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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.
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The Promise of Paradox, Parker Palmer's first book published in 1980, was just re-issued with a new introduction. Writing it gave Parker a chance to revisit some of the challenging
Could the election of Barack Obama, fifty years after the Cuban revolution finally help normalize relations between the two countries? Jean Feraca talks with New York Times columnist...
Great cooking goes beyond following a recipe: it is knowing how to season ingredients to coax the greatest possible flavor from them. The authors of the Flavor Bible have talked with...
There was a time in Japanese history when samurai warriors did not have enough to do and got lazy and fat. As a remedy, a samurai doctor/philosopher named Kaibara Ekiken prescribed
It has been a rough election season for American Arabs and Muslims, but Jonathan Curiel of the San Francisco Chronicle has an antidote. In his book, Al America, he traces the roots
The African continent is home to 53 separate countries, with huge modern mega cities, where over one thousand languages are spoken. Is this the Africa you recognize? Join us for the...
The Goldman Sachs Foundation partnered with the Asia Society to encourage American high school students to study abroad. We will meet two of this year's winners of the prize-winners...
A new take on Mediterranean cooking from a woman who has been everywhere and loves it all. Lori Skelton talks with Sara Jenkins, author of Olives and Oranges.
You have probably been hearing some of the same horrifying stories about the fate of Muslim girls that we have been hearing: stonings, rapes, murders, even young Pakistani girls buried...
With the city of Mumbai in mourning over last weeks attacks, attention has turned to finding those responsible. The accusations are already flying between India and Pakistan. Can the...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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:...
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,...
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 Str
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 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...
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...
Cinnamon, everybody's favorite spice: Where it comes from, why it is prized, and how to work kitchen magic with it.
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...
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 admi
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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