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Week of Sat, 2007-08-18 23:00 to Sat, 2007-08-25 22:59


Listen Pakistan political bombshell (5:00)
August 23, 2007 permalink

Pakistan's supreme court ruled that exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is free to return. Sharif says he will, to challenge President Pervez Musharraf, the man who ousted Sharif in a 1999 coup. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Abbas Nasir, editor at the Dawn Newspaper in Karachi.


Listen Entire program - August 23
August 23, 2007 permalink


Listen Global Hit and Geo Answer (4:00)
August 22, 2007 permalink

The World's Marco Werman profiles a singer named Nawal. She's from the Comoros Islands just off the south-eastern coast of Africa. The Comoros Islands are the answer to today's Geo Quiz. Nawal explores Indian ocean rhythms on her new CD called "Aman."

For more information, visit the Global Hit page


Listen Europe's Thousand Euro generation (4:00)
August 22, 2007 permalink

Millions of young, educated Europeans earn less than a thousand euros, or about 13 hundred dollars, a month. They're called the Thousand Euro Generation. Some are calling them Europe's new poor. The World's Gerry Hadden explains.


Listen Nazi board games (2:30)
August 22, 2007 permalink

The World's Clark Boyd tells us about an auction taking place tomorrow in Britain. Some of the items up for bid are children's board games made in Nazi Germany.


Nazi board games on auction

Listen Nigeria one man play (5:20)
August 22, 2007 permalink

American actor Dan Hoyle travelled to Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta. There he met with American oil workers, Nigerian warlords, and people just caught in the crossfire of Nigeria's oil wars. Now he's telling their stories in a New York theater. The World's Alex Gallafent reports on Hoyle and his one man play, "Tings Dey Happen."



Tings Dey Happen

Listen Geo Quiz (1:00)
August 22, 2007 permalink

Where in the world will we go today?

For more information, visit the Geo Quiz page

Listen America's "dirty energy" castoffs (6:45)
August 22, 2007 permalink

US businesses are phasing out their older, pollution generating technologies, in favor of greener, cleaner factories and vehicles. But some of their retired coal fired plants and belching buses are getting a second life. They are turning up in developing countries with less stringent emission standards. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets the story from Boston Globe report Beth Daley.


Article from the Boston Globe

Listen The history of Islamic Spain, retold (8:30)
August 22, 2007 permalink

A PBS documentary airing tonight retells the history of Islamic Spain. The film revisits a time when much of the Spanish peninsula was controlled by Muslim rulers, and when Christians, Muslims and Jews often lived side by side peacefully. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Alexander Kronemer, one of the executive producers of "Cities of Light, The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain." She also speaks with Georgetown professor John Voll.


Twenty Thousand Dialogues

Unity Productions Foundation


Listen US officer charged in Iraq bribery (6:00)
August 22, 2007 permalink

A US army major, along with his wife and sister - are accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes from contractors doing business with the US military in Iraq. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets details from Washington Post reporter Dana Hedgpeth, who has been following the story.


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