"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen."
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 GoodThings on Public Radio March 28, 2002 We want to hear from you. What's the best public radio story or show you heard this past week? Share. If you want to listen, you'll need RealPlayer on your computer. (If you don't already have it, it's a FREE download.) Visit Real Networks. FRIDAY, March 29 | Thailand's Positive Reality Radio In Bangkok, millions are glued to a radio show that's all the rage. No, they're not tuning in to the latest "shock jock"; they're addicted to a show with a name that translates to "Let's Get Together and Help Each Other." The 24-hour-a-day show is a veritable network of good. Listeners keep their eyes and ears open for people around the city who are in need. The abandoned, the robbed, the raped -- they all have a whole city of caring souls looking out for them and helping get them connected to appropriate support services. The show began five years ago in the middle of Thailand's financial crisis and emerged as a humane counterpoint to the greed that had brought so many people to their knees. [The World] Listen (length of clip 6 min 49 sec). SATURDAY, March 30 | The "Accidental Ethicist" Randy Cohen is best known to readers of the Sunday New York Times magazine as "the Ethicist." His weekly advice column confronts the most vexing of moral dilemmas as described in the letters of readers. And now, he has a new book -- The Good, the Bad, and the Difference -- that gives him explore in more detail what he's learned about the quest to determine right from wrong in situations that aren't exactly black and white. Having stumbled into his role as the Ethicist from his previous experience as a comedy writer for David Letterman, Cohen is known for the wry wit that he brings to life's big questions. Not a student of the great philosophers, he counts as his secret weapon a crack team of experts from all disciplines who guide him when he's stumped. [Weekend All Things Considered] Listen (7:44). :: Get your copy of Randy Cohen's book The Good, the Bad, and the Difference: How To Tell Right from Wrong in Everyday Situations. SUNDAY, March 31 | The Benevolent Monarch When Britain's Queen Mother died this past week, most remembered her for her undying compassion and for grace with which she was able to relate to the people of her country. One of the most popular and loved "royals" for most of her life, she became queen when her husband's brother abdicated the throne in disgrace. As wife to George VI and mother of the current Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mum spent her life in the public eye, but it was during World War II when she made her reputation in the eyes of Britons. When Buckingham Palace was bombed by Nazis during raids on London, she commiserated personally with the city's most hard-hit residents. Her quote "I felt I could look the East Enders in the face" is still remembered as one of the clearest symbols that the royal family were indeed people, too. [Weekend Edition Sunday] Listen (3:34). MONDAY, April 1 | "New Day" for Afghans On March 21, the people of Afghanistan celebrated their traditional new year. And the thousands of Afghan-Americans were some of the most jubilant celebrants. Over 60,000 Afghans called California's Alameda County their home away from home, and a full 7,000 of them gathered to celebrate a holiday that has a direct translate of "new day." In this piece, Afghan-Americans talk about what it means that their country is once again free and what it's like to begin building a community that transcends all of Afghanistans many ethnic groups. They also discuss the trying process of overcoming the war-on-terrorism-fueled stereotypes that their some of their fellow Americans still seem to harbor. [Morning Edition] Listen (3:20). :: Learn more about the Afghan New Year and the Afghanistan Project in Alameda County, California. TUESDAY, April 2 | Voices of Youth In the Middle East, tensions are high. And perhaps nowhere is that more than in the hearts and minds of the region's youth. In this segment, courtesy of Youth Radio, a Palestinian boy from Bethlehem emotionally describes the feeling of being under siege, while an Israeli girl from Jerusalem offers gripping detail of what it means to be paralyzed by fear. What's most powerful is how these two reflect upon the ties that bind them. [Morning Edition] Listen (4:09). :: Learn more about Youth Radio. WEDNESDAY, April 3 | Water of Life After learning to play a wide range of Middle Eastern instruments while growing up in Turkey, Omar Faruk Tekbilek immigrated to the United States. Once there, he had to put his music on hold for some 17 years while he worked in suit-making factory in Rochester, New York. It wasn't until an accident in the factory that he finally returned to his passion. Raised a Sufi Muslim, Faruk (as he is called) espouses a positive, inclusive view of the world, preferring to think of the Mediterranean Sea as a "lake" that joins the people of Greece, Egypt, Israel, and Turkey as one human family. [The World] Listen (5:23). :: Buy your copy of Omar Faruk Tekbilek's CD Dance into Eternity: Selected Pieces 1987-1998. [more] THURSDAY, April 4 | The Art of Medicine Commentator and medical doctor Howard Markel ponders the lost art of teaching in US medical schools. As patients in hospitals around the country yearn for a more human touch in their physicians, medical schools continue to diminish the value of good teaching. Medical researchers benefit from rewards -- both financial and prestige-related -- that few teachers of medicine ever attain. Markel remembers the compassionate example of a former medical school mentor and how much it meant to him and later, by transference, to his patients. [Morning Edition] Listen (3:13). [ : previous week : ] WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. Did we miss a good public radio story this week? Want to recommend one for next week? Share it with us!  |
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