 Monday January 4, 2010
12:30 pm: Living Planet
On this week's Living Planet, India's Ganges delta residents struggle to cope with the impact of climate change, Russian scientists scoff at global warming and why schoolchildren in Ghent are changing their eating habits.
1:00 pm: Cleveland City Club Forum
Dr. Peter Gerhardt, Executive Director, Nassau Suffolk Services for Autism, speaking on “The Debate over Autism.” Dr. Gerhardt is an expert on adults with autism and aspergers syndrome. He is Executive Director of Nassau Suffolk Services for Autism which operates the Martin C. Barell School in Levittown, NY. The school provides educational services and supports to learners with autism, ages three to twenty-one, and their families.
Tuesday January 5, 2010
12:30 pm: Inside Europe
On today's program, we take a look back at some of the highlights from this year: An ostalgic trip through East Germany - An exclusive interview with the Prime Minister of Greenland - The baseball craze hits rural Italy - Pensioners prove a dab hand at computer games - Why vultures starved in Spain - Brits behave badly in Greece - Naked hikers cause a stir in Switzerland
1:00 pm: Intelligence Squared: Oxford Style debate
The debate Topic is: America is to blame for Mexico's drug war
Wednesday January 6, 2010
12:30 pm: Cambridge Forum
Katherine Paterson: Asking Big Questions in Children’s Literature (Recorded in 2004)
Beloved children s author Katherine Paterson speaks about her lifework in children s literature. How do stories written for children address the grown-up questions of good and evil, life and death? How does an author find a transcendent voice that moves beyond entertainment without being didactic?
1:00pm: Commonweatlh Club Of California
The Speaker is Aaron David Miller, former Middle East Advisor, U.S. State Department. His talk is entitled: “Gulliver’s Troubles: How America Lost Its Groove in the Middle East” Miller contends that America is in a trap in a highly unstable region: it can’t fix the Middle East and it can’t run away from it. The diplomatic failure of several presidential administrations has left the U.S. wandering around in a region it doesn’t fully understand.
Thursday January 7, 2010
12:30 pm: Soundprint
Changing Spaces: Hampden, Baltimore
Producer Gemma Hooley profiles the neighborhood of Hampden, in Baltimore. It's a pop culture landscape of pink plastic flamingoes, beehive hairdos, vintage clothing, leopard-skin purses, and cat-eye sunglasses. Then there are the annual festivals like the HonFest competition, and Christmas lights that you'll swear are shining through your radio. Join us as we explore the underlying culture of this blue collar community.
1:00pm: It’s Your World
The speaker is Mark Danner, former Staff Writer for The New Yorker. His talk is entitled: “Two Decades of Reporting from the World's Most Troubled Regions". For the past two decades, author and award-winning journalist Mark Danner has reported from Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans, and the Middle East. One of America's leading foreign correspondents, Danner discusses the work behind his reportage. He also looks at the effects of Washington policy maker decisions, and their mistakes, have made on people at home and abroad.
Friday January 8, 2010
12:30 pm: Maine Watch with Jennifer Rooks
The Maine State Prison in Warren has a new warden - Patricia Barnhart, the first woman to run an all-male corrections facility in Maine. This week on Maine Watch, we'll talk to her about her corrections philosophy and plans for the state prison going forward. Plus, as the legislative session gets underway, statehouse reporters AJay Higgins and Glenn Adams discuss what we might expect to come out of Augusta.
1:00pm: It’s Your World
The speaker is Bruce Bueno De Mesquita, Professor of Politics, New York University. His talk is entitled "Are Outcomes to National Security Predictable?” Bueno De Mesquita is an expert of game theory; the idea that people compete and that they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to predict events and his forecasts have a 90 percent accuracy rate.
Monday January 11, 2010
12:30 pm: Living Planet
This week on Living Planet we take a look at an ambitious proposal for a green energy grid to hook up nine countries around the North Sea, what the UN's 2010 year of biodiversity means and how the rate of evolution is now being measured in the test tube.
