http://www.radiocurious.org Fri, 01 May 2026 04:07:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 Welcome to the 20th year of Radio Curious, half hour interviews on a curiously wide variety of topics about life and ideas. All of the almost 400 half-hour archive editions on our website are free for you to enjoy, download, copy, share or rebroadcast as you wish. Please give credit to Radio Curious and let us know what you like about the program. www.radiocurious.org Radio Curious clean Radio Curious curious@radiocurious.org curious@radiocurious.org (Radio Curious) Creative Commons-Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Radio Curious Radio Curious, Interviews, Environment, Education, Chautauquan, Psychology/Psychaitry, Sex, Mendocino, Law, Religion, Feminism http://www.radiocurious.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/radio-curious-rss-logo.jpg http://www.radiocurious.org/category/self-identity/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/29/irwin-keller-the-kinsey-scale-and-the-kinsey-sicks/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/29/irwin-keller-the-kinsey-scale-and-the-kinsey-sicks/#comments Fri, 30 Aug 2024 04:11:21 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5345 http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/29/irwin-keller-the-kinsey-scale-and-the-kinsey-sicks/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - The issue of sexual orientation plagues people in many different ways — political upheaval that sometimes include religious or physical violence. But then politics, religion and violence are integral to human belief s... Click here to begin listening.  The issue of sexual orientation plagues people in many different ways — political upheaval that sometimes include religious or physical violence. But then politics, religion and violence are integral to human belief systems. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Irwin Keller, also known as “Winnie,” a founder and current member of “The Kinsey Sicks,” the Dragapella Beautyshop acapella Quartet. The name, “The Kinsey Sicks” comes from Alfred Kinsey’s sexual orientation scale of homosexual men, the measure of which Irwin Keller explains in our conversation. Blasphemy, one of the hallmarks of the Kinsey Sicks resounds in their work and in the echoes of this interview recorded in a Northern California synagogue on July 28, 2008. We began when I asked Irwin Keller to describe “Winnie,” the character he portrays and the origin of “The Kinsey Sicks,” but first lets listen to the remainder of “Trixie” the second song on their newest CD, “Sicks, Sicks, Sicks!” You can learn more about the Kinsey Sicks by visiting their website, www.kinseysicks.com The book Irwin Keller recommends is, “The Seventh Well,” by Fred Wander and Michael Hoffman Ignacio Ayala clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/22/dr-daniel-gottlieb-learning-from-the-heart/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/22/dr-daniel-gottlieb-learning-from-the-heart/#comments Fri, 23 Aug 2024 04:52:32 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5342 http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/22/dr-daniel-gottlieb-learning-from-the-heart/feed/ 0  Click here to begin listening. - Dr. Dan Gottlieb is a practicing psychologist living and working near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has experienced quadriplegia for approximately 30 years when he broke his back and severed his spinal cord as a res...  Click here to begin listening. Dr. Dan Gottlieb is a practicing psychologist living and working near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has experienced quadriplegia for approximately 30 years when he broke his back and severed his spinal cord as a result of an automobile accident. His 2008 book, “Learning From the Heart: Lessons on Living, Loving and Listening,” shares some of his life experiences. In this conversation he explains how 30 years ago he could not have imagined that he would have become a quadriplegic, lose both his parents and his wife, and be a now happy and contented person. This interview was recorded May 14, 2008. The book Dr. Dan Gottlieb recommends is, “The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness,” by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Ignacio Ayala clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/08/mary-roach-human-sexuality-a-conversation/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/08/mary-roach-human-sexuality-a-conversation/#comments Thu, 08 Aug 2024 18:47:46 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5336 http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/08/mary-roach-human-sexuality-a-conversation/feed/ 1 Click here to begin listening.  - Sex, something that all creatures seek to achieve in one form or another, is often more than discreet among humans. In this discussion with science journalist, Mary Roach, author of, “Bonk, Click here to begin listening.  (https://www.radio4all.net/files/vogel@sonic.net/ROACH_INTERVIEW_8.8.24%20IA.mp3) Sex, something that all creatures seek to achieve in one form or another, is often more than discreet among humans. In this discussion with science journalist, Mary Roach, author of, “Bonk, The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex,” we have a direct and frank conversation about human sexuality, including orgasms, what they are, how you know if you have one, and the difference between the male and female human sexual response. This program was recorded on April 14, 2008. The book Mary Roach recommends is, “The Atlas of Human Sex Anatomy.” Ignacio Ayala clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/01/amy-sutherland-lessons-about-ourselves-from-animal-trainers/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/01/amy-sutherland-lessons-about-ourselves-from-animal-trainers/#comments Fri, 02 Aug 2024 03:50:10 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5332 http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/08/01/amy-sutherland-lessons-about-ourselves-from-animal-trainers/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - Reinforcement of desired behavior is the key to animal training. As humans, we are subject to the same way of learning. Amy Sutherland, author of, “What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Click here to begin listening.  (https://www.radio4all.net/files/vogel@sonic.net/SUTHERLAND_8.1.24%20IA.mp3) Reinforcement of desired behavior is the key to animal training. As humans, we are subject to the same way of learning. Amy Sutherland, author of, “What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love and Marriage: Lessons for People from Animals and Their Trainers,” shares many ideas about how to achieve more desirable relationships with friends and loved ones. This Program was recorded on March 19, 2008. The book Amy Sutherland recommends is, “Demonic Males: Apes and the Origin of Human Violence,” by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson. Ignacio Ayala clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/07/25/richard-w-johnson-jr-an-activist-journalist/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/07/25/richard-w-johnson-jr-an-activist-journalist/#comments Fri, 26 Jul 2024 04:38:56 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5328 http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/07/25/richard-w-johnson-jr-an-activist-journalist/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - Few people in Mendocino County who are not elected officials have created as much enmity and as many disruptive relationships as has Richard W. Johnson, Jr., the owner, editor and publisher of four local newspapers un... Click here to begin listening.  (https://www.radio4all.net/files/vogel@sonic.net/JOHNSON_INTERVIEW_7.25.24%20IA.mp3) Few people in Mendocino County who are not elected officials have created as much enmity and as many disruptive relationships as has Richard W. Johnson, Jr., the owner, editor and publisher of four local newspapers under the banner of Mendocino Country, since 1984. Johnson, who characterizes himself as a community organizer, lives in his office in downtown Ukiah, CA, overlooking Courthouse Square; he claims among many other things to be the original organizer of California Certified Organic Farmers, the Recipient of Walking Stick Award from Mendocino Environment Center in 1992 for promoting Ocean Sanctuary off the Mendocino Coast, and the original proponent of Measure G on the 2000 ballot. When I invited him to visit Radio Curious he said he would like to discuss “the amazing but little understood and seldom appreciated Richard Johnson, his life and times.” We touched on those and a few other topics in this conversation, recorded in the studios of Radio Curious on February 19, 2008, and began when I asked him about some of the areas where he would like to be better understood. Ignacio Ayala clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/06/21/michael-shuman-keeping-the-culture-of-small-towns-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/06/21/michael-shuman-keeping-the-culture-of-small-towns-2/#comments Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:37:58 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5310 http://www.radiocurious.org/2024/06/21/michael-shuman-keeping-the-culture-of-small-towns-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening. - Years ago, before the myriad of things to buy were as available as they are now, retail businesses were most often locally-owned and operated, often for generations. This all began to change in the middle of the last c... Click here to begin listening. (https://www.radio4all.net/files/vogel@sonic.net/SHUMAN_INTERVIEW_6.20.24%20IA.mp3) Years ago, before the myriad of things to buy were as available as they are now, retail businesses were most often locally-owned and operated, often for generations. This all began to change in the middle of the last century, as many of the items in the Sears Catalogue became available in towns and cities across the nation for consumers to feel and touch. But, it wasn’t until approximately 25 years ago when Wal-Mart, Target and other big-box stores appeared nationwide in small communities, to the detriment of locally-owned businesses and the social and economic benefits those businesses provided to their communities.  Michael Shuman, an attorney and an economist, is the author of, “The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses are Beating the Global Competition.” This book addresses the issues and problems of locally owned businesses and how they can successfully compete with the big-box stores owned by corporations foreign to the region. We began our conversation, which occurred on January 21, 2008, when I asked Michael Shuman to describe how a corporation comes into being, as a basis to understand some of the problems of locally owned businesses in competition with the big box stores. The book he recommends is, “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work,” by John Gottman.   Ignacio Ayala clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/09/20/dr-dan-gottlieb-quadriplegia-a-struggle-to-live/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/09/20/dr-dan-gottlieb-quadriplegia-a-struggle-to-live/#comments Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:46:34 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5171 http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/09/20/dr-dan-gottlieb-quadriplegia-a-struggle-to-live/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening. - Originally Broadcast: April 12, 2006 - Letters to Sam:A Grandfather’s Lessons on Love, Loss and the Gifts of Life - For most people, the desire to be known exceeds the desire to be loved. Who we are as individuals, Click here to begin listening. Originally Broadcast: April 12, 2006 Letters to Sam:A Grandfather’s Lessons on Love, Loss and the Gifts of Life For most people, the desire to be known exceeds the desire to be loved. Who we are as individuals, how we reckon with our personal abilities and disabilities the topic of this edition of Radio Curious, a conversation with my friend Dr. Dan Gottlieb. Dan Gottlieb, a clinical psychologist who lives and works near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania lives with quadriplegia, paralyzed from the neck down as a result of an automobile accident in 1979. He is the host of “Voices in the Family,” a weekly public radio program originating from WHYY in Philadelphia and the author of two articles a month in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Because of his physical condition, Dan thought he may not live to see his young grandson Sam grow to be man. When Sam was diagnosed with a severe form of autism several years ago, Dan decided to write a series of letters to his grandson. His book “Letter’s to Sam: A Grandfather’s Lessons on Love, Loss and the Gifts of Life,” is a collection of the thirty-two intimate and compassionate letters sharing Dan’s thoughts, observations and experiences gained from his 27 years with quadriplegia, and his professional life as a clinical psychologist. Dr. Dan Gottlieb and I visited by phone from his in mid April 2006. The books Dr. Gottlieb recommends are “Eat, Pray and Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything, Across Italy, India and Indonesia,” by Elizabeth Gilbert, and “Life of Pi,” by Yann Martel. Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/08/16/martinez-juan-shamanism-in-the-ecuadorian-jungle-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/08/16/martinez-juan-shamanism-in-the-ecuadorian-jungle-2/#comments Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:06:56 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5156 http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/08/16/martinez-juan-shamanism-in-the-ecuadorian-jungle-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - Originally Broadcast: December 5, 2005. - Concepts of “reality” have many levels, some of which are gained by fasting, and/or the use of certain plants that allow a person to view the past, present or  and future. Click here to begin listening.  