tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298199962024-03-13T09:24:16.980-07:00Jean Feraca's Blog, host of Here On EarthHere On Earth: Radio Without Borders was conceived to galvanize our international world community. We search out the gems of the world – international movements, world citizens, cross-cultural conversions, democracy-building initiatives, and the best world literature, movies, arts, food, and culture. We explore these things during five international conversations every week. And you're invited.Here On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.comBlogger217125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-37851573027057553282010-11-05T13:49:00.000-07:002010-11-05T13:52:31.175-07:00Nov. 8-12 Programs<div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;">Friday, November 5, 2010<br /><br /><b style="color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Note: Please recall that this is the last week this blog will be updated! Future updates will appear on our <a href="http://hereonearthblog.blogspot.com/">Blog Without Borders</a></b><br /><br /><b style="color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Jean’s Pick of the Week (</b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOCTP78xuyA">watch video</a><b style="color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">): </b><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101102k.cfm">Muslims, Mosques, and American Identity</a>: We really lived up to our series title, and went Inside Islam, with this program, probing with the erudite Akbar Ahmed, author of Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam, exactly what goes on in American mosques – all kinds of things, as it turns out – everything from hostility toward Christians and Jews to committed interfaith dialog. And why shouldn’t it, after all? Why should we expect Muslims to be one of a kind when the rest of us are so determinedly different?<br /><br /><b style="color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Jean’s Upcoming Presentations:</b> It’s a busy month! I’m in La Crosse this weekend, in New York next weekend, and keynoting an event at the Women’s Expo in Madison on Sunday, Nov. 21. Whew! After Thanksgiving, I’m going into hibernation.<ul><li><b style="color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Smalls Jazz Club in Greenwich Village</b> – I’ll be reading poetry and excerpts from my memoir, I Hear Voices, at Smalls Jazz Club in Greenwich Village at 5:00pm on Saturday, Nov. 13 and you don’t even have to be in New York to listen! Smalls broadcasts every show live over their video stream, so people can watch anywhere in the world for free. So come down or watch at <a href="http://www.smallsjazzclub.com/">www.smallsjazzclub.com</a>. Smalls is located at 183 West 10th Street, basement, between 7th Ave South and West 4th Street.<br /><br /><li><b style="color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Madison Women’s Expo – “Bound and Determined:”</b> Jean Feraca talks about her dizzying route to becoming a public radio talk show host at the Madison Women’s Expo, Noon on Sunday, Nov. 21 at the Alliant Energy Center. Book signing to follow.</ul>Here’s the line-up of shows for the coming week:<br /><br /><b style="color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Monday:</b> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101108k.cfm">Chasing the Sun</a>: No, he’s not a surfer. From the man who wrote a worldwide history of swordplay, comes an around-the-world odyssey in search of an elusive moving target – the sun. Scholar-adventurer Richard Cohen traveled to twenty countries, from Mount Fuji to Antarctica to interpret what the sun has meant throughout the ages.<br /><br /><b style="color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Tuesday:</b> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101109k.cfm">The Power of Beliefs</a>: In pegging terrorists as fundamentalist believers, have we forgotten that we, too, hold very strong beliefs? Professor and public intellectual Jacqueline Rose reminds us that we in the West are also motivated by stubborn belief, religious, political, or otherwise.<br /><br /><b style="color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Wednesday:</b> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101110k.cfm">Francophilia Revisited</a>: What images come to your mind when you think of France? While France has always had symbolic meaning for Americans, some of those meanings have changed over time. We’ll find out how Francophilia has evolved and how learning French will give you access not just to the real France, but to an entire francophone world outside of France.<br /><br /><b style="color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Thursday:</b> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101111k.cfm">TBA</a>: The Here on Earth team has a number of prospects in the works for this Thursday. Tune in and be surprised or check back later on our website for an update!<br /><br /><b style="color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Friday:</b> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101112k.cfm">Gourmet Cookies for Thanksgiving</a>: Are you scrambling to find unbeatable cookie recipes for the holidays? Join us to discover a selection of the best cookie recipes from all over the world, collected over 68 years of Gourmet Magazine’s existence.<br /><br />Hope to see you in La Crosse this Friday – I’ll be giving the keynote at the Women’s Fund Luncheon.<br /><br />Jean</div>Here On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-41875828313075948262010-10-29T14:04:00.000-07:002010-10-29T14:19:16.348-07:00Nov. 1-5 Programs<span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;">I’ll be in La Crosse on Thursday and Friday of this week, appearing at <a href="http://www.wineguyz.com/">The Wine Guyz</a> for an informal reading and book signing around 7:00pm on Thursday night, and then I have the honor of delivering the keynote at this year’s <a href="http://www.womensfundlacrosse.org/pdf/2010fallluncheonposter.pdf">Women’s Fund Luncheon</a> on Friday November 5th. I hope I’ll get to meet and greet many of you there.<br /><br /><b style="color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Jean’s Pick of the Week </b>(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/HereOnEarthShow">watch video</a>): <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101028k.cfm">Living in a Global Age</a>: Well, I have to be a chauvinist and say that even though it was a pain in the neck to prepare, and I don’t usually take orders from my guest, yesterday’s program with my son, Giancarlo, and his friend Bali (who were just at my house together last weekend) on Living in a Global Age was my favorite this week, although Ian Frazier’s conversation on Travels in Siberia came in a close second. The wonderful thing about Living in a Global Age was that, without intending it, the discussion about the decline of the nation-state tied together so many of the themes that recur on Here on Earth: world citizenship, international cooperation, universal values, and the rise of Islamophobia. It was an expansive hour with much to chew on. I hope you found it as stimulating as I did.<br /><br /><b style="color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Note:</b> Tuesday of this week marks the debut of our third official series on <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_ii.cfm">Inside Islam: Dialogues and Debates</a>.<br /><br /><b style="color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Monday:</b> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101101k.cfm">It’s the Day before Election Day – Let’s Lighten Up!</a>: What figure or place in American history makes you feel warm and fuzzy about democracy? Illustrator and Israeli immigrant Maira Kalman set out, Alexis deToqueville style, to document democracy in America circa 2009. The result is an optimistic love letter to America that reminds us all of what we have to be proud of.<br /><br /><b style="color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Tuesday:</b> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101102k.cfm">Muslims, Mosques, and American Identity</a>: What goes on in mosques in America? Are mosques a part of the tradition of religious pluralism in America? Can a Muslim be an American? Islamic Studies luminary Akbar Ahmed traveled for a year around the country, visiting over a hundred mosques to find out how Muslims are living every day in America. We want to know about the mosques in your hometown, whether you’re a member of the Muslim community or not. What’s your experience? We’ll collect your responses at insideislam.wisc.edu or on our hotline: 1-877-GLOBE07 and use the best of them in the program. <br /><br /><b style="color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Wednesday:</b> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101103k.cfm">Russia Rocks</a>: What do you know about Russian rock music? Russia’s best known music critic and cultural commentator, Artemy Troitsky, gives us a tour of Russia’s Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame, from the early influence of The Beatles to the development of Russian “Bard Rock,” to today’s subversive Russian rappers.<br /> <br /><b style="color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Thursday:</b> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101104k.cfm">Freelance Diplomacy</a>: After 15 years in the British diplomatic corps, Carne Ross found himself disagreeing with UK policies that led to the Iraq War. Disenchanted with conventional diplomacy, he re-invented himself as a "freelance diplomat," and founded Independent Diplomats, a bold nonprofit organization advising populations that would otherwise not have a voice in international relations. How far would you go for what you believe in?<br /> <br /><b style="color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Friday:</b> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101105k.cfm">What’s Home without a Kitchen?</a>: Food world personality <b>Nigella Lawson’s</b> new book is set in the heart of the home and is born of her own love affair with her favorite room in the house. She’ll share her thoughts on the well stocked pantry and how to reclaim the traditional rhythms of the kitchen.<br /> <br />Let us know how we’re doing. Call the hotline 24/7 with your comments: 1-877-GLOBE07. We love to hear from you!<br /><br />Jean<br /><br />Don’t forget to follow our <a href="http://hereonearthblog.blogspot.com/">Blog without Borders</a>, where these updates will appear starting next week!<br /></span>Here On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-34432668079582090602010-10-29T13:42:00.000-07:002010-10-29T13:52:49.204-07:00Consolidating Our Blogs<div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;">Dear Readers,<br /><br />The Here on Earth team has decided to consolidate this blog with the producers’ blog. With this change, we hope to increase the amount of feedback from our listeners by making our internet presence more accessible.<br /><br />Starting Friday November 5th, you will find the weekly show lineup as well as updates on special events, insights into our work, and extra content such as guest videos on our producer’s blog: <a href="http://hereonearthblog.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;">Blog without Borders</span></a><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;">. <br /><br />As always find us on </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/HereOnEarthShow/123307141013551"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;">Facebook</span></a><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;">, and keep an eye out for more updates to the website and our </span><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/bulletin.cfm"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;">weekly email bulletin</span></a><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt;"> coming soon!<br /><br />Best regards,<br />LeeAnn Ziegler<br />Here on Earth Web Producer</span></div>Here On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-46278908980639374012010-10-22T15:14:00.000-07:002010-10-22T15:17:33.940-07:00Oct. 25 - 29 Programs<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> <w:splitpgbreakandparamark/> 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mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Jean’s Pick of the Week:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> <span style=""><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101021k.cfm">Europe’s Anti-Muslim Politics</a>: </span>I learned a lot from this program.