1:00 pm: The Story
Meeting John Steinbeck
As rough economic times continue into this new year, many are looking back at the hard times America has faced before. Phil Tobin was just 6 years old when he left Maine with his father and uncle to find work in California during the Depression. He tells his story. The trio spent several years on the farming circuit picking fruit. It was on a cotton farm that Phil met a man named John, who had a kind heart, a fancy tar paper shack, and was always writing in a large notebook. It was years later that Phil opened the pages of The Grapes of Wrath, saw his family’s name in it, and realized that the man he knew as John was most likely John Steinbeck. Phil talks with host Dick Gordon about the lessons he learned growing up in the Depression, and how he finally got up the courage to relive those harsh memories by reading the Grapes of Wrath.
Tuesday January 12, 2010
12:30 pm: Inside Europe
In today's program: will passengers have to bare all at airports in Europe?- The great swine-flu sell off in France- The headache facing the new President of Ukraine – Turning excess Christmas weight into the body of a Roman god -Europe launches plans for a renewable energy supergrid -What really happened to the heaps of Naples garbage - Istanbul prepares to celebrate a year of culture
1:00 pm: Common Wealth Club of California
The speaker is Madeleine Kunin, Former U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland; Former Governor of Vermont; and Author of “Pearls, Politics and Power” Her talk is entitled “ Pearls, Politics and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead” The first woman elected governor of Vermont, Kunin held positions of power during the Bush Sr. and Clinton administrations, eventually taking her as a U.S. ambassador back to Switzerland, from which she fled with her family at the outbreak of World War II. She shares her views of the problems facing women in power and what it means to become a leader.
Wednesday January 13, 2010
12:30 pm: Cambridge Forum
The Literary Legacy of C.S. Lewis, Part 1
In this Cambridge Forum Classic, award-winning writer Kathleen Norris, Harvard psychiatrist Armand M. Nicholi and author Peter Kreeft lead a special panel discussion on how The Screwtape Letters (1942) would change were Lewis to write it today, expanding into a general discussion of the impact of his work on world culture and the literary landscape.
1:00pm: America Abroad
AIDS: The Politics of Prevention
For nearly 30 years, the AIDS epidemic has ravaged lives and nations around the world. America Abroad diagnoses the practice of prevention and treatment in South Africa and Brazil - countries afflicted with the same disease but that have pursued very different prescriptions.
Thursday January 14, 2010
12:30 pm: Soundprint
The Bucket
The Bucket When you lower a bucket down from a pier into the ocean or from the side of the ship, it may well come up containing nothing but clear water. But scientists now know that every teaspoonful of that water will contain 100 million tiny viruses. That sounds sinister but without them the ocean couldn't function. Every day these viruses invade bacteria and release their nutrients so the underwater food chain can keep going. It's only since the late 1980's that marine biologists have been aware of how many indigenous viruses live in the ocean and ever since then, they have been noticing how powerful and varied they are. They differ radically in size and shape and DNA blueprint. So much so that totally novel DNA keeps being discovered which has implications for the science of evolution. Some of the properties found in these viruses can even be useful in the manufacture of exciting products from anti ageing creams to anti cancer drugs. So far from being a bad thing, these amazing marine viruses are not only good they are amazing, dramatic, novel and dynamic. Hard to imagine when you look into a bucket of clear water! Judith Kampfner travels from the coast of Plymouth in England to Santa Monica to meet with some of the intrepid pioneers who are on the trail of these new natural marvels.
1:00pm: Speaking in Maine
Speaking in Maine takes us next to USM – for “Breakfast with Charlie” - otherwise known as USM Muskie School Professor Charles Colgan’s economic forecast for 2010. The talk was given Wednesday morning. Colgan’s economic predictions for 2010 will be based on his analysis of employment trends, income, retail sales, and a range of other indicators. Colgan, a professor of public policy and management in USM’s Muskie School of Public Service and former state economist, serves as a research fellow at the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. He also chairs the Maine Consensus Economic Forecasting Commission, which prepares an economic outlook report for state budget preparation.
Friday January 15, 2010
12:30 pm: Maine Watch with Jennifer Rooks
Among the proposals in the plan to close the state budget shortfall, big cuts to mental health services. Advocates worry that the cuts will have far-reaching effects for years to come for families, hospitals, jails, and homeless shelters. I'm Jennifer Rooks, this week on Maine Watch, as the legislature takes up this issue, a look at what those cuts might mean.