Originally Broadcast: December 5, 2005. Concepts of “reality” have many levels, some of which are gained by fasting, and/or the use of certain plants that allow a person to view the past, present or  and future.  This is especially true for cultures which cherish and practice the oral tradition and thrive among an abundance of flora and fauna, like those located in the Amazon basin of South America.  In Ecuador the knowledge of the effects of the various plants in the Amazon basin is held by Shamans. Dr. Juan Martinez, our guest in this edition of Radio Curious, is a Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Cuenca, in Cuenca, Ecuador.  He’s studied, written and lectured about Shamanic practices in the Ecuadorian jungle and the medicinal and spiritual effects of the plants native to the eastern portion of the Amazon basin. Professor Juan Martinez and I visited in his office in Cuenca, Ecuador on November 17, 2005.  He began by describing the relationship of the people of Ecuadorian jungle to their worlds, the spiritual world, and the world in which they live on a daily basis. The book Juan Martinez recommends is “Amazon Worlds,” a collected work published by Sinchi Sancha, an indigenous foundation based in Ecuador. Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/01/12/steve-hellman-the-spontaneous-spoken-word-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/01/12/steve-hellman-the-spontaneous-spoken-word-2/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2023 04:54:41 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5046 http://www.radiocurious.org/2023/01/12/steve-hellman-the-spontaneous-spoken-word-2/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/12/22/juliet-schor-selling-to-our-children-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/12/22/juliet-schor-selling-to-our-children-2/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2022 03:42:05 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=5033 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/12/22/juliet-schor-selling-to-our-children-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  Born To Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture In the past 50 years, the advent of television as a medium for advertising has had significant effects on the buying habits of everyone, Click here to begin listening.  Born To Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture In the past 50 years, the advent of television as a medium for advertising has had significant effects on the buying habits of everyone, and especially on children. MRI scans on the brain, and the development of neuro-marketing are used to determine more receptive ways to market a myriad of products to all of us. Studies that follow the behavior of children show that the more involved a child is in the consumer culture, the more likelihood that the child will be depressed, be more anxious, have frequent headaches and/or stomach aches. And, the most heavily advertised products are more likely to be addictive to the users of those products. “Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and New Consumer Culture” by Professor Juliet Schor, of Boston College, presents a detailed discussion of these changes in the commercialized market place that is brought into almost every home and school. Juliet Schor recommends “For Her Own Good,” by Barbara Ehreneich and Diedre English. Originally Broadcast: December 14, 2004 Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/08/01/dr-abraham-morgantaler-viagra-is-it-for-you-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/08/01/dr-abraham-morgantaler-viagra-is-it-for-you-2/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2022 03:41:06 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4970 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/08/01/dr-abraham-morgantaler-viagra-is-it-for-you-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening. - The Viagra Myth: The Surprising Impact on Love and Relationships - Viagra, a drug with infinite name recognition and touted benefits, is, as we know, pervasively advertised on television and the Internet. Click here to begin listening. The Viagra Myth: The Surprising Impact on Love and Relationships Viagra, a drug with infinite name recognition and touted benefits, is, as we know, pervasively advertised on television and the Internet. But what is the truth and what is the fiction about this drug. These and other questions about increasing expectations of sexual performance and pleasure are answered by Dr. Abraham Morgantaler, an associate clinical professor at Harvard Medical School and the author of “The Viagra Myth: The Surprising Impact on Love and Relationships.” Dr. Abraham Morgantaler recommends “Why I Can’t Get Through To You,” by Terrance Real. Originally Broadcast: March 23, 2004 Ignacio Ayala clean 28:55 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/06/29/brooke-kroeger-when-people-cant-be-who-they-are-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/06/29/brooke-kroeger-when-people-cant-be-who-they-are-2/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2022 19:36:39 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4960 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/06/29/brooke-kroeger-when-people-cant-be-who-they-are-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are “Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are,” was written by Brooke Kroeger, an Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University. Click here to begin listening.  Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are “Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are,” was written by Brooke Kroeger, an Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University. Her book reveals why many ‘passers’ today are people of good heart and purpose whose decision to pass is an attempt to bypass injustice and to be more truly themselves. Brooke Kroeger recommends “Middlesex,” Jeffrey Eugendies, “Amerca’s Women,” by Gail Collings & “They Marched Intro Sunlight,” by David Marinis. Originally Broadcast: February 17, 2004 Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/06/09/eve-ensler-meet-the-author-of-the-vagina-monologues-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/06/09/eve-ensler-meet-the-author-of-the-vagina-monologues-2/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2022 05:33:21 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4946 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/06/09/eve-ensler-meet-the-author-of-the-vagina-monologues-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.   - The Vagina Monologues - The Vagina Monologues, created and produced by Eve Ensler, tell the stories of women, their relationships, feelings, and, in some cases, abuse. In this edition of Radio Curious, Click here to begin listening.   The Vagina Monologues The Vagina Monologues, created and produced by Eve Ensler, tell the stories of women, their relationships, feelings, and, in some cases, abuse. In this edition of Radio Curious, we spoke with Eve Ensler about the origin of the the Vagina Monologues and the film, “Until the Violence Ends.” Eve Ensler recommends “Bush in Babylon,” by Tariq Ali. Originally Broadcast: January 27, 2004 Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/06/03/robert-benton-the-human-stain-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/06/03/robert-benton-the-human-stain-2/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2022 06:03:37 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4942 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/06/03/robert-benton-the-human-stain-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - Director of, The Human Stain - Robert Benton is the director of “The Human Stain,” which is based on the third novel of Philip Roth’s trilogy describing the turmoil of post-WWII America. Click here to begin listening.  Director of, The Human Stain Robert Benton is the director of “The Human Stain,” which is based on the third novel of Philip Roth’s trilogy describing the turmoil of post-WWII America. It exposes the life of Coleman Silk, a Professor of Classics at a small New England College, an eminent Jewish intellectual and a devoted husband. Roth describes Silk as “ensnared by a history he hadn’t quite counted on.” Originally Broadcast: November 1, 2003 Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/04/20/alexandra-fuller-growing-up-white-in-africa-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/04/20/alexandra-fuller-growing-up-white-in-africa-2/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2022 03:48:07 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4915 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/04/20/alexandra-fuller-growing-up-white-in-africa-2/feed/ 0 This episode was first broadcasted on September 2, 2003. Click here to begin listening. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Our guest in this program lived in Rhodesia, Malawi and Zambia from 1972 to 1990. This episode was first broadcasted on September 2, 2003. Click here to begin listening. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Our guest in this program lived in Rhodesia, Malawi and Zambia from 1972 to 1990. Her father joined up on the side of the white government in the Rhodesian civil war, and was often away fighting against the guerilla factions. Her mother dove into their African life and its rugged farm work. Resilient and self-sufficient she taught her children to have strong wills and opinions, and to embrace life whole-heartedly, despite and because of difficult circumstances. Alexandra Fuller is the author of “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, an African Childhood.” Alexandra Fuller recommends “Echoing Silences,” by Alexander Canigone. Originally Broadcast: September 2, 2003 Ignacio Ayala clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/03/31/jennifer-finney-boylan-a-man-becomes-a-woman-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/03/31/jennifer-finney-boylan-a-man-becomes-a-woman-2/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2022 17:34:52 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4901 http://www.radiocurious.org/2022/03/31/jennifer-finney-boylan-a-man-becomes-a-woman-2/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/11/25/janna-malamud-smith-why-mothers-worry-about-their-children-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/11/25/janna-malamud-smith-why-mothers-worry-about-their-children-2/#comments Thu, 25 Nov 2021 07:24:37 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4813 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/11/25/janna-malamud-smith-why-mothers-worry-about-their-children-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  A Potent Spell: Mother Love and the Power of Fear - Is the concept of “mother blame” a method to control women? Is motherhood a really a fearsome job?  Will a mother’s mistake or inattention damage a child? Click here to begin listening.  A Potent Spell: Mother Love and the Power of Fear Is the concept of “mother blame” a method to control women? Is motherhood a really a fearsome job?  Will a mother’s mistake or inattention damage a child?  Is this different from the fear that fathers have about the safety of their children? “A Potent Spell:  Mother Love and the Power of Fear” is a recent book written by Janna Malamud Smith, a clinical psychotherapist and daughter of writer Bernard Malamud. Smith argues that the motherhood fear of losing a child is central to motherhood, and mostly overlooked as a historical force that has induced mothers throughout time to shape their own lives to better shelter their young,  the expense of their own future. I spoke with Dr. Janna Malamud Smith from her home in Massachusetts, and asked her to begin by discussing the different level of feat that fathers and mothers have toward their children. The book Janna Malamud Smith recommends is “Biography of Samuel Pepys” by Clair Tomilin. Originally Broadcast: February 18, 2003 Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/11/10/socrates-ron-gross-socrates-of-athens-in-conversation-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/11/10/socrates-ron-gross-socrates-of-athens-in-conversation-2/#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2021 04:45:46 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4797 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/11/10/socrates-ron-gross-socrates-of-athens-in-conversation-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - Socrates’ Way: Seven Masterkeys to Using Your Mind to the Utmost Socrates of Athens, who lived before the Common Era, is respected as one of the greatest independent thinkers of all time. Click here to begin listening.  Socrates’ Way: Seven Masterkeys to Using Your Mind to the Utmost Socrates of Athens, who lived before the Common Era, is respected as one of the greatest independent thinkers of all time. Socrates himself refused to be recognized as a teacher. Instead, Plato, his well-known student and reporter of Socrates’ dialogues, tells us he asked to be seen as a “midwife of ideas.” Socrates’ passion to achieve self-understanding, and the proper ways to live, continues to be studied and emulated to this day. Socrates recommends “The Trojan Women,” by Euripides. Ron Gross recommends “The Clouds,” by Aristophanes. Originally Broadcast: January 13, 2003 Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/05/05/diskin-saul-identical-twins/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/05/05/diskin-saul-identical-twins/#comments Wed, 05 May 2021 21:18:16 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4393 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/05/05/diskin-saul-identical-twins/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - The End of the Twins, a Memoir of Losing a Brother - Ever wondered what it would be like to have an identical twin—how alike would you be to that person? How much of an individual would you be? Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-1197-1-1197-1-Diskin_Saul_1-01-19-IA-2019.mp3) The End of the Twins, a Memoir of Losing a Brother Ever wondered what it would be like to have an identical twin—how alike would you be to that person? How much of an individual would you be? Saul Diskin and his identical twin brother Marty grew up together in New York City where Saul and Marty were inseparable. As adults, they began to live separate lives, Saul in Phoenix and Marty near Boston. In 1991, Marty, who had suffered from leukemia for 20 years, needed a bone marrow transplant, which he received from Saul. In his extraordinarily intimate book, “The End of the Twins, a Memoir of Losing a Brother,” Saul Diskin chronicles the rich relationship beginning with their early childhood and ending well past Marty’s death in 1997, shortly before their 63rd birthday. Saul Diskin recommends “Entwined Lives,” by Nancy Segal and “Cosmology and Creation: The Spiritual Significance of Contemporary Cosmology” by Paul Brockelman. Originally Broadcast: September 22, 2001 LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/02/24/nicolas-bothman-get-along-well-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/02/24/nicolas-bothman-get-along-well-2/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2021 05:27:47 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4618 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/02/24/nicolas-bothman-get-along-well-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less Making people like you is a skill that anybody can learn. By reading body language and synchronizing behavior, it is possible to make meaningful connections with almo... Click here to begin listening.  How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less Making people like you is a skill that anybody can learn. By reading body language and synchronizing behavior, it is possible to make meaningful connections with almost anybody in almost any circumstance. We appreciate and like people similar to ourselves, people we understand and people who are open. “How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less” is the title of a book by Nicholas Bothman, a neurolinguistic practitioner who lives in Toronto, Canada. Nicolas Bothman recommends “Love in the Town of Cholera,” & “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” both by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Originally Broadcast: January 2, 2001 Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/02/03/marta-morena-vega-one-religion-people-forced-to-migrate-brought-to-the-americas-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/02/03/marta-morena-vega-one-religion-people-forced-to-migrate-brought-to-the-americas-2/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2021 02:04:51 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4605 http://www.radiocurious.org/2021/02/03/marta-morena-vega-one-religion-people-forced-to-migrate-brought-to-the-americas-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening.  - The Altar of My Soul - Religious beliefs normally follow people as they migrate, including people who are forced to migrate. The people forced to migrate to the western Hemisphere during the slave-trading period carr... Click here to begin listening.  The Altar of My Soul Religious beliefs normally follow people as they migrate, including people who are forced to migrate. The people forced to migrate to the western Hemisphere during the slave-trading period carried their beliefs and belief systems to the diaspora of their new world. The Santeria religion, also know as Lucumí, is a belief system that originated in Africa later brought to the Americas and is still practiced in widely separated communities of the western hemisphere. Marta Moreno Vega, a Santeria Priestess, and university professor in New York City is the author of “The Alter of My Soul.” Her book is a story of the Santeria or Lucumí religion, its traditions, how they were brought from Africa and are practiced now. I spoke with Marta Moreno Vega by phone in November of 2000, and we began when I asked her to tell us about the Santeria religion and how it differs from other religions. Marta Morena Vega recommends “Face of The Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americans,” by Robert F. Thompson. Originally Broadcast: November 7, 2000 Ignacio Ayala clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2020/02/26/boyd-blanche-self-styled-outlaw-lesbians/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2020/02/26/boyd-blanche-self-styled-outlaw-lesbians/#comments Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:42:34 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4497 http://www.radiocurious.org/2020/02/26/boyd-blanche-self-styled-outlaw-lesbians/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - Terminal Velocity - The concept of memoir versus fiction leads many authors to transform their personal experiences and life to fiction. Blanche Boyd is a native of South Carolina and a Professor of Literature at Conne... Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-BOYD_BLANCHE_2.26.20_IA.mp3) Terminal Velocity The concept of memoir versus fiction leads many authors to transform their personal experiences and life to fiction. Blanche Boyd is a native of South Carolina and a Professor of Literature at Connecticut College. She is also the author of the book entitled, “Terminal Velocity.” This is a book about a group of self-styled lesbian outlaws in the 1970s. We discussed the relationship of memoir and fiction, and how it applies to her work. Blanche Boyd recommends “Cathedral” & “To the Waterfall,” both by Raymond Carver. Originally Broadcast: August 19, 1997 LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2019/05/21/kiersey-dr-david-what-is-my-personality/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2019/05/21/kiersey-dr-david-what-is-my-personality/#comments Tue, 21 May 2019 18:19:04 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4429 http://www.radiocurious.org/2019/05/21/kiersey-dr-david-what-is-my-personality/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - My guest in this program was Dr. David Kiersey, the author of a book called “Presidential Temperament.” Dr. Kiersey took the Meyers-Briggs Temperament inventories and developed what has come to be known as the Kiersey T... Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-1197-1-Kiersey_Dr._David_5-21-19_IA.mp3) My guest in this program was Dr. David Kiersey, the author of a book called “Presidential Temperament.” Dr. Kiersey took the Meyers-Briggs Temperament inventories and developed what has come to be known as the Kiersey Temperament Sorter. In so doing, he has established and identified several different types of character and temperament of people. In his book, “Please Understand Me,” the reader may use the Kiersey Temperament Sorter to get an idea of his or her personality and temperament traits. With his history and experience, Kiersey has examined the people who have become a President of the US and set out his analysis in “Presidential Temperaments.” In this program, originally broadcast in November of 1993 when Radio Curious was called Government, Politics and Ideas, we’ll be talking about the book and some of the temperaments of the various Presidents. Dr. David Kiersey recommends “Killer Angels,” by Michael Shaara & The Hornblower Series, by Horatio Hormblower. Originally Broadcast: November 19, 1993 LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2018/11/13/fuller-alexandra-growing-up-white-in-africa-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2018/11/13/fuller-alexandra-growing-up-white-in-africa-2/#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2018 02:03:35 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4379 http://www.radiocurious.org/2018/11/13/fuller-alexandra-growing-up-white-in-africa-2/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - In the late summer of 2003 Radio Curious visited with Alexandra Fuller who, as a child lived in Rhodesia, Malawi and Zambia in southeast Africa between 1972 and 1990.  After her father sided with the white government in... Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-1197-1-FULLER_ALEXANDRA_2018_IA.mp3) In the late summer of 2003 Radio Curious visited with Alexandra Fuller who, as a child lived in Rhodesia, Malawi and Zambia in southeast Africa between 1972 and 1990.  After her father sided with the white government in the Rhodesian civil war, he was often away from home.   Fuller’s resilient and self-sufficient mother immersed herself in their rural and rugged life. She taught her children to have strong wills and opinions, and to whole-heartedly embrace life, despite and because of their difficult circumstances.  Alexandra Fuller, author of “Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,” known as Bobo to her family, developed a love of reading and story telling early on in her life. When I spoke with Alexandra Fuller in September 2003 her home was in rural Wyoming.  We visited by phone and began our conversation when I asked her how she choose the title for her book, “Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood.” The book Alexandra Fuller recommends is “Echoing Silences,” by Alexander Canigone. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2017/07/26/zeig-dr-jeff-below-the-radar-of-your-mind/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2017/07/26/zeig-dr-jeff-below-the-radar-of-your-mind/#comments Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:09:56 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4233 http://www.radiocurious.org/2017/07/26/zeig-dr-jeff-below-the-radar-of-your-mind/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - How to get below the radar of your mind and what to do once you’re there is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. One goal is to reach the quantum of personal leaning in the sub-conscious mind and bring that exper... Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-ZEIG_JEFF_INTERVIEW_CA_1-30-12.mp3) How to get below the radar of your mind and what to do once you’re there is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. One goal is to reach the quantum of personal leaning in the sub-conscious mind and bring that experiential knowledge to the conscious mind of daily life. A trusted guide is often beneficial. Our guest is Dr. Jeffrey Zeig, in another conversation about the Ericksonian approach to psychotherapy. He is the founder and director of the Milton Erickson Foundation and a clinical psychologist based in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Zieg has directed multiple conferences on the evolution of psychotherapy including the 11th Milton Erickson Psychotherapy Conference where he and I met in December 2011, in Phoenix, Arizona. We began our conversation when I asked him about the history of psychotherapy. The books Dr. Jeff Zeig recommends are “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry as well as the books written by Leo Tolstoy. Jeff Zeig's website is www.jeffzeig.com. The MIlton Erickson Foundation website is www.erickson-foundation.org. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/09/14/burgo-joseph-im-right-and-youre-wrong-the-narcissist-you-know/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/09/14/burgo-joseph-im-right-and-youre-wrong-the-narcissist-you-know/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2016 01:27:21 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4138 http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/09/14/burgo-joseph-im-right-and-youre-wrong-the-narcissist-you-know/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - The concept of “I’m right and you’re wrong” is increasingly prevalent during governmental political struggles and those of local public radio stations. How to identify the narcissists in our lives is the topic of this ... Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-BURGO_JOSEPH_2016_CA.mp3) The concept of “I’m right and you’re wrong” is increasingly prevalent during governmental political struggles and those of local public radio stations. How to identify the narcissists in our lives is the topic of this archive edition of Radio Curious in our 2015 conversation with Joseph Burgo, Ph.D. He is the author of “The Narcissist You Know: Defending Yourself Against Extreme Narcissists in an All-About Me Age.” Dr. Burgo describes narcissism as a more-common-than-we think personality type, based on shame, that covers a wide spectrum of frequently and cleverly disguised deceptive behaviors. Once a narcissist’s behavior is identified, it’s possible to learn how to coexist and avoid being trapped.  This may be achieved without compromising one’s own mental health, integrity, or ability to succeed, or losing ourselves in the process. When Dr. Joseph Burgo and I visited by phone from his home in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, on October 5, 2015, we discussed two of the eight most common types of narcissists:  the bullying narcissist and the seductive narcissist.  We began our conversation when I asked him to describe narcissism. The book Dr. Joseph Burgo recommends is “Why is it always about You?” by Sandy Hotchkiss. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/06/28/cottrell-robin-the-work-of-death-midwives/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/06/28/cottrell-robin-the-work-of-death-midwives/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2016 00:47:26 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4115 http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/06/28/cottrell-robin-the-work-of-death-midwives/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - Death is of the subject of this program. We all will experience it, hopefully without pain and with loved ones and friends near. - In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Robin Cottrell and Margy Henderson, Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-Cotrell_Robin_and_Henderson_Margy_YK.mp3) Death is of the subject of this program. We all will experience it, hopefully without pain and with loved ones and friends near. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Robin Cottrell and Margy Henderson, of Ukiah, California, who describe their work as death midwives. This is part of their efforts with the Death Cafe, (www.deathcafe.com) an international group whose aim is to increase awareness of death and to help people make the most of their (finite) lives. As death midwives, Robin and Margy of sing quiet A Capella to people in the end stages of life. When these two women visited the studios of Radio Curious on June 26, 2016, we began with a song. The books Margy Henderson recommends are The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have, by Mark Napo, and The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery. The book Robin Cottrell recommends is West With the Night, by Beryl Markham. LeGov clean 28:52 http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/04/12/benton-robert-the-human-stain/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/04/12/benton-robert-the-human-stain/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:06:28 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=4089 http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/04/12/benton-robert-the-human-stain/feed/ 0 Click here to begin listening - This program is about “passing,” a term sometimes used to define a person of color who passes as white. From the 2004 Radio Curious archives we revisit a conversation with film director Robert Benton, Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-BENTON_ROBERT_4-10-16_CA.mp3) This program is about “passing,” a term sometimes used to define a person of color who passes as white. From the 2004 Radio Curious archives we revisit a conversation with film director Robert Benton, about his film “The Human Stain.” It's a movie about the life of Coleman Silk, an eminent Jewish intellectual and devoted husband; a professor of classics at a small New England college.  The truth about Coleman Silk, portrayed by Anthony Hopkins, is far more complex than expected or thought to be.  He hid behind a veil of lies, having masked his African-American origins in order to find a freedom he thought would otherwise be impossible to achieve.  But his world of deception unraveled after embarking on a romance with a much younger woman. Our guest, Robert Benton, is a three time Academy Awards winner for his work as the Director of “Kramer Vs. Kramer,” “Places in the Heart,” and “Nobody's Fool.” His film, “The Human Stain,” takes place in the 1990s and is based on the third novel of Phillip Roth's “American Trilogy” describing the post World War Two turmoil in America. The title “The Human Stain” emerges from the idea that no matter what a person does, a human being leaves a mark on the world, whether by rage, desire, ambition or accident, a kind of scar; stain that cannot be undone.  For Coleman Silk that stain is the deception and concealment he carried for decades. The human stain is the mark we leave on everything.  It speaks to the fact that we can't get through life without marking the world around us in some way. We have no choice. It's part of being human. Robert Benton and I visited by phone in the fall of 2004. The books Robert Benton recommends are “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night” by Mark Haddon and "The Manuscript Found in Sargossa" by Jan Potocki. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/01/06/livingston-gordon-m-d-how-to-love-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/01/06/livingston-gordon-m-d-how-to-love-2/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2016 14:42:27 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3992 http://www.radiocurious.org/2016/01/06/livingston-gordon-m-d-how-to-love-2/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/12/09/peru-ancient-history-and-today/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/12/09/peru-ancient-history-and-today/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2015 17:45:54 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3924 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/12/09/peru-ancient-history-and-today/feed/ 0 christianity,history,Inca,Peru,religion,South America Peru is a county about which I’ve been curious for over 60 years, beginning when I first learned of the Inca Empire.  Ten years later the Peace Corps sent me to Peru as volunteer for two years in 1964. - Peru’s current societies are windows into a wor... Peru is a county about which I’ve been curious for over 60 years, beginning when I first learned of the Inca Empire.  Ten years later the Peace Corps sent me to Peru as volunteer for two years in 1964. Peru’s current societies are windows into a world in which many Andean people live in the three adjoining countries of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.   The complex societies which flourished in this region, centuries before the Inca Empire was destroyed by the Spanish invaders in the 16th century are still very much a part of the lives of people whose homes and communities are located high in the Andes between 10,000 and 14,000 feet above sea level.  Many still enjoy and celebrate the traditions rooted in the ancient cultures of their land. When Radio Curious visited Peru and Bolivia in the fall of 2015 we engaged in several conversations about ancient and current times in Peru. Edith Zapata, an independent licensed Peruvian tour guide, based in Cusco, Peru, is our guest in this edition of Radio Curious. Edith Zapata and I visited in the court yard of a somewhat noisy guest hostal in Cusco, Peru, on November 10, 2015.  We began our conversation with her description of the geological history of the Cusco valley, and moved forward in time to how some of the current leaders of the Catholic Church and some of the people of the greater Cusco area related to each other. Edith Zapata, a licensed independent Peruvian tour guide, based in Cusco, Peru.  You may contact her by email at ezv27@hotmail.com (mailto:ezv27@hotmail.com).  The movie she recommends is “In Search of Happyness,” starring Will Smith. Click here to listen, or download this program on the link below.     LeGov clean 28:52 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/11/24/blincoe-bob-kurdish-people-their-struggle-to-keep-their-homeland/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/11/24/blincoe-bob-kurdish-people-their-struggle-to-keep-their-homeland/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:22:39 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3909 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/11/24/blincoe-bob-kurdish-people-their-struggle-to-keep-their-homeland/feed/ 0 Kurdistan,Kurds,Zagros Mountains Radio Curious revisits an archived conversation with Bob Blincoe, a Presbyterian minister who worked as a missionary in the Zagros Mountains from 1990-1996, where the Kurdish people live. He talks about the Kurdish people and their history. In this 1997 edition of Radio Curious, we visited with Bob Blincoe, a Presbyterian minister, who lived and worked among the Kurds in the Zagros Mountains from 1990 to 1996.   The Kurdish people have long been aptly referred to as a “millet.”  This is a Turkish term that originated in the Ottoman Empire when it ruled parts of central Europe to the near east from 1430 to 1921.  It means “any ethnic group.” Until the 20th century millets, were able to control their way of life and effectively rule themselves.  Now approximately 25 million Kurdish people live in the Zagros Mountains, where the borders of eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, and northwestern Iran converge.  These Kurdish people live stateless and many homeless in their ancestral homeland.  Currently they have been able to successfully defend themselves from brutal ISIS attacks.  When Bob Blincoe lived among the Kurds and worked as a community organizer in their ancestral homeland he first spoke Arabic, so he wouldn’t stand out.  He quickly learned Kurdish which he spoke only with great discretion. His stories of the Kurdish people are important to consider now in light of terrorism and other dangers inflicted against them. When Bob Blincoe and I visited in the studios of Radio Curious in the spring of 1997, we began our conversation when I asked him to describe the Zagros Mountains where so many Kurdish people live. The book Bob Blincoe recommends is “A Peace to End All Peace,” by David Fromkin. This program was originally broadcast in May 1997. Click here to listen or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/06/10/gilbert-ronnie-a-memorial-tribute/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/06/10/gilbert-ronnie-a-memorial-tribute/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2015 18:56:31 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3707 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/06/10/gilbert-ronnie-a-memorial-tribute/feed/ 0 Radio Curious pays tribute to folk singer Ronnie Gilbert, who died on June 6, 2015 at the age of 88. In this edition of Radio Curious we honor and pay tribute to folk singer Ronnie Gilbert, who died on June 6, 2015 at the age of 88. She is well known for her powerful contralto voice as a member of the Weavers, the extraordinarily popular folk music quartet that in 1950s and 1960s. She also had careers as an actor and a psychologist. From the Radio Curious archives, recorded in September 1996, Ronnie Gilbert describes her introduction to music and dance, how the Weavers came together; their blacklist experience; her thoughts about turning 70 years old when this program was recorded in 1996; and her friendship and work with Holly Near. We conclude with Holly Near recalling her friendship with Ronnie Gilbert. The books Ronnie Gilbert recommends are “The Moors Last Sigh” by Salman Rushdie, “Making Movies” by Sidney Lumet and “Eyewitness: A Personal Account of the Unraveling of the Soviet Union” by Vladimir Pozner. Click here to listen or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/26/lowe-felicia-chinese-immigration-the-veil-of-secrecy-and-silence/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/26/lowe-felicia-chinese-immigration-the-veil-of-secrecy-and-silence/#comments Wed, 27 May 2015 02:50:41 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3682 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/26/lowe-felicia-chinese-immigration-the-veil-of-secrecy-and-silence/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Felicia Lowe the producer of “Chinese Couplets” a documentary about Lowe's quest to learn about her ancestral history by tracing her mothers immigration to the United States from rural China. Secrecy of and revelation about the trip to America to secure a new life during the Chinese Exclusion era is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious.  Our guest is Felicia Lowe, whose film “Chinese Couplets” tells her mother’s story.  Felicia Lowe was met with refusals and silence when as a child she asked her mother about her childhood. This shroud of silence was lifted when Felicia Lowe’s daughter found an old family photograph taken in China and asked her grandmother to tell the story related to the photograph.  The film “Chinese Couplets” shows and tells the story of a childhood in rural China, the new identity to secure passage to America, the fear of deportation if the truth were known, and a prosperous and successful life of an immigrant Chinese woman in Oakland, California.   The film “Chinese Couplets” will be shown at the Mendocino Film Festival on Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 10 am in the Village of Mendocino, California. When Felicia Lowe and I visited by phone from her home in San Francisco, California, May 17, 2015, I asked her to tell us about her mother. The book Felicia Lowe recommends is “The Blues Eye,” by Toni Morrison. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/13/schwartz-lacey-nobody-discussed-it-lacey-schwartz-and-little-white-lie/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/13/schwartz-lacey-nobody-discussed-it-lacey-schwartz-and-little-white-lie/#comments Wed, 13 May 2015 06:10:25 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3665 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/13/schwartz-lacey-nobody-discussed-it-lacey-schwartz-and-little-white-lie/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Lacey Schwartz, director and producer of “Little White Lie,” a documentary about her experiences growing up as a white Jew and later learning that she is half black. The secret revealed in the life of Lacey Schwartz, born in 1987 to a white Jewish family in rural upstate New York, where she grew up, is that her biological father was black.  The few who knew her truth remained silent until after her first year of college when she asked her mother why she looked the way she did.  Lacey Schwartz is the producer and director of the film “Little White Lie,” which documents her family secret. "Little White Lie” will be shown at the Mendocino Film Festival on Friday, May 29, 2015, at 5:30 pm, in the Village of Mendocino, California. Lacey Schwartz and I visited by phone from her home near New York City, on May 11, 2015.  