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Archive for June, 2009
Geo Answer: A new setting for “The Merry Wives of Windsor”
For our Geo Quiz, we asked you to name one of the official residences of the British royal family. It’s the largest inhabited castle in the world. The answer is Windsor Castle, in Windsor, England. Windsor is also the setting for William Shakespeare’s comedy, The Merry Wives of Windsor. The play is getting a new [...]
Global Hit: Lura
We hear the latest release from Portuguese & Cape Verdean singer Lura, who kicks off a US tour next week. Listen
Iran and translation, a search engine is sick in Chinese, and a drug ring’s Arabic dialects
Patrick Cox and Carol Hills select the top five language-related
stories from June. Among them: Google translation gets to work on the streets of Teheran; Microsoft’s choice of Bing as the name for its search engine to rival Google may not go down well in China; a music festival in Quebec runs afoul of language sensitivies; and a drug ring in Pennsylvannia uses Iraqi Arabic dialects in its communications.Listen
Bilingual romance in Paris, “whatever” in Mexico, and the fog of Pentagon acronyms in Afghanistan
Novelist Vanina Marsot’s new novel “Foreign Tongue” is about French, English, being bilingual, and translation. If you’re a fan of false cognates, this one is for you. Also, a Spanish expression beloved by Mexicans, and the Pentagon latest acronyms. Listen
World Books Review: Fallout Girl
“Every day I buckle on my guns and go out to patrol the dingy city. I’ve been doing it so long that I’m shaped to it, like a hand that’s been carrying buckets in the cold.” So begins author Marcel Theroux’s “Far North,” a novel of post-apocalypse set in Siberia. It’s an interesting geographic choice for this kind of story, as Siberia is one of the few places in the world that already looks as desolate and ravaged as a post-apocalyptic landscape. Theroux, who has both spent time on the Great Steppe, and also filmed a documentary on settlers who have chosen to move back to Chernobyl, does a remarkable job evoking the breath-freezing cold of that world, giving even the novel’s most implausible ideas the ring of truth.
Entire program – June 26, 2009
Today on The World: The global impact of Michael Jackson – we go to China, India and London to look back at the King of Pop; then a look at what health experts are up against as the swine flu hits Africa, and Afghanistan’s version of “American Idol”…a massive hit there…now the subject of a [...]
Global headlines on the ‘King of Pop’
Today on The World – the story making headlines across the globe – the death of Michael Jackson. We’ll hear newscasts from around the world. Listen
Michael Jackson Japanese remix
Anchor Marco Werman treats us to a Japanese remix of some Michael Jackson hits. Listen to the report
68th parallel
Today’s Geo Quiz takes us north to the 68th parallel. That puts us just inside the Arctic Circle, a region now enjoying 24 hours of daylight…
World Books Review: A Journey Through Literary Time
Jose Manuel Prieto’s “Rex” is an adventure through time: not historical time, or physical time, so much as literary time, the dreamy, static continuum of impressions and formulations recorded across centuries and civilizations.
Bollywood’s debt to Michael Jackson
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with choreographer, Longines Fernandes, the man who created the dance sequences for the movie Slumdog Millionaire, about Michael Jackson’s influence on Bollywood. Listen
China’s reaction to Jackson’s death
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with The World’s Mary Kay Magistad in Beijing on reaction there to the death of Michael Jackson. Jackson released his multi-platinum album Thriller just as China was opening its doors to the outside world in the early 1980′s. Listen
Michael Jackson in London
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with The World’s Laura Lynch in London, where Michael Jackson was slated to play 50 sold-out concerts next month as part of a comeback tour. Listen
The business of Michael Jackson
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Bruce Landvall, the head of the Blue Note record label, about how Michael Jackson helped save the record industry in the late 70s. Listen
Swine flu hits Africa
The World’s Andrea Crossan reports from Nairobi, Kenya on worries over the swine flu hitting Africa. Just under 10 cases have been confirmed in sub-Sarahan Africa. But health experts are concerned about the disease spreading in the continent’s crowded slums. Listen
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