<span style=""> </span>For starters, Pam Geller, our own homegrown American Islamophobe, who writes the blog Atlas Shrugs, is the deep pockets behind Gaert Wilner’s far right wing Party of Freedom in the Netherlands. It was also interesting to explore some of the deep causes underlying the rise of anti-Muslim sentiment, e.g. the creation of the EU itself which brought about an erosion of national identity and pride; and the excesses of multiculturalism which made it politically incorrect to draw any distinctions among people or cultural critiques. And so the pendulum swings to the right.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Monday:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101025k.cfm">Ian Frazier’s <i>Travels in Siberia</i></a><i>:</i> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Ian Frazier is in love with Russia. He calls it “the greatest horrible country on earth,” and Siberia its swampy backyard. He made five trips there and Travels in Siberia is what came of them.<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Tuesday:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> <span style=""><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101026k.cfm">Mario Vargas Llosa and the Nobel Prize</a>: </span>One of the leading authors of his generation, Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, was finally awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature this year. Like many of his fellow South American writers, he lived his life between literature and politics. We’ll find out what makes him unique.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Wednesday:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> <span style=""><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101027k.cfm">The People vs. The Mafia</a>: </span>The Mafia still is a bleak reality in much of Italy, but there is a young, courageous generation of Italians who are fighting the mafia with everything they’ve got: ideals, ideas, and smart business. Could this, finally, be the beginning of the end?<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Thursday:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101028k.cfm">The West and the Rest</a>: Does living in a global age change the way we understand the past? Over the past few years, world history has become one of the fastest growing – and most controversial – fields. This hour we’ll talk with a historian at its forefront who’s written a book that puts Turkish explorers of the 16th century in the same league – and competing directly - with the Portuguese. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: rgb(99, 36, 35);">Friday:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> <span style=""><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101029k.cfm">Feeding the Dead in<span style=""> </span>Oaxaca</a>: </span>No one has done more to introduce the world to the authentic, flavorful cuisines of Mexico than <span style="">Diana Kennedy</span>. The “Julia Child of Mexican cooking” joins us to talk about her gorgeous new book <i><span style="">Oaxaca al Gusto</span></i>, and to spill the beans on the foods prepared on the Day of the Dead.<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Didn’t I promise you a great line-up?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">Jean</span></p>Here On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-75983718175669590442010-10-15T12:26:00.000-07:002010-10-15T13:40:32.918-07:00Oct. 18 - 22 Programs<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Jean’s Upcoming Event:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span class="maintitle"><b>Get Thee to a Winery: </b></span><b>A<span> Day of Reflection on Benedictine Hospitality at Holy Wisdom Monastery</span> </b>More than a dozen years ago I spent a formative summer at St. Ben's, as it was called in those days, which I wrote about in my memoir in a chapter called <i>"Get Thee to a Winery."</i> I was at a critical juncture in my life - contemplating a possible third marriage to a Jewish atheist scientist as I reflected on the mistakes of the past. The answers I received during those weeks couldn't have come from a truer or a more surprising source. The Benedictines hold hospitality in its widest meaning at the center of their spiritual life. My experience of that hospitality - being welcomed and received in all my brokenness - was not only deeply healing, but led directly to the work I do now as the "host" of the program you know as <i><span>Here on Earth.</span></i> I am looking forward to telling you "the rest of the story" in this Day of Reflection on Benedictine Hospitality at Holy Wisdom Monastery in Middleton on Saturday, October 30.<span> </span>To register or for more information on the day retreat <a href="redir.aspx?C=49bf6f8b9fcc45279aa0d11061dcbb93&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.benedictinewomen.org%2fgrow%2fgrow_i_hear_voiices.html" target="_blank">I Hear Voices: A Journey of Faith, Family and Freedom</a>, contact Jerrianne at (608) 836-1631, ext. 158 or <a href="redir.aspx?C=49bf6f8b9fcc45279aa0d11061dcbb93&URL=mailto%3ajbland%40benedictinewomen.org">jbland@benedictinewomen.org</a>.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Jean’s Pick of the Week:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span><a href="redir.aspx?C=49bf6f8b9fcc45279aa0d11061dcbb93&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.wpr.org%2fhereonearth%2farchive_101013k.cfm" target="_blank">Moral Ground</a></span> One of my favorite moments on Here on Earth occurred last Wednesday during the program we did with the editors of the new book about the ethical dimensions of the environmental crisis. Toward the end of the program Catherine – I’m pretty sure that was her name – called in to talk about her fight to save a beloved rustic road and its environs from being paved over. Her testimony was so eloquent and so full of love that it actually redeemed the heartbreak she felt at losing the fight. It was a moving moment in the show, and a great example of what it means to hold your moral ground.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Monday:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span><a href="redir.aspx?C=49bf6f8b9fcc45279aa0d11061dcbb93&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.wpr.org%2fhereonearth%2farchive_101018k.cfm" target="_blank">Rabbi Kushner on<span> </span>Conquering Fear</a><b> </b></span>How do you face your fears? Fear comes in many guises: fear of losing your job, losing your looks, fear of illness, of aging, fear of a terrorist attack or a natural disaster. Harold S. Kushner teaches us how to confront and embrace fear to live a more fulfilling life.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Tuesday:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span><a href="redir.aspx?C=49bf6f8b9fcc45279aa0d11061dcbb93&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.wpr.org%2fhereonearth%2farchive_101019k.cfm" target="_blank">China’s Nobel Laureate</a><b> </b></span>Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Prize is not the Nobel the Chinese government has been hoping for. Or is it? We’ll talk with historian Timothy Cheek about how the prize may play into the hands of liberal leaning members of the Communist party and regular citizens who want a more democratic China.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Wednesday:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span><a href="redir.aspx?C=49bf6f8b9fcc45279aa0d11061dcbb93&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.wpr.org%2fhereonearth%2farchive_101020k.cfm" target="_blank">The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian</a><b> </b></span>Avi Steinberg, a lapsed Orthodox Jew, found his real yeshiva behind the bars of a tough Boston prison.<b> </b>Should prisons have libraries?<b> </b>Who goes to prison, and what do they read?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Thursday:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span><a href="redir.aspx?C=49bf6f8b9fcc45279aa0d11061dcbb93&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.wpr.org%2fhereonearth%2farchive_101021k.cfm" target="_blank">Europe’s Anti-Muslim Politics</a><b> </b></span>Starting with the ban on minarets in Switzerland, Europe has been swept with a wave of overt anti-Islam sentiment that has found its way into the political mainstream in the past year. From Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party in the Netherlands to the book written by one German politician that blames Germany’s “downfall” on immigrant Muslims: Can the debate still be saved by reason?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(99, 36, 35); font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Friday:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"> <span><a href="redir.aspx?C=49bf6f8b9fcc45279aa0d11061dcbb93&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.wpr.org%2fhereonearth%2farchive_101022k.cfm" target="_blank">The Spice Necklace</a><b> </b></span>Who hasn’t dreamed about dropping everything and sailing to the Caribbean? Ann Vanderhoof and her husband did just that. We catch her just before setting off on her next sailing adventure to talk about oregano-eating goats in the hills and other essential flavors in great Caribbean food.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"><span>Thanks, everybody, for all your support during our Fall Membership Drive, and especially for helping to keep Here on Earth pledge-free for most of the drive!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';"><span>Jean</span></span></p>Here On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-17277795207565408032010-10-08T11:20:00.000-07:002010-10-09T10:26:35.319-07:00Oct. 11 - 15 Programs<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">We’re in the middle of our Fall Pledge Drive here at Wisconsin Public Radio. We’ll be taking your pledges in support of <i>Here on Earth</i> and other WPR programming, but <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Here on Earth</i> will</b> <b>be pledge free all week until Friday</b>. But don’t miss this Food Friday. We’ll be offering as a special Food Friday thank you gift: <b><i><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101015k.cfm">A World of Cake: 150 Recipes for Sweet Traditions from Cultures Near and Far</a></i></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">.</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"> </i>How sweet it is!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Jean’s Pick of the Week</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">I</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">n the old days before the advent of Facebook, Twitter, scripts, and editorial meetings, when I never had enough time to prepare for my programs, I used to fly by the seat of my pants and just riff with my guest. It was like a form of jazz; I never knew where the conversation would take us. That was what it was like to spend an hour on the radio with author and NPR commentator </span><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101004k.cfm"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Andrei Codrescu</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">.</span></p> <object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JJ9Lct6G3mw?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JJ9Lct6G3mw?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object><br /> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#632423; mso-themecolor:accent2;mso-themeshade:128">Monday:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101011k.cfm"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">How do Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving?</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif""> We’ll ask the two editors of a brand new anthology of Canadian poetry, out later this month, who have agreed to take time out from their respective holiday celebrations to join us on Canada’s Thanksgiving Day.