Clark Boyd is back at the helm for Tech Podcast 154. This is a special theme-based podcast. We'll listen to some of the reporting The World has done on the topic of global Internet censorship. Clark's off to London next week to Chair an Amnesty International event called Some People Think the Internet is a Bad Thing. Listen in for details on how you can participate as well.

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Host Marco Werman speaks with veteran record producer Joe Boyd. He was a key player in the London music scene in the 1960's. He says 1967 was the climax of the sixties in London. After that, he says, the idealism that infused the London counterculture started to fade away.

The answer to today's Geo Quiz is the Isle of Mann where a weeklong, hair-raising bicycle race is underway.

Correspondent Alan Silverman tells us about the hit Irish movie, "Once." Just released in the US, it is the winner of the Sundance World Cinema Audience Award and features a member of a Dublin rock band and a Prague-born musician.

Our daily geography quiz.

Many Kenyans rely on money sent to them from family and friends living abroad. Cash usually comes by way of the bank or wire transfer. Now there's a more high tech method of transferring money, text messaging. Richard Lough has the story from Kenya's capital Nairobi.

Correspondent Sheri Fink reports on what experts are saying about the drug resistant form of Tuberculosis at a meeting in Washington, D.C. An American citizen is in quarantine in Atlanta after flying to Europe and returning to the US after being diagnosed with a drug resistant strain of the disease.

Join our online discussion of today's current events.

Host Marco Werman speaks with Ira Newble of the NBA Cleveland Cavaliers, and Eric Reeves, a pofessor at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. What the two have in common is that they're working together to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur region.

"Not on Our Watch" - Actor Don Cheadle's book and website on Darfur


Actress Mia Farrow's website - she's also been active on Darfur issues

American interrogation techniques since 9/11 have come under increasing criticism. The question is when does the interrogation of a prisoner become torture. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with one of the most vocal critics of the Bush administration's definition of interrogation, Air Force colonel Steven Kleinman who worked as an interrogator in Iraq.