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	Here on Earth Podcast
	Produced by Wisconsin Public Radio and hosted by Jean Feraca, "Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders" is a live cultural affairs call-in talk show that introduces extraordinary people from across the world whose stories instill passion and connect deeply with listeners each weekday. Join us live from 4PM to 5PM Eastern time Monday through Friday. The show is streamed live at hereonearth.org. © (C) 2008 Wisconsin Public Radio
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Laser Monks

How did five Cistercian monks create a 10-million dollar Internet business? By applying the simple principles of the 900 year old Rule of St. Benedict, these entrepreneurial brothers have built a successful ink, toner, and office products company.

Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Begetting Wild Dreams

Jean Feraca was part of a panel at this year's AIHA conference in New Haven recently (AIHA stands for American Italian Historical Association) and once again, she found some very simpatico people, talented and clever writers, that she is sharing with you in this program called Wild Dreams, the title of a new anthology of Italian writers. Expect a good time.

Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Mooseburgers (Encore)

For hunters who live around Anchorage or Wasilla where Sarah Palin learned how to butcher moose as a child, there is a tacit understanding that bagging one is considered nearly a birthright. There is moose meat for lunch today on Here on Earth. And what else do they eat in Alaska?

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Listening as an Act of Love (Encore)

StoryCorps is roaming the country collecting stories and legends of everyday America. Thousands have taken part in the oral history project. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks to the creator of StoryCorps who shares his favorite StoryCorps moments.

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Obama Vs. Osama

Last week al Zawari, Osama bin Laden's top deputy, issued a blunt personal attack against President-Elect Obama, calling him a House Negro and a traitor to his race, and comparing him unfavorably with Malcolm X, the 1960's black Muslim leader. Malcolm X's followers are fighting back. Join us to unpack Al Quaeda's message.

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Saving The Coral Reefs

There is at least one success story in Apo Island in the Phillipines that suggests we can. It was told in the Wild Reef exhibit currently at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. We will talk with George Parsons, Director of Fishes at the Shedd about the Project Seahorse, an international group of marine biologists fighting to save the world's underwater wonders.

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Closing Guantanamo Bay

In his first televised appearance since the election, President-Elect Obama told CBS 60 Minutes that he intends to close Guantanamo Bay prison and end the practice of torture. It turns out that it is not going to be so easy. There are 50 inmates at Guantanamo, some of them violent extremists. We will explore Obama's options and look into the success rate of Islamist rehabilitation programs with Christopher Boucek in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Foundation.

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Cuisines of the Axis of Evil

Everything we eat is burdened with social, political, religious, and even militarized meaning. Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States dishes out a saucy culinary feast of facts on ten controversial countries, their policies, and, of course, the food that unifies us all. Jean Feraca talks to its author, Chris Fair.

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

International Literature for Children

Have you ever wondered what a Ghanaian boy would think of the story Cinderella or how an Argentine girl would respond to the Princess and the Pea? Jean Feraca talks to a top children's writer in Africa to explore the universality of international children's literature.

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Our World in 25 Years

In its 25th anniversary issue, the World Policy Journal asked a collection of the world's prime and original thinkers to imagine just what our planet might look like, in all its variety, a quarter century hence in year 2033.

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Find Beauty in a Broken World

From one of our most prized environmental writers comes a luminous exploration of beauty and community in places as diverse as Ravenna, Italy, Bryce Canyon and Rwanda. Join Jean Feraca with Terry Tempest Williams to find beauty in a broken world.

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Fred Ho: Revolutionary Earth Music

Fred Ho, visionary Chinese American composer and virtuoso baritone saxophonist, joins us to talk about his music, his politics, his Afro-Asian ensemble, and his upcoming performance: Revolutionary Earth Music: People and the Planet Before Profit.

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Everybody Loves Donuts

Fry, Baby: It's no secret that Americans love doughnuts but it might surprise you to learn that the rest of the world loves them too. The Italians have zeppole, the Mexicans have churros, and the Greeks have loukoumades.