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#632423;mso-themecolor:accent2;mso-themeshade:128">Tuesday:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101012k.cfm"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Where Good Ideas Come From</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. He takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#632423; mso-themecolor:accent2;mso-themeshade:128">Wednesday:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101013k.cfm"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Moral Ground</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Do we have a moral obligation to take better care of the earth? While scientific knowledge tells us what the facts are, it does not tell us how to act. But now, a new book brings together over eighty visionaries from all over the world who embrace a moral vision for environmental repair and sustainability.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#632423; mso-themecolor:accent2;mso-themeshade:128">Thursday:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101014k.cfm"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">After Columbus</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">: In honor of Columbus Day, the Day of the Race in Mexico, and the finale of Hispanic Heritage Month, we’ll trace the evolution of today's vibrant Latino culture right back to Columbus and the mixing of Old World and New World. The new PBS documentary about the first hundred years after Columbus, <i>When Worlds Collide</i>, is now available online. We’ll be joined by the documentary’s host, award winning journalist and author, Rubén Martínez.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#632423; mso-themecolor:accent2;mso-themeshade:128">Friday:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101015k.cfm"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">It’s a World of Cake</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">!</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In China you steam them, in Africa you fry them, maybe you grew up baking them; around the globe cake takes a central role in celebrations from births, to weddings, to national holidays. Now that fall is here and it’s finally time to bake, you won’t want to miss this opportunity to globalize your baking repertoire.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Tell us about your family cake tradition and pitch in during our Fall Pledge Drive.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Krystina Castella’s brand new, picture and history packed book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">A World of Cake</i> will be our gift to you for pledging $150 or more in support of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Here on Earth</i> and Wisconsin Public Radio on the last day of our Fall Pledge Drive.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">That’s all, Folks! We really love those pledges. And what we love even more is the privilege of bringing you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Here on Earth</i> programs day after day, and all through WPR’s Fall Membership Drive. Please, stay tuned, and thank you so much!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Jean<o:p></o:p></span></p>Here On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-10813131018758924612010-10-01T12:30:00.000-07:002010-10-01T12:31:58.523-07:00Oct. 4 - 8 Programs<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Jean’s Pick of the Week</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">: I never liked Spanglish – or at least I thought I didn’t until I met <b>Susana Ch</b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">á</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">vez-Silverman</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> and heard her “code switching” between English and Spanish when she read from her two memoirs <a href="http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/2616.htm" target="_blank"><i>Killer Crónicas</i></a> and <a href="http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4715.htm" target="_blank"><i>Scenes from la Cuenca de Los Angeles y otros Natural Disasters</i></a> on Wednesday’s show. And yes, I do feel handicapped because I know only one language. If we pride ourselves on being a hybrid nation, why do we cling to monolingualism when half of the rest of the world knows how to speak two or more languages? Isn’t it time to claim with Susana the richness of all our mother tongues?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#632423; mso-themecolor:accent2;mso-themeshade:128">Monday:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Andrei Codrescu</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">: Romanian-born poet, writer, and long time NPR contributor, <em><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-style:normal">has a new book out and is in town this week for a public lecture at the University. But first, he’ll</span></em> join us in-studio to talk about his experience as an immigrant writer, swimming between English and his mother tongue, and about why he’s so excited about the upcoming generation of immigrant writers and artists.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#632423; mso-themecolor:accent2;mso-themeshade:128">Tuesday:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <b>The Fate of Nature: </b>As the reporter who spent more time reporting on the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska than any other journalist, Charles Wohlforth has seen a lot of human caused destruction of the environment. But in his new book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Fate of Nature</i>, he makes the argument that our connection to other people, to animals and to wild places is even deeper than our need for material comfort. Do we have it in us to square with nature before it's too late?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#632423; mso-themecolor:accent2;mso-themeshade:128">Wednesday:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <b>The Sheikh’s Batmobile:</b> Pop culture commentator Richard Poplak sets out on an unusual mission: to find out what happens to American pop culture – Hollywood sit-coms, shoot-‘em up video games, muscle cars and punk music – when they collide with the Muslim world.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#632423; mso-themecolor:accent2;mso-themeshade:128">Thursday:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> What’s Funny About Canada?</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Husband and wife team Kerry Colburn and Rob Sorensen have written two humorous books about Canada, our great Northern neighbor, busting—and playing with—the myth that the 2<sup>nd</sup> largest nation in the world is more of a 51<sup>st</sup> state. Join us in crossing the world’s longest border and in pledging your support to Here on Earth during the kickoff week of our Fall Pledge Drive, and the eve of Canada’s Thanksgiving Day Weekend.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#632423; mso-themecolor:accent2;mso-themeshade:128">Friday:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Heritage Foods From the Americas</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#17365D"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, food historian and blogger Frederick Douglass Opie is tracing hominy, plantains, spicy peppers, and tomatoes through the Pre-Columbian cuisines of the Aztecs, Incas, and Arawaks to today. Curried Yucca Crab Cakes with Piquillo Pepper Sauce and Mango-Papaya Chutney anyone?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">I’m off to hear Kathleen Hill read from her memoir, <i>Who Occupies This House.</i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Jean<o:p></o:p></span></p>Here On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-9440831431223511552010-09-24T11:47:00.000-07:002010-09-24T16:14:46.640-07:00Sept. 27 - Oct. 1 Programs<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><b>Jean’s Pick of the Week:</b> <b><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100923k.cfm">Raving about Rara!</a> </b>If you were tuning in to Here on Earth on Thursday when we hosted the Brooklyn-based Rara band DJA-Rara live in Buck studio, you might have thought you had the wrong channel. The riotous cacophony of homemade instruments, horns, cymbals, drums, and rattles, played by 15-odd Haitian rabble rousers raised the rooftop and evoked the sound of joyous revolution. To quote our technical director Joe Hardtke: “Every once in a while, public radio needs to take off its white-collared shirt and get a little rough and dirty.”</span></p> <br /><object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dcerrvSZ6ew?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dcerrvSZ6ew?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#C00000">Monday:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100927k.cfm">Building with Whole Trees</a>: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Living in a treehouse is every kid’s dream. Visionary architect Roald Gundersen has turned this dream into an ecologically sound reality: houses made from whole, unmilled trees. We’ll explore our relationship to the forest and the spiritual dimensions of shelter with Roald and with Sister Gabriele Uhlein, a Franciscan nun and future resident of one of his treehouses. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#C00000">Tuesday:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <b><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100928k.cfm">Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade</a></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">:</b> Jews and Christians call it the Temple Mount, Muslims call it the Noble Sanctuary, but for the new book <i>Where Heaven and Earth Meet</i> scholars from all three religions call it “Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade.” We’ll talk with Jewish and Islamic scholars about the meaning of the sites.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Plus, Norway’s former Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, joins us to talk about his work in creating a “Universal Code on Holy Sites." </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#C00000">Wednesday:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <b><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100929k.cfm">The New Bilingual Literature</a></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">:</b> Susana Chávez-Silverman’s memoirs might make you look twice unless you, too, grew up in a bilingual family. Susana is one of only a handful of bilingual writers who code switch mid-sentence, moving back and forth between Spanish and English. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#C00000">Thursday:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100930k.cfm">The Politics of the Brokenhearted</a>:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Just when you were about to despair of our democracy, along comes Parker Palmer with an invitation to participate in a conversation on the politics of the brokenhearted for citizens who want to reclaim the heart of American democracy and help heal the deep divides that threaten it.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#C00000">Friday:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <b><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_101001k.cfm">The Honey Trail</a>:</b> From the Mississippi Delta, to the jungles of Borneo, to the deserts of Yemen, Grace Pundyk visited ten countries in her pursuit of liquid gold, vanishing bees, and a place to call home. Amazingly enough, she was also eager to get up at 4:00am to join Here on Earth from Singapore for this edition of Food Friday.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Have a great weekend!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Jean</span></p>Here On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-62140706547728865522010-09-17T16:01:00.000-07:002010-09-17T16:23:43.833-07:00Sept 20-24 Programs<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jean’s Pick of the Week:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Thursday’s show on <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100916k.cfm">Mexican Independence Day</a>. I think we succeeded in getting underneath the steady drum beat of headlines about drug cartel murders and government corruption to a feel for what the real Mexico has to shout about. </span></p><br /><br /><object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jph4Q-uR6xY?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jph4Q-uR6xY?