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Archive for April, 2009
“Best Of:” Swine Flu in History, Iraqi Author Ali Allawi, and “The Producers” Goes to Germany
For this week’s “best of, but not-quite-best-of” podcast, Alex Gallafent and Clark Boyd bring you a selection of what they think were some of the most scintillating stories from the past week’s radio programs.
Three memoirs by women
Author and critic Helen Epstein talks to World Books Editor Bill Marx about three recent memoirs by women, each with a distinctive international flavor. The pair evaluate Jan Wong’s “A Comrade Lost and Found,” Christina Thompson’s “Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All,” and Jane Alison’s “The Sisters Antipodes.”
Swine Flu and the Global Recession
In this week’s Global Economy Podcast, it’s all about swine flu. We look at how a swine flu pandemic might affect the global economy, and how the global recession might affect our flu preparedness. Listen
Long Kuan
Even though health experts say you can’t get swine flu from eating pork … many people say they’re cutting back. One Chinese singer thinks there’s another reason to forgo meat in general. Long Kuan is worried about global warming. And she says going vegetarian can do more – faster – to help the earth than [...]
The Crisis of Islamic Civilization
Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has been undergoing a monumental crisis. Buffeted by powerful adverse currents, Islamic civilization today is a shadow of its former self. The most disturbing and possibly fatal of these currents—the imperial expansion of the West into Muslim lands and the blast of modernity that accompanied it—are now compounded by a third giant wave, globalization.
Geo Quiz Challenge
Take a Geo Quiz Challenge! Test your knowledge and challenge your friends!
What piece of jargon would you like to see thrown into the linguistic trash can?
An association of local government leaders in Britain has compiled a list of banned jargon. These are words and phrases that the association says must be avoided in order to “communicate effectively”.
Private schools in poor communities (6:00)
Anchor Katy Clark speaks with James Tooley about his research into how parents in poor communities in the developing world are choosing to send their children to private schools. Tooley is the author of “The Beautiful Tree”. Book information and additional audio Read the Transcript This text below is a phonetic transcript of a radio [...]
Geo answer (2:15)
The answer to our Geo Quiz today is Shoreditch, a trendy neighborhood of London where a local pub has come up with a novel way to beat the recession — bartering for beer. Customers can trade anything from old vacuum cleaners to a painting for a pint of beer. Producer Alex Collins sent us an [...]
A linguistic island experiment
Derek Bickerton is a linguist who had a wild idea for a linguistic experiment. He dreamed of placing six families that spoke six different languages on an uninhabited island for three years, in an attempt to create new Creole language. And he almost got the funding for it. The World’s Patrick Cox tells the story.
Former Rebel Tackles Deforestation in Indonesia (7:00)
Jocelyn Ford reports on the efforts of a former rebel turned governor to stop deforestation in the Indonesian province of Aceh.
Entire program – April 23, 2009
Today on The World: We focus on Africa — from South Africa and Kenya to Zimbabwe and Zambia. Specifically, South Africa will soon have a new president — we’ll hear what that could mean for the continent as a whole; Also, how some women in Egypt are fighting back against sexual harassment; And how one [...]
ANC wins in South Africa (4:30)
Katy Clark speaks with the BBC’s Mohammed Alie in South Africa about the result of parliamentary elections there. The big winner appears to be the ruling African national Congress.
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