1:00pm: Ideas – from the CBC
The New Commandments
Author A.J. Jacobs, political commentator Christopher Hitchens and columnist and educator Camille Paglia are asked to create new commandments for the 21st century in a lecture series at the Royal Ontario Museum, marking its exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Monday January 18, 2010
12:30 pm: Living Planet
How European policy-makers are rethinking climate strategy post-Copenhagen, the state of Germany's Greens Party on its 30th birthday, Armenian conservationists' efforts to save one of the highest lakes in the world, and what the head of the UN's environment program thinks we need to do to halt current rates of extinction.
1:00 pm: Humankind – Martin Luther King Day special
Meeting Hate with Love
Program profiles the philosophy of non-violence practiced by Martin Luther King and his associates with historical audio and voices of those who were there. The second half of the program features a visit with Arun Gandhi (now living in Rochester, NY), who as a troubled teenager was sent for a year-long one-on-one tutorial with his famous pacifist grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi:
Tuesday January 19, 2010
12:30 pm: Inside Europe
On today's program: A scandal over sex and money throws Northern Ireland into turmoil - Croatia's new president sets his sights on EU membership- Is La Grand Nation losing its sense of identity? - Switzerland fights up uphill battle against reckless skiers - Can Germany's industrial heartland prove it’s a powerhouse of culture?- The Irish find there's a hefty price to pay for blasphemy
1:00 pm: Common Wealth Club of California
The speaker is Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved and The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy Activist and academic Patel says that prices often mislead us, and he reveals the "hidden costs" of goods. To demonstrate his argument that the free market and corporations distort price and value, Patel suggests that the true price of a hamburger would be $200 if we factor in the hidden environment and health costs. He offers a controversial critique of our present political system and argues that to understand our current economic crisis we need to rethink our very meaning of democracy by rebalancing society and limiting markets.
Wednesday January 20, 2010
12:30 pm: Conversations with Maine
Conversations with Maine features a dancer with international credits, Molly Gawler. She began her dance training as a child in the Belgrade Grange Hall.
1:00pm: BBC’s Changing World
Nostalgia
It's estimated that up to one million people were killed during communist rule in Eastern Europe, but there is no clear figure for those imprisoned, persecuted or spied upon. While few have been brought to trial for those crimes, most countries have begun to open their secret police archives. The whole issue of what to do about the past — forget, forgive, confront — is a matter of contention in Eastern Europe. Each country has taken different approaches.
Thursday January 21, 2010
12:30 pm: Soundprint
IGY: On The Ice
“We see only a few miles of ruffled snow, bounded by a vague wavy horizon, but we know that beyond that horizon are hundreds and even thousands of miles which can offer no change to the weary eye… One knows there is neither tree, nor shrub, nor any living thing, nor even inanimate rock – nothing but this terrible limitless expanse of snow. It has been so for countless years, and it will be so for countless more. And we, little human insects, have started to crawl over this awful desert…. Could anything be more terrible than this silent, wind-swept immensity?” That’s a diary entry written by explorer Robert Falcon Scott, on his journey to Antarctica in 1905. It was, in the end, a disastrous journey. Scott wasn’t properly prepared. He had hauled along tractors, ponies, and even hay to feed the ponies, onto the ice. 50 years after Scott’s expedition, another group of explorers, much better prepared, also took a journey to Antarctica -- part of a global scientific effort to investigate the continent, called the IGY -- the International Geophysical Year. Producer Barbara Bogaev takes a look at what it was like for those men to live and work on Scott’s “silent, windswept immensity.”
1:00pm: Alternative Radio
Irene Khan, from Bangledash is Secretary General of Amnesty International. She worked for the United Nations for many years is the author of “The Unheard Truth.” Her talk is entitled Poverty, Women & Human Rights. The problem of the world's poor is at its core a human rights issue. The worldwide economic downturn is working its way through every level of the global economy. Many people in the industrialized West are experiencing its negative effects with loss of jobs, savings, and homes. But the recession's impact on people in the poorer parts of the world, who were already living with the acute insecurity of employment, food and shelter, is even greater.
Friday January 22, 2010
12:30 pm: Special: Rebroadcast of State of the State Address
1:30pm: Maine Watch with Jennifer Rooks
Governor Baldacci gives his final state of the state address this week, and on Maine Watch, we'll discuss it. The state faces a $430-million dollar revenue shortfall. During his address, the governor is expected to renew his vow to close that gap without raising taxes. Join us for our analysis of the State of the State with Bowdoin's Chris Potholm, Ron Schmidt from USM, and Governor King's former chief of staff, Kay Rand.