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0); ">Monday:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100920k.cfm">The Syringa Tree</a>: </span> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Syringa Tree</i> is a gripping play about a young girl growing up in an Africaner family in apartheid South Africa. On the boards at APT this season, Colleen Madden turns in an astonishing virtuoso performance, playing all 24 characters. We’ll talk with Colleen and director Michael Wright.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C00000">Tuesday:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100921k.cfm">Marrakech Gets a Facelift</a>:</span> In the October issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Conde Nast Traveler</i>, Raphael Kadushin reports how a dynamic group of local Moroccans and European expats came together to revive Marrakech's medina--one of the world's greatest, intact, walled medieval city centers, effectively salvaging not just the historic quarter but much of its rich culture as well.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C00000">Wednesday:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100922k.cfm">Ramsey Clark Speaks Out on American Torture</a>:</span> For his new book, <i>The Torturer in the Mirror</i>, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark teamed up with Iraqi dissident Haifa Zangana and sociology professor Thomas Reifer to reveal the scope of American culpability in the torture carried out during the war on terrorism. Ramsey Clark takes a historical view of torture and Professor Reifer discusses the ways the Obama administration has so far failed to clean up the policies of his predecessor.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C00000">Thursday:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100923k.cfm">Madison World Music Festival</a><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">:<b> </b></span>For a sneak preview of one of this year’s most exciting performances from this year’s UW-Madison World Music Festival, join us for a special live performance from DJA-Rara, the Brooklyn-based Haitian rara band. There are many explanations of the origins of rara, but whatever its beginnings, this raucous, peripatetic, and subversive music has endured and been embraced by the Haitian American community in New York City as an expression of Haitian pride, culture and identity. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#C00000">Friday</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C00000">: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100924k.cfm">Eating Animals</a>: Vegetarianism is nothing new, but for some reason Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2009 book, <i>Eating Animals</i>, sparked a nationwide conversation about how we eat. The paperback edition of this bestseller comes out this week and Jonathan Safran Foer joins us to continue the conversation he started, this Food Friday.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#17365D"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Wedding Report:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> And yes, I did survive three days of wedding festivities in Minneapolis last weekend when my son, UMN Ottoman historian Giancarlo Casale married UMN Ottoman art historian Sinem Arcak. The celebration began with an all-female henna party on Friday night that ended in a ritual mock kidnapping, followed on Saturday by a lamb and camel-rib roast held in Giancarlo’s backyard where an extraordinary Italian feast was prepared and furnished for the rehearsal supper entirely by the father of the groom, followed on Sunday by a mid-afternoon ceremony in Loring Park that featured vows and readings spoken in three languages – English, Turkish, and Aramaic, (I read the from Walt Whitman’s 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass). The whole bash concluded with a Turkish feast prepared and orchestrated by the mother of the bride. Much dancing and drinking of wine. Altogether an extraordinary and exhausting affair. I came home nursing blisters on both feet. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Still recuperating!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jean</span></p>Here On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-53033780881287496992010-09-15T08:43:00.000-07:002010-09-15T08:49:08.899-07:00Get Thee to a Winery<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif""><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Jean Feraca to Present a Day of Reflection on Benedictine Hospitality at Holy Wisdom Monastery</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">More than a dozen years ago I spent a formative summer at St. Ben’s, as it was called in those days, which I wrote about in my memoir in a chapter called <i>“Get Thee to a Winery.”</i> I was at a critical juncture in my life – contemplating a possible third marriage to a Jewish atheist scientist as I reflected on the mistakes of the past. The answers I received during those weeks couldn’t have come from a truer or a more surprising source. The Benedictines hold hospitality in its widest meaning at the center of their spiritual life. My experience of that hospitality – being welcomed and received in all my brokenness – was not only deeply healing, but led directly to the work I do now as the “host” of the program you know as <b><i>Here on Earth.</i></b> I am looking forward to telling you “the rest of the story” in this Day of Reflection on Benedictine Hospitality at Holy Wisdom Monastery in Middleton on Saturday, October 30. </p><p class="MsoNormal">To register or for more information, contact Jerrianne at (608) 836-1631, ext. 158 or <a href="mailto:jbland@benedictinewomen.org">jbland@benedictinewomen.org</a>.</span></p>Here On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-26475102702210734372010-09-10T20:25:00.000-07:002010-09-10T20:43:50.311-07:00Sept 13-17 Programs<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Jean’s Pick of the Week:</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100908k.cfm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Art of Listening:</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Our conversation with British sociologist Les Back actually slowed me down and brought me back in touch with what I’ve always loved most about radio – its intimacy. So easy to lose sight of in this age of multitasking and social networking. How rewarding to simply listen deeply to what another human being has to say.<br /><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Monday</span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">: </span></span><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100913k.cfm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Life With the Maasai</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">: Robin Wiszowaty’s home town couldn’t have been closer to normal, and from a young age she knew the world beyond was more complex and interesting. Into the world she went, ending up in Kenya, adopted into a Maasai family. In her book, My Maasai Life, now out in paperback, she balances the insights gained through living this double life.<br /><br /></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Tuesday:</span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100914k.cfm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wild Justice</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">: What if Aesop’s fables were actually inspired by real events? There is more and more evidence that animals have an innate sense of cooperation, empathy and justice. How do these findings change the way we see our human morality? We talk to Marc Bekoff, ethologist, and Jessica Pierce, philosopher, about their book Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals.<br /><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wednesday:</span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100915k.cfm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Who We Are in Antarctica</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Lucy Jane Bledsoe is a science writer who has written a lot of award-winning fiction about Antarctica. In her latest book, a novel called </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Big Bang Symphony</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, she describes the impact of Antarctica's extreme environment on three different women who go a long way to find their way home.<br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thursday: </span></span></b></span><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100916k.cfm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">After Columbus</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">: In honor of Mexican Independence Day, we investigate the evolution of today's vibrant Latino culture. Later this month, PBS will broadcast When Worlds Collide, a special program exploring the century after "Old World" encountered "New World," hosted by award winning journalist and author, Rubén Martínez<br /><br /></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Friday:</span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100917k.cfm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">World-Class Wisconsin Cheese!</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">: Cheesemaking has a long and storied tradition in Wisconsin, but it’s also an ever-evolving tradition. In honor of the opening of Green County’s Cheese Days, we’ll talk to one homegrown and internationally acclaimed cheesemaker, Sid Cook of Carr Valley Cheese Company, about his move from commodity, to specialty, to original cheeses. We’ll also be joined by Carol Chen of the Center for Dairy Research who will lead us through the tasty process of “cheese profiling.” </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Tahoma, 'Sans Serif', Arial;font-size:11px;"><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I’m heading to the Twin Cities on Friday to attend my Number One Son’s Turkish-Italian wedding, featuring roast camel! Report to follow, Inshallah!</span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Jean</span></span></p></span></span></span></div>Here On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-30019724644808916132010-09-03T09:36:00.000-07:002010-09-05T08:54:04.781-07:00Sept 6-10 Programs<span style="font-weight: bold;">Jean's Pick of the Week</span>: I loved today's program about the <a href="http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100902k.cfm"><span style="font-style: italic;">kyosho jutaku</span> movement</a> of micro houses in Japan. It always makes me happy when <span style="font-style: italic;">Here on Earth</span> introduces a new idea drawn from another culture that listeners grab and run with. We're planning another program about new ideas in architecture for later this month (Sept. 27th), this one closer to home, featuring the astonishing treehouse designs from a firm called, appropriately enough, <a href="http://www.wholetreesarchitecture.com/" target="_blank">Whole Trees in Stoddard, WI</a>. I walked into one of their half-finished houses that's going up at the Christine Center and said, "Oh, my God, this is the future."<br /><br /><object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/54Ml9_nRnEs?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/54Ml9_nRnEs?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Monday</span>: For Labor Day, we've chosen a fun show from our recent archives featuring Canadian Hip Hop artist Baba Brinkman, author of <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100615k.cfm"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Rap Guide to Evolution</span></a>. Having once re-made Chaucer's Canterbury Tales into a very clever Hip Hop album, Baba (that really is his name) was approached by a microbiologist "to do for Darwin what he did for Chaucer." It's a pretty amazing piece of work and a great way to teach evolution.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Tuesday</span>: <a href="http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100907k.cfm">Virtual Cosmopolitanism</a>: The Internet was supposed to be a tool that would open us to the world. But in his research on its use, Ethan Zuckerman finds that it does just the opposite. What are the dangers of allowing the Internet to form our worldview, and how can they be avoided?