First we hear a clip of Lacey’s voice taken from the introduction of the film “Little White Lie,” and later intersperse our conversation with clips from the film.  The book Lacey Schwartz recommends is “How It Feels to Be Free:  Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement,” by Ruth Feldstein. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/05/marshall-joseph-ph-d-black-lives-alive-and-free/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/05/marshall-joseph-ph-d-black-lives-alive-and-free/#comments Tue, 05 May 2015 21:34:27 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3654 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/05/05/marshall-joseph-ph-d-black-lives-alive-and-free/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Dr. Joseph Marshall, co-founder of Alive and Free, a community violence prevention effort for at-risk inner city youth to encourage their academic pursuits and obtain financial help for college.  Keeping young black men alive and free is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious.  Our guest is Dr. Joseph E. Marshall, who in 1987 co-founded the Omega Boys Club of San Francisco, now called “Alive and Free,” of which he is the executive director. Alive and Free is a community violence prevention effort for at-risk inner city youth and a surrogate family support system for young black men and women, based in San Francisco, California, to encourage their academic pursuits and obtain financial help for college.   Joseph Marshall is also the host of Street Soldiers Radio, broadcast every Sunday evening on KMEL 106.1 FM at 8 pm.  In 1994 he received a McArthur Foundation Genius Award for his skills and accomplishments. Dr. Joseph E. Marshall and I visited by phone, from his office in San Francisco, California on May 4, 2015, and began our conversation with his description of Alive and Free. The books Joseph Marshall recommends are “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” and “Street Soldier:  One Man’s Struggle to Save a Generation – One Life at a Time,” by Joseph Marshall and Lonnie Wheeler. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/03/31/bayer-jaciara-jaciara-bayer-transracial-adoptions-and-white-privilege/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/03/31/bayer-jaciara-jaciara-bayer-transracial-adoptions-and-white-privilege/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:52:55 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3616 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/03/31/bayer-jaciara-jaciara-bayer-transracial-adoptions-and-white-privilege/feed/ 1 Radio Curious visits with Jaciara Bayer, a transracial adoptee who shares her personal experiences of being told she’s different, growing up in a white family and her encounters with white privilege. We continue our discussion of racism and white privilege in Mendocino County, California, with a 30 year old Brazilian born woman,  who is currently studying for a master’s degree in social work at the California State University at Hayward. Jaciara Bayer was adopted and brought to the United States at age 11 months by her single, white-American mother and grew up in Ukiah, California.   A transracial adoption, which may be an international adoption, is the primary focus of Jaciara Bayer’s plan of study for her master’s degree.  Sharing her personal experiences, she tells us of being told she’s different, growing up in a white family and white privilege.  When Jaci, as she is often known, and I visited in the studios of Radio Curious on March 23, 2015, she began with her earliest memories. The book Jaciara Bayer recommends is “In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want,” by Iyanla Van Zant. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/02/17/durham-bill-racism-in-america-one-mans-experience/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/02/17/durham-bill-racism-in-america-one-mans-experience/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2015 04:17:48 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3573 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/02/17/durham-bill-racism-in-america-one-mans-experience/feed/ 2 Radio Curious continues its series on racism in a conversation with Bill Durham, a 59 year old black man from Ohio who now lives in Mendocino County, California and shares his life experiences of growing up black in America. Radio Curious continues its series racism in a conversation with Bill Durham, a 59 year old black man, originally from Ohio who grew up in family of civil rights activists and now lives in Mendocino County, California.  We explore the effects of racism in the United States and how to end it.  Bill Durham, works as a journeyman carpenter, and hosts Club FM, a weekly blues, jazz and rock music program on KMEC radio in Ukiah, California with the moniker of MC Squared. In this program, recorded on February 12, 2015, at Radio Curious, Bill Durham shares his experiences of being black in America, starting when he was very young, and his ideas on how to relieve racism. The book Bill Durham recommends is “Supernatural:  Meeting with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind,” by Graham Hancock. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/02/10/massey-orell-racism-in-a-rural-california-sheriffs-department-part-two/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/02/10/massey-orell-racism-in-a-rural-california-sheriffs-department-part-two/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:38:39 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3565 http://www.radiocurious.org/2015/02/10/massey-orell-racism-in-a-rural-california-sheriffs-department-part-two/feed/ 1 Radio Curious continues a conversation on racism in Mendocino County, California with Sheriff Deputy Orell Massey, the county's first and only black sheriff. Radio Curious continues our series on racism in Mendocino County, California. Our guest is Mendocino County Deputy Sheriff Orell Massey who, for the past 20 years has been the only black law enforcement officer in the county's history.  A native of South Carolina, Deputy Massey was a 21 year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps assigned to the Foreign Service Embassy detail before he moved to Mendocino County. When I asked Sheriff Massey to be a guest on this program and share his experience as a black Deputy Sheriff, he asked:  “Are the people of Mendocino County ready to hear what I have to say?”     In part one of our conversation, Deputy Massey describes some people’s reaction to him while he is in on duty. In part two, recorded on February 1, 2015, in the Radio Curious studios, Deputy Massey gives his personal response when asked, “what is it like to be the only black Deputy Sheriff ever in the history of Mendocino County?” Later he shares stories about his off duty life, his goals and aspirations. The book Deputy Massey recommends is “Code Talker:  The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of World War Two,” by Chester Nez and Judith Schiess Avila. Click here to listen to part two or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/07/01/rovics-david-the-art-of-political-song/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/07/01/rovics-david-the-art-of-political-song/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2014 19:11:09 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3349 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/07/01/rovics-david-the-art-of-political-song/feed/ 0 david rovics The Art of Political Song is the topic of Radio Curious with singer – songwriter, David Rovics who discusses how he creates his songs, some of which he’ll sing, and what he hopes they will achieve.  Songs of a political nature are not surprising given the similarities and parallel community structures of politics and religions, with each community promoting the behaviors and concepts it supports as being the most appropriate.  The art of political song, which has been crafted and heard world wide since time immemorial, is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. In this program we visit with singer–songwriter David Rovics, a veritable troubadour and folk musician of our time.  He visited the studios of Radio Curious on December 9, 2012, and began our conversation when he described his work, his songs, and how he creates them.   The following is his biography taken from his website. 
”David Rovics grew up in a family of classical musicians in Wilton, Connecticut, and became a fan of populist regimes early on. By the early 90's he was a full-time busker in the Boston subways and by the mid-90's he was traveling the world as a professional flat-picking rabble-rouser. These days David lives in Portland, Oregon and tours regularly on four continents, playing for audiences large and small at cafes, pubs, universities, churches, union halls and protest rallies. He has shared the stage with a veritable who's who of the left in two dozen countries, and has had his music featured on Democracy Now!, BBC, Al-Jazeera and other networks. His essays are published regularly on CounterPunch and elsewhere, and the 200+ songs he makes available for free on the web have been downloaded more than a million times. Most importantly, he's really good. He will make you laugh, he will make you cry, he will make the revolution irresistible.” Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/05/06/rosenwasser-penny-from-fear-to-love-a-judaic-perspective/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/05/06/rosenwasser-penny-from-fear-to-love-a-judaic-perspective/#comments Wed, 07 May 2014 04:38:11 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3285 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/05/06/rosenwasser-penny-from-fear-to-love-a-judaic-perspective/feed/ 2 Holocaust,Judaism Radio Curious visits with Penny Rosenwasser, author of “Hope into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Hope Despite Our Fears,” a book that explores internalized oppression and describes steps to embrace who we are as a means to create a world based on love, When Penny Rosenwasser, our guest in this edition of Radio Curious, was a child in the suburbs of Virginia, people sometimes said, “You don't look Jewish.”  She replied, “Thank you.”  Her book, “Hope into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears,” delves into the Jewish experience and its rich yet tragic cultural history. She explores internalized oppression and ways to face fear with a positive outcome, and describes steps to embrace who we are as a means to create a world based on love, tolerance and justice. I spoke with Penny Rosenwasser from her home near San Francisco, California on May 5, 2014.  She began our conversation by describing a major theme of her book. Penny Rosenwasser will be speaking in Redwood Valley, on May 18, at 4pm at Kol-ha-Emek 8591 West Road. Call 707 468 4536 for details. The book she recommends is “The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism,” by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz. Click here or on the media player below to listen. LeGov clean 29:02 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/04/29/blevis-marcianne-jealousy/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/04/29/blevis-marcianne-jealousy/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:56:34 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3279 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/04/29/blevis-marcianne-jealousy/feed/ 1 jealousy Radio Curious discusses jealousy with French psychoanalyst Marcianne Blevis, author of “Jealousy: True Stories of Love’s Favorite Decoy.” Are you jealous?  Have you ever been?  Do you know the origin of your jealousy? Jealousy often goes hand in hand with feelings of love, but where does this emotion come from, and how can we manage it? In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Marcianne Blevis, author of “Jealousy: True Stories of Love’s Favorite Decoy.”  In this book Marcianne Blevis,  a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who lives and works in Paris, France, reveals different ways jealousy affects different people and suggests methods to understand and manage what can be a very destructive yet elusive emotion. She examines the deeper consequences of jealousy and inquires if jealousy is useful to us, and is this ‘extraordinary passion’ in reality ‘a strategy for survival’. I spoke with Marcianne Blevis from her home in Paris, France on February 2, 2009, and began by asking her to explain what jealousy is? The book Marcianne Blevis recommends is “Aux confins de l’identité" (title translated by Marcianne Blevis as “At the Frontier of Identity”) by Michel De M'uzan. This book is currently published only in French. Click here or on the media player below to listen. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/02/24/transgender-youth-one-familys-experience-part-two/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/02/24/transgender-youth-one-familys-experience-part-two/#comments Mon, 24 Feb 2014 23:52:41 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3205 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/02/24/transgender-youth-one-familys-experience-part-two/feed/ 0 transgender,transgender youth Radio Curious continues a two-part conversation with Eli Erlick, a woman who was born a male, and her mother Dr. Carla Longchamp. In part two they discuss support for transgender people, resources, recent societal changes and some medical issues. In the second of two conversations about issues facing transgender people, we visit once again with Eli Erlick, a woman, who was born a male, and her mother Dr. Carla Longchamp.  Eli Erlick is the Founder and Executive Director of Trans Student Equality Resources, based in San Francisco, California and a student at Pitzer College in Claremont, California.  