Monday January 25, 2010
12:30 pm: Living Planet
EcoQuest has all the answers to your climate change, ecology, sustainability and other environmental queries.
1:00 pm: Commonwealth Club of California
The speaker is William Eggers co-author of “ If We Can Put a Man on the Moon…Getting Big Things Done in Government” Frustrated by the growing list of high-profile failures, Americans have rarely expected so much from our government while also having so little public confidence in government’s ability to actually get things done. Eggers discusses the highlights from his review of more than 75 government undertakings in the U.S. and abroad to find out what works, what doesn’t and why.
Tuesday January 26, 2010
12:30 pm: Inside Europe
On this week's programme: Haitian expats in France pull together - Europe's perspective on Barack Obama's first year - Greeks try to laugh off their woes - The merits of the World Economic Forum - Is Iceland on collision course with Britain and the Netherlands? - Squatters go after posh property in Paris - Fishy fashion on European catwalks - Is beekeeping the latest buzz in London?
1:00 pm: The Living Well Show
Dr. Henry Pollack, author of A World Without Ice, is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with Vice President Al Gore. Dr. Pollack tells us about the importance of the delicate geological balance between the Earth and its ice and the very serious consequences of the increasing loss of the world’s ice.
1:30 pm: Humankind
For many people, pain flares up in an excruciating, occasional episode that eventually fades away. But the millions of patients who experience chronic pain in the form of lower back pain, headaches, neck pain and other ailments may be up against a condition that mainstream medical science today can help only to manage, not cure. This segment of Humankind presents the voices of people with pain who come together in a support group, swap helpful techniques, and deliberately focus on what's positive in their lives while accepting reality. We also hear specific self-care techniques explained by an expert in treating people with pain, physician Margaret Caudill, author of "Managing Pain Before It Manages You". One of her suggestions is to keep a "pain diary" to help you track patterns that can be useful in reducing your discomfort.
Wednesday January 27, 2010
12:30 pm: Conversations with Maine
Dahlov Ipcar's art hangs in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is well known in Maine for her posters created for MPBN auctions and the Common Ground Fair.
1:00pm: Cleveland City Club Forum
Admiral Dennis McGinn, CEO of Remote Reality, speaks on “Environmental Security”.
Thursday January 28, 2010
12:30 pm: Soundprint
My Life So Far
The story told by the young people of Alert Bay, a remote island on the west coast of Canada, is both familiar and unique. Like most people who come of age in a small community, Alert Bay’s youth is torn between staying and venturing into the bigger world. What’s unique about their story is the struggle to keep their culture alive. Alert Bay is the home of the Namgis First Nation. At one time it was Canadian government policy to assimilate its aboriginal people, and suppress their language and culture. St. Michael’s Indian Residential School, now derelict, serves as painful reminder of the past, as do the stories of the community’s elders. My Life So Far was created from tape gathered by five young people from Alert Bay, aged 11 to 17. Two CBC producers loaned them recording equipment, gave them some training, and a simple task. They were asked, tell us about where you live. Tell us about your life.
1:00pm: Intelligence Squared
Oxford style debate on the motion: “California is the first failed state”
Uniquely charged by its constitution to guarantee the “happiness” of its residents – California empowered its people to demand by referendum whatever they wanted to spend money on – from better schools to bigger prisons and to refuse by referendum to pay the bills. A legislature paralyzed by the absence of a workable middle – and a requirement for a 2/3 vote to impose taxes – combined finally to dig the state into a possibly inescapable hole. Having now earned the lowest bond rating of any of the 50 states, the rates it pays to borrow keep getting higher.
Friday January 29, 2010
12:30 pm: Maine Watch with Jennifer Rooks
This week on Maine Watch, the future of passenger rail in Maine. Could people soon take the train to Brunswick, Rockland, Lewiston/Auburn or even Augusta? We'll look at plans already in place, and how they might be funded... we could find out this week. And, a conversation with US Small Business Administrator Karen Mills of Brunswick - ten months into her tenure in Washington about her efforts to help small businesses get loans they need.
1:00pm: It’s Your World
Roger Thurow, Author and Foreign Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal gives a talk entitled "The Forces Behind Famine" For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet more than 9 million people die each year of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases. Roger Thurow looks at the geopolitics that allow some countries to prosper while others starve. Thurow has been a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal for twenty years and has reported from more than sixty countries.
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