<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Wednesday</span>: <a href="http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100908k.cfm">The Art of Listening</a>: British Sociologist Les Back has been thinking a lot about famous listeners like Studs Terkel, about the importance Holocaust survivor Primo Levi placed on the connectivity offered by listening, and about why, despite the central role listening plays in a healthy political sphere, it just seems to be getting harder and harder to be good at it.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Thursday</span>: TBA<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Friday</span>: <a href="http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100910k.cfm">Breaking Bread with Immigrants</a>: While teaching new immigrants English in Boston, Lynne Christy Anderson found that sharing food was the perfect way to get to know her students. Stories of home tend to be the central ingredient in the delicious recipes she shares in her book <span style="font-style: italic;">Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens</span>.<br /><br />I'll be on my way to my son's wedding in Minneapolis by the time Lori opens up the show on Friday. I'll tell you all about it.<br /><br />Have a great Labor Day weekend!<br /><br />JeanHere On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-83437103979807148232010-09-02T11:04:00.000-07:002010-09-02T11:10:19.892-07:00Science and the Public in Europe - 9/1<span style="font-style: italic;">Dominique Haller</span><br /><br />The guest of <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100901k.cfm">yesterday</a><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100901k.cfm">'s show</a>, Dominique Brossard, UW-Madison Associate Professor of Life Sciences and Communication, grew up in six different countries on three continents: Argentina, Nicaragua, Ethiopia, Uruguay, France, and the US. This diverse life experience has given her some interesting insight into how other societies deal with controversial scientific issues. She talks with Jean about participatory engagement in Scandinavia and France:<br /><br /><object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jwwsjhL1hm0?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jwwsjhL1hm0?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object>Here On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-71265710543319595542010-08-29T11:38:00.000-07:002010-08-29T11:44:08.862-07:00Aug 30 - Sept 3 Programs<span style="font-weight: bold;">Jean's Pick of the Week</span>: I was very pleased with the way our program about the so-called Ground Zero Mosque controversy turned out yesterday. The way Ed Linenthal and Moustafa Bayoumi complemented each other allowed for a rich diversity of responses, some of them downright inspiring. We talked about it at today’s editorial meeting and all agreed that we learned a lot from that program. Kudos to Here on Earth producer Saideh Jamshidi, our Iranian-American summer intern, whose last day was today.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Monday</span>: <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100830k.cfm">Who we are in Antarctica</a>: Lucy Jane Bledsoe is a science writer who's written a lot of award-winning fiction about Antarctica. In her latest book, a novel called <span style="font-style: italic;">The Big Bang Symphony</span>, she describes the impact of Antarctica's extreme environment on three different women who go a long way to find their way home.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Tuesday</span>: <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100831k.cfm">Remember Charlie Chan</a>, that grammatically challenged, Chinese-aphorism slinging detective who became an icon of American film? More than just a discarded racial stereotype, his new biographer says we can learn a lot about American attitudes toward China from Charlie Chan.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Wednesday</span>: <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100901k.cfm">Science, The Media, and the Public Debates</a>: The debate about stem-cell research has flared up again since a federal judge put a halt to it last week. What are the cultural and political factors that influence such scientific issues? What makes them take a different course in different countries?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Thursday</span>: <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100902k.cfm">Smaller Living Designs from Japan</a>: Japanese architects may have a jump on the rest of the world in cultivating what is sure to become a top virtue of the 21st century: doing more with less. A new design trend in Japan -- <span style="font-style: italic;">kyosho jutaku</span> -- is building creative houses on teeny tiny parcels of land. Architect Azby Brown will take us on a tour of the cutting edge in ultra-small living. He has lived in Japan for years and has written about sustainable living during Japan's Edo period, way before anyone was talking about global warming.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Friday</span>: <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100903k.cfm">Eating Animals</a>: Vegetarianism is nothing new, but for some reason Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2009 book, <span style="font-style: italic;">Eating Animals</span>, sparked a nationwide conversation about how we eat. The paperback edition of this bestseller comes out this week and Jonathan Safran Foer joins us to continue the conversation he started, this Food Friday.<br /><br />Now, isn't that a pretty great line-up? But it ain't nothin' without you!<br /><br />I'm hoping to see some of you avid memoirists at the workshop I'm giving this weekend at Woodland Pattern Bookstore in Milwaukee.<br /><br />Adios,<br /><br />JeanHere On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-26296447635216955762010-08-20T09:12:00.001-07:002010-08-20T14:56:10.021-07:00Jean's Pick of the Week for August 16th<span style="font-weight: bold;">Jean's Pick of the Week</span>: <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100817k.cfm">Why People Run</a>:Well, let’s face it, it’s the end of August, school is about to begin again and we felt the need to lighten up. I hope you’ve enjoyed this week on Here on Earth as much as I have. It’s hard to pick a favorite – we even found a way to have fun with Inside Islam – but since I have to choose, I’ll pin my star on Born to Run. Christopher McDougall’s book about the ultrarunners of the Tarahumara has been out for a year, he’s done a slew of interviews, but you’d never know it from his level of enthusiasm, and what a great way to celebrate the gifts of an indigenous tribe. Long may they run.<br /><br /><object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ogf5IQennGQ?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ogf5IQennGQ?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>Here On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-42347695065840266222010-08-20T08:31:00.000-07:002010-08-20T19:37:35.411-07:00August 23 - 27 ProgramsThursday, Aug. 19, 2010<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Calling All Memoirists!</span> I’ll be hosting a memoir writing workshop at Woodland Pattern Bookstore in Milwaukee next weekend on Saturday and Sunday. For those of you who don’t yet know, Woodland Pattern is one of the last great independent bookstores in the country, especially dedicated to supporting new and established writers and artists. I was thrilled when they asked me to teach this workshop, and I understand that there are still some places available. For more information, call Jenny Henry at 414-263-5001 <a href="http://www.woodlandpattern.org">www.woodlandpattern.org</a>.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Monday</span>: <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100823k.cfm">Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter </a>: is on a crusade to improve the lives of Americans with mental illness. In her new book, <em>Within Our Reach</em>, she says we still have a long way to go to remove the stigma that surrounds mental illness. <br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Tuesday</span>: <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100824k.cfm">The Rise of A Middle Class in the Middle East </a>: As part of the <a href="http://insideislam.wisc.edu/">Inside Islam</a> series this week we will discuss the force for change that is welling up in the Middle East - the rise of a mobile middle class of entrepreneurs, investors and consumers. Although almost invisible to the West, our guests see in this newest of social movements the key to tipping the scales of power away from extremism. <br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Wednesday</span>: <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100825k.cfm">Mosque Madness</a>:The proposal to build an Islamic Community Center that includes a mosque near Ground Zero in New York City has roused a hornet’s nest of controversy. Nine years after 9/11, what does it tell us about the state of American values, the purpose of a public monument, and the level of Islamaphobia?<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Thursday</span>: <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100826k.cfm">Healing From Trauma</a>: Jim Finley grew up in a rough family in Akron, Ohio, and escaped into a Trappist monastery as soon as he could. Today he’s a clinical psychologist who uses principles derived from his monastery training to teach people how to heal from trauma. <br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">Friday</span>: <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100827k.cfm">TBA</a><br /><br />Have a great weekend!<br /><br /><br />JeanHere On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-9534552921844719782010-08-13T13:14:00.000-07:002010-08-13T16:04:52.530-07:00Aug 16-20 Programs<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thursday, August 12, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">I have another presentation coming up this month. I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> will be offering a premium two-day workshop on Writing a Literary Memoir at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 28-29. For more information, call 414-263-5001, or visit <a href="http://www.woodlandpattern.org/" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">www.woodlandpattern.org</a>. Deadline for sign-up is Friday, Aug. 20.</span></p></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Jean's Pick of the Week</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Having been a student of drama, I can’t resist a topic that leads with Greek tragedy. Theater of War allows us to confront the real psychic cost of warfare across nations and across time. A former </span><st1:place st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">West Point</span></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> graduate I had a talk with recently told me that the only people who come back sane from the theater of war were psychopaths to begin with.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Monday</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100816k.cfm"><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Roman Catholic Women Priests</span></span></b></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">: The world was shocked when the </span><st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Vatican</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> recently equated the sin of pedophilia with the sin of women’s ordination. In spite of the ban, the ordination of Roman Catholic women priests goes on unabated. To talk about the issue, we’ll be joined by Maryknoll priest and activist, Roy Bourgeois, who has been excommunicated for his support of women’s ordination, and Reverend Alice Iaquinta, Regional Program Coordinator for Roman Catholic Women Priests in the </span><st1:country-region st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">U.S.</span></st1:country-region><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> who offers a structural critique of the </span><st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Vatican</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">’s rhetoric.