Dr. Carla Longchamp is a family physician in a rural northern California community. In our first conversation, our guests share their family’s experience when Eli realized she is female. In part two, we discuss support for transgender people, what is available and how to find it, recent societal changes and some medical issues. We begin part two with Eli Erlick describing what Trans Student Equality Resources is.  The book Eli Erlick recommends is “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity,” by Julie Serrano.  Eli’s mother, Dr. Carla Longchamp recommends “The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals,” by Stephanie Brill, and “She’s Not There:  A Life in Two Genders,” by Jennifer Boylan.  The Radio Curious interview with Jennifer Boylan is on our website. Click here to listen to part two or on the media player below.   Click here to listen to part one. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/02/19/erlick-eli-longchamp-dr-carla-transgender-youth-one-familys-experience-part-one/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/02/19/erlick-eli-longchamp-dr-carla-transgender-youth-one-familys-experience-part-one/#comments Wed, 19 Feb 2014 07:38:59 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3192 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/02/19/erlick-eli-longchamp-dr-carla-transgender-youth-one-familys-experience-part-one/feed/ 0 gender,transgender,transgender youth Radio Curious visits with Eli Erlick, a woman who was born a male, and her mother Dr. Carla Longchamp. In this two part series, they share their family’s experience when Eli realized she was female and her parent’s subsequent acceptance of who she is. This edition of Radio Curious is the first of two conversations with Eli Erlick, a woman, who was born a male, and her mother Dr. Carla Longchamp.   Eli Erlick is the Founder and Executive Director of Trans Student Equality Resource, based in San Francisco, California and a student at Pitzer College in Claremont, California.  Dr. Carla Longchamp is a family physician in a rural northern California community. Together they share their family’s experience when Eli realized that she was female, and her parent’s subsequent acceptance of who she is.  Our conversation, recorded on January 15, 2014, at Radio Curious, began when I asked Eli, when she knew she was a girl.  Click here to listen to part one or on the media player below. Click here  to listen to part two.     LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/01/21/kennedy-randall-interracial-intimacies/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/01/21/kennedy-randall-interracial-intimacies/#comments Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:10:53 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3160 http://www.radiocurious.org/2014/01/21/kennedy-randall-interracial-intimacies/feed/ 0 Radio Curious discusses interracial relationships with Harvard professor Randall Kennedy, author of “Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption.” Fears of interracial relationships, influenced over the centuries by racial biases and fantasies, still widely linger in American Society today. Randall Kennedy, a professor at Harvard University Law School is the author of “Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption,” in which he takes an in depth look at the issue of black and white relationships set against the ever-changing social mores and laws of this country.  From pre-civil war to the present, this book explores the historical, sociological, legal and moral issues that continue to feed and complicate those fears. Professor Kennedy and I visited by phone in March 2003 and began by our conversation with his description of what he calls a “pigmentocracy” in the United States.   The book Professor Randall Kennedy recommends is “The Biography of Walter White,” by Robert Jankin. Click here to listen or on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/12/16/dewitt-jerry-from-pentecostal-to-atheist-part-one/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/12/16/dewitt-jerry-from-pentecostal-to-atheist-part-one/#comments Tue, 17 Dec 2013 01:47:34 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3113 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/12/16/dewitt-jerry-from-pentecostal-to-atheist-part-one/feed/ 0 Radio Curios visits with former Pentecostal pastor turned athiest, Jerry DeWitt. He's the author of the memoir “Hope After Faith:  An Ex-Pastor’s Journey From Belief to Atheism.” The freedom to think and the freedom of religion are constitutional keystones and givens in the United States.  However, when those freedoms lead a Pentecostal pastor to come out as an atheist, he is shunned by some and praised by others. Jerry DeWitt, whose ministry began when he was seventeen, is the author of “Hope After Faith:  An Ex-Pastor’s Journey From Belief to Atheism.” He’s our guest in this two part conversation about his 25 year dialogue with faith, his early beliefs, his evolving skepticism and his embrace of free-thinking humanism. As it is for all of us, early life experiences are most often taken for granted and form the basis by which we compare subsequent experiences and develop new understandings.  So when Jerry DeWitt and I visited by phone from western Florida on December 13, 2013, we began the first part of our conversation with a description of his early childhood. Jerry DeWitt's website provides information about his book and links to the resources and topics discussed in our program.  The books Jerry DeWitt recommends are those written by Joseph Campbell (http://www.jcf.org). Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here to listen to part two. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/12/09/bernstein-paula-schein-elyse-identical-twins-meet/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/12/09/bernstein-paula-schein-elyse-identical-twins-meet/#comments Mon, 09 Dec 2013 22:01:41 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3108 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/12/09/bernstein-paula-schein-elyse-identical-twins-meet/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with identical twins, Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein, who were separated as infants and reunited in 2003 at the ages of 35. They are the authors of “Identical Strangers:  A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited.” In our unsatisfied curiosity about the difference between nature and nurture we visit with Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein.  These women are identical twins separated as infants and reunited in 2003 when they were 35 years old.  They are the authors of “Identical Strangers:  A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited.”  Their mother, as we will hear was unable to care for them and as babies they were placed for adoption. When we visited by phone on November 10, 2007, we discussed their separate childhoods, how they learned that they had a twin, their similarities and differences, and their attempt to learn about a study of twins in which they unknowingly participated. We began when I asked them to describe aspects of their twin-ship which they still find strange. The book that Elyse Schein recommends is “Later, At The Bar:  A Novel in Stories” by Rebecca Barry. The book that Paula Bernstein recommends is “Borrowed Finery:  A Memoir” by Paula Fox. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-BERNSTEIN_SCHEIN_CA_2013.mp3) to listen or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=73060&version_id=80803&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:01 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/12/03/brown-don-make-dreams-a-reality/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/12/03/brown-don-make-dreams-a-reality/#comments Wed, 04 Dec 2013 01:57:30 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3099 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/12/03/brown-don-make-dreams-a-reality/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Don L. Brown, author of “Morphine Dreams”, a memoir about attending college later in life with only a 6th grade education, going to Harvard Law School and then walking across the country, Imagine being about 36 years old having completed only the 6th grade, worked for years as a laborer, and one day waking up in a hospital from knee surgery to a dream induced by morphine for your severe pain.   In the unrelentingly dream you to college, Harvard Law School and then walk across the United States from Boston, Massachusetts, to Big Sur, California. Those sixty-three words summarize the story of Donald L. Brown, now 67 years old who had that dream and lived it.  He’s the author of “The Morphine Dream:  Delusions of Grandeur or Relentless Ambition?  Sometimes it’s Hard to Tell the Difference.” He has 6 other forthcoming books some of which will be published in 2014. Donald L. Brown visited the studio of Radio Curious on November 9, 2013 to share his story.   We began our visit with his description of this morphine dream an actual event in his life and how he lived it. The book Donald L. Brown recommends is “The Glass Castle,” by Jeannette Walls. Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=72937&version_id=80673&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/10/29/luke-gregorio-the-day-of-the-dead/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/10/29/luke-gregorio-the-day-of-the-dead/#comments Tue, 29 Oct 2013 19:26:27 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3063 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/10/29/luke-gregorio-the-day-of-the-dead/feed/ 0 The Day of the Dead, as it's celebrated in Mexico, is the subject of this archive edition of Radio Curious, in conversation with Gregorio Luke, the cultural attache of the Republic of Mexico in 1997. Most countries in the world send ambassadors to talk about and promote what their country is like and to carry on political affairs between and along other nations.  These ambassadors often have assistants known as “cultural attaches.”  They bring and share their nation’s culture, history and the folklore with their host countries.  The cultural event known as Halloween in the United States is celebrated annually on November 1st as the Day of the Dead in Mexico and other Latin American Counties. In 1997 Radio Curious invited Gregorio Luke, the cultural attache from the Republic of Mexico based in Los Angeles, California, to our studios when he was the Consul for Cultural Affairs. His job at that time was to broaden the Mexican cultural presence in the United States. Our conversation began when I asked Gregorio Luke to describe the cultural gaps he sought to bridge in presenting Mexican and to tell us about the Day of The Dead. The book Gregorio Luke recommends is ”The Crystal Frontier,” by Carlos Fuentes. Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=72102&version_id=79798&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/10/07/fuller-alexandra-growing-up-white-in-africa/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/10/07/fuller-alexandra-growing-up-white-in-africa/#comments Mon, 07 Oct 2013 22:12:59 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=3022 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/10/07/fuller-alexandra-growing-up-white-in-africa/feed/ 0 Radio Curious revisits a 2003 conversation with Alexandra Fuller, author of “Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,” a memoir about growing up in southeast Africa. In the late summer of 2003 Radio Curious visited with Alexandra Fuller who, as a child lived in Rhodesia, Malawi and Zambia in southeast Africa between 1972 and 1990.  After her father sided with the white government in the Rhodesian civil war, he was often away from home.   Fuller’s resilient and self-sufficient mother immersed herself in their rural and rugged life. She taught her children to have strong wills and opinions, and to whole-heartedly embrace life, despite and because of their difficult circumstances.  Alexandra Fuller, author of “Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,” known as Bobo to her family, developed a love of reading and story telling early on in her life.   When I spoke with Alexandra Fuller in September 2003 her home was in rural Wyoming.  We visited by phone and began our conversation when I asked her how she choose the title for her book, “Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood.” The book Alexandra Fuller recommends is “Echoing Silences,” by Alexander Canigone.   Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/08/13/freed-lynn-reflections-on-a-life/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/08/13/freed-lynn-reflections-on-a-life/#comments Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:22:37 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2949 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/08/13/freed-lynn-reflections-on-a-life/feed/ 0 Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Lynn Freed, author of the fictional journal chronicling a woman's life in South Africa titled “The Mirror.” The personal journal is often not meant for the eyes of anyone but the writer. When a stranger’s journal is read, the reader often becomes a voyeur to the innermost secrets of another. And whether it is a true journal or one of fiction, who cares? Often, it remains a good story. Lynn Freed, originally of Durban, South Africa, wrote the fictional journal of Agnes LaGrange, entitled “The Mirror,” which reveals the thoughts, feelings, and loves of Agnes, starting when she arrived in South Africa to work as a housekeeper, and ending 50 years later. Lynn Freed recommends “Misfit,” by Jonathan Yardly, “Essays,” by George Orwell & “Last Days in Cloud Cukooland Dispatches,” by Graham Boynton. Originally Broadcast: December 12, 1997 Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/07/30/martinez-juan-shamanism-in-the-ecuadorian-jungle/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/07/30/martinez-juan-shamanism-in-the-ecuadorian-jungle/#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:20:04 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2932 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/07/30/martinez-juan-shamanism-in-the-ecuadorian-jungle/feed/ 0 Radio Curious revisits a conversation about shamanism in the Ecuadorian Amazon with Dr. Juan Martinez, Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Cuenca, in Cuenca, Ecuador. Concepts of “reality” have many levels, some of which are gained by fasting, and/or the use of certain plants that allow a person to view the past, present or  and future.  