Archive for 2010
Baghdad after dark
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Download MP3Reporter Susannah George samples some of Baghdad’s nightlife, and explains why Iraqis are becoming more comfortable in their capital city after dark.
Yemen as al-Qaeda recruiting ground
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Sean Carberry reports from Yemen on how low quality education and unemployment continue to make the country a fertile al Qaeda recruiting ground. Download MP3>>>Multimedia: Life in Yemen
Governator to Russia
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Download MP3Arnold Schwarzenegger is in Moscow to see Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets details from New York Times reporter Michael Schwirtz, who says the California governor hopes to help a group of US businessmen connect with Russian innovators.
Malaysian capital
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Today’s Geo Quiz takes us to Malaysia. We’re looking for that country’s capital city. It boasts many cultural attractions. One of them is the Petronas Philharmonic concert hall where a world-class orchestra performs near the city’s famous high-rise towers. Download MP3Music Heard on Air for October 12, 2010
Tunes Spun On The World Between Our Reports For October 12, 2010. Artists featured are Moriba Koita, The Motet, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones.
Entire program – October 11, 2010
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Download MP3Today on The World: The Israeli cabinet approves a bill that would require new citizens to take an oath of loyalty to the Jewish state, then, freedom could be just days away for the trapped Chilean miners and, we meet the gate-keeper of Indonesia’s most active volcano. Those stories and more today on The World.
Baghdad’s housing crunch
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Baghdad property prices are soaring and residential neighborhoods are suffering from overcrowding. As a result, informal neighborhoods are sprouting up around the city as families move outwards in seek of more space. Correspondent Susannah George has the story. (Photo: Daniel Ross/Flickr) Download MP3Training IAEA weapons inspectors
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A new group of potential U.N. nuclear inspectors has just begun its training course. They’re the folks commonly known as ‘Weapons Inspectors’ who visit nuclear facilities around the world and ensure nuclear technology and material is not channelled from good uses to bad. The World’s Gerry Hadden sat in on a few opening classes, at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s headquarters, in Vienna. (Photo: Gerry Hadden) Download MP3Read about Gerry Hadden’s experience at the IAEA
Russia’s inflatable tanks
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The Russian military has come up with weapons that should make the enemy think twice before attacking. Granted, they don’t actually fire ammunition, but that’s not the point. These are inflatable weapons. that look like the real thing. The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg visited the factory near Moscow and watched a couple of the workers demonstrate the product. Download MP3Video: Watch a “tank” inflate
Quiet Inlet from European group Food
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European duo Food has released a new album called ‘Quiet Inlet’. It’s an appropriate title. This is music that flows – away from the mainstream. Food consists of Norwegian Thomas Stronen on drums and electronics and English saxophonist Iain Ballamy. On the new record they’re joined by Austrian guitarist Christian Fennesz and Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer. The World’s Ken Bader has today’s Global Hit. (Photo: Knut Bry/ECM Records) Download MP3Listen to tracks from Quiet Inlet
Genders, geniuses, and Tamil onomatopoeia
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In the latest World in Words podcast: a new line of Tamil pulp fiction translated into English keeps the magnificent onomatopoeia of the original. Also, new research shows that no matter you much some Germans try, they can’t make their language gender-neutral; and Carol Hill’s adventures with Swedish. Download MP3
Lessons from the Balkans
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Download MP3Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with journalist Roger Cohen, about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina. Clinton is there to press the country for political reforms.
Israel passes law on loyalty oath
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Download MP3Israel’s cabinet has approved a bill that would require new citizens to pledge a loyalty oath to a Jewish and democratic state. The World’s Matthew Bell has the story.
Indonesia’s volcano keeper
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Correspondent Rebecca Henschke pays a visit to the “keeper” of one Indonesia’s most active volcanos. The keeper is a man in his 80s who’s never left the slopes of Mount Merapi. (Photo: Neils Photography/Flickr)Chilean miners close to Freedom
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Download MP3The 33 Chilean miners trapped for more than 60 days underground could start to emerge on Wednesday. Correspondent Steven Bodzin reports from the camp set up near the mine.
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