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Tuesday</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100817k.cfm"><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Why People Run</span></span></b></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">: </span></span></span></b></span><i><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style=" font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Born to Run</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> is a book of wild narrative full of insane characters, extreme sports and one crazy idea: running barefoot is the answer to safe, pain-free and endurance. Christopher McDougall gathered information about </span><st1:country-region st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mexico</span></st1:country-region><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">’s </span><st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Copper</span></st1:placename><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><st1:placetype st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Canyon</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> unknown tribe of the Tarahumara’s running style and put them in test. The result became a book that goes against all odds of multi-million dollar shoe making industry that promotes the jelly and soft cushion shoes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wednesday</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100818k.cfm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mullah Nasruddin: Islam’s Holy Fool</span></span></b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:</span></span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In his interfaith congregation in Seattle, Jamal Rahman, a Muslim Sufi minister and one of the Interfaith Amigos, usually opens his sermon by quoting his favorite Sufi visionary teacher: Mullah Nasurddin: “I am getting sick and tired of this lousy cheese sandwich,” complained Mullah repeatedly. “Mullah, tell your wife to make something different,” his co-workers advised. “But I am not married,” Mullah replied. “I am the one who is making these sandwiches.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thursday</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100819k.cfm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><b><i><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style=" font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Adventures of</span></span></span></i></b><i><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style=" font-style: italic; font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Tintin</span></span></b></span></span></i></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:</span></span></span></b></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">is one of </span><st1:place st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Europe</span></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">’s all time favorite comics. Not only did generations grow up with the reporter hero and his dog, Snowy (called </span></span></span><i><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span lang="FR" style=" font-style: italic; font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Milou </span></span></span></i><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">in French) but the comic has been translated into dozens of languages and adapted for television, film, radio and theater. We’re working on a program that will take us through the decades and around the world with this classic comic. My son Giancarlo loved his Tintin comics and I truly believe they were one of his major early influences on his international career.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Friday</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Calibri;"><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; font-family:Arial;"><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100820k.cfm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Calibri;"><b><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Egyptian Comfort Food</span></span></b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:</span></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Nabil Seidah is a renowned biochemist, one of my husband’s closest friends, and a great Egyptian cook. He and his wife Anneke rolled out the red carpet for us when we visited them at their home in </span><st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Montreal</span></st1:city></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> last winter where Nabil cooked complex earthy comfort food for us based on recipes, techniques, and ingredients he learned in his mother’s kitchen. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I’m off to </span><i><span style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Paint the Town Blue…Have a great weekend and stay in touch…<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><i><span style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><i><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style=" font-style: italic; font-family:Calibri;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Jean<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span></div>Here On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-24600158018839381602010-08-05T15:42:00.000-07:002010-08-06T09:17:05.348-07:00Aug 9-13 Programs<img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 155px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YC8iL1VPMtw/TFwzybGO9QI/AAAAAAAAAHE/6bovQmyFuq0/s400/paintTownBlue.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502329786100282626" border="0" />On <b>Thursday, August 12 from 6 to 9 p.m.</b> I will attend "<a href="http://www.thexchangecenter.org/index.php?id=138" target="_blank">Paint the Town Blue</a>," a major fundraising event for the <a href="http://www.thexchangecenter.org/" target="_blank">Exchange Center</a> for the Prevention of Child Abuse, being held in the atrium of the Boardman Law Firm, One South Pinckney Street, 4th Floor, overlooking the Capitol in downtown Madison. I will also be signing copies of my award-winning memoir, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hear-Voices-Memoir-Death-Radio/dp/0299223906/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268238774&sr=1-1" target="_blank">I Hear Voices</a></i>, which will be available for sale at the event to benefit the Exchange Center.<br /><br /><i>Tickets</i>: <a href="http://www.thexchangecenter.org/" target="_blank">www.thexchangecenter.org</a><br /><i>Contact</i>: Sara at 608-729-1141 or <a href="mailto:sjohnson@thexchangecenter.org">sjohnson@thexchangecenter.org</a><br /><br />I'll be facilitating an exciting interfaith retreat which will take place next weekend, Aug. 13-15, at the Christine Center in Willard, Wisconsin. If you've never been to the Christine Center, it's in Amish country north of Black River Falls, where bear and deer and hummingbirds abound. It's a very special place run by a group of enlightened Franciscan nuns who have dedicated their pristine center to global transformation. <span style="font-style: italic;">Tapping into Rich Mystical Traditions</span> will be team-led by Father Thomas Ryan and Rabbi Sigal Brier (see Wednesday's show below) who will explore together the role of creativity in spiritual life, the Sabbath practice, the Body in Prayer, mystical rhythms, and more.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Monday</span>: <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100809k.cfm">Theater of War</a>: Sophocles, the ancient Greek general and playwright, depicted the timeless psychological wounds inflicted by war upon warriors in his plays. In the Theater of War project, actors and actresses read Sophocles's plays to active service members and their families in military sites to show them that they are not alone, across time, in dealing with mental pain when they come back from battlefields. Bryan Doerries and Phyllis Kaufman, director and producer of Theater of War, tell us about their experience with the project.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Tuesday</span>: <a href="http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100810k.cfm">The Oath</a>: Abu Jandal is a taxi driver in Yemen who used to be Osama Bin Laden's bodyguard. His brother-in-law, Salim Hamdan, a Guantanamo Bay detainee and the first man to face the controversial military tribunals, once worked as Bin Laden's driver. In The Oath, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras tells the cross-cut tale of these two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda. The film opened this week in Madison.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Wednesday</span>: <a href="http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100811k.cfm">An Interfaith Mash-Up</a>: This is another program in our ongoing series on Interfaith Dialogue: A rabbi who teaches spiritual practices based on the Kabbalah teams up with a Catholic priest who teaches mediation and yoga as spiritual practice.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Thursday</span>: The Senate has just confirmed Elena Kagan as the newest Justice on the Supreme Court. During her confirmation hearings, one topic especially caught our attention—Kagen's support for the practice of <a href="http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100812k.cfm">looking abroad for legal inspiration</a>. Recently, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg seconded that opinion. We speak with legal scholars about the history and uses of turning to foreign law for good ideas.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Friday</span>: <a href="http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100813k.cfm">Pickling and Preserving Summer's Bounty</a>: Who better to lead us through the culinary spiritual exercises of mid-August when the garden is at its most robust than Wisconsin's own French chef, Monique Hooker.<br /><br />JeanHere On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-78861092553768134662010-07-29T07:12:00.000-07:002010-07-29T10:50:44.997-07:00August 2 - 6 Programs<em><strong>Producers' Note:</strong> Jean is still on her writers retreat this week so we have created a lineup of our five best shows from 2010. We are looking forward to being back in the studio August 9th! </em><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Monday</span>: <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100224k.cfm">Crazy Like Us</a>: Ethan Watters is tracking mental illness around the globe, and he is finding that the world is going crazy—American style. As doctors and pharmaceuticals cross borders, illnesses as defined by Western medicine, like depression and anorexia, are popping up in places they never before occurred while local ways of understanding mental health issues—from melancholy to what we call schizophrenia—are being lost. We talk about cultural differences in understandings of the inner life, and why homogenization might not be a good thing. <br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Tuesday</span>: <a href="archive_100330k.cfm">Jamming with Whales</a>: Remember David Rothenberg, the musician and philosopher who traveled all over the world studying the song patterns of birds to make his music? Well, he's at it again, this time with whales. His new book and album document his jam sessions with humpback whales around the world. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Wednesday</span>: <a href="archive_100415k.cfm">Poet Nick Lantzr</a>: Nick Lantz is a poet like no other. In his book, <em>The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbor’s House</em>, which won the Felix Pollak Poetry Prize, he writes poems about the Challenger explosion, Bigfoot, a love letter written from inside a missile silo, and a plea for post 9/11 redemption. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Thursday</span>: <a href="archive_100421k.cfm">Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination With The Afterlife</a>: What does belief in the afterlife tell us about what it means to be human? What is universal about our differing views of heaven? Join us with Lisa Miller, religion editor for Newsweek, when we wrestle with Heaven. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Friday</span>: <a href="archive_100409k.cfm">Corked</a>: Kathryn Borel was like her father in every way but one: she just didn't get it when it came to wine. So she decided to take him on a drunken father-daughter road trip through the French countryside, where they finally connected, over wine. <br /><br />Enjoy!Here On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-68136119929929992072010-07-23T08:29:00.000-07:002010-07-23T15:26:58.931-07:00July 26 - 30 ProgramsThursday, July 22, 2010<br /><br />I will be on a writer’s retreat for the next two weeks, so we’re taking the opportunity to showcase the best programs we’ve done this year. The first week we’re dedicating to our Inside Islam series; for the second week, we’ve chosen five of the shows we think most worthy of re-visiting. We hope you will enjoy these selections and let us know what you think of our choices. <br /><br /> <br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jean's Pick of the Week</span>: Putting An End to Stoning: The sense of outrage and revulsion that most of us feel at news reports of stonings, like the one we reported coming out of Iran right now that threatens the life of a woman accused of adultery, is a kind of fuel, I think, that can galvanize the international community around this issue and help bring the practice to an end forever. Inshallah. <br /><br /><object width="400" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zVrWJNq--_I&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zVrWJNq--_I&hl=en_US&fs=1" width="400" height="344" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object> <br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Monday</span>: <a href="http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090721k.cfm">Aisha: Mohammed’s Youngest Wife</a>: Kamran Pasha’s novel, <em>Mother of the Believers: A Novel of the Birth of Islam</em>, tells the story of the rise of Islam through the eyes of Aisha, the Prophet Muhammad's youngest and most favorite wife, one of the most influential women in Islamic history. As Mother of the Believers shows, Aisha is more than the controversy around her age; (she was still a child at the time of her betrothal). She was a teacher, political leader, a warrior, and, with her incredible memory, an invaluable source of information on all aspects of the Prophet Muhammad's life. <br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Tuesday</span>: <a href="http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100311k.cfm">The Art of Qur’anic Recitation</a> Among Muslims, Qur'anic recitation is a highly advanced art form intended to move, inspire, engage, and transport all those who listen. What is the purpose of Qur’anic recitation? How does it relate to life in the 21st century? What’s your personal experience of hearing the Qur'an recited? Anna Gade did a great job with this program. <br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Wednesday</span>: <a href="http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100408k.cfm">Islamic Feminism: A Sister-Wide Global Movement </a>: There are a lot of live wires and firebrands in the Islamic Feminist Movement and they’re determined to do things their way, as you will see from this wide-reaching exploration of what Islamic women really want and how they are going about getting it, using the teachings on gender equality in the Qur’an and the social innovations of The Prophet Mohammed to secure their rights and overcome misogyny. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Thursday</span>: <a href="http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100722k.cfm">Why Mohammed Matters</a>: Who was the Prophet Muhammed and how do Muslims remember him today: as a mystic, a revolutionary, or a military leader? This is my favorite program so far in this year’s series. Safi was very calm, and dispelled a lot of myths. <br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Food Friday</span>: <a href="http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100723k.cfm">Ramadan: The Feast and the Fast</a>: Since Ramadan begins on August 11 this year, which represents a particular hardship for American Muslims, we thought you might enjoy learning about how different the experience of Ramadan can be depending on where you happen to find yourself. Compare fasting here in America in the heat of long summer days to countries like Syria where everyone sleeps all day and feasts all night. , Ramadan there are special programs where Muslims work all day, and young athletes go into training Why is fasting common to almost all faiths? Why do Muslims the world over look forward with joy to a month of fasting? What are the special challenges that American Muslims face? And what are the Ramadan specials that Arab Muslims are watching on satellite TV?Here On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-17584636530916887702010-07-16T07:56:00.000-07:002010-07-16T14:46:26.282-07:00July 19 - 23 ProgramsBefore anything else, I want to put in a plug for the <a href="http://www.benedictinewomen.org/grow/grow_i_hear_voiices.html">Day of Retreat</a> I'm leading at <a href="http://www.benedictinewomen.org/footer/directions.html">Holy Wisdom Monastery</a> in Middleton next Saturday. More than a dozen years ago I spent a formative summer at St. Ben’s, as it was called in those days, which I wrote about in my memoir in a chapter called "Get Thee to a Winery." I was at a critical juncture in my life – contemplating a possible third marriage to a Jewish atheist scientist as I reflected on the mistakes of the past. The answers I received during those weeks couldn’t have come from a truer or a more surprising source. The Benedictines hold hospitality in its widest meaning at the center of their spiritual life. My experience of that hospitality – being welcomed and received in all my brokenness – was not only deeply healing, but led directly to the work I do now as the "host" of the program you know as Here on Earth. I am looking forward to telling you "the rest of the story" next Saturday. To register or for more information, contact Jerrianne at (608) 836-1631, ext. 158 or <a href="mailto:jbland@benedictinewomen.org">jbland@benedictinewomen.org</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jean's Pick of the Week</span>: Again I surprise myself in choosing this week’s program Cars of the Future, about the Automotive X Prize since I know very little about cars, and happen to enjoy driving a 1998 Buick Le Sabre I call Delilah – hardly a car of the future. But having visited Chris Beebe’s garage and seen for myself a wizard at work, and hearing from the mavericks who called into the show with their own accounts of having converted or designed their own electric cars, I was inspired all over again by the spirit of ingenuity that is propelling us forward.<br /><br /><object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hsUw6W3zT-k&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hsUw6W3zT-k&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Monday</span>: <a href="http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100719k.cfm">Pearl Buck in China</a>: Pearl Buck was the first author to open American audiences to everyday life in rural China, and the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Today, she is read but not admired in America, and admired but not read in China. We rediscover her fascinating bicultural life story with biographer Hilary Spurling, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Tuesday</span>: <a href="http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100720k.cfm">The Fate of an Iranian Woman Sentenced to Be Stoned:</a> Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two who was convicted of adultery, was sentenced to 99 lashes for committing adultery by a court in May 2006. Four months later, another court sentenced her to death by stoning. Her fate remains uncertain. We'll talk with Norma Claire Moruzzi, director of International Studies at University of Illinois in Chicago, an expert on women's issues in Iran, and Cyrus Nowrasteh, director of <em>The Stoning of Soraya M</em>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Wednesday</span>: <a href="http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100721k.cfm">Turkey's Tomorrow</a>: Things have mostly cooled down, but the recent attack on an aid flotilla carrying Turkish activists off the coast of Gaza has widened a painful rift in Turkish/Israeli relations. Turkish Jewish philosopher Seyla Benhabib has just returned from a trip to both countries and joins us to talk about what went wrong, what’s going on inside Turkey today, and what the future looks like for this secular Muslim nation that has linked Europe and the Middle East for centuries.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Thursday</span>: <a href="http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100722k.cfm">Gay in Argentina</a>: Argentina has just passed a law making gay marriage legal. Jean and her guest will discuss this gay rights breakthrough and what it means for the global movement.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Friday</span>: <a href="http://wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100723k.cfm">Breaking Bread with Immigrants</a>: (To Be Confirmed)Chef and teacher Lynne Anderson has gone into immigrant kitchens and discovered that, for those who have left much behind, food holds the power to recover a lost world.<br /><br />I'm off to a concert with my husband.<br /><br />Have a great weekend!<br /><br />JeanHere On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-25873862136141305222010-07-09T12:07:00.000-07:002010-07-12T08:41:31.248-07:00July 12 - 16 ProgramsThursday, July 8, 2010<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jean’s Pick of the Week:</span> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100707k.cfm">World Cup 2010: Community-building and Soccer</a>: Diego in Rome said it best in his Facebook message, “I would never believe that NPR would devote an entire program to the World Cup.” Actually, yesterday’s program was the second time we’ve talked about South Africa’s World Cup, and I am equally astonished to report that this was my Pick of the Week. It was so much fun gathering messages and perspectives from all over the world. It really felt like we had come another step closer to achieving The Dream of Radio’s Great Global Radio Conversation that we imagined when Here on Earth went on the air seven years ago. Thanks to all!<br /><br /><object width="400" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-wrUYZRrl4k&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-wrUYZRrl4k&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Monday:</span> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100712k.cfm">Dracula’s Guest</a>: Vampires are all the rage these days with the recent <span style="font-style: italic;">Twilight</span> blockbusters. But who knew about the grueling real life circumstances that made people believe in vampires in the first place? And what do vampires look like in Africa and Asia? We’ll talk with Michael Sims, editor of the anthology <span style="font-style: italic;">Dracula’s Guest: A Connoisseurs Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Tuesday:</span> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100713k.cfm">Green cars, on your marks!</a> Every ten years, the X Prize Foundation challenges teams of thinkers and doers around the world to make the impossible become real. Challenge 2010 is to build a car that goes 100 miles per hour and gets 100 miles per gallon. We’ll talk with Chris Beebe, a team leader based right here in Madison, WI, about the new ideas inspired by the competition and what he thinks it will take to revolutionize transportation for the 21st century.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Wednesday:</span> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100714k.cfm">The Party</a>: While China’s economic successes are gaining a lot of attention in the Western media, the central role of the Chinese Communist Party often remains overlooked. How does the Party keep the balance between firm communist control and liberal economic expansion? We’ll get a glimpse into the world largest political organization with Richard McGregor, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Thursday:</span> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100715k.cfm">International Spookdom</a>: With the recent outing of eleven Russian spies in the United States, we’ve all begun looking over our shoulders. But is the undercover agent really the model of espionage in the 21st century? We’ll talk with intelligence experts about the growing role of cyber, corporate and government espionage around the world, and about why we love to romanticize their world of secrets.