Archive for 2010
Oklahoma votes for an official language
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Patrick Cox, host of “The World in Words” podcast, talks about Oklahoma’s proposal to make English the official state language.Download MP3
Abortion becomes an issue in Brazil’s presidential elections
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Abortion has become a campaign issue in Brazil’s presidential runoff vote this weekend. Solna Pyne reports from Rio de Janeiro.Download MP3
Tracking the source of cholera in Haiti
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Investigators are looking for the source of a deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti. Suspicion has fallen on a base housing United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal, where cholera is endemic. BBC’s Jill McGivering gives an update.Download MP3
Argentina mourns death of former president
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Ian Mount reports from Buenos Aires on the political fallout from the death of former Argentinian President Néstor Kirchner.Download MP3
Narwhal oceanographers
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We’re looking for a bay that lies between Greenland and Canada. Scientists there have been monitoring ocean temperatures: they’re looking into how quickly the region’s climate is changing and they’re enlisting what they call “biological oceanographers”…Download MP3James
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The British indie-rock band, James, has been around since the 1980s. Back then they toured with fellow Manchester-based band, The Smiths. Still going strong…they’ve just celebrated the US release of their double-CD called, ‘The Morning After, The Night Before.’ Anchor Lisa Mullins tells us more. Download MP3
World Books Review: From Iran and Japan, Two Modern Visions of Horror
Thankfully, these fascinating short novels, while they provide plenty of genuine scares, transcend the grisly genre of “ghost stories” or “tales of madness,” partly because their authors self-consciously manipulate staid spine-tingling formulas.
Global Political Cartoons: October 9 – 15, 2010
Chilean miners emerge out of the hole to a global welcome; China bristles at the choice of this year’s Nobel Peace prize winner: one of their imprisoned citizens, and the Tea Party boils.
Music Heard On Air for Thursday, October 28, 2010
Tunes spun on The World between our reports for Thursday, October 28, 2010. Artists featured are Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder, Bela Fleck, Alison Brown, Edmar Castaneda, Mario Grigorov, Femi Kuti, Ensemble FizFuz, Praful, and Jan Garbarek.
Global Political Cartoons: October 16 – 22, 2010
The French are hardly retiring. They’re taking to the streets to keep the retirement age at 60. And ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’, come out of the closet, go back in the closet…the extremely muddy issue of repealing the ban on gays in the military.
Entire program – October 27, 2010
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Today on The World: How Indonesia is coping with two natural disasters in the same week; Also, the economic reasons for preventing the extinction of earth’s endangered plants and animals; Plus, the mystery surrounding the death of what may have been the largest living wild animal in Britain. Download MP3
Indonesia’s twin disasters
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Indonesia is in one of the most seismically active regions on the planet and this week, Indonesians got two terrifying reminders of that fact. Twin natural disasters have hit the southeast Asian nation. More than 20 people were killed when Indonesia’s most volatile volcano erupted in central Java. Also this week, a powerful earthquake off Sumatra island triggered a tsunami. The giant wave killed more than 270 people and left 400 missing. We get an update from the BBC’s Karishma Vaswani in Jakarta. Download MP3
>>>Animated guide: tsunamis
Biodiversity as natural capital
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One fifth of animal and plant species are threatened by extinction, a global study warns, but conservation efforts have pulled some back from the brink. Host Lisa Mullins talks with biologist Thomas Lovejoy about the economic value of biodiversity and intact ecosystems. Lovejoy is in Nagoya, Japan, for a global summit on the biodiveristy crisis. Download MP3Video:Thomas Lovejoy on marketing for biodiversity
The Wildcat of Scotland
Some of the world’s most endangered wildlife are obscure species, haunting far-flung corners of the planet, but other endangered creatures are much more familiar. Reporter Ari Daniel Shapiro recently traveled to Scotland, which is the last refuge of a small wild cat that has prowled parts of Great Britain since the last ice age. (Photo: Peter Cairns)
Swedish indiepop band Club 8
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Club 8 is an indiepop band from Sweden. They’ve been around for 15 years, recording albums and touring the globe, but as The World’s Gerry Hadden reports, their sound is still distinclty Swedish. Download MP3Video: Check out Club 8 live in Spain
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