The Olympic torch returned to China today. Anchor Marco Werman tells how tens of thousands of supporters turned out to see the Hong Kong relay. There were a few pro-Tibet protestors. But they were shouted down.

Entire program - May 2, 2008

The World's Gerry Hadden samples some of the music that fueled social change in 1968.

The answer to today's Geo Quiz is Sydney, Australia. Phil Mercer reports on a new exhibition on Sydney's raucous pub culture. The show just opened at the city's Justice and Police Museum.

A group of writers delivered a letter today to China's United Nations mission in New York. The letter urged the release of 39 Chinese writers and journalists believed to be imprisoned in China. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with playwright Edward Albee, one of the writers delivering the letter.

Our daily Geography Quiz.

The World's Katy Clark updates us on Iraq War veteran Damean Vlasak's quest to earn a bachelor's degree back home in Massachusetts.

Damean Vlasak at the UMass Boston library

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Hassan Fattah about an English newspaper that's just hit newstands in Abu Dhabi. Fattah, a former New York Times Correspondent, is deputy editor of "The National."

Anchor Marco Werman tells us that movie special effects were born more than a century ago, with the "out-of-this-world" visions of French movie pioneer Georges Méliès. He talks with Brian Selznick, author of children's book "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" and longtime fan of Méliès, about a new DVD collection of Méliès's films.

Scene from 'Chaudron Infernal' (1903)

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with BBC sports journalist Farayi Mungazi about this year's African Athletics Championships now under way in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.