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Friday:</span> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100716k.cfm">Mastering the Art of the Wok</a>: Chinese-American chef and cookbook author Grace Young joins us with tips on the economical, simple, and ancient method of Chinese cooking — the stir-fry. She’ll explain what to use if you don’t have a wok and open flame, the basics of the traditional Chinese stir-fry, and the many Chinese fusion variations from South Africa, Jamaica, Libya, and beyond!<br /><br />I’ll be in North Carolina at a family wedding this weekend. Y’all come back now, hear?<br /><br />JeanHere On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-45798677387401549152010-07-02T10:02:00.000-07:002010-07-02T16:00:14.769-07:00July 5 - 9 ProgramsThursday, July 1, 2010<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jean’s Pick of the Week:</span> Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird: What’s more fun than a really great conversation about an All-American Book that is more popular in the UK than the Bible!<br /><br /><div><object width="400" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wwsWaylAUlY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wwsWaylAUlY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="385"></embed></object></div><div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Monday:</span> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100705k.cfm">Paul Robeson: An American Master</a>: We’ve chosen one of our favorite programs from the Here on Earth archives to celebrate our national holiday. Our program on Paul Robeson was originally broadcast on the Fourth of July, 2004.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Tuesday:</span> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100706k.cfm">Milestones for a Spiritual Jihad</a>: Muslim women can stand side by side their male counterparts at Mecca, the holiest city in the Muslim world, to pray, but once they’re back home, they’re most likely to find themselves crowded into a small, dark room at the back of a mosque. Asra Nomani, former Wall Street Journal correspondent and a visiting scholar at Georgetown University thought she needed to take a stand against the unwritten rule of the mosque. We will talk with Nomani and her journey to her spiritual jihad.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Wednesday:</span> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100707k.cfm">The Political Power of Soccer</a>: With the final matches of the 2010 World Cup coming up this weekend, all eyes are on soccer. We are working on a program on the political power of soccer in Africa and around the world.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Thursday:</span> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100708k.cfm">The Interfaith Amigos</a>: Three clergymen from the three Abrahamic faiths used friendship to create a dialogue: Rabbi Ted Falcon, Sheikh Jamal Rahman and Pastor Don Mackenzie met every week for nine years after 9/11 in search of common ground. They sum up their collective discoveries in the book, Getting to the Heart of Interfaith: The Eye-Opening Hope-Filled Friendship of a Pastor, a Rabbi and a Sheikh.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Friday:</span> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100709k.cfm">A Garlic Geek</a>: A whole program about garlic? How about a whole lifetime? Allium scientist Eric Block has spent his career studying garlic, onions and leeks, and their many cousins. He’s a garlic geek! He’ll walk us through the compounds in onions that make us cry, the different-flavored compounds found in garlic, and how their flavors change when you chop them up and cook them.<br /><br />I’ll be celebrating this Fourth of July big time, with fireworks, cheesecake, and my son and his Turkish fiancée in the Twin Cities. <span style="font-style: italic;">Viva L’America</span>!<br /><br />Jean</div>Here On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-35530605385450408322010-06-25T11:29:00.000-07:002010-06-25T11:33:27.303-07:00June 28 - July 2 Programs<span style="font-weight: bold;">Jean’s Pick of the Week</span>: I was sick as a dog on Monday, but I still feel privileged to have had the opportunity to <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100621k.cfm">talk with Bobby McFerrin</a>. As I mentioned on the show, his rendition of Psalm 23 with a feminist/mother motif from his album <span style="font-style: italic;">Medicine Man</span> was a life-changer for me. I never imagined I would actually be able to tell him that on the radio. But, come to think of it, isn’t that what live radio is all about? <br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Monday</span>: <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100628k.cfm">Deep Blue Home</a>: The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has redirected our attention to the tremendous fragility and richness of oceanic life. As dependent on oil as we might be, we are even more dependent on healthy oceans. We’ll explore our intimate ties to the ocean and discover working solutions to preventing oil spills and other human caused environmental disasters with Julia Whitty, filmmaker, journalist and author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Deep Blue Home</span>, and Rick Steiner, formerly Marine Conservation Professor at the University of Alaska.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Tuesday</span>: <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100629k.cfm">Pearls on the Ocean Floor</a>: There’s more to Iran than uranium. In his first documentary, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Rising Tide</span>, Mexican-American filmmaker Robert Adanto looked at young Chinese artists using video to capture the tumultuous changes sweeping through China. In his new film, he features some of the most influential Iranian women artists working in and outside of Iran. <br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Wednesday</span>: <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100630k.cfm">To Kill a Mockingbird</a>: Anticipating the Fourth of July next Sunday, We are working on a program based on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee’s <span style="font-style: italic;">To Kill A Mockingbird</span>. Why has this novel, which is so firmly rooted in the American South, become so popular the world over? And what makes it particularly relevant to Europe right now?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Thursday</span>: <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100701k.cfm">Iraq: What Now?</a> June 30th marks the one-year anniversary of American troops pulling out of Iraqi cities, and the legacy of the war there can already be seen. We’ll talk with journalist Anthony Shadid about his Pulitzer-prize winning coverage of the pull out and the year since as Iraqis have gone about the messy business of shaping their nation’s future.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Friday</span>: <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100702k.cfm">The Best Steak in the World</a>: Slate Magazine’s columnist Mark Schatzker was serious when he said he would find the best steak in the world. On the way to a unifying theory of steak, Schatzker traveled to Texas, Scotland, Japan, and even raised his own cows for slaughter. That’s dedication!<br /><br />My husband and I spent a glorious couple of days in Door County last weekend. We even got as far as Rock Island, which is much more developed than the way I remembered it when I first visited the island back in the eighties with Ron Mason, the archeologist who, together with his wife Carol, discovered a major prehistoric site there. Just off the path to the pristine white sand beach where La Salle first landed the ill-fated Griffin, you can still see part of the palisade which once protected the site for no less than three separate tribes – the Potawatami, the Wyandot, and the Ontario. We watched two families of wild swans sail into sight. And the wild roses still smell sweet. <br /><br />We live in a beautiful state.<br /><br />JeanHere On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29819996.post-6520722217243066002010-06-18T13:48:00.000-07:002010-06-18T14:19:38.918-07:00June 21 - 25 ProgramsThursday, June 17, 2010<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jean’s Pick of the Week:</span> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100615k.cfm">The Rap Guide To Evolution</a>: How can you not like a guy who starts off planting trees with his family in Vancouver, morphs into studying medieval English literature and ends up creating a rap version of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and from there, the ultimate Rap Guide to Evolution. Hurrah for Baba Brinkman, and thanks to my husband for encouraging more programs based on science!<br /><br /><object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/skQIl_arrwY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/skQIl_arrwY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object><br /><br />I’m spending the weekend in Door County and Washington Island, leaving Food Friday in Lori Skelton’s capable hands, but I wouldn’t miss talking with Bobby McFerrin on Monday for the world. You come too!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Monday:</span> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100621k.cfm">Bobby McFerrin</a>: To some, Ten-Time Grammy-winner Bobby McFerrin will always be the guy who sang “Don’t Worry Be Happy”. But Bobby McFerrin’s work just can’t be reduced to one song. Throughout his inspiring career, he’s been pushing the frontiers of vocal music and collaborating with artists from all kinds of backgrounds. He joins us to talk about his new album <span style="font-style: italic;">VOCAbuLarieS</span>, his life’s work, and his gift of bringing the world together through music.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Tuesday:</span> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100622k.cfm">Middle Eastern Women Get Politica</a>l: About 20 young women from 10 Middle Eastern countries are gathering this month in Madison to sharpen their political skills at the National Democratic Institute or NDI. Among them is a young woman from Egypt, the founder of a new political party for the advancement of women’s rights. We’ll meet Sally El Baz and find out what her Reform and Development Party is all about.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Wednesday:</span> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100623k.cfm">God is Not One</a>: Are we so afraid of conflict that we’ve become unable to disagree? Religion Scholar Stephen Prothero thinks it’s time we accept the fact that the world’s eight largest religions are not all eight sides of the same coin; on the most basic questions, like “How many gods are there?”, they can be completely contradictory. Can we learn to appreciate our differences while sticking to our own beliefs?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Thursday:</span> <a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100624k.cfm"><span class="bannerShowTitle">LGBT Rights Groups Around the World</span></a>: June is Gay Pride Month and major cities across the United States are celebrating with parades and festivals next weekend. We’re working on a show that will showcase stories and successes of LGBT rights groups around the world.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Friday:</span> <span class="bannerShowTitle"><a href="http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100625k.cfm">Spoon Fed</a>: </span>New York Times food writer, Kim Severson, joins us to talk about her new confessional food memoir, <span style="font-style: italic;">Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life</span>. In it she documents food goddesses—from Alice Waters to Marcella Hazan—who helped her gain the confidence to overcome alcoholism while taking her career from Alaska to New York City.<br /><br />Happy Father’s Day to all you fathers! Here’s a tip: Never say to a daughter with acne, “Don’t worry, Jeannie, looks aren’t everything.” In spite of your good intentions, It might set her back by a few centuries.<br /><br />JeanHere On Earthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598550723199590754noreply@blogger.com0