India's most renowned poets, joins us to talk about his translation of Kabir's works. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cooking with Italian Grandmothers (Encore) Jessica Theroux spent a year traveling throughout Italy, cooking and talking with Italian grandmothers. The result is a charming and authentic collection of recipes and techniques that celebrate the culinary traditions of Italy's most experienced cooks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cooking With Italian Grandmothers (Encore) Jean once wrote, "Just as I was about to concede that grandmothers - especially the Italian variety - are an endangered species, along comes this glorious cookbook which, I admit, made me cry. The book is the result of a year chef Jessica Theroux spent cooking, foraging, and eating with Italian grandmothers from Milan to Sicily, learning their secrets and listening to their stories. Bless you, Jessica." (Encore from December 17th, 2010) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The French art of Seduction Seduction plays a crucial role in how the French relate to one another in romantic relationships as well as in how they conduct business, enjoy food and drink, define style, engage in intellectual debate, elect politicians, and project power. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website French Seduction (Encore) In "La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life," New York Times' Paris Correspondent, Elaine Sciolino navigates the Parisian maze of unspoken assumptions about the cultivation of pleasure, and the hidden truth about French life: It's all about seduction. (Encore from July 12th, 2011) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bridging the Faith Divide In 1998, Eboo Patel realized that if religious extremists were recruiting young people, then those who believe in religious tolerance should do likewise. This inspired the creation of Interfaith Youth Core, an organization dedicated to service to others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Islam: Bridging the Faith Divide In 1998, Eboo Patel noticed that increased religious diversity in America was causing increased conflict. If religious extremists were recruiting young people, he reasoned, then those who believe in religious tolerance should do likewise, a realization that inspired the Interfaith Youth Core, an organization dedicated to service to others as a way of overcoming conflict. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jerusalem, Jerusalem In James Carroll's Jerusalem, the city embodies the world's greatest philosophies, and its worst impulses. It is a city constantly engaged in "a contest of life and death." And yet, it is also a place of hope, and holds the key to re-imagining world peace Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jerusalem, Jerusalem In James Carroll's Jerusalem, the city embodies the world's greatest philosophies, and its worst impulses. It is a city of faith, wracked by war, a city constantly engaged in "a contest of life and death." And yet, it is also a place of hope, resurrection, consolation, and holds the key to understanding world history and reimagining world peace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Upside: Good News about the World Author Bradley Wright discusses his book UPSIDE: SURPRISING GOOD NEWS ABOUT THE STATE OF OUR WORLD, revealing uplifting facts about global poverty, disease, the environment, and sexual morality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Upside: Good News About the World (Pledge Edition) Using the best available data, sociologist Bradley Wright shows us that things are not as bad as the media make them out to be. In his new book Upside: Surprising Good News About the State of Our World, Wright reveals surprisingly uplifting facts about global poverty, disease, the environment, and sexual morality. Also, find out how you can pledge your support to our program and Wisconsin Public Radio, where our show is produced. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trout Caviar: Recipes from a Northern Forager Brett Laidlaw joins us to talk about foraging for truly wild foods - chanterelles, nettles, berries, and trout fresh from the stream, and lays out the laws for mushroom hunting, curing bacon, laissez-faire gardening, and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trout Caviar: Recipes from a Northern Forager (Pledge Edition) Brett Laidlaw describes himself as "the product of an idyllic childhood," days spent fishing for trout, playing in fields, and seeking solitude in the woods of Eden Prairie, Minnesota. In his new book, he talks about foraging for truly wild foods: Chanterelles, nettles, berries, and trout fresh from the stream, and lays out the laws for mushroom hunting, curing bacon, laissez-faire gardening, and more. Also, find out how you can pledge your support to our program and Wisconsin Public Radio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Citizen Year: An Alternative Peace Corps Abby Falik talks to us about the potential of the next generation of young Americans as effective agents of change. Abby's program, Global Citizen Year, is a year-long program designed to unleash this potential. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Citizen Year: An Alternative Peace Corps Abby Falik was dismayed when she discovered she couldn't join the Peace Corps after graduating from high school only because she hadn't yet turned eighteen. So she started a Peace Corps of her own. Because of her, every year, a corps of graduating seniors defer college to become Global Citizen Year Fellows in Africa, Latin America and Asia. In 2010, Abby won the Clinton Global Initiative Award for her visionary leadership. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Integrative Medicine Man Can empathy cure colds? Can art relieve the pain of hospital patients? For the last decade, Dr. David Rakel has been using integrative medicine, combining conventional and alternative medical treatments to transform the lives of his patients. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Integrative Medicine Man Can empathy cure colds? Can art relieve the pain of hospital patients? For the last decade, Dr. David Rakel has been using integrative medicine, combining conventional and alternative medical treatments to transform the lives of his patients, and promote their long-term well-being. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On Creativity and Slowing Down Christian McEwen believes we get our best creative ideas in the most unlikely places-in the bathroom, on vacation, when we're daydreaming or just twiddling our thumbs. She joins us to discuss the value of slowing down, and making room for creativity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On Creativity and Slowing Down (Pledge Edition) Christian McEwen believes we get our best creative ideas in the most unlikely places: In the bathroom, on vacation, when we're daydreaming or just twiddling our thumbs. Drawing on literary and spiritual thinkers from Henry David Thoreau to Pablo Neruda, she extols the virtues of slowing down, and making time for creativity. Also, find out how you can pledge your support to our program and Wisconsin Public Radio, where our show is produced. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Columbus Laurence Bergreen talks about his latest book Columbus: The Four Voyages, a biography of the controversial explorer, Christopher Columbus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Columbus In his biography, "Columbus: The Four Voyages," Laurence Bergreen portrays Columbus as brilliant, audacious, volatile, paranoid and ruthless. What emerges in his biography is a surprising and revealing portrait of a man who might have been the title character in a Shakespearean tragedy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Apple Love Looking to make that killer apple pie? Should you opt for Granny Smith or Esopus Spitzenburg, Thomas Jefferson's favorite? Amy Traverso has written the definitive guide for all things apple, and she joins Lori Skelton, filling in for Jean Feraca Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Apple Love When you're looking to make that killer apple pie, should you opt for Granny Smith or Esopus Spitzenburg, Thomas Jefferson's favorite? Food writer Amy Traverso has written the definitive guide for all things apple, from recipes and preparation tips to history and lore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chasing The Sun We'll take you on an around-the-world odyssey in search of an elusive moving target - the sun. Richard Cohen visited twenty countries, traveling from Mount Fuji to Antarctica, to interpret what the sun has meant through the ages. (Encore from 11/8/2010) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chasing The Sun (Encore) No, he's not a surfer. From the man who wrote a worldwide history of swordplay, comes an around-the-world odyssey in search of an elusive moving target: The sun. Scholar-adventurer Richard Cohen traveled to twenty countries, from Mount Fuji to Antarctica to interpret what the sun has meant throughout the ages. (Rebroadcast from Nov. 8, 2010) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Comics in the Classroom Jean Feraca talks with Gene Luen Yang about the education and cultural values of comic books and graphic novels. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Comics In The Classroom Since its inception in 1933, the modern comic book has drawn the ire of parents, preachers, and teachers. But graphic novelist and teacher, Gene Luen Yang, believes the tradition of pictorial story-telling has deep historical roots and particular relevance in today's classroom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What is La Hispanidad Jean Feraca talks with Ilan Stavans and Ivan Jaksic about Hispanic heritage, and how united Hispanic culture really is. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website La Hispanidad Half a billion people worldwide, from the United States and Latin America, to Spain and the Philippines, supposedly share a common identity, called la hispanidad. But what is la hispanidad, and how unified is Hispanic culture really? In their new book, Ilan Stavans and Iván Jaksic come up with a flexible understanding of the elusive concept, one that transcends borders and cultures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hare with Amber Eyes Jean Feraca talks to the author of "The Hare with Amber Eyes" about discovering his family through netsuke, or small, ornamental Japanese carvings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hare With Amber Eyes When ceramic artist Edmund de Waal inherits a collection of ornamental Japanese carvings known as "netsuke," he becomes drawn to the story behind them, which becomes the story of his family that stretches through the centuries and across several countries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mission Street Food And The Pop-Up Restaurant When Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz opened a food cart on Mission Street in San Francisco, they had no idea that it would catapult them into a "pop-up" restaurant. (If you're new to the term, a pop-up restaurant is one that typically operates clandestinely, sometimes in the middle of the night, inside a pre-existing restaurant.) With an ever changing menu of unique offerings concocted by guest chefs, Mission Street quickly gained a huge following and caused people to rethink the whole id ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lorine Niedecker: A Poet's Life After her death in 1970, Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker was described by British poet Basil Bunting as "the most interesting woman poet America has yet produced," yet most of her work is mired in obscurity. In a new biography, Margot Peters tells the story of Niedecker's tumultuous family life and upbringing isolated in rural Black Hawk Island in southwestern Wisconsin, and the profound effect it had on her poetry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Time for Outrage! Stephane Hessel is many things: Former French Resistance leader, concentration camp survivor, diplomat, ambassador, former UN speechwriter, and in 1948, he helped draft the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In his new book, which has sold more than 4 million copies across the globe, he calls for a return to the ideals that fueled the French Resistance...and for discontented citizens to stand up, get outraged and fight back against injustice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Ride Of Your Life (Encore) Biking season isn't over quite yet! Whether you're crazy about bikes or just appreciate a leisurely ride, you'll fall in love with Robert Penn's story about circling the globe on a bike. In his book, It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels, he explains how the bike continues to change our world. (Rebroadcast from May 3rd, 2011) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Healing The Heart Of Democracy In this year of the Arab spring, it's a good time to be reminded that democracy is a never-ending process. In his new book designed to re-invigorate American democracy in its most localized settings, and to connect it to those larger global movements that both inspire and disappoint us, Parker Palmer spells out what we can do to form habits of the heart conducive to embracing democracy's endless conflicts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eating Smart In France Don't know your escargot from your maquereau? Ronnie Hess is here to help. Whether you're searching for an authentic restaurant in Paris, or cooking coq au vin in your own kitchen, here's what you need to know to experience the essence of French culture through its cuisine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website India's Anti-Corruption Movement Sixty-four years after Gandhi's non-violent movement brought an end to British rule in India, the Indian masses are back in the streets. Led by Anna Hazare, a man whom many hail as a new Gandhi, the movement is going after their own leaders this time, protesting the government's failure to address wide-spread and rampant corruption. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fall Poetry Circle of the Air In a variation on an old and beloved theme, poet Molly Peacock joins us again this September 21, the day of the fall equinox, together with guest editor Priscila Uppal to give us a preview of the 2011 Best Canadian Poetry in English anthology due out next month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Murder In Lascaux The mysterious prehistoric caves in the south of France are the scene of a murder in a new novel by Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden, professors emeriti at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Typical of this dynamic husband and wife team who lived near Lascaux, it's mystery and murder with art, history, and, of course, a great dollop of French food thrown in for good measure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indigo: The Color That Seduced The World (Encore) Indigo, "the bluest of blues," is not just a color, but, as Catherine McKinley puts it, "an attempt to capture beauty." Inspired by her own ancestral entanglement with Indigo, Catherine set out to learn from the last master dyers of West Africa and discovered amazing stories of wealth, power, and divine meaning. (Rebroadcast from June 1st, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Golden-Bristled Boar When Jeffrey Greene moved to Burgundy, France, he had no idea he was entering prime boar country. After a neighbor presented him with a gift of half a boar stuffed into a black garbage bag, he became fascinated and began studying the history and lore of "the last ferocious beast of the forest," compiling some interesting recipes along the way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wabi-Sabi Way (Encore) Do you love your rusty, dented old wheelbarrow? How Wabi-Sabi of you! A philosophy of seeing and homemaking, wabi-sabi has its roots in Japanese Zen Buddhism, but it's all about the imperfection of dried leaves, rather than the perfection of a fresh cherry blossom. (rebroadcast from June 2nd, 2011) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The King's Speech (Encore) While the American public sees the Oscar-winning film "The King's Speech" as a story about the king heroically overcoming his personal limitations in the face of great adversity, the same film in the UK is perceived as being a story about class differences. What does the film teach us about class in the UK? How did you see "The King's Speech?" (Rebroadcast from February 21st, 2011) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ayn Rand: Goddess Of The Market Ayn Rand, author of "Atlas Shrugged," has become one of the most polarizing figures in American culture, but how much do we really know about her life? History professor Jennifer Burns spent years poring over Rand's private papers and journals, offering a reassessment of the author's life, and her impact on the current conservative political movement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rediscovering The Lost City Of Machu Picchu In 1911, American explorer Hiram Bingham climbed into the Andes Mountains and "discovered" the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu. One hundred years later, the site remains as fascinating, yet mysterious, as ever. In his new book, travel writer Mark Adams journeys to Peru to retrace Bingham's steps to try and finally answer the question: Just exactly what was Machu Picchu? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Cuban Kitchen Raquel Rabade Roque's The Cuban Kitchen was such a hit in Spanish that she rewrote it to be published in English. She'll give us a tour of the Cuban coffee counters of Miami and the tastes of an ever evolving Cuban-American cuisine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transforming A Nation's Trauma Nationally recognized citizen diplomat Sahar Taman and Rev. Robert Chase, head of Intersections International in New York City, are collecting and planning affirmative commemorations for the decade anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks. Beyond Islam, beyond terror, they see the anniversary as a time to deepen community and seek transformation as individuals and as a nation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Somalia Through Nuruddin Farah's Eyes Winner of the Neustadt Prize and frequent nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah has been writing about his homeland for over 40 years. His works are full of love and longing for the country he left behind, and concern for the direction in which Somalia is heading. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Little Free Libraries Project Rick Brooks and Todd Bol, two Wisconsin men, are promoting worldwide literacy and building community, one Little Free Library at a time...and one could soon be coming to a neighborhood near you. Together, they're on a quest to break Andrew Carnegie's record of creating over 2,500 free libraries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Remembering The Triangle Factory Fire (Encore) 2011 marks the one hundred year anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City. Hardly anyone knows what a shirtwaist is anymore, but we're all familiar with the panic bars and lit signs above exit doors, two regulations fought for by the New York community and labor unions after the fire. (Rebroadcast from April 11, 2011) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Odd Bits When it comes to meat, the prime cuts seem to get all the attention. Australian Jennifer McLagan, author of the infamous "Fat," explores why we shy away from odd bits, from tongues and brains, to gizzards and trotters, their taste potential, and how we can approach them with more confidence in the kitchen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rambunctious Nature Environmentalist Emma Marris says it's time to abandon the idea of preserving nature in its pristine state, and move forward instead with creating the "rambunctious garden," which she describes as "a hybrid of wild nature and human management." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pearl Buck In China (encore) A blond blue-eyed daughter of a Presbyterian missionary, Pearl Buck grew up in rural China amid bandit raids, beheadings and battles, when infant girls were strangled and thrown to the dogs. Helen Spurling's biography looks at the years that shaped Buck as a writer and gave her magic power. (Rebroadcast from July 19, 2010) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Environmental Degradation As Slow Violence Nigerian activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, refused to let the oil industry's disastrous effect on his community go unnoticed. He's just one voice showcased in Rob Nixon's new book urging us to see environmental degradation as a kind of slow violence affecting the poorest in our communities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The InterSpecies Language of Grief Ever since her husband lost the ability to speak after suffering a stroke, Diane Ackerman has been grieving. She finds that, out of empathy, her acute sense of loss has connected her with the losses and grieving of others, including animals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website We All Scream For Ice Cream Be it soft-serve, gelato, Indian kulfi or Isreali glida, some form of ice cream treat can be found throughout the world in restaurants and home freezers. Ice cream's story is a tale populated with Chinese emperors, English kings, Italian hokey-pokey street vendors and a gourmand American First Lady. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mindfulness And Medicine For patients with life-threatening illnesses such as cancer, it can be hard to find comfort in the face of death. Susan Bauer-Wu and Elana Rosenbaum, who both encountered cancer in their personal lives, are medical professionals who teach the practice of mindfulness as a way for patients to rediscover strength and serenity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Born To Run (Encore) Journalist Christopher McDougall gathered information about the Tarahumara, a little-known tribe of the world's greatest distance runners who live in Mexico's Copper Canyon and can outlast any animal on earth. (Rebroadcast from 8/17/2010) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Redeemers: Power Brokers Who Shaped Latin America Evita Peron, Che Guevera, Hugo Chavez. Latin America has had its share of strong leaders. Enrique Krauze, one of Latin America's leading intellectuals, brings to life the ideas and figures that shaped a continent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sufism in the West One of my most memorable interviews some years ago was with Pir Vilayat InayatKhan, then head of the Sufi Order of the West, a man who was hanggliding in his eighties. His son, Pir Zia InayatKhan has succeeded him as the head of the Sufi Order International, an organization begun by his grandfather in the early 20th century to bring Sufism to the West. He joins us to talk about how he bends the mystic tradition and interfaith work to remedy the world's most pressing issues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Food We Brought A hundred years ago, Americans worked out their anxieties about the newcomers to their shores primarily through food: potatoes were fit for livestock, pasta made the people who ate it pale and stringy, garlic was an abomination, and pickles were morally suspect. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Word Play (Encore) How many ways are there to say "believe me" in the world? In English, we say "I'm not pulling your leg." In Russian, the phrase is "I'm not hanging noodles from your ear." We're reaching back to 2009 for this incredibly fun hour with author Jag Bhalla about the amusing ways different cultures describe their world. (Rebroadcast from June 24, 2009) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse To help the Afghan people, Suraya Sadeed made many harrowing attempts to traffic cash and supplies under the noses of Iranian border guards, drug runners, and suicide bombers. She concealed an estimated $100,000 in U.S. cash by strapping it to her stomach and feigning pregnancy while slipping past the Taliban. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elvis Lives! As of today, the 34th anniversary of the death of the King of Rock n Roll, there are 200,000 Elvis impersonators worldwide, from Mexico's El Vez to Japan's Yasuma Mori who sings about his blue suede kimono. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who Are We? Gary Younge is a black British male of Caribbean descent who speaks Russian and French and lives the United States. So who is he? Better yet, who are we? We'll discuss the influence of identity in our lives and in our world, and we'll try to discern when its influence is a problem and when it's not. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rooster Sauce "Rooster Sauce," as Sriracha is commonly known, can be found in the home, at the corner diner, and behind the scenes in some of America's top restaurants. Lori Skelton sits in for Jean as we explore the endless possibilities of cooking with this favorite hot sauce. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power of Forgiveness What is it about expressions of remorse and apology that open the door to forgiveness? Few people are better suited to exploring this question than Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a psychologist and commissioner for South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sand Queen In the process of interviewing women veterans of the Iraq war for her book, The Lonely Soldier, Helen Benedict noticed that when questioned about their experiences with sexual harassment, many of these women remained silent. So Helen decided to write the novel SAND QUEEN to give voice to the unspeakable. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Jay Lifton's Life of Listening In his new memoir, psycho-historian Robert Jay Lifton says that he's spent most of his life listening. From talking to victims of Chinese thought reform, to Japanese survivors of Hiroshima, to Nazi doctors, he bore witness to some of the 20th century's darkest moments and responded with hope and activism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ramadan: The Feast and the Fast (Encore) Since Ramadan began last Monday, which represents a particular hardship for American Muslims, we thought you might enjoy learning about how different the experience of Ramadan can be depending on where you happen to find yourself. Compare fasting here in America in the heat of long summer days to countries like Syria where everyone sleeps all day and feasts all night (unless they happen to be under siege, of course). (Rebroadcast from September 1, 2009) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings of Pastry Sixteen of France's top pastry chefs compete for the ultimate accolade, the collar of the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, best craftsmen of France, in the "Kings of Pastry" competition. The contest takes place every four years and involves 16 chefs over three exhausting days concocting 40 different recipes in a race against the clock. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Norway's Response to Tragedy In the wake of the recent massacre in Norway, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told the world, "The answer to violence is even more democracy, even more humanity." Will Norway be able to sustain its commitment to openness and tolerance? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Emotional Side of Math (encore) Alex Bellos want us to understand the emotional side of math. Traveling all over the world to report from the secret world of numbers, he has met with the tribe that counts up to five only, the man who sets the odds for half the world's slot machines, and two Ukrainian brothers who consider themselves one mathematician. (Rebroadcast from June 16, 2010) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website St. Francis and the Sultan When St. Francis crossed enemy lines to meet the Sultan Malek el-Kamil during a Crusade, he fully expected to be martyred. Instead, he was embraced as a friend. Hear the full story when I talk with Muslim Sufi master Jamal Rahman and Gabrielle Uhlein, a Franciscan sister, who are teaming up for the Christine Center's third annual interfaith retreat (to be facilitated by yours truly). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dacha Days of Summer For centuries, Russian city dwellers have spent their summers relaxing and gardening at rural cottages called dachas. (like gotcha!) Mellissa Caldwell spoke to hundreds of "dachniki" about their beliefs in the healing power of land and the strange way time passes in the country, leading to her conclusion: To understand the dacha is to understand the Russian soul. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mexican Ice Pops Cool down the heat, bring out the frozen treats! Paletas are the traditional Mexican version of the ice pop, and Fany Gerson, celebrated pastry chef and paletas enthusiast, knows all about how to make the magic of fruit and ice work to perfection. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unnatural Selection From Albania to Vietnam, fewer and fewer girls are being born. While we are quick to point to the region's patriarchial traditions to explain the phenomenon, we tend to overlook one important aspect of the problem: recently introduced technology that makes what journalist Mara Hvistendahl dubs "Unnatural Selection." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rupert Murdoch's Empire in Crisis With all the ink that's been lavished on the tabloid crisis in Britain, there's not much being said about Murdoch's links to the US. What about Fox and the American media? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Democracy Coming to China? Everyone knows about the changes in the Chinese economy. But while much of our political coverage of China focuses on its human rights abuses, some voices are saying that China is experiencing real political change as well. MIT professor Edward Steinfeld joins us to discuss why he thinks that China is on its way to democracy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Karzai Brothers and The Future of Afghanistan Former NPR correspondent Sarah Chayes has been an insider in Afghanistan since she left NPR to help rebuild a country devastated by decades of war. She says there's a clear connection between what's going on there now and the Arab Spring. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cooking from the Garden You have a garden, you're excited to cook with your own produce, you religiously stick to your favorite recipe, and it doesn't taste good. How many times has that happened to you? Deborah Madison joins us to discuss how to slowly let go of that recipe book to better respect our garden's individual quirks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Tree Of Life Terrence Malick's latest film garnered both boos and cheers at its premiere in Cannes before winning the festival's main prize, the Palme d'Or. The film's ambitious scope invites us to think about eternal questions: What is the nature of our existence? Why does pain exist if there is a just God? Film scholar and critic David Sterritt and Professor of English, Religion, and Classics Barbara Newman will join us to share their take on this exceptional film. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saved By Beauty In Iran What happens when, in 2009, a British-American poet fulfills his lifelong dream of exploring Persia's literary tradition firsthand? Iran's spectacular living culture and the depth of its soul is set into relief by his eventual detention and interrogation by Iranian security. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sinner's Grand Tour In his Slate.com series, Tony Perrottet called his bathhouse and brothel hopping trip through Europe the "pervert's" tour. But, more than the perverse, he found that the hidden history of the erotic reveals more about life, art, and the history of a place than any regular European vacation ever could. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Literature Of The Arab Spring Translation pioneers, Words Without Borders, has just published their first collection of literature dealing with the Arab Spring. Work old and new from Algeria to Egypt that illuminates the revolutionary spirit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New Roast Have you noticed a shift in American coffee culture? Roasts are getting lighter, small roasters are popping up all over, and "pour over" coffee is the hottest thing since the travel mug. But what's it got to do with flavor, and is it worth three bucks? We'll talk to Wisconsin's award winning roaster at Kickapoo Coffee, Caleb Nicholes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zen And The Art Of Firefighting In 2008, a wildfire nearly destroyed the Tassajara Zen Center in the Ventana wilderness of southern California, but five monks, including one woman, with no firefighting experience were able to fend off the flames. Colleen Morton Busch and Mako Voelkel join us to describe how Zen mind beats fire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rescuing Regina The harrowing true story of a feisty nun, a ferocious lawyer, and a group of grassroots volunteers who set aside political differences in a race to save a Congolese torture survivor from deportation and almost certain death. Along the way, Sister Josephe holds America's hidden asylum system up for long overdue scrutiny. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website French Seduction In "La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life," New York Times' Paris Correspondent, Elaine Sciolino navigates the Parisian maze of unspoken assumptions about the cultivation of pleasure, and the hidden truth about French life: It's all about seduction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hush, Baby, Hush All around the world, for as long as babies have fretted, those who care for them have been making up lullabies on the spot, passing them on, and sometimes, writing them down. What's your favorite lullaby? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website For Cod And Country With so many species in rapid decline, is eating fish really sustainable? Esquire Chef of the Year Barton Seaver says yes and shows us how, featuring seafood that hasn't been over-fished or caught in an environmentally destructive way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer Reading Without Borders The 2011 Champion of literature in translation, publisher Chad Post, joins us once again to talk about all the best newly translated books for English readers. We hear about a rambunctious Polish farmer, the wild life of inventor Nikola Tesla, and what really happened inside the Trojan Horse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Story of Charlotte's Web About himself, E.B. White once wrote: "This boy felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people." He wasn't alone: talking animals abound in literature all over the globe. Who is your favorite literary talking animal? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website America And Pakistan: The First 60 Years At the time of Pakistan's founding a scant 60 years ago, it was the first and only democracy in the Muslim world, a country whose citizens would elect those who govern them. A Pakistani-American at the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy's Summit drew fascinating comparisons between Pakistan and the first 60 years of U.S. history. Despite obvious differences between our two countries, there are striking parallels. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Pursuit of Happiness (Encore) What figure in American history makes you feel warm and fuzzy about democracy? Illustrator and Israeli immigrant Maira Kalman set out, Alexis deToqueville style, to document democracy in America circa 2009. The result is an optimistic love letter to America that reminds us all of what we have to be proud of this Independence Day. (Rebroadcast from 11/1/10) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Southern Sweetness After years for writing cookbooks inspired by her time in Southeast Asia, North Carolinian Nancie McDermott returned to her roots, the American South, and the sweet pies and cakes she helped her grandmother bake as a kid. They are central to Southern hospitality, and a great way to celebrate America's birthday! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Legacy of American Socialism What do Thomas Paine, Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr. have in common? According to John Nichols, these legendary Americans were more than a little bit red. He joins us for a conversation about the SWord, the legacy of American socialism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website To A Mountain In Tibet (Encore) After the loss of his mother, acclaimed travel writer Colin Thubron journeyed to the holiest mountain on earth: Mount Kailas, Tibet. It is sacred to one-fifth of humankind and has never been climbed. On an often grueling trek through an impoverished yet breathtaking landscape, Thubron encountered a complex intermingling of religious beliefs while confronting his own experience with death. (Rebroadcast from 3/8/11) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peace, Love and Parazit: Iran's Daily Show (Encore) Tired of their routine jobs, Saman Arbabi and Kambiz Hosseini, two irreverent young Iranians, started a comedy program called "Parazit" that's modeled after Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" and broadcast over The Voice of America. The show is billed for those who "don't have the patience for news ... and all news is bad news." (Rebroadcast from 4/12/11) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website To Kill A Mockingbird (Encore) Why has Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird," which is so firmly rooted in the American South, become so popular the world over? And what makes it particularly relevant to Europe right now? (Rebroadcast from 6/30/10) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Eats Around Your Corner The restaurant insider behind the wildly popular website RestaurantGirl.com joins us live on Food Friday to talk about how to get out of an eating rut with dishes from all over the world that you can find right here in this country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Whale (Encore) In "The Whale," winner of the 2009 BBC prize for nonfiction, Philip Hoare investigates the dark, shadowy beasts who swim below the depths only to surface in a spray of spume to find out what it is about them that exerts such a powerful grip on our collective imagination? (Rebroadcast from 2/3/10) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Life On The Border: Live (Encore) Here on Earth had a blast broadcasting live from the Fox Cities Book Festival in Menasha this April. We talked with the acclaimed Mexican-American writer Luis Alberto Urrea who says that the border between Mexico and the United States goes right through his heart. (Rebroadcast from 4/13/11) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life And Language In The Amazonian Jungle (Encore) "Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes": Behind that sensationalized title is a truly original account of Amazonia written by a man, Daniel Everett, who went there as a Christian missionary expecting to convert the Pirahas, a tribe in Brazil, and was instead converted by them. (Rebroadcast from 1/12/09) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hafez: Persia's Provocateur Hafez, the famous 14th century Persian poet, used the most gorgeous language to expose duplicity, irreverence, and corruption in preachers, scholars of religious laws, memorizers and reciters of the Qur'an. Why is he still one of the best read poets of Persian literature? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Salt It's the most universal of ingredients and the one most easily overlooked. From Sel Gris to flake salt, Mark Bitterman argues that the better you know your salt, the better every meal will turn out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Anarchist Bastard Joanna Herman, who grew up on a pig farm in Connecticut and is fond of saying, "I was born in 1944 but raised in the twelfth century," gives a salute to Italian patriarchy in this twist on Fathers' Day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Journey to the Moon When was the last time you felt the enchantment of the full moon? James Attlee traveled the world to bask with those who still find significance in the moon and its province, the night. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Arabian Nights In the original telling, Scheherazade's story was wild and wicked enough to keep the Sultan awake for a 1001 nights. Reza Aslan and Andrei Codrescu uncover the libidinous side of the Arabian Nights as we talk about the seductive power of storytelling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Future Without Nuclear Energy? The recent nuclear disaster in Japan has many people re-thinking the risks and benefits of nuclear energy. Germany took a bold stance two weeks ago when it pledged to shut down its nuclear reactors by 2022. What are the consequences of living without nuclear energy? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bach to the Future The Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society turns 20 this year with a bang! Co-founders Jeffrey Sykes and Stephanie Jutt are celebrating by coming out with a cookbook and a CD, pairing their favorite recipes with their favorite musical selections. Coffee Cantata, anyone? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Beautiful Thing At A Time In Mary Gordon's latest novel, "The Love of My Youth," former lovers rendezvous in Rome after a separation of nearly forty years. Adam says to Miranda, "I want to show you one beautiful thing every day." Can a novel be a guidebook? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Socrates in China Peter Vernezze went to China as a Peace Corps Volunteer to get a break from teaching philosophy. But in order to understand his students, he went back to teaching the nature of truth and the ideal of the good life, discovering in the process a side of China we rarely get to see. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website India: Geek Nation? Are Indians naturally geeky? In her new book, Angela Saini, who sees herself as the geek daughter of her Indian geek father, explores the past and future of India's devotion to science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Religion With Joy Many practitioners approach religion without joy, relying on concepts that constrict us rather than free us. Using music and movement, Rabbi Sigal teaches methods and guides practices intended to free the spirit and release the dance of the soul. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website You Can Make Injera! If you've had the opportunity to dig into a traditional Ethiopian meal, the "plate" you probably ate it from and the "fork" you used to eat it were probably a spongy, sour bread called injera. Even for a native Ethiopian like Mulusew Yayehyirad, co-founder of Clinic At A Time, it took years of living in the United States to perfect her recipe using North American ingredients. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wabi-Sabi Way Do you love your rusty, dented old wheelbarrow? How Wabi-Sabi of you! A philosophy of seeing and homemaking, wabi-sabi has its roots in Japanese Zen Buddhism, but it's all about the imperfection of dried leaves, not the perfection of a fresh cherry blossom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indigo: The Color That Seduced The World Indigo, "the bluest of blues," is not just a color, but, as Catherine McKinley puts it, "an attempt to capture beauty." Inspired by her own ancestral entanglement with Indigo, Catherine set out to learn from the last master dyers of West Africa and discovered amazing stories of wealth, power, and divine meaning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Islam: Laughter As A Path To Understanding In keeping with the lighter spirit of our latest Inside Islam programs, we present Muslim Comedians Tissa Hami and Dean Obeidallah, who use comedy to break down the stereotypes about Muslims and Arabs that have surged after 9-11. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Theater Of War (Encore) Long before Memorial Day, Sophocles, the ancient Greek general and playwright, depicted the timeless psychological wounds inflicted upon warriors in his plays. In the Theater of War project, actors and actresses read Sophocles's plays to active service members and their families to show them that they are not alone in dealing with pain of battle. (Rebroadcast from August 9th, 2010) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How To Eat Well On Forty Dollars A Week Newly divorced and laid off, food writer Robin Mather moved to the woods and slashed her food budget. Her pantry became her savings account and the farmers nearby her grocers and her friends. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elif Shafak The most widely read woman writer in Turkey today, Elif Shafak was accused of insulting "Turkishness" for mentioning the Armenian genocide in one of her novels. Throughout her life and career, Elif has tried to unify the wildly different aspects of her identity: Woman, Muslim, Turkish, international globetrotter, writer, mother. For her, what holds it all together in the end is the power of fiction to overcome the politics of identity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Make it Happen: Collective Visioning Linda Stout proved through her award winning work in Appalachia that diversity is essential to meaningful social change. Now, she's helping groups around the country begin their work by getting everybody a seat at the table. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chosen Peoples The idea of "the chosen" is everywhere in American and Israeli history, both trying to grasp the meaning of divine election and to bear its burden. We'll examine the special relationship between the U.S. and Israel through the prism of their perceived special status as "chosen peoples." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Islam: Muslims, Mosques, and American Identity (Encore) Enjoy this Gabriel Award-winning program from our "Inside Islam: Dialogues and Debates" series, "Muslims, Mosques, and American Identity." Can a Muslim be an American? Islamic Studies luminary Akbar Ahmed went all the way back to the Founding Fathers to answer that question. And who can argue with the Founding Fathers? (Rebroadcast from November 2nd, 2010) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond the Pasta Mark Leslie didn't just want to eat Italian food; he wanted to learn how to cook from a real Italian family. From the family in Viterbo that took him in, he not only learned how to cook, but how to live in a whole new way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Islam: On A Wing And A Prayer Could anything be crazier than a Muslim-American learning to fly a plane in the United States post 9-11? I met Monem Salam a few months ago at a conference in Bloomington, Indiana, where he told his hilarious and touching story of how he fulfilled his lifelong dream to become a pilot in spite of his bad timing, and lived to make a PBS award-winning documentary film about it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tuesdays with Morrie, Russian-Style In the 1980's, Wisconsinite Lisa Paul was a college student in Moscow studying Russian under the wing of an outspoken Jewish Soviet dissident. In her new book, "Swimming in the Daylight," she tells the harrowing story of how she put her own life on the line in her campaign to win freedom for her beloved teacher. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beyond The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Encore) In the last 20 years Noir has gone global, with Swedish fiction writer Stieg Larsson copping the number two place as best-selling author in the U.S., and crime fiction showing up in countries like Algeria, Turkey, and India. Join us with "Detectives Beyond Borders" blogger Peter Rozovsky and "Delhi Noir" editor Hirsh Sawhney. (Rebroadcast of "Tracking the Global Gumshoe" from August 5th, 2009) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fortunate Sons (Encore) What happened when the Qing dynasty sent 120 boys to go to school in the U.S. in 1872? The boys got good at baseball and picked up nicknames like ByJinks Johnnie and Fighting Chinee. But they also confronted a struggle between traditionalism and modernity that ended up influencing both China and the U.S. (Rebroadcast from February 3rd, 2011) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ancient Grains Think whole grains are just for health nuts? Maria Speck's love affair with barley, farro, and millet will change your mind. She grew up in Greece and Germany and will help us rediscover old world treatments of mankind's oldest staples. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website After the Dalai Lama In March of this year, the Dalai Lama announced that he was looking for a successor who could take over his political duties as head of Tibet's government in exile. Late last month, the exiled Tibetans elected a new Harvard-educated Prime Minister. We'll discuss the future of the Dalai Lama and of Tibet with Tim Johnson, author of "Tragedy in Crimson: How the Dalai Lama Conquered the World but Lost the Battle with China." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Islam: The 99 What power do superheroes really have? Naif al-Mutawa believes that they can change the world. That's why he created "The 99": superheroes inspired by the 99 attributes of Allah. Together with "The 99," Naif is out to fight radical Islam and Western misconceptions about Islam. Ever since, "The 99" have teamed up with Superman to fight for a better world, and President Obama has publicly recognized the importance of Naif's work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Benazir Bhutto The premier of Bhutto, an Independent Lens film that airs on Tuesday night, gives us a reason to talk about the woman who broke the glass ceiling to become the first woman headofstate to rule a Muslim nation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Kidnapping in Milan (Encore) The CIA snatched the terrorist suspect Abu Omar from a street in Milan on February 17th, 2003, and spirited him away to Egypt for extraordinary rendition. The Italian court responded by convicting 23 CIA agents, marking the first time the CIA has ever been brought to trial. Freelance journalist Steve Hendricks investigated the case and wrote about it in his book "A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial." (Rebroadcast from December 28, 2010.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tender Revered British food writer Nigel Slater's encyclopedic take on his vegetable garden arrives on the American side of the Atlantic just in time to inspire your plans for this year's vegetable patch! Lori Skelton sits in as we nibble everything green, from Asparagus to Fava Beans to Zucchini. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I Speak for Myself The media have plenty to say about Muslim women, but the day's headlines rarely reflect the lives of the majority of Muslim women. And even less commonly do we hear the voices of Muslim women themselves. This week, Madison welcomes women writers behind a new collection of essays seeking to fill this void, "I Speak For Myself: American Women on Being Muslim." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website To A Mountain In Tibet (Encore) After the loss of his mother, acclaimed travel writer Colin Thubron journeyed to the holiest mountain on earth: Mount Kailas in Tibet. It is sacred to one-fifth of humankind and has never been climbed. On an often grueling trek through an impoverished yet breathtaking landscape, Colin Thubron encountered a complex intermingling of religious beliefs while confronting his own experience with death. Rebroadcast from March 8, 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Ride Of Your Life It's time to get your bicycles out of the basement! Whether you're crazy about bikes or just appreciate a leisurely ride, you'll fall in love with Rob Penn's story. He once circled the globe on a bike, then traveled to different countries to find the perfect parts for the bike to grow old with. In his book, "It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels," he explains how the bike has changed our world in the past and how it just might change our future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The World Reacts to Osama Bin Laden's Death While some Americans celebrated Osama Bin Laden's death in Time Square, other countries have their own reactions to this event. Our guests will discuss the impact this event has not only on US soil, but worldwide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aromas of Aleppo I've just returned from a trip to Aleppo where my husband's grandparents once lived as part of a vibrant Syrian Jewish community. Having eaten sumptuously while there, I naturally wanted to bring to our listeners an awareness of the wonders of Syrian cuisine. I remembered a wonderful cookbook that my sisterinlaw once gave me Aromas of Aleppo by Poopa Dweck, a beautiful blonde first generation SyrianJewish American, who has devoted much of her life to preserving and celebrating her communit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rainer Maria Rilke: Light In Dark Times Together with Rumi, Rainer Maria Rilke is among America's most prized poets. His connection to nature permeates his work, and his idea of the relationship between the human and the divine as being one of mutual need still inspires spiritual seekers of all walks of life. We'll be joined by Rilke translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy, both luminary poets and spiritual teachers in their own right. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Meaning Of Mary Magdalene Why so much interest in Mary Magdalene lately? Upcoming films, upcoming books (fictional and historical), a Bollywood movie and even a Lady Gaga video. Cynthia Bourgeault is with us this hour. In her book, she says to "reclaim Mary Magdalene is to reclaim Christianity." How do you see Mary Magdalene? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gandhi, Great Soul Amidst political revolution, nonviolent and violent, a new biography of Mahatma Gandhi hits the shelves. Has India idolized the man without fully embracing his teachings? What can we learn from this nonviolent leader's successes and disappointments? Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph Lelyveld joins us to talk about his new book. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rara! (Encore) Join us for a special live performance from DJA-Rara, the Brooklyn-based Haitian rara band. There are many explanations of the origins of rara, but whatever its beginnings, this raucous, peripatetic, and subversive music has endured and been embraced by the Haitian American community in New York City as an expression of Haitian pride, culture and identity. (Rebroadcast from September 23, 2010) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chocolate Chasers (Encore) Dan Pearson was working in Peru with his stepson Brian Horsley when they stumbled on a species of cocoa long thought extinct. Even better, the trees had mutated to produce highly prized white beans! Following their discovery, Dan and Brian partnered with local farmers and the world's top chocolate experts to produce the next big thing in chocolate, Fortunato No.4, debuting at food expos this month. Rebroadcast from January 21, 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Optimist's Tour of Our Ecological Future The Optimist is back! Health-care tailored to genetic profiles. Machines that pull carbon dioxide out of the air. What's next? Writer Mark Stevenson set out to answer that question by talking with scientists and philosophers around the world who are thinking deep into the future. As we invite Mark back to our program on Earth Day, we'll focus on questions about the future of Planet Earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arrival City Look around: the largest migration in human history is under way. For the first time ever, more people are living in cities than in rural areas. Many of these migrants first live in slums at the outskirts of cities. But these "arrival cities" are not just places of misery. They are also the location of amazing innovation, successful community-owned businesses, and upward mobility. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Syria: The Other Side of the Mirror The protests in Syria are making our daily news, and the entire world is watching as Bashar al-Assad is trying to mollify the protesters. But does the image we get in the news correspond with the real Syria? What aspects of this country do we never hear about? And what does that say about us? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Paper Garden Mary Delany was seventy-two years old when she noticed a petal drop from a geranium. In a flash, she picked up her scissors and cut out a paper replica of the petal, inventing the art of collage. Now nearly a thousand of her cut-paper collages, known as Flora Delanica, are housed in the British Museum. Molly Peacock has written a biography of Mary Delaney as only a poet could. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chasing Chiles The chili pepper has transformed cuisines around the world since it was first brought from the "New World." As farmers began growing chiles in more and more places, the plants changed and adapted, creating new varieties. Our guests celebrate and fight to preserve the world's diverse peppers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nepal's Road to Democracy Twenty years after their revolution and five years after the end of a decade long civil war, Nepalese are still struggling to bring democracy to Nepal. Recent college graduate Subhash Ghimire isn't giving up. Through education and community projects, he's leading his generation and Nepal into a brighter future. He joins us with writer Jeff Greenwald who covered the 1990 revolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Life on the Border: Live from Menasha Here on Earth will be broadcasting live from the Fox Cities Book Festival! We will talk with the acclaimed Mexican-American writer Luis Alberto Urrea who says that the border between Mexico and the United States goes right through his heart. You can join us live at the UW Fox Valley Student Union in Menasha. Both Jean and Luis will stay on for a book signing after the event. We look forward to seeing you there! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peace, Love and Parazit: Iran's Daily Show Tired of their routine jobs, Saman Arbabi and Kambiz Hosseini, two irreverent young Iranians, started a comedy program called Parazit that's modeled after Jon Stewart's The Daily Show and broadcast over The Voice of America. The show is billed for those who "don't have the patience for news ... and all news is bad news." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Remembering The Triangle Factory Fire 2011 marks the one hundred year anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City. Hardly anyone knows what a shirtwaist is anymore, but we're all familiar with the panic bars and lit signs above exit doors, two regulations fought for by the New York community and labor unions after the fire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The D.I.Y. Kitchen In her recent feature in the New York Times, Julia Moskin details easy projects for an afternoon in the kitchen. It's a do-it-yourself starter kit for everyone. Join us as we learn to make North African preserved lemons, Chinese chili oil, and creme fraiche! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Army of Phantoms How did Hollywood impact your experience of the Cold War? We take a trek back to the early days of the Cold War with film historian and critic Jim Hoberman to examine how anxieties about communism made it onto the big screen and, then, straight into our heads. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unhitched: Love and Family Around the World What makes a "family"? People answer this question in diverse ways around the world. Family researcher Judith Stacey joins us to discuss unique family forms from America, South Africa, and China, including polygamous households and a community that has no marriage at all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teachers Around The World American teachers are called everything from lazy to hardworking. Either way, we all depend on the quality of their work. While Wisconsin teachers made themselves heard protesting Gov. Walker's budget repair bill, other countries have their own conversations about the worth of teachers' work. What lessons can we learn by looking at teachers abroad? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dressmaker Of Khair Khana When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 1996, women's lives changed overnight as they were forced into their homes. Yet Afghan women didn't give up. Journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells us the story of a young woman who became an entrepreneur and whose business created jobs and hope for many women in her neighborhood during the Taliban years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wild Table Spring is here, and delicacies such as morels, ramps, and elderflowers will soon make their way into the forager's kitchen. Connie Green has spent the last three decades not only championing wild food, but also inspiring the finest chefs across the country to add foraged foods to their menus. She'll join us to talk about her gorgeous new cookbook, The Wild Table. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking To The Enemy (Encore) Anthropologist Scott Atran spent years talking to terrorists. In his new book, he argues that terrorists don't die for a cause, but for each other. We'll explore the social lives of terrorists, and how things are changing in Afghanistan with a new generation of fighters. (Rebroadcast from November 22, 2010.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lion's Eye: Seeing in the Wild (Encore) 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. (Rebroadcast from November 18, 2009.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Freelance Diplomacy (Encore) After 15 years in the British diplomatic corps, Carne Ross found himself disagreeing with UK policies that led to the Iraq War. Disenchanted with conventional diplomacy, he re-invented himself as a "freelance diplomat," and founded Independent Diplomats, a bold non-profit organization advising populations that would otherwise not have a voice in international relations. How far would you go for what you believe in? (Rebroadcast from November 4, 2010.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future Of Recycling (Encore) Tom Szaky, the 28-year-old founder of TerraCycle, one of the fastest growing green companies in the world, is making a business out of recycling and a name for himself as "The Number One C.E.O. in America Under Age 30." (Rebroadcast from January 20, 2011.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blood, Bones And Butter All eyes in the food world have turned to Gabrielle Hamilton and her new memoir, "Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef." She's never been quite at home in the food world and still has little patience for credos or picky eaters at her table. At Prune, her East Village N.Y. City restaurant, it's all about real, good food that says "hospitality," like the food she encountered on backpacking trips in Greece and Turkey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Islam: The Green Deen Muhammed declared "The Earth is a Mosque." Environmental Policy Advisor to the City of New York, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin makes a spiritual case for environmentalism in which humanity is compelled to care for the earth not just in response to scientific data, but because of a sacred duty. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Utopia (Encore) Will utopia ever exist? J.C. Hallman travelled the world's intentional communities to study our quest for a better perfect. He came back thinking that even when perfect fails, there's something human about reaching for it. (Rebroadcast from December 13, 2010.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Art of Listening (Encore) British Sociologist Les Back has been thinking a lot about famous listeners like Studs Terkel, about the importance Holocaust survivor Primo Levi placed on the connectivity offered by listening, and about why, despite the central role listening plays in a healthy political sphere, it just seems to be getting harder and harder to be good at it. (Rebroadcast from September 8, 2010.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun (Encore) What's in a word? Linguistic anthropologist Liza Bakewell spent decades chasing after the many meanings of the Spanish word "madre" as it's used in Mexico. In her memoir, she chronicles the relationship between religion, nationhood and language and celebrates the role of the creative female in a sexist culture. (Rebroadcast from December 1, 2010.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nowruz: Persian New Year Saideh Jamshidi, our Iranian-American producer, has found the perfect guest, Najmieh Batmanglij, to talk about the Iranian New Year celebration this month, which is an ancient and complex ritual connected to Zoroastrianism. Najmieh is the author of several highly-esteemed cookbooks including "Happy Nowruz." Now, if I can only learn to pronounce her name. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ireland Unhinged Among the countries hit hardest by the economic downturn is Ireland, which had been riding high on a boom of prosperity that garnered it the highest quality of life index in the world. This St. Patrick's Day, American ex-pat David Monagan shares stories from Cork about the new troubles in Ireland and the country's resilient spirit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Islam: Peter King's Hearings Representative Peter King's hearings began Thursday, March 10th for the purpose of exploring the extent of radicalization in the American Muslim community. The hearings are being compared to those instigated by Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy on un-American activities during the so-called Red Scare in the fifties. But, surprisingly enough, some prominent Muslims are in favor of them. What do you think? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Year of the Hare Have you ever felt the urge to chuck it all, slip out the back door, and start life anew? That's just what the main character does in Finland's best loved novel, "The Year of the Hare" by Arto Paasilinna. Renowned travel writer Pico Iyer, who wrote the forward to the book, did the same thing when he left for Japan many years ago. He joins us to talk about the new North American edition of the book and about the benefits of leaving it all behind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mooz-lum A coming-of-age story based on the director's real-life experience, "Mooz-lum" is a film that explores the trials of a young Muslim man brought up strictly who struggles through an identity crisis when he finds himself facing new freedoms in college amid the tensions of the 9-11 attacks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Food-Tripping Though Vietnam In her culinary journey through Vietnam, Kim Fay frequently tasted Com Hen, clam rice with thin silver star fruit. She was fascinated by the tartness that sparked against the dry crunch of the wonton stick. We talk with Kim Fay and her good friend, cookbook author Ann Le, about Vietnamese food and culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moby-Duck In 1992, a storm in the North Pacific toppled shipping containers from the deck of a ship, sending thousands of toy rubber duckies into the sea. Journalist Donovan Hohn tells their story, connecting the makers, buyers, oceanographers and beachcombers who dot the trail of this iconic bath toy's trip around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living with Soul Walter Wink in his book, "The Human Being," argues that we humans are more than we think we are. Using dialogue and the insights of Jungian depth psychology, he encourages us to consider our human capacity as exemplified in fully realized human beings like Jesus and other spiritual leaders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website To A Mountain In Tibet After the loss of his mother, acclaimed travel writer Colin Thubron journeyed to the holiest mountain on earth: Mount Kailas in Tibet. It is sacred to one-fifth of humankind and has never been climbed. On an often grueling trek through an impoverished yet breathtaking landscape, Colin Thubron encountered a complex intermingling of religious beliefs while confronting his own experience with death. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fighting for Libya Ali Ahmida grew up in Libya. Now, as a political scientist in the United States, he's calling attention to the Libyan people's rich history of resistance including poetry produced by Libyans forced into concentration camps under Italy's colonial rule. He'll offer a people-centered view of Libya's ongoing struggle for democracy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Food Whiz Quiz And Mustard On Earth (Pledge Edition) In this special pledge edition of the show, Barry Levenson, curator of the Mustard Museum, joins us for another round of the Food Whiz Quiz. We'll also be offering a very special pledge premium: "Jean Feraca's Mustard on Earth!" You can choose this thank you gift during our show or anytime during the drive when you pledge to Wisconsin Public Radio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big In China When suburban dad Alan Paul's wife was offered a job as the Wall Street Journal's China Bureau Chief in Beijing, he agreed to move the whole family, including three kids, to China. But instead of just being the tag-along, he ended up with an adventure of his own, founding and fronting a Chinese blues band that made it big in China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Force More Powerful The uprising that started in Tunis, was carried into Egypt, and is now throughout much of the Middle East and North Africa is being spread through the power of non-violent resistance. What is the history of non-violent resistance, and what we can learn from those brave enough to use its power as a strategy to topple atrocious regimes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Optimist's Tour Of The Future Health care tailored to genetic profiles, machines that pull carbon dioxide out of the air, what's next? Writer Mark Stevenson set out to answer that question by talking with scientists and philosophers around the world who are thinking deep into the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Al Jazeera's Revolution When it came into existence fifteen years ago, Al Jazeera was the first Arab broadcaster not completely controlled by a government. Now it's been playing a crucial role in the current uprisings sweeping the Arab world. How did Al Jazeera become the enemy of dictatorship and a friend to democracy? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day of Honey While living in Baghdad and Beirut for six years during the time of the Iraq invasion and the Lebanese war Annia Ciezadlo broke bread with Shiites and Sunnis, warlords, and refugees, matriarchs and mullahs. From the oldest recipes in the world to her Lebanese motherinlaw's rare family recipes, she shows us a Middle East full of humor and delicious flavors that outlive even the most tumultuous of times. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Peace Corps Turns Fifty, Part II (Pledge Edition) We'll kick off our Winter Pledge Drive with a preview of the UW's Peace Corps and Africa Conference featuring stories of impact from returnees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Islam: What kind of a book is the Qur'an? What kind of a book is the Qur'an? Does it incite Muslims to violence? What are its core messages? What kind of God is Allah? We'll talk with UW-Madison professor Anna M. Gade about the Qur'an and why it is so misunderstood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All Eyes On Madison Government protests took a leap over the Atlantic last week, spreading to Madison, Wisconsin. Protestors there seem inspired by revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt and they're screaming loud enough to draw the attention of the BBC, Al-Jazeera, and other international news outlets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The King's Speech While the American public sees the Oscar-nominated film "The King's Speech" as a story about a king heroically overcoming his personal limitations in the face of great adversity, the same film in the UK is perceived as being a story about class differences. What does the film teach us about class in the UK? How did you see "The King's Speech?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website High On The Hog From Goree Island in Senegal to Ibo Landing in the Low Country of the American South, from ham hocks to chitlins to fried chicken and vegan soul, we'll invite Jessica B. Harris, Grande Dame of African American cookbooks, to tell us about the people and the recipes that gained the peoples of Africa their hardwon place at the American table. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Sudan After the Southern Sudanese overwhelmingly voted in favor of secession from Khartoum, Southern Sudan is slated to become the youngest country on the African continent as of July 9th. While the vote has been viewed as a success by the international community, the new country will face considerable challenges as it makes its transition to full independence. Have you ever witnessed the birth of a country? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Harlem is Nowhere Known worldwide as a center of cultural and political achievement, Harlem could be described as the capital of Black America. Now threatened by gentrification, we'll talk with Harlem's most recent chronicler Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts about old-fashioned rootedness and what it takes for a community to fight for the value of place. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Women Without Men In "Women Without Men", Venice Film Festival prize-winner Shirin Neshat depicts the life of four Iranian women during the politically-tumultuous summer of 1953. The movie catalogs political change through the personal stories of a prostitute, a rebel, a traditionalist, and an unhappy wife. We talk with Iranian-born visual artist Neshat about her movie and its themes, which continue to resonate in the politically-tumultuous winter of 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Love Divine When Rumi, the 13th century poet and founder of Sufism, met his teacher, Shams of Tabriz, he was introduced to a deeper kind of love that would inspire him for the rest of his life. On this Valentine's Day you'll see Rumi's poetry books in every bookstore. But what sort of love was Rumi really talking about? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website At Home with Madhur Jaffrey Lori Skelton steps in to talk with the high priestess of Indian cooking. But don't worry, her latest book is written for those of you who find South Asian cooking a little intimidating. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Peace Corps, Then and Now (Encore) In October 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy challenged a group of college students to serve the cause of peace by living and working abroad. Just five months later, President Kennedy signed the Peace Corps into existence. Madison resident Bob Klein was one of the first to sign up. He joins us to talk about the history of the Peace Corps, his experiences in Ghana, and next year's 50th anniversary. Plus, find out how you can have your Peace Corps story told on-air. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mrs. Goundo's Daughter A new documentary airing on PBS this week describes one Malian woman's determination to protect her daughter from female genital mutilation by seeking asylum in the United States. We'll speak with the co-director of the film and an advocate who says FGM is an issue in need of attention right here in America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Live Longer, Think Longer What would you do with a second adulthood? Humans are living longer and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson says it's time we embrace what she calls the "age of active wisdom." We'll discuss the value of longevity in our own lives and to a world in need of a longer perspective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tiger in the Kitchen Growing up in Singapore, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan never spent much time in the kitchen. It was only after moving to the U.S. that she realized she had to return to her homeland to learn from the women in her family how to make the New Year's dishes she simply couldn't live without. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fortunate Sons What happened when the Qing dynasty sent 120 boys to go to school in the US in 1872? The boys got good at baseball and picked up nicknames like ByJinks Johnnie and Fighting Chinee. But they also confronted a struggle between traditionalism and modernity that ended up influencing both China and the U.S. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website People Power In The Middle East Protests in Tunisia and Egypt came as a surprise to much of the world and are raising hopes for a change of power there and across the Middle East. Why now, and are they likely to bring lasting change? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Bulgaria Survived the Twentieth Century In "SOLO", a novel that won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book of 2010, Ulrich, a 100 year old blind musician who was born in 1901 during the final days of the Ottoman Empire, looks back at his life under a century of communism and fascism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rise Of A Middle Class In The Middle East (Encore) A force for change is welling up in the Middle East, the rise of a mobile middle class of entrepreneurs, investors and consumers. Although almost invisible to the West, our guests see in this newest of social movements the key to tipping the scales of power away from extremism. (Rebroadcast from August 24, 2010.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wild Within Outdoorsman Steve Rinella gets his food by foraging from what he calls the world's "first supermarket." On his new Travel Channel television series, "The Wild Within," he travels the world hunting for the food he feeds his family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I Killed Scheherazade How are Arab women portrayed in the West? Lebanese spitfire Joumana Haddad electrified the Arab world by starting the first erotic magazine in Arabic. Ever since her appearance on Here on Earth in the summer of 2009, one of our best programs of that year, we've been eagerly anticipating her next move. It's just arrived in the form of a highly provocative book some are calling a manifesto: "I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Ehrlich Redefines The Family What does family mean to you? Paul Ehrlich made his mark as a world famous environmentalist with the publication of "The Population Bomb" in 1968. Ehrlich now believes that our very survival may depend on expanding our capacity for empathy and our understanding of the human family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Global University Will your son or daughter be earning a college degree in Singapore or Qatar in the near future? Higher education journalist and researcher Ben Wildavsky contends that the rising mobility of college students, faculty, and even campuses across national borders is to be embraced, not feared. This often ignored effect of globalization, he says, will bring improved education, economic growth, and new opportunities for people around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wisdom Of The Eco-Mystics Mystics are often seen as detached from the world, but Paula Hirschboeck tells us the opposite is true. Paula Hirschboeck, an ordained Buddhist priest and former Dominican nun, joins us to talk about the urgent ecological lessons both early and modern mystics have to teach us about our conflicted relationship with the earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chocolate Chasers Dan Pearson was working in Peru with his step-son Brian Horsley when they stumbled on a species of cocoa long thought extinct. Even better, the trees had mutated to produce highly prized white beans! Following their discovery, Dan and Brian partnered with local farmers and the world's top chocolate experts to produce the next big thing in chocolate, Fortunato No. 4, debuting at food expos this month. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future Of Recycling Tom Szaky, the 28-year-old founder of TerraCycle, one of the fastest growing green companies in the world, is making a business out of recycling and a name for himself as "The Number One CEO in America Under 30." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Capital Punishment On Trial Why does the U.S. hold on to the death penalty while other countries in the West have abolished it? Justice Stevens caused quite a stir recently in explaining why he turned against the death penalty in his review of David Garland's new book "Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition." David Garland is our guest this hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 9 Parts of Desire In this award-winning one-woman show Iraqi-American actress Heather Raffo portrays the lives of nine different Iraqi women including a doctor, a Bedouin and a young girl, all of whom celebrate life despite its hardships. She's joined by her accompanist Iraqi musician Amir ElSaffar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking to Strangers In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we take this moment to reflect on the state of our democracy. How do we interact as citizens? How often do we have positive interactions with political adversaries? And how are young people getting involved in politics today? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All You Need To Know About Olive Oil Last year about this time, I spent a few days in Montreal where I met a charming Frenchman named Rene Lavallee whose shop in a downtown market is famous for its olive oil, with one entire wall lined from floor to ceiling with bottles from all over the world. He's so devoted to liquid gold, he claims it's even great with ice cream. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Practical Wisdom Jean is back in the studio today. Joining her is Swarthmore sociologist Barry Schwartz, who brings together Aristotle and modern-day psychology in his new book "Practical Wisdom." Together they're discussing President Obama's speech in Tucson last night through our the lens of our desire to be better people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Witnessing To Solidarity (Encore) One year later, as the reality of the earthquake in Haiti is still an everyday presence for Haitians, we revisit a discussion from January of 2010 about how hard it is just to watch. Scholars and teachers of witnessing point out both the pitfalls and the positive outcomes that can come through witnessing the suffering of others. A powerful program in light of the tragedy in Tucson last weekend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twelve Steps To A Compassionate Life Comparative religion scholar Karen Armstrong's "Charter for Compassion" has been signed by thousands and is inspiring compassionate deeds around the world. She talks with Anne Strainchamps about her latest book, which brings it all home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Art Instinct (Encore) Can you imagine what our cave people ancestors were thinking as they relaxed by the side of a fire and enjoyed a beautiful sunset? If you think that we've only learned to appreciate beauty more recently, think again. Author Denis Dutton was a guest on our show in June of 2009, talking about his book "The Art Instinct," in which he explored the evolutionary role of aesthetic appreciation. We heard that Denis passed away suddenly last month and we're sharing the show again as a tribute to hi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Honey Trail (Encore) From the Mississippi Delta, to the jungles of Borneo, to the deserts of Yemen, Grace Pundyk visited ten countries in her pursuit of liquid gold, vanishing bees, and a place to call home. She joins us to recount her story of tracking the global honey business, this Food Friday. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eating Animals (Encore) Vegetarianism is nothing new, but for some reason Jonathan Safran Foer's 2009 book, "Eating Animals," sparked a nationwide conversation about how we eat. The paperback edition of this bestseller comes out this week and Jonathan Safran Foer joins us to continue the conversation he started, this Food Friday. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Muslims, Mosques, and American Identity (Encore) What goes on in mosques in America? Are mosques a part of the tradition of religious pluralism in America? Can a Muslim be an American? Islamic Studies luminary Akbar Ahmed traveled for a year around the country, visiting over a hundred mosques to find out how Muslims are living every day in America. We want to know about the mosques in your hometown, whether you're a member of the Muslim community or not. What's your experience? We'll collect your responses at insideislam.wisc.edu or on ou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Adventures of Tintin (Encore) Tintin is the most well-known comic character worldwide, comparable in popularity only to Mickey Mouse. Tintin's adventures lead him and his readers to such places as China, the Congo, America, and even the moon! But through time and history, Tintin and his Belgian creator Herge have not been spared by controversy. Accused of such a serious charge as racism, Herge was forced by history to review some of the depictions of the places Tintin visits. So how has Tintin changed over time? And wha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Interfaith Amigos (Encore) Three clergymen from the three Abrahamic faiths used friendship to create a dialogue. Rabbi Ted Falcon, Sheikh Jamal Rahman, and Pastor Don Mackenzie met every week for nine years after 9-11 in search of common ground. They sum up their collective discoveries in the book, "Getting to the Heart of Interfaith: The Eye-Opening Hope-Filled Friendship of a Pastor, a Rabbi and a Sheikh." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Painting With Animals (Encore) Olly and Suzi are London-based artist-explorers who have portrayed wild dogs and lions in Tanzania, killer whales in Norway, polar bears and Arctic foxes in Siberia, and many others. The artists collaborate with one another and induce wild creatures to interact with their canvases. Bites, footprints, rips, and slithers are "proof of where they are now," they say, "but might not be for much longer." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love and Other Letters Anthropologist and Milwaukee native Nancy Lurie discovered a treasure trove of over 500 letters that her father wrote to her mother in the years leading up to their marriage, from the gaslight era to the Jazz Age, yielding fascinating insights into the First World War, the Russian Revolution, Prohibition and many other signs of the time. What's waiting to be discovered in your attic? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's In a Name (Encore) What's in a name? Historians say that fewer American immigrants are "Americanizing" their names than ever before. Join us to walk the history of name changing in the United States, and hear the story of a Ukrainian born musician, why she changed her name, and how doing so brought her closer to her roots than ever before. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Kidnapping in Milan The CIA snatched off the terrorist suspect Abu Omar from a street in Milan on February 17, 2003, and spirited him away to Egypt for extraordinary rendition. The Italian court responded by convicting 23 CIA agents, marking the first time the CIA has ever been brought to trial. Freelance journalist Steve Hendricks investigated the case and wrote about it in his book "A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kung Fu for Life Think Kung Fu is just for Jackie Chan? How about the Kung Fu of cooking? Philosophy professor Peimin Ni is bridging the divide between East and West to show that the true Kung Fu is not a style of fighting but a philosophy of life we can all learn from. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christmas Eve In Sicily (Encore) We combed the Here on Earth archives and came up with the perfect food program for Christmas Eve: On December 24th, la vigilia di Natale, Guissepe Scarlata's family will sit down in their home in Trapani to a seven course fish feast: marinated octopus and squid salad, smoked swordfish and thin slices of cured tuna. And that's just for starters. Join us for Christmas Eve in Sicily. