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Archive for October, 2009
BBC back in Zimbabwe
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The BBC returns to Zimbabwe with a special day of live broadcasting from the African country. The ‘Africa Have Your Say’ program comes from Chitungwiza, a ‘Soweto-like’ township outside Harare. It happens to be the hometown of host Farayi Mungazi. Marco Werman talked with him. Download MP3German author wins Nobel
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Herta Müller has been awarded the Nobel prize for literature. The Romanian born author is renowned for her books based on life under the harsh regime of the dictator Ceausescu. Müller was born in 1953 in the German-speaking town of Nitzkydorf in Romania. Jeb Sharp profiles the German author. Download MP3
Home from Afghanistan
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The World’s Alex Gallafent speaks with Adam Bryant, a recently returned veteran of the war in Afghanistan.
Turkey a top destination for Arabs
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A glitzy soap opera produced in Turkey is having an unexpected influence on tourism. The program flopped in its home country, but it drew 85-million viewers across the Arab world. Reporter Matthew Brunwasser reports that now many of those Arab fans are flocking to Turkey to see a different kind of Muslim culture.
Mapping the world’s Muslim population
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A new study by the Pew Research Center challenges Western assumptions that the Arab world is home to the majority of the world’s Muslims. Actually, it’s Asia. Anchor Marco Werman finds out more from The World’s Religion Correspondent Jane Little.
Massacre in Guinea
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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with African expert Elizabeth Schmidt about the significance of the stadium in Conakry, Guinea..where a massacre of Guineans took place on September 28th. 157 people were killed and more than a 1,000 were wounded when government troops opened fire on protesters.
Geo Quiz
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Stonehenge figures in our Geo Quiz today.
Geo answer
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Today’s answer is the Preseli Hills/Mountains in West Wales, that archaeologists say are the source of massive stones used to build a recently discovered circle of stones dubbed Blue Stonehenge. Anchor Marco Werman finds out more from Professor Julian Thomas, co-director of the Stonehenge Riverside Project.
Out of stock
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You might be out of luck if you check your local bookstore for works by the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, Herta Muller. Anchor Marco Werman tells us what happened when one of The World’s staffers called around to some of the major US bookstores.
Global Hit
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Anchor Marco Werman pays a final tribute to the late Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa
Music Heard on Air for October 8, 2009
Tunes Spun On The Word Between our reports for October 8, 2009. Artists featured are Bombay Dub Orchestra, John Patitucci, Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer, Ali Farka Toure, Ry Cooder, Oran Etkin, Burhan Ocal and Istanbul Oriental Ensemble
Bluehenge
Today’s Geo Quiz may require some heavy lifting. Massive blue stones are the centerpiece of a new discovery near Stonehenge. The mysterious stone circle in south west England has long intrigued archaeologists and new agers.
Mercedes Sosa and Chava Alberstein
Mercedes Sosa and Chava Alberstein perform in Israel.
World Books Review: A Chic “Celestina”
Written in the fifteenth century, “Celestina” remains a classic work of Spanish literature that, in a lively new English version by the acclaimed translator Margaret Sayers Peden, proffers all the sex, drama, and violence necessary for an HBO mini-series.
World Books Review: Chased out of Paradise
Paula Jacques’s “Light of My Eye” is a heart-wrenching novel about the dissolution of Egyptian Jewish life, the tale of a people displaced ten years after World War II.
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