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

The World According to Sesame Street

In Germany, everybody swears Burt and Ernie are German, and you have not lived until you have heard Rubber Ducky sung in Mandarin! Jean Feraca talks to people behind the Sesame Street.

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Feeding Haiti

In 2000 Margaret Trost was reeling from the sudden death of her young husband and trying to adjust to life as a single mom when a friend invited her to come to Haiti to work as a volunteer in a hospice and an orphanage. She went looking for healing. What she found was her life's mission.

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Dancing Forest: The Value of Women

In the village of Baga in Togo, Africa, the forest holds a special place for the society. By protecting the forest and valuing women as guardian of the land, the village is building a shining model of self-reliance.

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

The Life of John Lennon

Peace activist, edgy artist, international icon. It is hard to sum up John Lennon and his influence on fans worldwide. Biographer Philip Norman takes an unflinching look, casting light on a man who shaped a generation's outlook on politics, religion and art.

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Cinnamon

Cinnamon, everybody's favorite spice: Where it comes from, why it is prized, and how to work kitchen magic with it.

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

The World and President Obama

Parisians were overjoyed while Russians were muted. Kenyans had a national holiday while Iraqis remain skeptical. The world is reacting to the election of Barack Obama, but what happens now with our image abroad? Jean Feraca talks to award-winning journalists from across the globe.

Thu, 6 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

The Genius of Community Organizing

What would the world look like if we are all community organizers? Jean Feraca talks to Parker Palmer about how Obama's model of community organizing may be carried out in his administration.

Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

The World of Children Awards

Dubbed the "Nobel Prize for Children," the World of Children Awards program searches the globe to find and support those individuals who are pioneering life-changing programs to benefit children, and some of the honorees are children themselves!

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

The Election Abroad

While Americans are getting used to the idea that Barack Obama may become our first African-American president, what is the rest of the world saying about it? We will ask a group of international journalists who are here in the States studying the election and filing their reports back home.

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 14:00:01 GMT

What Vampires Eat

The fact that Halloween happens to fall on a Friday this year has not been lost on us. So our approach to food this week will be a bit deviant: You are invited to join us at a table for the undead where you will find our favorite ghoul, Neil Whitehead. He can describe, with relish, just what vampires eat.

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

The Folklore of Election 2008

John McCain, The Warrior; Sarah Palin, The Siren; Barack Obama, The Least Likely Hero. Harold Scheub sees this year's election season as theater with a cast of characters who force each other into stock roles. Can they survive their stereotypes?

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Young Muslims and New Media

Way beyond Al Jazeera, the expansion of open media in the Arab world is changing the socio-political landscape of the region in dramatic ways. We will consider Noor, the Turkish soap opera likened to Dallas and dubbed into street Arabic that has become so wildly popular that imams in Saudi Arabia and Gaza have issued fatwas against anyone who watches it. Nobody pays attention. Or the work of Ali Ardekani, a 33-year-old videoblogger who cast as Baba Ali. He is funny and hip and has a huge following. He is one of a growing movement of young Muslims trying to change the face of Islam through new media. If Osama bin Laden were really smart, he would be paying attention.

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

My Father's Paradise: The Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

Ariel Sabar is one of a handful of people on earth who speaks Aramaic, the ancient language of Jesus. That is because he is a Kurdish Jew. He tells the amazing story of his people who have managed to keep their faith, their language, and their culture alive over nearly three thousand years despite the greatest odds.

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Life in a Jar: An Unsung Heroine of the Holocaust

If it had not been for three high school girls in Kansas, we might never have known about the work of Irene Sendler, an unsung heroine of the Holocaust. A Polish Catholic social worker, she saved about 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto. Jean talks with one of the girls, Sendler's translator.

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Marcella Hazan Remembers

arcella Hazan, the duenna of Italian cooking who single-handedly introduced Americans to Italian regional cooking, swore she would never write another book, but she could not help herself. Borrowing from Fellini, it is called simply "Amarcord: Marcella Remembers."

