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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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?

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In this encore presentation of Here on Earth, Jean Feraca talks to a young Belarusian poet who is hailed as a "risen star" in the international poetry world.

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The Sugar Creek Morland Project is an Anglo-American mission of friendship and understanding uniting children who share a common language but are separated by an ocean. Verona, Wisconsin meets Ipswich, England.

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Hooman Majd, born in Tehran and grandson of an ayatollah, serves as translator for Iranian president Ahmadinejad. He unravels the conundrums of his native country in his book The Ayatollah Begs to Differ.

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Noah Feldman describes the sharp rift in the US Supreme Court that has emerged since 9/11 on international law. The justices, writes Feldman, "are doing as much as anyone to shape America's fortunes in an age of global terror and economic turmoil."

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How many kinds of apple can you name? Philip Forsline can name 2,500 of them. And he has tasted every one of them. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, meet the big family of apples and the scientists who work hard to preserve it. Oh, did we mention how much we owe to bears for the delicious tastes of apples?

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This premier program in our year long new media series we are producing with UW Madison Global Studies features scholar/musician Mark Levine who jams with Moroccan bands, members of a heavy metal Bagdad band, and Allah only knows who else.

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Canadian photographer Stephen Huyler gives us a whole new sense of the women of India who are fighting for identity, rights and power across every caste through the binding thread of art.

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We discovered a true Here-on-Earthian in Jon Miller, executive producer of the NPR series "Worlds of Difference" and "Think Global," the 2005 Public Radio Collaboration on globalization.

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For this year's Fall Equinox Poetry Circle of the Air Molly Peacock has chosen a really edgy poem written by the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam in 1918, on the heels of the Bolshevik Revolution. Very hard-hitting; has much to say about our own sense of sturm und drang in this highly pivotal political year.

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