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lincoln and Whitman In 1856, Walt Whitman wished that "some... middle-aged, beard-faced American blacksmith or boatman come down from the West across the Alleghenies, and walk into the Presidency." Five years later, Abraham Lincoln did just that. Less known is the shared admiration between the two. Lincoln inspired Whitman's poetry and for years he held imaginary conversations with Lincoln in his journal. We look back at the Civil War, 150 years later, through the shared regard of two of the times' most distin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Children's Literature What are the books you grew up with? If you are still looking for the right book to give to the kids in your family, join us to explore the rich tradition of children's literature from around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our Intangible Heritage What do Falconry and Turkish oil wrestling have in common? They are two masterpieces of human culture recently added to UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity. We'll speak with Cecile Duvelle, Chief of the Intangible Heritage Section, about the challenges and rewards of protecting living traditions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Best Foreign Films Is it really true that Americans don't have the patience to read the sub-titles? Veronica Rueckert sits in for Jean talking with Village Voice film critic Jim Hoberman about America's on again-but mostly off again love affair with foreign films. And we'll want to hear about your first, favorite, and most recent excursions into the wider world of cinema. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cooking with Italian Grandmothers Concerning today's show, Jean says it best: "Just as I was about to concede that grandmothers - especially the Italian variety - are an endangered species, along comes this glorious cookbook which, I admit, made me cry. The book is the result of a year chef Jessica Theroux spent cooking, foraging, and eating with Italian grandmothers from Milan to Sicily, learning their secrets and listening to their stories. Bless you, Jessica." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Storyteller of Marrakesh Earlier this fall, travel writer Raphael Kadushin whetted our appetite for the exotic in describing his trip to the Djamaa, the fabled medina of Marrakesh. Now, Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, an Indian novelist, takes us deeper in his novel based on the ancient art of storytelling as it's still practiced by Hassan, the storyteller, as he gathers his listeners in the Djamaa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside Islam: An American Woman's Journey To Islam Why do so many women convert to Islam? You might think it's because they fall in love with Muslim men, but in Willow Wilson's case, conversion came first followed by romance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Operation Peter Pan and Beyond As a stranger in a strange land Carlos Eire, along with his brother and another 14,064 young boys and girls, were airlifted from Cuba as a part of Operation Peter Pan in 1962. Carlos' life changed irrevocably, yet he eventually found himself climbing up from the bottom of the heap. In his book, "Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy," he lays out his winning formula for immigrants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Utopia Will utopia ever exist? JC Hallman travelled the world's intentional communities to study our quest for a better perfect. He came back thinking that even when perfect fails, there's something human about reaching for it. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Possessed Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Love Them! Elif Batuman has managed to write a book about Russian literature that's actually funny. Difficult as it is to pin down what it's actually all about, it's so intriguing that we just had to have a whack at it since it's been described as a cross between Borges and Borat. I invite you to jump off the high board with me, especially if you love Dostoyevsky. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Working Vacations Do you think working abroad means teaching English or wrangling kids as an au pair? Think again. Michael Schneider's new book is all about the many "working vacations" he took during his professional career and how you can do it too. 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Just five months later, President Kennedy signed the Peace Corps into existence. Madison resident Bob Klein was one of the first to sign up. He joins us to talk about the history of the Peace Corps, his experiences in Ghana, and next year's 50th anniversary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Madre: Perilous Journeys With A Spanish Noun What's in a word? Linguistic anthropologist Liza Bakewell spent decades chasing after the many meanings of the Spanish word "madre" as it's used in Mexico. In her memoir, she chronicles the relationship between religion, nationhood and language and celebrates the role of the creative female in a sexist culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Homophobia and Islamophobia: Is There A Connection? Robert Wright, in a recent NY Times op-ed, discusses whether the significant rise of tolerance for gays in the U.S. over the last generation is a road map for Muslims. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Iraq Months after the withdrawal of combat troops and national elections, Iraqis feel stuck amidst growing violence and ineffectual government. What is our responsibility? Should we cut and run? Have we been told the truth about the war? New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, who won two Pulitzers for his coverage of Iraq, joins us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website With This Ring (Encore) Christina Ammon inherited a diamond ring worth $22,000 from her grandmother. She did some quick calculations: $22,000 could restore sight to 660 people in Bangladesh, send 133 Nepalese children to school, protect 220 acres of rainforest, or provide 220 micro-loans to women in the Congo. Her question: Do I want a diamond ring, or a better world? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Praise of Fat (Encore) You have heard of good cholesterol and bad cholesterol. What about good fat and bad fat? After thirty years as the most maligned food, fat is making a comeback. Dishes made with lard, bacon, marrow and butter are appearing on chefs' menus and Jennifer McLagan has written a cookbook in praise of it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bless This Food Do you say grace? Giving thanks for food is the most common form of prayer found the world over. In anticipation of Thanksgiving, we celebrate this universal cultural tradition with Adrian Butash, author of Bless This Food: Ancient and Contemporary Graces from Around the World. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aung Sun Suu Kyi Goes Free Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung Sun Suu Kyi was released from house arrest last week after 15 years in isolation. The 65-year-old Noble Peace Prize laureate's sudden release brings many speculations surrounding the government's decision. What's behind it, and will her fragile freedom put her on a crash course with the generals? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking To The Enemy Anthropologist Scott Atran spent years talking to terrorists. In his new book he argues that terrorists don't die for a cause, but for each other. We'll explore the social lives of terrorists, and how things are changing in Afghanistan with a new generation of fighters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cooking Game As the hunting season opens once again, we'll find out how the Brits do it when we talk with British chef Trish Hilferty, author of a gorgeous new book about how to prepare wild game. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Tiger The astonishing story of a Siberian tiger who takes revenge on the poachers who have hurt him. An arresting portrait of the beauty of Siberia, and the tenuous relationship between man and predator. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reza Aslan on 100 Years of Literature from the Middle East Regular Here on Earth guest and internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, Reza Aslan takes us on a literary journey through the Middle East. He's the editor of the new Words Without Borders anthology, Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As China Goes, So Goes the World China has become the world's largest consumer of everything from automobiles to beer. The effects of the growing Chinese consumer power don't only change Chinese society from within, it will also change the global economic engine. How does what you buy change the world? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inter-faith, Inter-nation What happens when you mix immersion travel and interfaith dialog? It was a life-changing experience for participants of The National Peace Foundation's Religion and Society Program, which brought delegations of community leaders from the Middle East to America, and vice-versa. For her work directing the trips, Wisconsinite Sahar Taman has been recognized with a 2010 Citizen Diplomat award. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gourmet Cookies for Thanksgiving Are you scrambling to find unbeatable cookie recipes for the holidays? Join us to discover a selection of the best cookie recipes from all over the world, collected over 68 years of Gourmet Magazine's existence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Francophilia Revisited What images come to your mind when you think of France? While France has always had symbolic meaning for Americans, some of those meanings have changed over time. We'll find out how Francophilia has evolved and how learning French will give you access not just to the real France, but to an entire francophone world outside of France. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Listen To The Banned Music is a powerful global language that speaks to all of us, regardless of social, political or religious divides. Yet censorship in music is alarmingly widespread. Deeyah, a courageous young musician and human rights activist, had to give up her own singing but keeps up the fight by making other voices heard. How many times have you listened to banned music? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science, The Media and the Public Debates (Encore) The stem cell debate is sure to heat up again soon with anti-stem cell research candidates winning seats in many state legislatures. In this encore program from September, Jean Feraca and her guest discuss the different course of Stem Cell research, and public debate about it, in different countries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chasing The Sun No, he's not a surfer. From the man who wrote a worldwide history of swordplay, comes an around-the-world odyssey in search of an elusive moving target, the sun. Scholar-adventurer Richard Cohen traveled to twenty countries, from Mount Fuji to Antarctica to interpret what the sun has meant throughout the ages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's Home Without a Kitchen? Food world personality Nigella Lawson's new book is set in the heart of the home and is born of her own love affair with her favorite room in the house. She'll share her thoughts on the well stocked pantry and how to reclaim the traditional rhythms of the kitchen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Freelance Diplomacy After 15 years in the British diplomatic corps, Carne Ross found himself disagreeing with UK policies that led to the Iraq War. Disenchanted with conventional diplomacy, he re-invented himself as a "freelance diplomat," and founded Independent Diplomats, a bold nonprofit organization advising populations that would otherwise not have a voice in international relations. How far would you go for what you believe in? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Create Dangerously When an earthquake hit Haiti in January of this year, celebrated Haitian-American novelist Edwidge Danticat was safely at home in the United States, working. What is the role of emigrated artists when things go wrong back at home? Danticat's answer: create dangerously. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Muslims, Mosques, and American Identity What goes on in mosques in America? Are mosques a part of the tradition of religious pluralism in America? Can a Muslim be an American? Islamic Studies luminary Akbar Ahmed traveled for a year around the country, visiting over a hundred mosques to find out how Muslims are living every day in America. We want to know about the mosques in your hometown, whether you're a member of the Muslim community or not. What's your experience? We'll collect your responses at insideislam.wisc.edu or on ou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's the Day Before Election Day – Let's Lighten Up! What figure or place in American history makes you feel warm and fuzzy about democracy? Illustrator and Israeli immigrant Maira Kalman set out, Alexis deToqueville style, to document democracy in America circa 2009. The result is an optimistic love letter to America that reminds us all of what we have to be proud of. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jewish Cooking in France The third largest Jewish community in the world lives in France. Jewish food maven Joan Nathan traveled from region to region documenting Sephardic and Ashkenazi recipes that have survived and mixed with French cuisine over centuries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living in a Global Age Does living in a global age change the way we understand the past? Over the past few years, world history has become one of the fastest growing – and most controversial – fields. This hour we'll talk with a historian at its forefront who's written a book that puts Turkish explorers of the 16th century in the same league – and competing directly - with the Portuguese. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The People vs. The Mafia The Mafia still is a bleak reality in much of Italy, but there is a young, courageous generation of Italians who are fighting the mafia with everything they've got – ideals, ideas, and smart business. Could this, finally, be the beginning of the end? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mario Vargas Llosa and the Nobel Prize One of the leading authors of his generation, Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, was finally awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature this year. Like many of his fellow South American writers, he lived his life between literature and politics. We'll find out what makes him unique. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ian Frazier's Travels in Siberia Ian Frazier is in love with Russia. He calls it "the greatest horrible country on earth," and Siberia its swampy backyard. He made five trips there and "Travels in Siberia" is what came of them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Spice Necklace Who hasn't dreamed about dropping everything and sailing to the Caribbean? Ann Vanderhoof and her husband did just that. We catch her just before setting off on her next sailing adventure to talk about oregano-eating goats and other essential flavors in great Caribbean food. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Europe's Anti-Muslim Politics Starting with the ban on minarets in Switzerland, Europe has been swept with a wave of overt anti-Islam sentiment that has found its way into the political mainstream in the past year. From Geert Wilders' Freedom Party in the Netherlands to the book written by one German politician that blames Germany's "downfall" on immigrant Muslims: Can the debate still be saved by reason? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian Avi Steinberg, a lapsed Orthodox Jew, found his real yeshiva behind the bars of a tough Boston prison. Should prisons have libraries? Who goes to prison, and what do they read? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website China's Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Peace Prize is not the Nobel the Chinese government has been hoping for. Or is it? We'll talk with historian Timothy Cheek about how the prize may play into the hands of liberal leaning members of the Communist party and regular citizens who want a more democratic China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rabbi Kushner on Conquering Fear How do you face your fears? Fear comes in many guises: fear of losing your job, losing your looks, fear of illness, of aging, fear of a terrorist attack or a natural disaster. Harold S. Kushner teaches us how to confront and embrace fear to live a more fulfilling life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's a World of Cake! In China you steam them, in Africa you fry them, maybe you grew up baking them; around the globe cake takes a central role in celebrations from births, to weddings, to national holidays. Now that fall is here and it's finally time to bake, you won't want to miss this opportunity to globalize your baking repertoire. Tell us about your family cake tradition and pitch in during our Fall Pledge Drive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website After Columbus In honor of Columbus Day, the Day of the Race in Mexico, and the finale of Hispanic Heritage Month, we'll trace the evolution of today's vibrant Latino culture right back to Columbus and the mixing of Old World and New World. The new PBS documentary about the first hundred years after Columbus, "When Worlds Collide", is now available online. We'll be joined by the documentary's host, award winning journalist and author, Ruben Martinez. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moral Ground Do we have a moral obligation to take better care of the earth? While scientific knowledge tells us what the facts are, it does not tell us how to act. But now, a new book brings together over eighty visionaries from all over the world who embrace a moral vision for environmental repair and sustainability. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where Good Ideas Come From People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. He takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Do Canadians Celebrate Thanksgiving? How do Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving? We'll ask the two editors of a brand new anthology of Canadian poetry, out later this month, who have agreed to take time out from their respective holiday celebrations to join us on Canada's Thanksgiving Day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heritage Foods From the Americas In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, food historian and blogger Frederick Douglass Opie is tracing hominy, plantains, spicy peppers, and tomatoes through the Pre-Columbian cuisines of the Aztecs, Incas, and Arawaks to today. Curried Yucca Crab Cakes with Piquillo Pepper Sauce and Mango-Papaya Chutney anyone? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's Funny About Canada? Husband and wife team Kerry Colburn and Rob Sorensen have written two humorous books about Canada, our great Northern neighbor, busting—and playing—with the myth that the 2nd largest nation in the world is more of a 51st state. Join us in crossing the world's longest border and in pledging your support to Here on Earth during the kickoff week of our Fall Pledge Drive, and the eve of Canada's Thanksgiving Day Weekend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sheikh's Batmobile Pop culture commentator Richard Poplak sets out on an unusual mission: to find out what happens to American pop culture – Hollywood sit-coms, shoot-'em up video games, muscle cars and punk music – when they collide with the Muslim world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fate of Nature As the reporter who spent more time reporting on the Exxon oil Spill in Alaska than any other journalist, Charles Wohlforth has seen a lot of destruction of the environment. But in his new book "The Fate of Nature", he makes the argument that our connection to other people, to animals and to wild places is even deeper than our craving for material comfort. Do we have it in us to square with nature before it's too late? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrei Codrescu Romanian-born poet, writer, and long time NPR contributor, has a new book out and is in town this week for a public lecture at the University. But first, he'll join us in-studio to talk about his experience as an immigrant writer, swimming between English and his mother tongue, and about why he's so excited about the upcoming generation of immigrant writers and artists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Honey Trail From the Mississippi Delta, to the jungles of Borneo, to the deserts of Yemen, Grace Pundyk visited ten countries in her pursuit of liquid gold, vanishing bees, and a place to call home. She joins us to recount her story of tracking the global honey business, this Food Friday. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Politics of the Brokenhearted Just when you were about to despair of our democracy, along comes Parker Palmer with an invitation to participate in a conversation on the politics of the brokenhearted for citizens who want to reclaim the heart of American democracy and help heal the deep divides that threaten it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New Bilingual Literature Susana Chavez-Silverman's memoirs might make you look twice unless you, too, grew up in a bilingual family. Susana is one of only a handful of bilingual writers who code switch mid-sentence, moving back and forth between Spanish and English. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade Jews and Christians call it the Temple Mount, Muslims call it the Noble Sanctuary, but for the new book, Where Heaven and Earth Meet in which scholars from all three religions write about the site's history and significance, it's given the name "Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade." We'll talk with Jewish scholar Benjamin Kedar and Islam scholar Mustafa Abu Sway about the book and Former Prime Minister of Norway, Kjell Magne Bondevik, joins us to talk about his work in creating a "Universal Code o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building with Whole Trees Living in a treehouse is every kid's dream. Visionary architect Roald Gundersen has turned this dream into an ecologically sound reality: houses made from whole, unmilled trees. We'll explore our relationship to the forest and the spiritual dimensions of shelter with Roald and with Sister Gabriele Uhlein, a Franciscan nun and future resident of one of his treehouses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eating Animals Vegetarianism is nothing new, but for some reason Jonathan Safran Foer's 2009 book, "Eating Animals", sparked a nationwide conversation about how we eat. The paperback edition of this bestseller comes out this week and Jonathan Safran Foer joins us to continue the conversation he started, this Food Friday. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Madison World Music Festival For a sneak preview of one of this year's most exciting performances from this year's UW-Madison World Music Festival, join us for a special live performance from DJA-Rara, the Brooklyn-based Haitian rara band. There are many explanations of the origins of rara, but whatever its beginnings, this raucous, peripatetic, and subversive music has endured and been embraced by the Haitian American community in New York City as an expression of Haitian pride, culture and identity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ramsey Clark Speaks Out on American Torture For his new book, The Torturer in the Mirror, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark teamed up with Iraqi dissident Haifa Zangana and sociology professor Thomas Reifer to reveal the scope of American culpability in the torture carried out during the war on terrorism. Ramsey Clark takes a historical view of torture and Professor Reifer discusses the ways the Obama administration has so far failed to clean up the policies of his predecessor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marrakech Gets a Facelift In the October issue of Conde Nast Traveler, Raphael Kadushin reports how a dynamic group of local Moroccans and European expats came together to revive Marrakech's medina--one of the world's greatest, intact, walled medieval city centers, effectively salvaging not just the historic quarter but much of its rich culture as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Syringa Tree The Syringa Tree is a gripping play about a young girl growing up in an Africaner family in apartheid South Africa. On the boards at APT this season, Colleen Madden turns in an astonishing virtuoso performance, playing all 24 characters. We talk with Colleen and director Michael Wright. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World-Class Wisconsin Cheese! Cheesemaking has a long and storied tradition in Wisconsin, but it's also an ever-evolving tradition. In honor of the opening of Green County's Cheese Days, we talk to one homegrown and internationally acclaimed cheesemaker, Sid Cook of Carr Valley Cheese Company, about his move from commodity, to specialty, to original cheeses. We'll also be joined by Carol Chen of the Center for Dairy Research who will lead us through the tasty process of cheese profiling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mexico at the Crossroads Mexico celebrates 200 years of independence today as well as the 100-year anniversary of the Mexican Revolution. But, excitement has dimmed for some who, in the face of continued drug violence see little reason to celebrate. We talk about Mexico at the crossroads, how it got through two major wars and how it will get through a third. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who We Are In Antarctica Lucy Jane Bledsoe is a science writer who has written a lot of award-winning fiction about Antarctica. In her latest book, a novel called The Big Bang Symphony, she describes the impact of Antarctica's extreme environment on three different women who go a long way to find their way home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wild Justice What if Aesop's fables were actually inspired by real events? There is more and more evidence that animals have an innate sense of cooperation, empathy and justice. How do these findings change the way we see our human morality? We talk to Marc Bekoff, ethologist, and Jessica Pierce, philosopher, about their book Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life With the Maasai Robin Wiszowaty's home town couldn't have been closer to normal, and from a young age she knew the world beyond was more complex and interesting. Into the world she went, ending up in Kenya, adopted into a Maasai family. In her book, My Maasai Life, now out in paperback, she balances the insights gained through living this double life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Breaking Bread with Immigrants While teaching new immigrants English in Boston, Lynne Christy Anderson found that sharing food was the perfect way to get to know her students. Stories of home tend to be the central ingredient in the delicious recipes she shares in her book Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's In a Name What's in a name? Historians say that fewer American immigrants are "Americanizing" their names than ever before. Join us to walk the history of name changing in the United States, and hear the story of a Ukrainian born musician why she changed her name, and how doing so brought her closer to her roots than ever before. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Art of Listening British Sociologist Les Back has been thinking a lot about famous listeners like Studs Terkel, about the importance Holocaust survivor Primo Levi placed on the connectivity offered by listening, and about why, despite the central role listening plays in a healthy political sphere, it just seems to be getting harder and harder to be good at it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Virtual Cosmopolitanism The Internet was supposed to be a tool that would open us to the world. But in his research on its use, Ethan Zuckerman finds that it does just the opposite. What are the dangers of allowing the Internet to form our worldview, and how can they be avoided? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rap Guide To Evolution After having put Chaucer's Canterbury Tales into a Hip Hop album called The Rap Canterbury Tales, Baba Brinkman was approached by a microbiologist "to do for Darwin what he did for Chaucer." Not one to be intimidated by a challenge, Baba Brinkman wrote The Rap Guide To Evolution, telling the story of evolution all while drawing insightful analogies to the way Hip Hop culture works. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Food Whiz Quiz with Chief Mustard Officer Join us to play the Food Whiz Quiz with Jean Feraca and Barry Levinson, the CMO (that's Chief Mustard Officer) of the National Mustard Museum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Smaller Living Designs from Japan Japanese architects may have a jump on the rest of the world in cultivating what is sure to become a top virtue of the 21st century: doing more with less. A new design trend in Japan, kyosho jutaku, is building creative houses on teeny tiny parcels of land. Architect Azby Brown will take us on a tour of the cutting edge in ultra-small living. He has lived in Japan for years and has written about sustainable living during Japan's Edo period, way before anyone was talking about global warming ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science, The Media, and the Public Debates The debate about stem-cell research has flared up again since a federal judge put a halt to it last week. What are the cultural and political factors that influence such scientific issues? What makes them take a different course in different countries? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Remember Charlie Chan? Remember Charlie Chan, that grammatically challenged, Chinese-aphorism slinging detective who became an icon of American film? More than just a discarded racial stereotype, his new biographer says we can learn a lot about American attitudes toward China from Charlie Chan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Into the Cold Bill Streever says anyone who wants to learn about low temperatures, ice ages, and supercooling but does not want to be tortured by a textbook should read his book. Anyone who wants to live in the far north should read it too. So do anyone who cares about climate change and what we might miss with a little less cold. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What I Eat In their widely loved books of photojournalism, husband and wife team Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio have made a craft of celebrating global diversity. This time, in What I Eat, they have traveled the world to capture on film the modern diets of eighty people from thirty countries. They join us to share the insights they've gained into what individuals from around the world consume in a typical day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Healing From Trauma Jim Finley grew up in a rough family in Akron, Ohio, and escaped into a Trappist monastery as soon as he could. Today he is a clinical psychologist who uses principles derived from his monastery training to teach people how to heal from trauma. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mosque Madness The proposal to build an Islamic Community Center that includes a mosque near Ground Zero in New York City has roused a hornet's nest of controversy. Nine years after 9/11, what does it tell us about the state of American values, the purpose of a public monument, and the level of Islamaphobia? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rise of A Middle Class in the Middle East A force for change is welling up in the Middle East-the rise of a mobile middle class of entrepreneurs, investors and consumers. Although almost invisible to the West, our guests see in this newest of social movements the key to tipping the scales of power away from extremism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter is on a crusade to improve the lives of Americans with mental illness. In her new book, Within Our Reach, she says we still have a long way to go to remove the stigma that surrounds mental illness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Egyptian Comfort Food Nabil Seidah is a renowned biochemist, one of my husband's closest friends, and a great Egyptian cook. He and his wife Anneke rolled out the red carpet for us when we visited them at their home in Montreal last winter where Nabil cooked complex earthy comfort food for us based on recipes, techniques, and ingredients he learned in his mother's kitchen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Adventures of Tintin Tintin is the most well-known comic character worldwide, comparable in popularity only to Mickey Mouse. Tintin’s adventures lead him and his readers to such places as China, the Congo, America, and even the moon! But through time and history, Tintin and his Belgian creator Hergé have not been spared by controversy. Accused of such a serious charge as racism, Hergé was forced by history to review some of the depictions of the places Tintin visits. So how has Tintin changed over time? And ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mullah Nasruddin: Islam's Holy Fool In his interfaith congregation in Seattle, Jamal Rahman, a Muslim Sufi minister and one of the Interfaith Amigos, usually opens his sermon by quoting his favorite Sufi visionary teacher: Mullah Nasurddin: "I am getting sick and tired of this lousy cheese sandwich," complained Mullah repeatedly. "Mullah, tell your wife to make something different," his co-workers advised. "But I am not married," Mullah replied. "I am the one who is making these sandwiches." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why People Run Born to Run is a book of wild narrative full of insane characters, extreme sports and one crazy idea: running barefoot is the answer to safe, pain-free and endurance. Christopher McDougall gathered information about Mexico's Copper Canyon unknown tribe of the Tarahumara's running style and put them in test. The result became a book that goes against all odds of multi-million dollar shoe making industry that promotes the jelly and soft cushion shoes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roman Catholic Women Priests The world was shocked when the Vatican recently equated the sin of pedophilia with the sin of women's ordination. In spite of the ban, the ordination of Roman Catholic women priests goes on unabated. To talk about the issue, we'll be joined by Maryknoll priest and activist, Roy Bourgeois, who has been excommunicated for his support of women's ordination, and Reverend Alice Iaquinta, Regional Program Coordinator for Roman Catholic Women Priests in the U.S. who offers a structural critique of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pickling and Preserving Summer's Bounty With gardens overflowing in abundance, most people wonder how to store vegetables for the rest of the year. Preserving is one clever and creative way to do it. From Canning to drying and freezing, we discuss the best way to preserve vegetables. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Looking Abroad for Legal Inspiration The Senate has just confirmed Elena Kagan as the newest Justice on the Supreme Court. During her confirmation hearings, one topic especially caught our attention: Kagen's support for the practice of looking abroad for legal inspiration. Recently, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg seconded that opinion. We speak with legal scholars about the history and uses of turning to foreign law for good ideas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Interfaith Mash-Up This is another program in our ongoing series on Interfaith Dialogue: A rabbi who teaches spiritual practices based on the Kabbalah teams up with a Catholic priest who teaches mediation and yoga as spiritual practice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Oath Abu Jandal is a taxi driver in Yemen who used to be Osama Bin Laden's bodyguard. His brother-in-law, Salim Hamdan, a Guantanamo Bay detainee and the first man to face the controversial military tribunals, once worked as Bin Laden's driver. In The Oath, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras tells the cross-cut tale of these two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda. The film opened this week in Madison. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Theater of War Sophocles, the ancient Greek general and playwright, depicted the timeless psychological wounds inflicted by war upon warriors in his plays. In the Theater of War project, actors and actresses read Sophocles's plays to active service members and their families in military sites to show them that they are not alone, across time, in dealing with mental pain when they come back from battlefields. Bryan Doerries and Phyllis Kaufman, director and producer of Theater of War, tell us about their e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Corked Kathryn Borel was like her father in every way but one: she just didn't get it when it came to wine. So she decided to take him on a drunken father-daughter road trip through the French countryside, where they finally connected, over wine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jamming with Whales Remember David Rothenberg, the musician and philosopher who traveled all over the world studying the song patterns of birds to make his music? Well, he's at it again, this time with whales. His new book and album document his jam sessions with humpback whales around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination With The Afterlife What does belief in the afterlife tell us about what it means to be human? What is universal about our differing views of heaven? Join us with Lisa Miller, religion editor for Newsweek, when we wrestle with Heaven. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poet Nick Lantz Nick Lantz is a poet like no other. In his book, The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbor's House, which won the Felix Pollak Poetry Prize, he writes poems about the Challenger explosion, Bigfoot, a love letter written from inside a missile silo, and a plea for post 9/11 redemption. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters is tracking mental illness around the globe, and he is finding that the world is going crazy, American style. As doctors and pharmaceuticals cross borders, illnesses as defined by Western medicine, like depression and anorexia, are popping up in places they never before occurred while local ways of understanding mental health issues, from melancholy to what we call schizophrenia, are being lost. We talk about cultural differences in understandings of the inner life, and why ho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ramadan: The Fast and the Feast Why is fasting common to almost all faiths? Why do Muslims the world over look forward with joy to a month of fasting? What are the special challenges that American Muslims face? And what are the Ramadan specials that Arab Muslims are watching on satellite TV? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why The Prophet Muhammad Matters Who was the Prophet Muhammed and how do Muslims remember him today: as a mystic, a revolutionary, or a military leader? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Islamic Feminism: A Sister-Wide Global Movement Saudi Arabia's recent plan to remove women from praying near the Ka'ba was scotched by a huge global outcry coming from Islamic feminists, even from inside Saudi Arabia, claiming gender discrimination that violates the Qur'anic principle of equality. What does Islamic feminism have to offer? Where does it come from and where is it going? Expect some surprising revelations and illuminations to come from this next program in our Inside Islam series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art of Qur'anic Recitatione Among Muslims, Qur'anic recitation is a highly advanced art form intended to move, inspire, engage, and transport all those who listen. What is the purpose of Qur’anic recitation? How does it relate to life in the 21st century? What’s your personal experience of hearing the Qur'an recited? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aisha: Muhammad's Youngest Wife Kamran Pasha will join us for our next Inside Islam program to talk about his book, Mother of the Believers: A Novel of the Birth of Islam. This novel tells the story of the rise of Islam through the eyes of Aisha, the Prophet Muhammad's youngest wife and one of the most influential women in Islamic history. As Mother of the Believers shows, Aisha is more than the controversy around her age; she was a teacher, political leader, a warrior, and, with her incredible memory, an invaluable sourc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Berry Abundance From America to Sweden and Turkey, berries are the highlight of anyone's summer. This is true for Janie Hibler as well, who grew up picking berries in Northern California and presents her impressive range of berry recipes, from berry soups to ice cream, in her book, The Berry Bible. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gay Marriage in Argentina Argentina became the first country last week to legalize same-sex marriages in Latin America. How does this breakthrough compare with other countries in Latin America? And what does it mean for the global LGBT movement? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turkey's Tomorrow The recent attack on an aid flotilla carrying Turkish activists off the coast of Gaza has widened a painful rift in Turkish/Israeli relations. Turkish Jewish philosopher Seyla Benhabib has just returned from a trip to both countries and joins us to talk about what went wrong, what's going on inside Turkey today, and what the future looks like for this secular Muslim nation that has linked Europe and the Middle East for centuries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fate of an Iranian Woman Sentenced to Be Stoned Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two who was convicted of adultery, was sentenced to 99 lashes for committing adultery by a court in May 2006. Four months later, another court sentenced her to death by stoning. Her fate remains uncertain. We'll talk with Norma Claire Moruzzi, director of International Studies at University of Illinois in Chicago, an expert on women's issues in Iran, and Cyrus Nowrasteh, director of The Stoning of Soraya M. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pearl Buck in China A blond blue-eyed daughter of a Presbyterian missionary, Pearl Buck grew up in rural China amid bandit raids, beheadings and battles, when infant girls were strangled and thrown to the dogs. Helen Spurling's new biography looks at the years that shaped Buck as a writer and gave her magic power. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mastering the Art of the Wok Chinese-American chef and cookbook author Grace Young joins us with tips on the economical, simple, and ancient method of Chinese cooking-the stir-fry. She explains what to use if you don't have a wok and open flame, the basics of the traditional Chinese stir-fry, and the many Chinese fusion variations from South Africa, Jamaica, Libya, and beyond! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Spookdom With the recent outing of 11 Russian spies in the United States, we have all begun looking over our shoulders. But is the undercover agent really the model of espionage in the 21st century? We talk with intelligence experts about the growing role of cyber, corporate and government espionage around the world, and about why we love to romanticize their world of secrets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers While China's economic successes are gaining a lot of attention in the Western media, the central role of the Chinese Communist Party often remains overlooked. How does the Party keep the balance between firm communist control and liberal economic expansion? We get a glimpse into the world largest political organization with Richard McGregor, author of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Green Cars, On Your Marks! Every few years, the X Prize Foundation challenges teams of thinkers and doers around the world to do the impossible. Their latest challenge, the Progressive Automotive X Prize, is to build a car that goes 100 miles per hour and gets 100 miles per gallon. We talk with a team leader from Madison, WI and an engineer and industry consultant from the UK. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dracula's Guest Vampires are all the rage these days with the recent Twilight blockbusters. But who knew about the grueling real life circumstances that made people believe in vampires in the first place? And what do vampires look like in Africa and Asia? We talk with Michael Sims, editor of the anthology Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseurs Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Garlic Geek A whole program about garlic? How about a whole lifetime? Allium scientist Eric Block has spent his career studying garlic, onions and leeks, and their many cousins. He's a garlic geek! He walks us through the compounds in onions that make us cry, the different-flavored compounds found in garlic, and how their flavors change when you chop them up and cook them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Interfaith Amigos Three clergymen from the three Abrahamic faiths used friendship to create a dialogue. Rabbi Ted Falcon, Sheikh Jamal Rahman, and Pastor Don Mackenzie met every week for nine years after 9/11 in search of common ground. They sum up their collective discoveries in the book, Getting to the Heart of Interfaith: The Eye-Opening Hope-Filled Friendship of a Pastor, a Rabbi and a Sheikh. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World Cup 2010: Community-Building and Soccer With the final matches of the 2010 World Cup coming up this weekend, all eyes are on soccer. We explore the and political and community-building power of soccer in Africa and around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milestones for a Spiritual Jihad Muslim women can stand side by side their male counterparts at Mecca, the holiest city in the Muslim world, to pray, but once they are back home, they are most likely to find themselves crowded into a small, dark room at the back of a mosque. Asra Nomani, former Wall Street Journal correspondent and a visiting scholar at Georgetown University, thought she needed to take a stand against the unwritten rule of the mosque. We talk with Nomani and her journey to her spiritual jihad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robeson: An American Master We've chosen one of our favorite programs from the Here on Earth archives to celebrate our national holiday. Originally broadcast on the Fourth of July, 2004, our program is about Paul Robeson, an African-American who gained international renown as a concert singer and actor, but was stripped of honor and rights in his own country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Best Steak in the World Slate Magazine's columnist Mark Schatzker was serious when he said he would find the best steak in the world. On the way to a unifying theory of steak, Schatzker traveled to Texas, Scotland, Japan, and even raised his own cows for slaughter. That's dedication! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iraq: What Now? June 30th marks the one-year anniversary of American troops pulling out of Iraqi cities, and the legacy of the war there can already be seen. We talk with journalist Anthony Shadid about his Pulitzer-prize winning coverage of the pull out and the year since as Iraqis have gone about the messy business of shaping their nation's future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website To Kill a Mockingbird: 50 Years Later This year is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. Why has this novel, which is so firmly rooted in the American South, become so popular the world over? And what makes it particularly relevant to Europe right now? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pearls on the Ocean Floor The Iranian women artists featured in Robert Adanto's new documentary Pearls on the Ocean Floor, come from a vibrant culture and speak with compelling boldness. Many of them are confronting the contradictions that arise when secular modernity collides with religious tradition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deep Blue Home The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has redirected our attention to the tremendous fragility and richness of oceanic life. As dependent on oil as we might be, we are even more dependent on healthy oceans. This hour, we explore our intimate ties to the ocean and discover working solutions to preventing oil spills and other human caused environmental disasters with Julia Whitty, filmmaker, journalist and author of Deep Blue Home, and Rick Steiner, formerly Marine Conservation Professor at the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life New York Times food writer, Kim Severson, joins us to talk about her new confessional food memoir, Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life. In it she documents food goddesses, from Alice Waters to Marcella Hazan, who helped her gain the confidence to overcome alcoholism while taking her career from Alaska to New York City. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Gay Literature June is Pride Month and to celebrate we hear stories from some of the best queer writers from around the world. Through newly translated work out of Indonesia, Israel, and Germany, we talk about what it's like to be gay in these countries today and about the present and future of queer literature around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God is Not One Are we so afraid of conflict that we have become unable to disagree? Religion Scholar Stephen Prothero thinks it's time we accept the fact that the world's eight largest religions are not all eight sides of the same coin. On the most basic questions, like "How many gods are there?", they can be completely contradictory. Can we learn to appreciate our differences while sticking to our own beliefs? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Middle Eastern Women Get Political About 20 young women from 10 Middle Eastern countries are gathering this month in Madison to sharpen their political skills at the National Democratic Institute or NDI. Among them is a young woman from Egypt, the founder of a new political party for the advancement of women's rights. We meet Sally El Baz and find out what her Reform and Development Party is all about. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Uniting Voices with Bobby McFerrin To some, Ten-Time Grammy-winner Bobby McFerrin will always be the guy who sang "Don't Worry Be Happy". But Bobby McFerrin's work just can't be reduced to one song. Throughout his amazing career, he constantly pushed the frontiers of vocal music and collaborated with artists of all musical and cultural backgrounds. He joins us to talk about his new album VOCAbuLarieS, his life's work as a vocal artist, and the gift of uniting distinct global voices in music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Soul Food Juneteenth celebrations commemorate June 19, 1865 when the Emancipation Proclamation was finally enforced in the state of Texas, two and a half years after Abe Lincoln made his famous decree. We talk with professor and food writer Frederick Douglass Opie about the celebratory foods of Juneteenth, as well as the rich history of soul food in the United States and the many foods of the African Diaspora. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Council of Dads After being diagnosed with cancer, Feiler reached out to men from important passages in his life and asked them to carry forth his legacy should his young twin daughters grow up without him. The experience was a "passport to intimacy" with his friends and the story calls us all to consider the many roles of father figures in our lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Emotional Side of Math Alex Bellos want us to understand the emotional side of math. Traveling all over the world to report from the secret world of numbers, he has met with the tribe that counts up to five only, the man who sets the odds for half the world's slot machines, and two Ukrainian brothers who consider themselves one mathematician. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rap Guide To Evolution After having put Chaucer's Canterbury Tales into a Hip Hop album called The Rap Canterbury Tales, Baba Brinkman was approached by a microbiologist "to do for Darwin what he did for Chaucer." Not one to be intimidated by a challenge, Baba Brinkman wrote The Rap Guide To Evolution, telling the story of evolution all while drawing insightful analogies to the way Hip Hop culture works. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Life of Language With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, understanding the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. From an infant's first words to the peculiar dialect of text messaging, we explore the intricacies and quirks of our daily words with one of the world's pre-eminent language specialists, David Crystal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website India Calling Anand Giridharadas grew up in America but returned to India, his parents' country, to get a closer look at how the India they left had turned into the economic powerhouse that the whole world is watching. 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website