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Alaa al Aswany's Chicago

He is called the Sinbad of Literature and his latest novel is set on a college campus in post 9/11 Chicago where Egyptian and American lives, Arab traditions and American mores collide. Jean Feraca talks with Alaa al Aswany, one of the best-selling authors of the Arab world.

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Big Trips

Do gay men make the best travel writers? Raphael Kadushin, the editor of two gay travel anthologies, insists they do. His new book deals with the whole concept of wanderlust, our need to travel, our sense of the world, and the meaning of home.

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Urban Earth

Geographer Daniel Raven-Ellison has walked through street vendors, traffic and slums in London, Mumbai, and Mexico City, taking a photograph every eight steps in an effort to change the way we see the cities we live in.

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Race in the Race

Obama supporters may be justifiably horrified by the racism that has been incited by the McCain campaign. But what about the potshots aimed at Sarah Palin? Jean Feraca and her guest discuss race in the race.

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Mushrooms

Morels, Chanterelles, Hen of the Woods, Hedgehogs, Monkey's head and Lio's Mane. This Friday we're talking mushrooms: the dangers and delights of picking your own, and what to do with them once you get them home.

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines

The gifted modern nomad Stephanie Elizondo Griest (Where in the World is Stephanie?) stopped her wanderings long enough to write a probing memoir titled Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines.

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Mami Wata: African water spirits

Mami Wata, which is pidgin English for Mother Water, is the name given to a major exhibit celebrating African water spirits that is opening soon at the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, honoring the essential sacred nature of water. Jean Feraca talks with UW-Madison Professor of African Art Henry Drewal, curator and sailor.

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

The Power of Story

Jean Feraca talks to Harold Scheub who has a new book coming out called Surviving 350 Years: The Uncoiling Python. It is about how the black people of South Africa used their oral tradition of storytelling to survive apartheid.

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Whaledreamers: Indigenous Intelligence

Whaledreamers is the story of how an ancient whaledreaming aboriginal tribe from Southern Australia makes a comeback, along with its totem spirit animal, from the edge of extinction. Jean Feraca talks with British film director Kim Kindersley and his whale whisperer.

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Growing Power

Will Allen, ex basketball star turned urban farmer, joins to talk about Growing Power, his urban farm in downtown Milwaukee and what he plans to do with his MacArthur genius grant.

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Tuna: A Love Story

In this encore presentation of Here on Earth, Richard Ellis, author of The Book of Sharks, introduces us to a fish that can weigh in at 1500 pounds and speed up to 55 miles per hour, an Atlantic northern bluefin can travel from New England to the Mediterranean, then turn around and swim back; one of the biggest, fastest, and most highly evolved marine animals now hovering on the brink of extinction. I once visited a tuna museum in Sardinia and marveled.

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Monique and the Mango Rains

A few years ago we reported on an extraordinary friendship that grew up between a young Peace Corps volunteer and a Malian wife. Kris Halloway, the young Peace Corps volunteer told the story in her moving memoir, Monique and the Mango Rains. Now she is back with the rest of the story.

Wed, 8 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

To Choose or Not To Choose

In this encore presentation of Here on Earth, Sadia Shepherd grew up in Boston, the daughter of a Protestant father from Colorado and a Muslim mother from Pakistan. Then, when she found out that her grandmother was actually Jewish, the descendent of a community thought to be one of the lost tribes of Israel shipwrecked in India, things really got complicated. So let's see, that makes her a Jewish Christian Muslim Hindu, right? Her parents tell her, "You choose."

Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Creationism Goes Global

Is creationism contagious? For years, this peculiarly American movement seemed to be contained within our borders. But in the last several years, creationism had become a global phenomenon, as readily exportable as hip-hop and bluejeans. Science historian Ron Numbers joins us along with WPR's Steve Paulson who just returned from a trip to Turkey, one of the country's where creationism is taking hold.

Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:00:01 GMT

Here on Earth Promo

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Sat, 13 Aug 2005 00:00:01 GMT

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