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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:

Who's Bringing the Pie Evan Kleiman's love for pie began when she was a little girl and asked for an apple pie instead of a birthday cake. She still has a birthday pie to celebrate her birthday every July, but this summer was different. She baked a pie a day for the whole summer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hajj One of the world's longest-lived religious rites, the hajj to Mecca, is even older than Islam. It has been described as a universal journey for transcendence and peace, but will that change this year given the fear surrounding H1N1? What does it mean to 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lion's Eye: Seeing in the Wild All her life, Joanna Greenfield dreamed of traveling to Africa to study wild animals. She got a once in a lifetime chance to follow wild chimpanzees in East Africa while she was still in college, an adventure strangely enhanced by her impaired vision. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Competence Barack Obama has it. George W. Bush didn't. It's called global competence and according to experts in higher education, it's something everybody needs, the ability to understand complex issues in a globalized world. We talk to educators and students about what global competence really means. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Language of Cancer Mary Cappello, the author of Called Back, a stunning memoir about surviving breast cancer, says cancer is like entering a foreign country where you have to learn a foreign language. Some people shut down and live like strangers in a strange land. Mary fought back, questioning everything, the pamphlets, the blogs, the kitsch and the pink ribbon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Au Revoir To All That French food is not what it used to be, or so says journalist and wine columnist Michael Steinberger. In his latest book, Au Revoir To All That, he investigates the decline of quality in French cuisine and finds reasons that go beyond food. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Vanishing Face of Gaia Scientist James Lovelock is best known as the originator of the Gaia Theory, which has taught scientists and laypeople alike to see the Earth holistically as a giant living organism. He joins us to discuss his new book, The Vanishing Face of Gaia, in which he issues a dire warning: It is too late to halt global warming, we must now learn to live in an altered climate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wandering Souls Storytelling seems to be a huge coping skill for Vietnam vets, and Wayne Karlin has quite a story to tell in Wandering Souls, about the courage of a soldier who returned the soul of the man he killed to that man's family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herta Muller: Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature Throughout her life and her work, German-Romanian writer Herta Muller has fought a lonely fight against repression. Even though winning the Nobel Prize in Literature this year has catapulted her into the media spotlights, few people are familiar with her unsettling and meticulous prose and poetry. In the light of Romania's painful past under communist dictatorship, we explore the meaning of Muller's life and work for our world today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fall of the Berlin Wall Do you remember November 9th, 1989? Journalist Michael Meyer and scholar Konrad Jarausch join us as we relive that day when the Berlin Wall fell and retrace Germany's difficult transitions through unification and integration, up to today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Save the Deli Pastrami on Rye with a kosher pickle, anyone? Join us, and add to our list of reasons why it is imperative to save the Jewish deli. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arab Bodies The German poet Novalis once wrote that the only real temple in this world is the human body. If that is true, Joumana Haddad, who just launched Jasad magazine in Beirut (Jasad means Body in Arabic), is doing her best to restore the body to its rightful place, and raising a lot of eyebrows in the process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poker: An American Metaphor Playing poker was a key networking tool in Barack Obama's early political career. Bill Gates collected many of his business strategies and a sizable fund to start Microsoft from his all-night poker games. Eisenhower and JFK used poker tactics to resolve crises with China and the Soviet Union. How did a French aristocratic parlor game turn into a training ground for American risk-takers and power brokers? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Muslim Next Door Although Americans hear about Islam on a daily basis, there remains no clear explanation of Islam or its people. Jean Feraca talks to a scholar of Islamic law about growing up in California and balancing her South Asian, Muslim, and American identities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Think Again: Asia's Rise Don't believe the hype you hear about the decline of America and the dawn of a new Asian age. Minxin Pei, director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, joins us to pick apart this familiar narrative. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gourmet Today Exciting new ingredients are available everywhere, expanding our culinary horizons, and a new culinary world calls for a new cookbook. Ruth Reichl, long-time editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine and a best-selling author in her own right, joins us to talk about her new book, Gourmet Today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Language of Body Music Keith Terry is a body musician, someone who makes music purely with their body. His obsession runs so deep that last year he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the first to go to a body musician. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Best International Reporting Words Without Borders devotes its October issue to International Reporting. From the killing fields of Cambodia to the swarming streets of Tehran, on the ground and in the trenches, these writers document the news of the world with artful urgency. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Faith Harvard scholar Harvey Cox broke new ground when he published his international bestseller The Secular City in 1965. Now, on the eve of his retirement, he has come out with a new book, The Future of Faith, in which he analyzes why Christian beliefs and dogma are giving way to new grassroots movements rooted in social justice and spiritual experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is the true account of an enterprising African teenager who constructed a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his entire community. William Kamkwamba shares his remarkable story of growing up in Malawi, Africa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chickens in the City: A Backyard Revolution The return of the chicken to American backyards is now no longer an uncertainty. Since the chicken disappeared from urban American settlements half a century ago, city dwellers all over the nation are now re-discovering the advantages and challenges of keeping their own flock in their backyards. What is it about the chicken that makes it the urban bird of the moment? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Create a Sustainable Future Bill McKibbon and Tim Flannery are two of the world's most renowned conservationists. They are both urging a forceful call to action to end climate change and create a sustainable future. They team up to take us on a guided tour of the environmental challenges we face and the best new ideas to help solve the crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Wallis: New Interfaith Visions Muslims and Christians together comprise over half of the world's population. A group of Muslim scholars and clerics recently sent an open letter to Christians around the world proposing a search for common ground to which a group of scholars at Yale's Divinity School responded. Jim Wallis joins us to talk about this historic encounter and how we can move beyond a polite ecumenical dialogue to make peace between Christians and Muslims. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Israel is Real The world watches as hopes are raised for a restart to talks in the Israel/Palestinian conflict. What age-old mindsets need to shift before a peaceful resolution can be found? Rich Cohen joins us to discuss his new book on the history of the Jewish people, Israel is Real. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mercedes Sosa: A Voice for Social Justice It is hard to overestimate the influence of Mercedes Sosa's music and voice in South America. In a career that spanned over six decades and produced 40 albums, the Argentine folk singer, who died on October 4th, united an entire continent in her ongoing struggle for human rights, peace, and social justice in South America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julie and Julia Julie and Julia, the new movie that stars Meryl Streep as Julia Child, got its start when Julie Crowell, a frustrated writer working as a claims agent decided to beef up her life by keeping a blog about her attempts to cook all the recipes in Mastering the Art of French Cooking. What's she cooking now? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Green Metropolis When you imagine a green future do you picture backwoods country living or futuristic city dwelling? While green usually brings to mind more natural surroundings, David Owen, author and staff writer for The New Yorker, wants to argue the opposite: it is cities that teach us what a sustainable future looks like. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunni/Shia Conflict Does the Sunni/Shia conflict contribute to the image of Islam as a violent religion? How much does it account for the violence in Iraq? We will look into the origins of the Sunni/Shia split, consider the bombing of the Shia shrine in Karbala, and talk with a Muslim scholar working on promoting intrafaith harmony. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happiness 2050 Can meditation make us into world citizens? Richard Davidson thinks so. His findings on the increasing plasticity of the brain combined with long term effects of meditation have led to an intriguing projection: Happiness 2050: Neuroscience, Education, and the Compassionate World Citizen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Conservation Refugees Columbus Day: If you have been following Ken Burns' PBS series on our National Parks, here is an interesting contrarian point of view: Mark Dowie is an investigative journalist who reports on the hundred year conflict between global conservation and native peoples in his book, Conservation Refugees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Apple Time Every year, Wisconsin's Bayfield Apple Festival heralds the beginning of fall. This Food Friday we will speak to some local and some non-local apple growers about heritage varieties, cider-making, and this year's pick. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Him? Why Her? A research professor of anthropology turns her attention to the question that has befuddled humankind since its origins: Why Him? Why Her? Join us for new insights into the essence of dating, love and marriage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cartoneras: Democratizing Reading in Latin America Few of us think too much about where books come from, but amidst poverty and low literacy rates, it is an important question. The Cartonera publishing movement of Latin America addresses poverty and literacy through employing cartoneros, garbage pickers, to collect cardboard to be used as covers for colorful, handmade, and cheap books. UW-Madison holds one of the largest collections of these books and editors from some of the most well-known Cartonera publishing houses will be in Madison th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elephants on the Edge G. A. Bradshaw marshals research from neuroscience, psychology, and animal behavior to argue that the mind of the elephant is remarkably similar to our own. The shock of violent death, the grief of losing an infant, and the loss of freedom affect them in much the same way as people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dances for Universal Peace Brother Joe Kilikevice is an itinerant Dominican preacher, who founded the Shem Center for Interfaith Spirituality in Oak Park, Illinois, during the 1993 Parliament of World Religions. In his commitment to heal the relationship between Christianity and other world religions, he teaches the Dances of Universal Peace and other forms of prayer and ritual drawn from the wisdom traditions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Never Trust a Thin Cook Simply wanting to live in a place with the best food in the world, Eric Dregni ended up in Modena, Italy, the birthplace of balsamic vinegar, parmigiano cheese, Ferrari, and Luciano Pavarotti? He joins us to talk about his three years in Italy and his memoir, Never Trust a Thin Cook and Other Lessons from Italy's Culinary Capital. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife From the depths of history, to the classroom, to the stage, how do we understand the enduring influence of the story of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl? Francine Prose, adoring fan and author of Reading Like a Writer will join us to discuss the book, the life, and the afterlife. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friendship and War in Kabul Malcolm Garcia had not been a journalist with the Kansas City Star for very long when he packed his bags, jotted down a makeshift will, and boarded a plane for Afghanistan two months after 9/11. From Kabul he launched investigations on what it means to be a privileged Westerner in one of the most destitute places on earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Case for God God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, Dao; humankind has gone to great lengths to experience a sacred reality. So why is God so unbelievable in our modern world? This is what Karen Armstrong set out to understand in writing her new book, The Case for God. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thomas Berry, a "Geologian" A memorial service in honor of Thomas Berry, the beloved and revered author of The Dream of the Earth and The Great Work will be held this Saturday at St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York City. Miriam Macgillis, a Berry disciple and the founder of Genesis Farm, will be in attendance. We talk with Miriam about the life and legacy of the man who called himself a geologian. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fistful of Lentils: Syrian-Jewish Recipes Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year holiday season, is in full swing. We talk about Syrian Sephardic holiday cooking with Jennifer Abadi, author of A Fistful of Lentils. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beethoven in Afghanistan? William Harvey is a young classically trained violinist, but he sees a role for music well beyond the doors of symphony hall. He is the Executive Director of Cultures in Harmony, an organization that uses music as a medium for cross-cultural understanding. And he is heading to Afghanistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teaching Through Hip-Hop Alex Kajitani was a struggling new teacher at a tough, inner-city school in San Diego. Fed up with students unable to remember simple math concepts but every word of the latest rap song, he began teaching math through hip-hop. It worked so well that his math rap is now a teaching tool used nationwide. We talk with Alex and other educators about the pros and cons of hip-hop in the classroom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bronx Princess Rocky Otoo is a sassy high achieving teenager who grows up in the Bronx, rebelling against her mother's strict rules. But it is a case of jumping from the fryingpan to the fire when she ends up living with her father, a chief in Ghana. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website U.N. International Peace Day On Monday, the United Nations International Day of Peace, we will talk with the former prime minister of Norway. As the Founder/Director of the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights, and a Lutheran minister, he has been working with Ayatollah Khatami and other world religious leaders to resolve conflict. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What We Eat When We Eat Alone What do you eat when no one is watching? Fried spam with grape jelly? Left-over spaghetti sandwiches? A glass of zabaglione? Cookbook author Deborah Madison has been collecting answers to that question and the results are surprising. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The World has Curves When it comes to cultural preferences for body shape and size, the evidence stands against the world being flat. While American women starve themselves and suffer from anorexia, In Mauritania women are force-feed to make them fat. Join us for the World has Curves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Informers Juan Gabriel Vasquez is the first Columbian novelist since Gabriel Garcia Marquez to start a literary buzz. His debut novel, The Informers, explores the dark history of Nazism in post-World War II South America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strength in What Remains Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Tracy Kidder's latest book, Strength in What Remains, is the story of a young medical student named Deogratias who narrowly survives civil war and genocide in Burundi before arriving in New York City with no English and $200 in his pocket. Two years later he's enrolled in Columbia University. The storyline might be a bit cliched, but what's really illuminating is the way Deo manages his post-traumatic stress syndrome. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Death Panels and the Fear of Dying When Georgia Weithe's father was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1997, she approached his impending death with absolute terror. To her great surprise, the experience deepened her life in ways she could not have anticipated, and she came to the conclusion that death is a teacher and a friend. Georgia is the author of Shining Moments: Finding Hope in Facing Death. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Gastronomy of Marriage He loves his mother's Chinese dishes; she craves her father's Italian pasta; He eats meat and doesn't say grace; she doesn't eat meat and does say grace. Can this marriage of two foodies be saved? Join us for The Gastronomy of Marriage: A Memoir of Food and Love by Michelle Maisto. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Him? Why Her? A research professor of anthropology turns her attention to the question that has befuddled humankind since its origins: Why Him? Why Her? Join us for new insights into the essence of dating, love and marriage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Think Again: Asia's Rise Don't believe the hype you hear about the decline of America and the dawn of a new Asian age. Minxin Pei, director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, joins us to pick apart this familiar narrative. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Healing of America When the World Health organization rated the national health care systems of 191 countries, the US ranked 54th. How is it that all the other industrialized democracies provide health care for everyone at a reasonable cost, except the US? We will ask T.R.Reid, author of The Healing of America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Playing for Change Mark Johnson and his film crew traveled to four continents to capture the power of music. Musicians from South Africa, New Orleans, Barcelona, India and elsewhere all singing the same song in the film and CD, Playing for Change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New School Lunch It isn't just in France that chefs are working to create healthier and cheaper school lunches. Alice Waters has schoolkids growing their own vegetables. In Wisconsin chefs are passing out pizza with ratatouille and doing apple tastings with middle school kids. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Permaculture Made Real We talked with one of the gurus of permaculture in the Midwest during our broadcast from the Energy Fair earlier this summer. In this follow-up program we explore with Mark Sheperd what it's like to be a permaculture farmer. Mark Shepard's New Forest Farm in southwestern Wisconsin was one of the very first examples of permaculture farming in the United States. Can you design a farm to be as self-sufficient as a forest? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Witness in Palestine This just in: President Obama is close to brokering an Israeli-Palestinian deal that is likely to reinvigorate the long-stalled Middle East peace talks before the end of next month. We get an update on the status of West Bank settlements and the climate for negotiation with Jewish-American activist, author of "Witness in Palestine." 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 Ella Es el Matador (She is the Matador) Just when bullfighting per se is going out of fashion, along comes this POV documentary about female matadors. In Ella Es el Matador (She is the Matador), Spanish filmmakers Gemma Cubero and Celeste Carrasco discover a long and surprising history of women with a passion for this theatrical and bloody ritual. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Psychology of Wine From Australia, Evan and Brian Mitchell, sommelier son and psychologist father team up to present a psychology of wine, persuading the dubious that wine appreciation is a life-shaping experience. Like the finest vintage, complex, subtle, and enduring. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pray the Devil Back to Hell "Pray the Devil Back to Hell"is a riveting film that tells the story of how the women of Liberia forced the men to end the civil war and got Ellen Johnson Sirleaf elected as the first woman to head an African nation. We talk with the producer of this award-winning film. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cold: an Adventure Bill Streever says anyone who wants to learn about low temperatures, ice ages, and supercooling but doesn't 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 The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Are you prepared for the attack of the killer tomatoes? We talk with chef Brian Yarvin, author of the too many tomatoes cookbook, including classic and exotic recipes from around the world and tips on how to preserve your own garden harvest and enjoy premier tomatoes all year long. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Afghanistan's Presidential Election Jean Feraca and her guests discuss Afghanistan's presidential election and attempts to stabilize the war-torn country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Into the Wild: International Nature Writing Words Without Borders is devoting the first of two issues of the online mag to nature writing, but don't expect to find any Wordsworths, Thoreaus, or Leopolds in this packet. It's not nature writing in the usual sense that the editors are after, but rather the confrontation between humans and their environment. Interesting stuff. From lyrical reports about life in unfamiliar territories, both hot and cold, to brooding accounts of the fever that nature puts into the mind and work of writers ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The S/V Denis Sullivan In 1991, a small group of Milwaukeeans dreamed of building a tall ship to honor Wisconsin's maritime heritage and work to improve the health of Wisconsin waters. Today, The S/V Denis Sullivan is a floating classroom and laboratory for freshwater exploration, science education and nautical training, sailing throughout the Great Lakes, the Atlantic Ocean and the Carribean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life Lessons from West Africa Wisconsin graduate student Katie Krueger went to Senegal intending to improve her French and expand her knowledge of economics, but soon discovered that"Man plans, God decides."In adopting the Senegalese way of life, Katie learned to replace efficiency with meaning, eventually creating a non-profit program to feed schoolchildren in Dakar. Her book is"Give With Gratitude: Lessons Learned Listening to West Africa." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julie and Julia Julie and Julia, the new movie that stars Meryl Streep as Julia Child, got its start when Julie Crowell, a frustrated writer working as a claims agent decided to beef up her life by keeping a blog about her attempts to cook all the recipes in Mastering the Art of French Cooking. What's she cooking now? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Muslims in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West Christopher Caldwell's Reflections on the Revolution in Europe has been called a how not-to book about immigration. P.J. O'Rourke says"Thanks to Caldwell's careful reporting and keen analysis we know exactly what we shouldn't do when new people move to our country." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taking the Ghost Train to the Eastern Star The decision to return to any early scene in your life is dangerous but irresistible, says Paul Theroux, who did just that, retracing steps he took decades ago when he wrote"The Great Railway Bazaar,"the book that is said to have reinvented travel writing. Along the way he confronts change on the other side of the world and in himself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Instability in Iran With his adversaries boycotting the ceremony, and thousands of riot police in the streets, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn into office for a second term last Wednesday. Meanwhile, a mass trial of more than 100 reformists is underway. Will the president be able to hold onto power? We will ask Hooman Majd, author of"The Ayatollah Begs to Differ." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Imperial: the Fading American-Mexican Dream William T. Vollmann's latest blockbuster concerns the tragic and volatile U.S.-Mexico borderland of extreme southeastern California Imperial County, where he spent ten years talking with everyone from farmers to border patrolmen to prostitutes in his search for the fading American-Mexican dream. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The World of Microbreweries The Beer Summit and who the heck wants to drink Bud Lite? Join us on the eve of the Great Taste of the Midwest to find out about the latest innovations in the world of microbreweries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Origins of Mutual Understanding Are we"wired"to cooperate? Primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy makes her case based on her study of the social and caretaking activities of our great ape ancestors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tracking the Global Gumshoe 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 US, 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Power of Apology The recent arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates re-ignited the national conversation about racism. Not so, the apology for slavery that just went through Congress with hardly a whisper. What is the purpose of such an apology and can it really contribute to racial healing? Join us to advance the conversation with Professors of Law Roger Conner and Adjoa Aiyetoro. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best Volunteer Vacations Interested in coaching a kids'soccer team in Senegal? Helping to protect sea turtles in Georgia? Monitoring climate change in the Arctic? Maybe work with AIDS orphans in Zambia? Pam Grout joins us to talk about the best of 100 volunteer vacations to enrich your life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer Cooking with Mark Bittman, Minimalist In his book, Mark Bittman presented 404 dishes, 101 for each season, that will get you in and out of the kitchen in 20 minutes or less. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Primo Levi's Universe Italian humanist Primo Levi is best known as a memoirist of Auschwitz, but he was also a scientist, fiction writer, and poet: in short, a Renaissance man. Primo Levi's Universe by Sam Magavern, published to coincide with Levi's 90th anniversary on July 31st, gives us a chance to find out what made this great humanist tick. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Partners in Health Paul Farmer, founder of Partners in Health, is being considered by the Obama administration to head up USAID. Since 1987, his NGO has been highly successful in delivering health care in poor countries like Haiti. We will talk with PIH Executive Director Ophelia Dahl. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa China's growing investment in Africa is causing both excitement for those who see better trade, infrastructure, and resources finally being invested in the continent, while others worry about corruption and exploitation. Author Serge Michel is former West Africa correspondent for Le Monde. We will also talk with photo-journalist Paolo Woods. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Will to Live: Aids Therapies and the Politics of Survival Success stories about HIV-AIDS are scant, but we found one in Princeton University anthropologist Joao Biehl's moving account of how Brazil got its act together and became the first nation to provide free treatment to all, in spite of inequities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feasting in the Ottoman Empire, circa 1550 Channon Mondoux is too busy to talk this week. She is recreating a feast from the palace of Suleyman the Magnificent using only foods local to Portage, Michigan. She has spent years working with original manuscripts that have only recently been translated into English for the first time, and she is ready to share her recipes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Young Russia, Old Russia What are young people in Russia thinking about these days? That the U.S. is Enemy number one; that Stalin was a great leader; that Putin is also cool; they like iPhones, lattes and skateboards, but they are worried about their future and nostalgic for the past. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Views on Healthcare A healthcare bill is slated to be up for a vote in the House by the end of the month. We speak with doctor, educator, and international healthcare advocate, Cynthia Haq, about her work to increase access to healthcare both here in the United States and abroad and the lessons she has learned about public healthcare in China, Mexico, Uganda, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 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 The News After Cronkite Perhaps a good way to remember the life and work of Walter Cronkite is to speak frankly and hopefully about journalism past, present, and future. John Nichols had the opportunity to interview Cronkite and write about him several times and he joins us in conversation about the direction of American journalism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cuisines of the Axis of Evil Everything we eat is burdened with social, political, religious, and even militarized meaning. Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States dishes out a saucy culinary feast of facts on ten controversial countries, their policies, and, of course, the food that unifies us all. Jean Feraca talks to its author, Chris Fair. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Plants of Desire Margot Berwin's first novel is getting rave reviews and it's easy to see why--who doesn't want to plunge into the seduction of mystical plants and hot, Yucatan rainforests in the middle July? The author leads us through the jungle and the horticultural myth she created for her novel, and it's sure to make you sweat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Happiness Project There are so many studies these days that try to figure out who are the happiest people in the world. The verdict is still out, but Charles Spearin has found a unique take on the question through his music. You might know Spearin as a member of the Canadian supergroup Broken Social Scene. With his new solo album, The Happiness Project, he asked his friends and neighbors to speak about what makes them happy and then transformed their voices into musical notes and songs. Listening to the musi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saving Gorongosa Did you catch the 60 Minutes segment with Gregory Carr, social entrepreneur and founder of the Carr foundation? We continue this week's focus on Africa with a conversation with Gregory Carr about his work in Mozambique to preserve its natural resources and native animal species. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Welcome to Ghana Obama speaks from Ghana over the weekend and we bring on some experts on Ghana and Africa to talk about Ghana's place in Africa and what Africans can expect during the Obama administration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All About Ice Cream Enjoying a cool sweet treat on a hot day is a beloved pastime for people around the world. Jean Feraca and her guests explore the history, culture, and flavors of ice cream in America, gelato in Italy, and kulfi in India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arab Bodies The German poet Novalis once wrote that the only real temple in this world is the human body. If that is true, Joumana Haddad, who just launched Jasad magazine in Beirut (Jasad means Body in Arabic), is doing her best to restore the body to its rightful place, and raising a lot of eyebrows in the process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Travels Along the Camino De Santiago An international bestseller, and soon to be released as a major motion picture,"I'm Off Then"is German comedian Hape Kerkeling's account of his travails along the Camino De Santiago, Spain's most traveled pilgrim's route since the first century AD. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature Forget the notion that technology improves upon nature. Science writer Janine Benyus introduces us to pioneering engineers making technological breakthroughs by uncovering and copying nature's hidden marvels. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Being Gay and Muslim Today we air a repeat of our April 9th show, Being Gay and Muslim. Writer, blogger and director Parvez Sharma is openly gay. He's also identifies as a Muslim. In producing his latest documentary, A Jihad for Love, he interviewed gay and lesbian Muslims all over the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strawberry It is strawberry season and French chef Monique Hooker is ready to teach us how to make a red, white, and blue strawberry pie for Fourth of July. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer Reading from Words Without Borders Whether you are interested in knowing more about world events in Pakistan, Iran, and China this summer, or whether you just want to escape, we have got a book for you. Join in with your own selections when we talk with Words Without Borders editors about their Summer Reading List. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flowers That Kill During WWII, while the Japanese made sure their divine emperor would never be seen or heard, and used cherry blossoms to symbolize his power, Hitler's image was plastered everywhere, his speeches amplified, and roses were used to reinforce his image as father of the people. Join Jean Feraca with Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney for Flowers That Kill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music of Human Consciousness Musical inspiration can come from a lot of places but Composer Bruce Adolphe found the inspiration for his latest piece in a particularly unusual spot: the research of neuroscientist Antonio Damasio. Self Comes to Mind is the end product of this collaboration between scientist and musician and it was recently performed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Video imagery and projected texts accompanied Yo-Yo Ma's performance of the duo's cello and percussion composition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Women in Iran: Raising the Roof Having grown up female in Iran just prior to the 1979 Revolution, Nahid Rachlin knows a thing or two about social unrest, Iranian politics and what the experience of both are like for women. Author of the memoir Persian Girls and a professor at the New School University, Nahid Rachlin joins us to provide context and insight into the current Iranian controversy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Milkshakes With a Twist Think you know everything there is to know about milkshakes? How about a little basil in your strawberry? Or a few shakes of chili powder to add some smoke to your chocolate shake? Adam Reid gives this old-time favorite a few new licks and a twist, turning kidstuff into a surprisingly sophisticated adult affair. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Compelling Moment Richard Harwood of the Harwood Institute for Innovation has a knack for reading a crisis as an opportunity. He calls this "The Compelling Moment," citing what is going on in Tehran, Detroit, and elsewhere in these worst of times and best of times. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Word Play 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." Author Jag Bhalla collects this and other amusing, often hilarious phrases that provide a unique perspective on how different cultures perceive and describe the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Science of Compassion Back in 2000 James Doty was living the high life. A neurosurgeon turned biotech investor, he drove a Ferrari and was in the process of buying a private island when he lost his fortune in the dot-com bust. Now he is the director of a new research institute he founded to study compassion. Buddhist nun, Thubten Chodron, joins us as we discuss the connections between the scientific and the religious search for compassion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obama's Stance on Iran Iranians are taking the street, en masse, to contest the results of their recent election. Leaders around the world are speaking up in support of the protesters. Obama, however, seems to be laying low. Today we discuss the pros and cons of cautious diplomacy with Iran and why Twitter is popping up in stories about Iranian protesters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Urban/Suburban Permaculture Whether you live in the city or in the suburbs, you could be growing your own food on your rooftop, on concrete, and even up the side of your walls using the commonsense techniques of permaculture design. Bill Wilson of Midwest Permaculture teaches people how to get started. He joins us at the Energy Fair. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Invisible Hook Whoever thought we would be worried about pirates in the 21st century? If you are interested in how today's pirate menace compares with the swashbuckling, cutlass brandishing pirates of old, join us with economist Peter Leeson, who uncovers the hidden economics of piracy in his book, The Invisible Hook. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Book of Dead Philosophers What can you tell about a person from the way they die? In The Book of Dead Philosophers, Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy at the New School in New York, explores death, our last taboo, from a most unusual perspective. He recounts the demise of famous philosophers, revealing how their variously tragic, amusing, and bizarre ends can help us lead richer lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guerrilla Gardening What do you get when you cross a desire to go green and the nerve to takeover land owed by someone else? It is called Guerrilla Gardening, and while it was first practiced in 17th century Britain, it has become a movement in places like New York City, where abandoned lots are turned into lush gardens by local "Green Guerrillas." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In Praise of Fat 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 Taqwacores: Muslim Punk Rock Michael Muhammad Knight, an Irish Catholic who converted to Islam, is considered a heretic by many American Muslims for having written the Taqwacores, a novel about a group of Muslim punk-rockers, as fiercely independent as they are devout. The book went viral and inspired a movement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Place as Memory They call it The Eternal City and you would think for that reason alone Rome would be resistant to change. But antiquity and modernity are on a collision course in some of Rome's oldest neighborhoods. Harvard anthropologist has made a study of it in his new book Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Rome. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Memoir as An American Art Form Natalie Goldberg has taught hundreds of Americans to write memoir. She says that there is something about memoir that makes it a particularly American genre. We are impatient. We want it now. We want to break open the old structures of memory and make them new and fresh again. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Going Back to Cuba When the Palm Beach Post assigned Carlos Frias to travel to Cuba to cover Castro's illness, his father said, "You're going to Cuba? Take me with you." Frias spent twelve hot, heart-wrenching days in Cuba in August 2006, and his memoir allowed him to take his father along with him as he discovered his lost heritage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wild, Wild Foods Gardens are not the only place where you can pick your own food. The trained eye can find all sorts of edibles in woods, marshes, and backyards. Join is with professional foragers ready to share their trade secrets on how to find the last free lunch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Not Now, Voyager You say you hate to travel? Or you love it. Ever since the explorations of Marco Polo and the travels of Montaigne there has been a lively debate about the pros and cons of travel. Lynne Sharon Schwartz joins that debate in a memoir both serious and funny about being a reluctant traveler. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Win A Cosmic War In his new book, How to Win A Cosmic War, Reza Aslan recommends that we strip the religious rhetoric out of the war on terror and focus instead on the war we can win: the battle for the minds and hearts of young Muslim men. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Art and Politics of Science Harold Varmus, the Nobel Prize-winning cancer biologist who also serves as science advisor to President Obama is the author of the new book, The Art and Politics of Science. He is coming to the UW-Madison to give a lecture and a reading at Borders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bar Culture in Congo The French say he is a young writer to watch. He has won their most prestigious awards. He is Alain Mabanckou, born in the Congo, author of six novels; two of them recently translated into English. African Psycho is about a failed serial killer. Broken Glass is about a Congolese barfly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poet Martin Espada Known as the Pablo Neruda of North America, Martin Espada has made his reputation as a poet of justice and an advocate for the voiceless. His latest work touches on the unrest of South America and the post colonial conflict of Puerto Rico, the land of his ancestors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gomorrah It may not be the first time a movie has been made based on a book about the Mafia. But Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah is unlike any that came before it. Made with people taken from the streets of Naples, Gomorrah is a cross between fiction and documentary that has sent its maker into hiding. Join us for the ultimate anti-heroic Mafia story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Debt and Evil Bankers in Little Dorritt When did debt become credit and credit become debt? Dickens scholar Tatiana Holway says that's what Little Dorritt is all about. The Masterpiece Theater production of Dickens'ended on Sunday, but the questions about debt, bad bankers and how to live with sudden reversals in fortune are surely still with us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Re-Examining Torture With two thirds of Americans supporting investigations into the Bush administration's use of torture, and 40 percent supporting criminal prosecutions, pressure on President Obama is mounting. The Center for Constitutional Rights is calling for the Attorney General to Appoint a Special Prosecutor. We'll talk with CCR director Michael Ratner. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Last Poetry Circle of the Air "Fish, fowl, Flood, water lily mud, my life by water." Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker earned international fame writing about her hardscrabble life on Black Hawk Island living in a cottage that flooded every spring. Molly Peacock and Jean are featuring her poetry on the last Spring Equinox Poetry Circle of the Air. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hardcore Zen (encore) The story of a punk whose lifelong quest for truth led him through a path from the aggressive beats of hardcore punk music to the monster movie studios in Tokyo to a temple where he discovered Zen Buddhism. Brad Warner is a Zen monk, a musician, a filmmaker, and the author of "Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, and the Truth about Reality." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Know Your Deli Man (Encore) Do you have a deli man? Jean does. Her deli man can tell the difference between three different kinds of pancetta. He hands out old family recipes to his customers as readily as he gives out free samples. He is passionate about olive oil and makes his own sausage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Love and Dating in the Muslim World Do Muslims date? If they do not date, how do they decide who to marry? Join us for Muslim Love Stories: The Changing Nature of Muslim Courtship in our ongoing series, Inside Islam: Dialogues and Debates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fighting For The Rule of Law Philip Kearney, A restless DA in San Francisco leaves a comfortable career to take to the lawless streets of Pristina, Kosovo, in an attempt to bring some very deadly criminals to justice just two years after a NATO bombing campaign had brought a halt to the conflict between Kosovo and Serbia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Open Line This hour we welcome your feedback on our recent programming, including our Inside Islam series, and suggestions about upcoming shows. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kitchen Coupling Second to travel, the best test of a budding romance is to cook together. Lori and Bill, both food lovers, decided to spend their entire vacation tackling complicated recipes like soup stock and French terrines. Points scored? Pounds gained? Will this romance survive a week in the kitchen? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Muslim Next Door Although Americans hear about Islam on a daily basis, there remains no clear explanation of Islam or its people. Jean Feraca talks to a scholar of Islamic law about growing up in California and balancing her South Asian, Muslim, and American identities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darwin Day There will be nation-wide events this year in celebration of Darwin Day, February 12. We are tapping two of the best: acclaimed geneticist Sean Carroll, author of Remarkable Creatures, and James Moore, co-author of Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Betrayal: The Journey of a Lao Family Nerakhoon/The Betrayal tells the epic story of a family forced to emigrate from Laos after the chaos of the secret air war waged by the U.S. during the Vietnam War. We will talk with Director Ellen Kuras who spent the last 23 years chronicling the family's extraordinary journey in this deeply personal, poetic, and emotional film. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Father Roy Bourgeois While the Catholic Church is importing priests from Africa to cover their shortage, Father Roy Bourgeois, a leader in the movement for social justice, is threatened with excommunication for taking part in a ceremony to ordain a woman. Roy Bourgeois joins us this hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mariachi 101 Elegant, heart-filled and mysterious, Mariachi music has travelled a long road from working-class Mexico to concert stages worldwide. Join Veronica Rueckert and her guests to uncover Mariachi's history and celebrate its best recordings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Halal Food: What Muslims Eat (Encore) You have heard of kosher meat, but do you know Halal Meat? Jean Feraca talks with a Muslim woman, the creator of Faith in Place, a Chicago-based food cooperative that specializes in everything halal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reaching Out To The Muslim World President Obama reached out to Muslims in his inaugural address. What steps do Muslims think the new president should take to repair relations between the US and the Muslim world? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Women and Shari'a You have probably been hearing some of the same horrifying stories about the fate of Muslim girls that we have been hearing: stonings, rapes, murders, even young Pakistani girls buried alive for opposing arranged marriages. This hour Jean Feraca and her guests untangle what part of all this is Shari'a and what part tribal customs. And is there any way to separate them after all? Who speaks for Muslim women? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Young Muslims and New Media Way beyond Al Jazeera, the expansion of open media in the Arab world is changing the socio-political landscape of the region in dramatic ways. We will consider Noor, the Turkish soap opera likened to Dallas and dubbed into street Arabic that has become so wildly popular that imams in Saudi Arabia and Gaza have issued fatwas against anyone who watches it. Nobody pays attention. Or the work of Ali Ardekani, a 33-year-old videoblogger who cast as Baba Ali. He is funny and hip and has a huge fo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heavy Metal Islam This premier program in our year-long new media series we are producing with UW-Madison Global Studies features scholar/musician Mark Levine who jams with Moroccan bands, members of a heavy metal Bagdad band, and Allah only knows who else. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reaching Out To The Muslim World President Obama reached out to Muslims in his inaugural address. What steps do Muslims think the new president should take to repair relations between the US and the Muslim world? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Green Urbanism Down Under How do we make our cities greener? Turns out, there is much to be learned from Green Urbanism Down Under: city gardens in Melbourne; a koala friendly housing development along the Tweed Cost; solar lights that send electricity back to the city's power grid in Adelaide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Obama Means Now this is a coup: directly following NPR's live coverage of the Inauguration, Here on Earth gets to talk with (and this means you too!) celebrated cultural critic Jabari Asim, the author of "What Obama Means." He is the perfect guest coming at the perfect time on the perfect occasion. Join us! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Business of Modern Slavery While we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American civil rights movement, let's also remember that slavery has once again reared its ugly head in the form of sex trafficking. For a completely original approach that strikes at the economic heart of prostitution, we will talk with Siddharth Kara, a former investment banker and author of "Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Widow Clicquot In the wake of the French Revolution, Madame Clicquot became a widow and single mother at age 27. But widowhood also gave her social permission to run her own business. And she started building a champagne empire and a legacy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Fathers'Daughter Can you ever know who you are if you don't know where you come from? Hannah Pool was adopted from an orphanage in Eritrea and was working as a beauty editor for The Guardian when she decided to go to Africa to meet for the first time the family she never even knew existed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whiskies of the World Want a remedy for your New Year hangover? Join us for the history and lore of Whiskey with Rob Allanson, editor of Whiskey Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy (Encore) Eric Wilson tried jogging, yoga, tai chi, Frank Capra movies, and finally decided to embrace his gloominess and write a diatribe against the quintessentially American pursuit of happiness. Buoyed up by Prozac and shopping malls, the mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness, the superior man exults in his gloom. Which one are you? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dead Beat (Encore) How would you like to be remembered? What do obituaries say about our culture? This hour on Here On Earth: Radio Without Borders, join Jean Feraca for a talk with two leading obituarists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Best Books In Translation While the whole world is busy writing great books, fewer than three percent of them get translated and make American bookshelves. This prompted the New York Times five years ago to declare that"America Yawned"at foreign fiction, but is it still true? Raid your library and join Jean Feraca as we share the world's best books in translation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Gay Rights In many countries, the taboo against homosexuality seems to be eroding even as the debate rages on: Proposition 8, the UN and the Vatican are keeping the issue on the front page. Should gay rights be included under the Universal Declaration on human rights? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christmas in Auschwitz The great Italian humanist, Primo Levi, much to his surprise, received a package of goodies for Christmas while he was in Auschwitz. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest talk about Levi's essay, "Christmas in Auschwitz." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Claus: A Biography Santa Claus has not always been the jolly round bearded fellow we know today. His family tree goes back to Turkey. He has been a wanderer, a bishop, and a warrior. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio without Borders, a biography of Santa Claus. And what does Waukesha, Wisconsin have to do with his landing in America? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Celtic Songs of the Season (Encore) Jean Feraca and Navan, a Celtic music band, celebrate Celtic songs of the season. Sung in the original languages, the songs are mostly hair-raising, sometimes jazzy and mysterious that give fascinating insights into the pagan underpinnings of Yuletide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting Back In Touch Mediterranean people are most touch-friendly, while Asians avoid any unnecessary touching. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest explore touch different cultures and the importance of touch for communication and health. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website And You Shall Know Us By The Trail of Our Vinyl The history of Jewish culture in America has been told through vaudeville, through movies, through literature, but not until now has it been told through vinyl. For a truly unique Here on Earth celebration, join us with the creators of "And You Shall Know Us By The Trail Of Our Vinyl." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Great Christmas Cookie Exchange Juergen Jungbauer has been baking springerle and Pfeffernuss cookies at Heidelberg Haus in Indianapolis for forty years. But he is a hold-out. These days, he says, if you want real Christmas cookies you have to bake them at home. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio without Borders, join Jean Feraca and her guests for the great Christmas cookie exchange. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Winter Solstice Poetry Circle of the Air It's cold. It's dark. The only thing that's gone south is the economy. Molly said, this year we need a break. She has chosen a bright upbeat poem for Thursday's winter solstice poetry circle of the air. Check out "My Joy Doubled" by Todd Boss. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside the Stalin Archives To most Americans, Russia remains as enigmatic today as it was during the Iron Curtain era. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country had an opportunity to confront its tortured past. In "Inside the Stalin Archives," Jonathan Brent asks why this did not happen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life The Promise of Paradox, Parker Palmer's first book published in 1980, was just re-issued with a new introduction. Writing it gave Parker a chance to revisit some of the challenging questions at the core of his Christian beliefs. He joins us for a conversation about the evolution of faith. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Change of Tides for Cuba Could the election of Barack Obama, fifty years after the Cuban revolution finally help normalize relations between the two countries? Jean Feraca talks with New York Times columnist Roger Cohen who has interviewed Castro loyalists and dissidents alike on the future of Cuba and gauges what the next president of the US might change in its relations with the Island. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Flavor Bible Great cooking goes beyond following a recipe: it is knowing how to season ingredients to coax the greatest possible flavor from them. The authors of the Flavor Bible have talked with dozens of America's leading chefs to discover their secrets of creating deliciousness in any dish. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life Lessons from a Samurai There was a time in Japanese history when samurai warriors did not have enough to do and got lazy and fat. As a remedy, a samurai doctor/philosopher named Kaibara Ekiken prescribed a regimen for health and fitness remarkably suited to our own age. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Al America It has been a rough election season for American Arabs and Muslims, but Jonathan Curiel of the San Francisco Chronicle has an antidote. In his book, Al America, he traces the roots of Islamic influence in quintessential Americana, from the Alamo, to the French Quarter, to the Mississippi Delta. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Real Africa The African continent is home to 53 separate countries, with huge modern mega cities, where over one thousand languages are spoken. Is this the Africa you recognize? Join us for the Real Africa: Shining Light on the Dark Continent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teenage Global Citizenship The Goldman Sachs Foundation partnered with the Asia Society to encourage American high school students to study abroad. We will meet two of this year's winners of the prize-winners for excellence in international education: a bouncy blonde from southern California who traveled to Nepal and found something underneath the poverty and privation that touched her deeply; and an African-American student from Atlanta who found deep resonances in South Africa with our own Civil Rights movement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cuisines of the Axis of Evil Everything we eat is burdened with social, political, religious, and even militarized meaning. Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States dishes out a saucy culinary feast of facts on ten controversial countries, their policies, and, of course, the food that unifies us all. Jean Feraca talks to its author, Chris Fair. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Election Abroad While Americans are getting used to the idea that Barack Obama may become our first African-American president, what is the rest of the world saying about it? We will ask a group of international journalists who are here in the States studying the election and filing their reports back home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Vampires Eat The fact that Halloween happens to fall on a Friday this year has not been lost on us. So our approach to food this week will be a bit deviant: You are invited to join us at a table for the undead where you will find our favorite ghoul, Neil Whitehead. He can describe, with relish, just what vampires eat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Folklore of Election 2008 John McCain, The Warrior; Sarah Palin, The Siren; Barack Obama, The Least Likely Hero. Harold Scheub sees this year's election season as theater with a cast of characters who force each other into stock roles. Can they survive their stereotypes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Young Muslims and New Media Way beyond Al Jazeera, the expansion of open media in the Arab world is changing the socio-political landscape of the region in dramatic ways. We will consider Noor, the Turkish soap opera likened to Dallas and dubbed into street Arabic that has become so wildly popular that imams in Saudi Arabia and Gaza have issued fatwas against anyone who watches it. Nobody pays attention. Or the work of Ali Ardekani, a 33-year-old videoblogger who cast as Baba Ali. He is funny and hip and has a huge fo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Father's Paradise: The Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq Ariel Sabar is one of a handful of people on earth who speaks Aramaic, the ancient language of Jesus. That is because he is a Kurdish Jew. He tells the amazing story of his people who have managed to keep their faith, their language, and their culture alive over nearly three thousand years despite the greatest odds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life in a Jar: An Unsung Heroine of the Holocaust If it had not been for three high school girls in Kansas, we might never have known about the work of Irene Sendler, an unsung heroine of the Holocaust. A Polish Catholic social worker, she saved about 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto. Jean talks with one of the girls, Sendler's translator. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marcella Hazan Remembers arcella Hazan, the duenna of Italian cooking who single-handedly introduced Americans to Italian regional cooking, swore she would never write another book, but she could not help herself. Borrowing from Fellini, it is called simply "Amarcord: Marcella Remembers." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alaa al Aswany's Chicago He is called the Sinbad of Literature and his latest novel is set on a college campus in post 9/11 Chicago where Egyptian and American lives, Arab traditions and American mores collide. Jean Feraca talks with Alaa al Aswany, one of the best-selling authors of the Arab world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Trips Do gay men make the best travel writers? Raphael Kadushin, the editor of two gay travel anthologies, insists they do. His new book deals with the whole concept of wanderlust, our need to travel, our sense of the world, and the meaning of home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Urban Earth Geographer Daniel Raven-Ellison has walked through street vendors, traffic and slums in London, Mumbai, and Mexico City, taking a photograph every eight steps in an effort to change the way we see the cities we live in. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Race in the Race Obama supporters may be justifiably horrified by the racism that has been incited by the McCain campaign. But what about the potshots aimed at Sarah Palin? Jean Feraca and her guest discuss race in the race. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 100-Mile Diet What kind of diet reduces miles rather than calories? Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon's 100-Mile Diet, which has taken off as a new way to think, and eat, locally. We'll talk with Alisa about the challenge she and James set for themselves: to eat only food produced within 100 miles of their British Columbian apartment for one year. Can eating locally really help save the planet? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website America's Musical Melting Pot One of New York City's most venerable institutions, the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, just held a festival and put out a CD in honor of its 40th anniversary. Starting with Balkan immigrants in the Bronx, the Center now spans traditions from all over the globe, bringing age-old enemies side by side on the same stage. Talk about diversity! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who Owns Antiquities? Who owns antiquities? Should they be returned to the countries where they were found? Museum directors say no, but countries such as Italy, Greece, Turkey, and China are all clamoring for their return and have passed laws against their future export. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rwanda's Renaissance Stephen Kinzer tells the astonishing story of how Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, seized power in his genocide-shattered country and brought about one of the most successful revolutions of the modern era. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Cousin the Saint Justin Catanoso was a typically lapsed American Catholic when he discovered that his late cousin was about to be canonized by Pope John Paul II. For a new twist on geneology and the search for roots, join Jean Feraca with the author of "My Cousin the Saint." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chocolatier Meet Gail Ambrosius, a Wisconsin chocolatier, who has studied the fine art of French chocolate making. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Makes The News Funny? What makes political news funny? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guests discuss political satire around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hardcore Zen The story of a punk whose lifelong quest for truth led him through a path from the aggressive beats of hardcore punk music to the monster movie studios in Tokyo to a temple where he discovered Zen Buddhism. Brad Warner is a Zen monk, a musician, a filmmaker, and the author of "Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, and the Truth about Reality." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Green Collar Jobs Continuing changes in the global environment may mean growing threats to human health and well-being. To solve those problems, a new industry is burgeoning with green-collar jobs. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest discuss the economic impact of environmental change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Earthquake Generation In the aftermath of the Chinese earthquake, tens of thousands of young volunteers flood to the quake zone to help, taking everyone by surprise. The young volunteers are from the first generation in China to grow up as only children or "little emperors." Their spontaneous response to the quake has defied the myth that the 20-somethings are selfish and materialistic. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guests take a fresh look at China's young generation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website University of Gastronomical Sciences At the University of Gastronomical Sciences in Italy students study just one subject: food: its history, its science, its cultural value. But none of the students or teachers ever touch a pot or a spoon. Join us for a school about cooking where nobody ever cooks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mafalda Is America ready for Mafalda? Created in 1964, Mafalda is a comic strip from Argentina featuring a six-year-old whiz-kid who has taken the rest of the world by storm. Join us for a sneak peek at Mafalda's Latin humor and political philosophy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website American Universities Go Overseas From Kuwait to Singapore, American universities are expanding. At Kean University, plans for a campus in China are underway. At the University of Washington, a program in Abu Dhabi teaches recent UAE graduates the skills they need to make it in the contemporary workforce. But is exporting American education a good idea? Are those universities risking their reputation for a big check? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Garbage Warrior Michael Reynolds builds houses out of garbage, literally. He is the subject of "The Garbage Warrior," a documentary about his adventures building what he calls "earthships," off-grid sustainable communities made out of beer cans, old tires, and plastic bottles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Naples vs. the Nazis This Memorial Day we explore a long kept secret from the last world war: how teenage boys living in Naples fought a guerilla war against the Nazis. Join Jean Feraca with John Domini, the author of "Cooking the Octopus: Discovering Naples, My Father and Myself." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tasting Mustard in Dijon, France Whad'a they have that we ain't got? Barry Levenson, the founder of the Mustard Museum in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, reports on his recent mustard-tasting tour of Dijon, France. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feminist Science Fiction Science fiction is a field thought to be dominated by men, but women all over the English speaking world are writing it. Who are they? What are they writing about? And what makes them stand out? Join Jean Feraca and her guest for a sneak peak at WisCon, the world's leading feminist science fiction convention. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Street Cries From Around the World NYC Performance artist Annie Lanzillotto has made street cries from around the world the focus of her latest performance: Rule 23: No Shouting or Hawking by Vendors Nor Abusive or Lewd Language. It is a protest against Fiorello La Guardia's 1936 ban on New York's street hawkers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Khmer Legacies: One Family's War Secrets Meet an heroic woman who has transformed her family's history into a force for truth and healing. A successful producer for NBC, Socheata Poeuv did not know her family's trauma and loss during the Khmer Rouge genocide until she was 25 years old. After her family's trip to Cambodia, she produced an award-winning documentary and created a foundation to help survivors to remember and heal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feeding People Is Easy Author and economist Colin Tudge says small farmers can feed the increasingly hungry world, as soon as big argibusiness gets out of the way. Find out how this hour on Here On Earth: Radio Without Borders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alliance for Climate Protection The Gore-led Alliance for Climate Protection, an all-out marketing blitz, launched this month with plans to "ignite" Americans into taking action on global climate change. Jean Feraca talks to the associate director of the alliance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Sanctuary in Hectic Modern Life A BBC television series about five laymen living the monastic life for 40 days became a surprise hit in UK. What did they learn to find sanctury in the hectic modern life? Jean Feraca talks with the host of the series, Abbot Christopher Jamison, who also guided the men into a new approach to life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Whaling Industry Although commercial whaling largely ended in the l980's indigenous people around the world still consider the harvest of whales central to their culture. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guests examine how traditional whaling fits into the modern world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Israel's Dilemma For an unflinching analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with an equally bold and unflinching solution, Jean Feraca talks with London-based Palestinian physician, Dr. Ghada Karmi, a 1948 refugee from Jerusalem, and the author of "Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lila Downs'Ranchera Music We break stride with our Food Friday tradition today to welcome the star of the 2005 Madison World Music Festival, Lila Downs, back to Madison. The daughter of a Mixtec cabaret singer, Downs has been touring internationally performing native Mesoamerican music in Mixtec, Zapotec and Maya. She was featured in the movie Frida. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking to Michael Morwood Is Jesus God? Tomorrow's Catholic. From Sand to Solid Ground. All you have to do is consider the titles of Michael Morwood's books to understand why they've been banned across Australia. Morwood believes the greatest challenge to Christian churches is not in dwindling numbers, but in connecting faith with contemporary knowledge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sum of Our Days "More than a family, we're a village," Isabel Allende writes in her new memoir, "The Sum of our Days," the story of her tribe over the past decade. Allende's American House of the Spirits is full of eccentric characters and haunted by the guiding spirit of her daughter Paula. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border Juan Felipe Herrera has devoted his many talents as a writer, performer, and activist to the politics of immigration and identity in the Latino community. Best known for "Super Cilantro Girl" and "Calling the Doves," his newest book is "187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fermat's Room Four mathematicians are invited by a mysterious host to spend a weekend solving a great enigma. The space they are given to work in is a red shrinking room that will crush them to death if they don't succeed. Welcome to Fermat's Room. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Royal Baker's Daughter Barbara Goldberg is a poet raised on a diet of stone soup and the occasional royal treat. In her new collection, "The Royal Baker's Daughter," (which just won the Felix Pollak Prize) cooking itself stands for devotion to the fruits of the earth and to the creation of human hopes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mate: The Ancient Drink of Health and Friendship Coffee, tea, or mate? The Turks have their coffee, the Japanese have their green tea, but in South America, the stimulant of choice is mate. For many Argentinians, mate is more than a drink, it is a social ritual with a rich history first developed by the people of the pampas. And it may be coming soon to a bar near you. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spring Equinox Poetry Circle of the Air March 30 is Vincent Van Gogh's birthday. He was named after an older brother, and infant who died. The haunting story of being named for the other, dead brother, is the subject of a beautiful, rich poem by Northern Irish poet Kate Newman. This hour on Here on Earth, Jean Feraca and Molly Peacock discuss the Van Gogh poem and others that have a quality of spring light, the light of the equinox. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of the Iraq War John McCain wants a Hundred Years War. Barack Obama wants us out of Iraq in six months. Are these two presidential hopefuls actually not that far apart? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, News Analyst John Nichols and anchor of BBC World News America, Matt Frei, join Jean Feraca to talk about the future of the war in Iraq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Manga Bible You think you know what is in the Bible? Think again! In a re-configured Manga Bible, Jesus has come as a Samurai. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wisconsin Idea Goes to Japan Robert Gard, the founder and director of the Wisconsin Idea Theater, published a seminal work called "Grassroots Theater" which has just been translated into Japanese. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with the translator and find out why community development through the arts is suddenly such a hot topic in Japan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Full Body Project (Encore Presentation) Do you know that Leonard Nimoy, a.k.a. Mr. Spock from Star Trek, is actually an accomplished photographer? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks to him who has turned his considerable talent to an unusual topic: Fat Babes! Jean will also talk to a New York Times reporter about body image in the news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lives of Others (Encore Presentation) What it was like to live under constant surveillance? What is the power of arts and literature? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with the director and writer of the Oscar winning film, The Lives of Others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The World Without Us (Encore Presentation) Jean Feraca and her guest discuss what the world would look like if humans disappeared. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space Food (Encore Presentation) What kind of food do astronauts eat in space? Why do astronauts eat tortillas instead of bread? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guests talk about space food. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Edith Piaf and Street Singers in Paris (Encore Presentation) There is something in Edith Piaf's songs that is universal and belongs to all of us. What makes her music popular across generations and language barriers? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Soul-Searching Again in Germany Germany confronts its past, again. When is enough enough? Where in the world has one ever seen a nation that erects memorials to immortalize its own shame? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guests look into Germany's new round of soul-searching at the 75th anniversary of the day Hitler and the Nazi Party took power in the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reverential Ecology This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks to Satish Kumar, one of the world's leading spiritual thinkers, about rediscovering nature and finding inner peace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding America in France This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest discuss rediscovering the rural America in the French countryside. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wisdom of Indigenous Grandmothers This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca discusses the survival of tribal wisdom with her guests from the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Community School This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with the co-founders of a charter school in Atlanta inspired by Martin Luther King Jr., where American students learn together with immigrants and refugees from over 40 countries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating A World Without Poverty This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus about how to create a world without poverty. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website (Encore Presentation) The Power of Song This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with a legendary American folksinger and activist, Peter Seeger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website (Encore Presentation) Project Ice Cube: an Underground Telescope This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest talk about an underground telescope being built in Antarctica to study neutrinos and solve the last riddle of the universe. UW Chancellor John Wiley called it equal to the building of the Great Pyramids. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website (Encore Presentation) Turkish Coffee This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and Her guest talk about the grand tradition of Turkish coffee, including a lesson on how to read the coffee grinds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Family and Other Saints When a son decided to quit school and leave home to seek enlightenment with a guru, what would his family do? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca's guest tells the story of her family's journey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our Inner Ape We are closely related to other apes, but how similar are we really? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest explore human nature by looking at our two closest animal relatives, the chimpanzees and bonobos. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website (Encore Presentation) Christmas in Auschwitz The great Italian humanist, Primo Levi, much to his surprise, received a package of goodies for Christmas while he was in Auschwitz. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest talk about Levi's essay, "Christmas in Auschwitz." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website (Encore Presentation) Santa Claus: A Biography What does Waukesha, Wisconsin have to do with the evolution of modern-day Santa? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and guest take an entertaining and often surprising look at the life of the world's most influential fictional character. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website French Twist of the Christmas Feast This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks to Wisconsin-born/Paris-based chef Patricia Wells and French-born/Wisconsin-based chef Monique Hooker who give a French twist to the Christmas feast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Winter Solstice Poetry Circle of the Air This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and Molly Peacock discuss a set of sonnets that poet Marilyn Hacker wrote while undergoing surgery for breast cancer during the holidays, an irony all too commonplace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The First Christmas This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks to two major religious scholars who give a brand new and controversial interpretation of the first Christmas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Santa Claus: A Biography What does Waukesha, Wisconsin have to do with the evolution of modern-day Santa? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and guest take an entertaining and often surprising look at the life of the world's most influential fictional character. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Celtic Songs of the Season This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and Navan, a Celtic music band, celebrate Celtic songs of the season. Sung in the original languages, the songs are mostly hair-raising, sometimes jazzy and mysterious that give fascinating insights into the pagan underpinnings of Yuletide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space Food What kind of food do astronauts eat in space? Why do astronauts eat tortillas instead of bread? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guests talk about space food. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Seed Bank What is the ultimate protection for the worlds agricultural biodiversity? This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca and her guest talk about the world's first global seed bank in Svalbard, Norway. 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