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Maine, national and international news from MPBN, NPR and the BBC, along with Maine weather. Hosted by Ed Morin.

Friday May 17, 2013

12:30 pm: Here and Now

1:00 pm: City Arts and Lectures
Garrison Keillor and humorist and New Yorker staff writer Calvin Trillin.

Monday May 20, 2013

12:30 pm: Here and Now

1:00 pm: Speaking in Maine
Speaking in Maine takes us next to Portland and the World Affairs Council of Maine for an address entitled “Challenges to Women’s Empowerment in the Arab Awakening”. The speaker is Dr. Haleh Esfandiari, an Iranian-American scholar and Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. She is also the former deputy secretary general of the Women’s Council of Iran.

Tuesday May 21, 2013

12:00 pm: Midday
12:15 pm: Maine Calling
Alzheimer's Disease

1:00 pm: Commonwealth Club of California
Attorney Kenneth Feinberg, author of “What Is Life Worth?”
Known as the Master of Disasters, alternative dispute mediator and attorney Feinberg has negotiated settlements in some of the most challenging and emotional crises of our times, such as the federal bailout assistance program called TARP, the September 11th Compensation Fund and the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Victim Compensation Fund.

Wednesday May 22, 2013

12:00 Midday
12:15 pm: Maine Calling
Olympia Snowe

1:00 pm: Ideas from the CBC
Changing Our Bodies – Changing Ourselves
Ideas explores how changes to the body change the sense of self. When someone loses a breast to cancer, or a leg to gangrene, what do they make of their new body? And how does cosmetic surgery change one's identity? In addition, there are those who are part of a fringe culture who insert magnets into their fingers. Some body modifications are valorized while others are often vilified.

Thursday May 23, 2013

12:00 pm: Midday
12:15 pm: Maine Calling
Fighting Hunger in Maine

1:00 pm: Alternative Radio
David Suzuki, Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, author, environmentalist and science educator. 2012 was a year of extreme weather, from the melting of the Arctic to Superstorm Sandy. It was also the hottest year on record in the U.S., with massive droughts and many wildfires. Suzuki says this a taste of things to come and that Climate change is real.

Friday May 24, 2013

12:30 pm: Here and Now

1:00 pm: Commonwealth Club of California
Georgtown University Professor; Author; Poet; Essay Writer Deborah Tannen
Topic: Can We Talk? What’s Really Going on in the Conversations Between Parents, Partners, Co-workers, Sibs and Kids! Tannen is the author of You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, which was on the New York Times bes- seller list for nearly four years.
Specializing in explaining how conversational style - how you say what you mean - can make or break relationships, she has examined conversations between men and women, mothers and daughters, co-workers, lovers, and others.