Archive for 2010
Music Heard On Air Monday, December 13, 2010
Tunes spun on The World between our reports for Monday, December 13, 2010. Artists featured are Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder, Uakti, The Motet, Lord Newborn, Terrestre, and Outback.
Enitre program – December 10, 2010
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Today on The World: How today’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony was NOT seen in China, where the recipient, Liu Xiaobo, is in prison; A group of Pakistanis is suing the CIA over allegations that US drone strikes killed their relatives; And the inroads made by women into the macho world of Mexican rodeo. Download MP3
Taking the CIA to court over drone attacks
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An international group has called on the US to acknowledge the number of civilians killed by drone attacks in north-west Pakistan and tribesman are taking the CIA to court over allegations that US drone strikes killed their relatives. The BBC’s Aleem Maqbool talks with Lisa Mullins about the drone attacks in Pakistan’s tribal region. Download MP3
Globalsecurity.org: Pakistan’s anger at U.S. drone strikes growing
The women of Mexican rodeo
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Rodeo is the national sport of Mexico, but it’s long been eclipsed in popularity by sports like soccer. Today, though, the charrería is getting a new infusion of life: Women in rodeo. The World’s Jason Margolis has more from Mexico. (Photos and video: Janet Jarman) Download MP3
Slideshow: See the women of Mexico’s rodeo
Eastern Europe’s ‘Bloodlands’
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The opening of Soviet and East European archives has provided historians a tidal wave of new information about the crimes of Soviet leader Josef Stalin. Brigid McCarthy reports on one historian’s work. Download MP3
Excerpt of Timothy Snyder’s ‘Bloodlands’
Shootout in Mexico’s drug war
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Federal police in Mexico believe that several members of La Familia, one of the country’s most notoriously violent drug gangs, have been killed in a shootout in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan State, after the gang blockaded the city. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets an update on Mexico’s drug wars from Vanda Felbab-Brown of the Brookings Institution. (Photo: Lorne Matalon) Download MP3Video: Inside a drug smuggling tunnel on the US-Mexico border
Accordion legend Don Lipovac
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Kansas City is not known much for its polkas and Slavic music. But among accordion enthusiasts, Kansas City native Don Lipovac is a legend.The 75-year-old musician was once recognized as our nation’s best accordion player and his fame reaches across the Atlantic. Reporter Elana Gordon has more from KCUR. Download MP3Video: See Don Lipovac perform live
Empty chair at Nobel Peace Prize ceremony
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Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with The World’s Mary Kay Magistad in Beijing to find out whether people in China were able to follow today’s proceedings in Oslo, where the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. His absence was marked symbolically by an empty chair. Download MP3
Nobel reading
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At today’s Nobel ceremony in Oslo, actress Liv Ullman read from a speech Liu Xiabo made ahead of his sentencing last year. We have an excerpt. Download MP3
Custer’s last flag
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A damaged cavalry flag that was found on the battlefield at Little Bighorn went on the auction block today. It fetched more than two million dollars at auction today, as The World’s Carol Zall reports. Download MP3Upcoming series ‘Rationing Health’
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As medical costs rise and budgets tighten, some fear the United States will be forced to ration health care. PRI’s The World takes a global look at the controversial issue with four perspectives from four countries. Series editor David Baron explains. Download MP3
On Wednesday and Thursday you can tweet us your questions @pritheworld in live twitter chats between 12-1pm ET using #rationinghealth
London protests and the royals
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In London, thousands of students took to the streets yesterday, protesting plans that would raise their raise tuition fees. Protestors vandalized a car carrying Prince Charles and Camilla. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks to the BBC’s Paddy O’Connell. Download MP3Racing the equator
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Formula One race cars travel at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour. So for our Geo Quiz, we wonder how long it would take to drive around the earth at that speed? How long would it take to drive one lap along the equator, if you could? Download MP3Music Heard on Air for December 10, 2010
Tunes spun on The World between our reports for December 10, 2010. Artists featured are Moriba Koita, Shankar, Petrol Bomb Samosa, Kekele.
Reporting on history and memory in Germany
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Independent radio producer Daniel Estrin gives us the backstories to three features he reported from Germany earlier this year, all of them about history and memory in one way or another. The first is a visit to the newly-opened SS quarters at the Ravensbruck concentration camp memorial. The second is a tour of Germany’s “Central Hiding Place,” a national archive of cultural documents buried in a vault under the Black Forest. And the third is a look at the German practice of recycling cemetery plots. Download MP3
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