This is especially true for cultures which cherish and practice the oral tradition and thrive among an abundance of flora and fauna, like those located in the Amazon basin of South America.  In Ecuador the knowledge of the effects of the various plants in the Amazon basin is held by Shamans. Dr. Juan Martinez, our guest in this edition of Radio Curious, is a Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Cuenca, in Cuenca, Ecuador.  He’s studied, written and lectured about Shamanic practices in the Ecuadorian jungle and the medicinal and spiritual effects of the plants native to the eastern portion of the Amazon basin. Professor Juan Martinez and I visited in his office in Cuenca, Ecuador on November 17, 2005.  He began by describing the relationship of the people of Ecuadorian jungle to their worlds, the spiritual world, and the world in which they live on a daily basis. The book Juan Martinez recommends is “Amazon Worlds,” a collected work published by Sinchi Sancha, an indigenous foundation based in Ecuador. Originally Broadcast: December 5, 2005. Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/06/24/gottlieb-dr-dan-quadriplegia-a-struggle-to-live/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/06/24/gottlieb-dr-dan-quadriplegia-a-struggle-to-live/#comments Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:53:15 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2895 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/06/24/gottlieb-dr-dan-quadriplegia-a-struggle-to-live/feed/ 0 As a follow up to last week's program, Radio Curious revisits a 2006 conversation with Dr. Dan Gottlieb, psychologist, quadriplegic and author of “Letter’s to Sam: A Grandfather’s Lessons on Love, Loss and the Gifts of Life." Letters to Sam:A Grandfather's Lessons on Love, Loss and the Gifts of Life For most people, the desire to be known exceeds the desire to be loved. Who we are as individuals, how we reckon with our personal abilities and disabilities the topic of this edition of Radio Curious, a conversation with my friend Dr. Dan Gottlieb. Dan Gottlieb, a clinical psychologist who lives and works near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania lives with quadriplegia, paralyzed from the neck down as a result of an automobile accident in 1979. He is the host of “Voices in the Family,” a weekly public radio program originating from WHYY in Philadelphia and the author of two articles a month in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Because of his physical condition, Dan thought he may not live to see his young grandson Sam grow to be man. When Sam was diagnosed with a severe form of autism several years ago, Dan decided to write a series of letters to his grandson. His book “Letter’s to Sam: A Grandfather’s Lessons on Love, Loss and the Gifts of Life,” is a collection of the thirty-two intimate and compassionate letters sharing Dan's thoughts, observations and experiences gained from his 27 years with quadriplegia, and his professional life as a clinical psychologist. Dr. Dan Gottlieb and I visited by phone from his in mid April 2006. The books Dr. Gottlieb recommends are “Eat, Pray and Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything, Across Italy, India and Indonesia,” by Elizabeth Gilbert, and “Life of Pi,” by Yann Martel. Originally Broadcast: April 12, 2006 Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=17809&version_id=20798&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/04/30/makepeace-anne-we-still-live-here-revival-of-the-wampanoag-language/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/04/30/makepeace-anne-we-still-live-here-revival-of-the-wampanoag-language/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:05:10 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2795 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/04/30/makepeace-anne-we-still-live-here-revival-of-the-wampanoag-language/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Anne Makepeace, the writer and director of the documentary film, “We Still Live Here,” which chronicles the movement to reclaim the lost Native American language of the Wampanoag people. The film “We Still Live Here,” tells the story of the revival of an indigenous Native American language that was not spoken or written for over 100 years. Our guest in this edition of Radio Curious is Anne Makepeace, the writer and producer of the documentary film. The Wampanoag people of Southeastern Massachusetts ensured the survival of the Pilgrims in New England, and lived to regret it. After nearly 400 years of forced cultural assimilation the Wampanoags have brought their language home again. Radio Curious visited with Anne Makepeace from her home in northwestern Connecticut on April 29, 2013, and she began by pronouncing "We Still Live Here" in Wampanoag. The films Anne Makepeace recommends are “The Beasts of the Southern Wild” and “Dersu Uzala.” Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/03/25/bateson-mary-catherine-%e2%80%93-do-we-really-know-the-people-around-us/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/03/25/bateson-mary-catherine-%e2%80%93-do-we-really-know-the-people-around-us/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:37:41 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2745 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/03/25/bateson-mary-catherine-%e2%80%93-do-we-really-know-the-people-around-us/feed/ 0 Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Mary Catherine Bateson, author of "“Full Circles: Overlapping Lives, Culture and Generation in Transistion." Do we really know the people around us? Our children? Our family? Our friends? Or are we strangers in our own community? Mary Catherine Bateson, the author of a book entitled, “Full Circles: Overlapping Lives, Culture and Generation in Transition,” believes that we are strangers. She describes us as immigrants in time, rather than space.In this interview from the archives of Radio Curious, recorded in April 2000, we visit with Mary Catherine Bateson, the daughter of two distinguished anthropologists, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Originally Broadcast: April 17, 2000. Click here to visit and listen to our archived program or click on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/03/05/wagner-sally-roesch-suffragist-matilda-gage-almost-jailed-for-voting/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/03/05/wagner-sally-roesch-suffragist-matilda-gage-almost-jailed-for-voting/#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:11:11 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2714 http://www.radiocurious.org/2013/03/05/wagner-sally-roesch-suffragist-matilda-gage-almost-jailed-for-voting/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Sally Roesch Wagner, a historian and chautauqua scholar who portrays suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage. Gage lived from 1826 to 1892, and was a vibrant and leading figure in the suffragist movement of that century. This program is about Matilda Joslyn Gage, who lived from 1826 to 1892 and was a vibrant and leading figure in the suffragist movement of that century. Matilda Joslyn Gage, an outspoken leader for women’s rights, and an advocate to abolish slavery and religious bigotry, became historically invisible in pursuit of her liberty to think and speak as she thought proper.  She was threatened with jail for voting in New York in 1871, and later was inducted into the Iroquois nation after publicly declaring Christian theology to be a primary source of the oppression of women. Historian and chautauqua scholar Sally Roesch Wagner, who portrays Matilda Joslyn Gage, brought Gage into the limelight by creating the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, based in Fayetteville, New York.  The Gage Foundation is dedicated to educating current and future generations about Gage’s work and the power of her work to drive contemporary social change. I met with Sally Roesch Wagner in the studios of Radio Curious in December 1996.  Our conversation began when I welcomed Matilda Joslyn Gage to Radio Curious. The book Matilda Joslyn Gage recommends is “The Secret Doctrine:  The Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy,” by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. The book Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner recommends is “Women, Church and State,” by Matilda Joslyn Gage. This program was recorded in December 1996. Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/12/17/the-art-of-political-song-part-one-with-david-rovics/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/12/17/the-art-of-political-song-part-one-with-david-rovics/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:01:04 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2612 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/12/17/the-art-of-political-song-part-one-with-david-rovics/feed/ 0 The Art of Political Song is the topic of Radio Curious with singer – songwriter, David Rovics who discusses how he creates his songs, some of which he’ll sing, and what he hopes they will achieve.  Songs of a political nature are not surprising given the similarities and parallel community structures of politics and religions with each community promoting the behaviors and concepts it supports as being the most appropriate.  The art of Political Song which has been crafted and heard world wide since time immemorial is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. In this program we visit with singer–songwriter David Rovics, a veritable troubadour and folk musician of our time.  He visited the studios of Radio Curious on December 9, 2012, and began our conversation when he described his work, his songs, and how he creates them. The following is his biography taken from his website (http://www.davidrovics.com):  ”David Rovics grew up in a family of classical musicians in Wilton, Connecticut, and became a fan of populist regimes early on. By the early 90's he was a full-time busker in the Boston subways and by the mid-90's he was traveling the world as a professional flat-picking rabble-rouser. These days David lives in Portland, Oregon and tours regularly on four continents, playing for audiences large and small at cafes, pubs, universities, churches, union halls and protest rallies. He has shared the stage with a veritable who's who of the left in two dozen countries, and has had his music featured on Democracy Now!, BBC, Al-Jazeera and other networks. His essays are published regularly on CounterPunch and elsewhere, and the 200+ songs he makes available for free on the web have been downloaded more than a million times. Most importantly, he's really good. He will make you laugh, he will make you cry, he will make the revolution irresistible.” Based in Portland, Oregon, David Rovics spends most of his time on tour.  The book he recommends is “Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves,” by Naomi Aldort. Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/11/28/krassner-paul-confessions-of-a-raving-unconfined-nut/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/11/28/krassner-paul-confessions-of-a-raving-unconfined-nut/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:02:24 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2577 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/11/28/krassner-paul-confessions-of-a-raving-unconfined-nut/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with journalist and satirist, Paul Krassner, author of his newly revised autobiography, "Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut:  Misadventures in the Counterculture." Blessed with a sense of absurdity, journalist and satirist Paul Krassner was characterized by the FBI as “a raving, unconfined nut.” He liked that and incorporated those words into the title of his revised auto-biography, “Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut:  Misadventures in the Counterculture.” Krassner wrote a lot about his personal philosophy, so when we spoke by phone on November 24, 2012, from his home near Palm Springs, California, we began when I asked him to tell us about his philosophy, what it is, and how it came to be. The book Paul Krassner recommends is "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo. Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/11/13/miller-geoffrey-%e2%80%94-sex-evolution-and-consumer-behaviour/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/11/13/miller-geoffrey-%e2%80%94-sex-evolution-and-consumer-behaviour/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:26:02 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2558 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/11/13/miller-geoffrey-%e2%80%94-sex-evolution-and-consumer-behaviour/feed/ 0 Consumer behavior is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious in a conversation with Geoffrey Miller, professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of New Mexico, and the author of “Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior”. Consumer behavior is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious in a conversation with Geoffrey Miller, professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of New Mexico, and the author of “Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior”. Click here to visit and listen to our archived program or click on the media player below. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/08/01/johnston-lila-balas-son-sacred-sites-of-the-winnemem-wintu/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/08/01/johnston-lila-balas-son-sacred-sites-of-the-winnemem-wintu/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:43:50 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2439 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/08/01/johnston-lila-balas-son-sacred-sites-of-the-winnemem-wintu/feed/ 0 sacred sites,Winnemem Wintu Radio Curious brings you a conversation with Lila Johnston, a student at Stanford who is documenting the sacred sites of the Winnemem Wintu tribe in Northern California. The Winnemen Wintu people of California, having lived near Mount Shasta, along a tributary of the McCloud River for over 10,000 years celebrate the Balas Chonas, or Puberty Ceremony when girls mature into women.  The ceremony, celebrated on July 3, 2012 was extraordinary, when Balas Chonas was held for the next Winnemem Wintu chief and spiritual leader. However, the Balas Chonas ceremonies may come to an end, if the United States government continues with a plan to raise Shasta Dam and flood out most of the tribes remaining sacred sites. Our guest is Lyla Johnston, currently a student of Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University who is documenting the culture and sacred sites of the Winnemem Wintu. Christina Aanestad the Assistant Producer of Radio Curious visited with Lyla Johnston at the July 3rd, 2012 Balas Chonas. They began their conversation when Christina asked Lyla how many sacred sites the Winnemem Wintu have along the McCloud River. The book Lyla Johnston recommends is “The Red Tent,” by Anita Diamont. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-JOHNSTON-LILA-RC-7-3-12.mp3) to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=61810&version_id=68814&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/07/24/rapaille-dr-clotaire-understanding-our-collective-unconscious-part-two/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/07/24/rapaille-dr-clotaire-understanding-our-collective-unconscious-part-two/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:31:12 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2437 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/07/24/rapaille-dr-clotaire-understanding-our-collective-unconscious-part-two/feed/ 0 Radio Curious brings you part 2 of an archived conversation about the collective unconscious with Dr. Clotaire Rapaille, author of “The Culture Code, An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around The World Live and Buy As They Do.” Radio Curious brings you part 2 of an archived conversation about the collective unconscious with Dr. Clotaire Rapaille, author of “The Culture Code, An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around The World Live and Buy As They Do.” Click here (http://emma2.radio4all.net/pub/archive2/07.01.07/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-20060703-Rapaille_Part_2_broadcast.mp3) to visit and listen to our archived program. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/07/17/rapaille-dr-clotaire-understanding-our-collective-unconscious/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/07/17/rapaille-dr-clotaire-understanding-our-collective-unconscious/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:54:32 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2422 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/07/17/rapaille-dr-clotaire-understanding-our-collective-unconscious/feed/ 0 Radio Curious brings you an archived, 2-part conversation about the collective unconscious and people's living and consumption habits with Dr. Clotaire Rapaille, author of “The Culture Code, An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around The World Li... Radio Curious brings you an archived, 2-part conversation about the collective unconscious with Dr. Clotaire Rapaille, author of “The Culture Code, An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around The World Live and Buy As They Do.” Click here to visit and listen to our archived program. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/05/28/schwawrtz-maya-one-holocaust-survivor%e2%80%99s-wonderful-thrill-of-life/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/05/28/schwawrtz-maya-one-holocaust-survivor%e2%80%99s-wonderful-thrill-of-life/#comments Mon, 28 May 2012 22:06:51 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2362 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/05/28/schwawrtz-maya-one-holocaust-survivor%e2%80%99s-wonderful-thrill-of-life/feed/ 0 Radio Curious takes you to France as it was in 1932 where Maya Schwartz was born to an immigrant family. 1939 to 1945 her family was torn apart by the Nazis. California 2012 – We interview Maya Schwartz a holocaust survivor who relies on optimism and s... There are two kinds of Holocaust survivors:  Those who didn’t die yet could no longer experience pleasure and those who yearned to feel alive and were able to create anew. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Maya Finkel Schwartz, born in France in 1932 to Jewish parents from Poland.  After being separated from her father at the beginning of World War Two, her mother had the foresight to introduce then seven year old Maya to as many social workers and nuns as her mother could locate.  It was these people who Maya credits with saving her life as they sheltered her in barns and convents.  She never saw her parents after the war.  As an older teen-ager she arrived in Los Angeles, California where she still lives after a decades long career teaching high-school, and later as a singer, as we shall hear. The story of Maya Finkel Schwartz is one of 52 childhood accounts of the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany documented in the book “How We Survived:  52 Personal Stories by Child Survivors of the Holocaust.”  More information about this book is available at childsurvivorsla.org. Maya Schwartz visited the studios of Radio Curious on April 20, 2012.  Maya shared her story and a song, accompanied by her son Michael Charnas. Her theme is the “joy of life,” which is where we began our conversation. The story of Maya Finkel Schwartz is found in the book she recommends.  She wrote one of 52 childhood accounts of the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany documented in the book “How We Survived:  52 Personal Stories by Child Survivors of the Holocaust.” Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/02/06/solomon-norman-made-love-got-war/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/02/06/solomon-norman-made-love-got-war/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:38:12 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2189 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/02/06/solomon-norman-made-love-got-war/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with author, journalist and candidate for congress, Norman Solomon. They discuss his background as an activist and journalist and his reflections on social change. Politics may be safely called the medium for the theory and practice of social change.  The implementation of social change is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. Our guest is Norman Solomon, founder of the Institute for Public Accuracy.  He has been its Director since 1999.  Norman Solomon is currently a candidate for Congress for the newly formed 2nd Congressional District that includes the coastal counties of northern California from the Golden Gate Bridge 350 miles north to the Oregon border. In addition to his work at the Institute for Public Accuracy, Norman Solomon has written 12 books on politics, civil disobedience, and war.  When Norman Solomon was barely 17 years old, he came to believe that it was possible to do almost anything with enough desire.  At that time he also wanted to write a book called “No Compromise.”  He visited the studios of Radio Curious on February 2, 2012, and we began our conversation when I asked him if he ever wrote that book. The website for the Institute for Public Accuracy is www.accuracy.org (http://www.accuracy.org).  The website for Norman Solomon's congressional campaign is www.solomonforcongress.com (http://www.solomonforcongress.com). The book Norman Solomon recommends is “The Grapes of Wrath,” by John Steinbeck. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/01/31/zeig-jeff-ph-d-below-the-radar-of-your-mind/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/01/31/zeig-jeff-ph-d-below-the-radar-of-your-mind/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:47:28 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2174 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/01/31/zeig-jeff-ph-d-below-the-radar-of-your-mind/feed/ 0 Radio Curious explores the use of hypnosis in changing your world view and even your life with Dr. Jeff Zeig, psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and founder of the Milton Erickson Institute. How to get below the radar of your mind and what to do once you’re there is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious.  One goal is to reach the quantum of personal leaning in the sub-conscious mind and bring that experiential knowledge to the conscious mind of daily life.  A trusted guide is often beneficial. Our guest is Dr. Jeffrey Zeig, in another conversation about the Ericksonian approach to psychotherapy.  He is the founder and director of the Milton Erickson Foundation and a clinical psychologist based in Phoenix, Arizona.  Dr. Zeig has directed multiple conferences on the evolution of psychotherapy including the 11th Milton Erickson Psychotherapy Conference where he and I met in December 2011, in Phoenix, Arizona. We began our conversation when I asked him about the history of psychotherapy. The books he recommends are “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery as well as the books written by Leo Tolstoy. Jeff Zeig's website is www.jeffzeig.com.  The Milton Erickson Foundation website is www.erickson-foundation.org. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/01/23/nawa-fariba-child-brides-drug-lords/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/01/23/nawa-fariba-child-brides-drug-lords/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:54:26 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2158 http://www.radiocurious.org/2012/01/23/nawa-fariba-child-brides-drug-lords/feed/ 0 Opium, child brides, drug lords and their effect on current life in Afganistan is the topic of this week’s Radio Curious when we visit with Afgan-American Journalist Fariba Nawa, author of “Opium Nation: Child Brides, Imagine Darya, a twelve year old girl in a remote village of Afghanistan.  Her father forces her to marry a drug lord as part payment for an opium drug trade.  Her father is not home and she is about to be taken from her family.  Desperately, her hands trembling, she implores you, a complete stranger:  “Please don’t let him take me.” In this edition of Radio Curious we visit Fariba Nawa, author of “Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords and One Woman’s Journey Through Afghanistan.”  Fariba Nawa was ten years old when her family fled Afghanistan shortly before the Soviet invasion in 1979.  Eighteen years later Fariba Nawa met twelve year old Darya when she returned to her native Afghanistan as an Afghan-American investigative journalist.  Her book tells Darya’s story, and reveals what the Afghan opium drug trade is doing to her native land in the midst of war. Fariba Nawa and I visited by phone from her home near San Francisco, California on January 23, 2012. We began with her description of coming to the United States and flight from Afghanistan. Fariba Nawa's website is www.faribanawa.com. The book she recommends is “Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love and War,” by Annia Ciezaldo. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/11/07/dole-professor-robert-homosexuality-and-schizophrenia/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/11/07/dole-professor-robert-homosexuality-and-schizophrenia/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:57:55 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2040 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/11/07/dole-professor-robert-homosexuality-and-schizophrenia/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Robert Dole, a Professor of English as a Foreign Language at the University of Chicoutimi in Quebec, Canada, about his personal experiences with schizophrenia and homosexuality as described in his book published in 2000, One man’s personal experience in recognizing his homosexuality, is the subject of this program.  Until the mid 1970s homosexuality was considered by many people to be a mental disorder and/or a crime, as it still is in some personal and political belief systems.  Homosexual people sometimes were housed in mental institutions, given medication and suffered an array of treatment methods, including shock therapy and other forms of behavior modification. Professor Robert Dole, our guest in this edition of Radio Curious, was one of many individuals subjected to behavior modification of that period in time. In his book, “How to Make a Success of Your Schizophrenia,” he explains how the “treatment” he endured as an attempt to alter his homosexual preference made him schizophrenic.  His personal memoir describes his experiences growing up in the 1960s as a gay man, his institutionalization at the McLean Hospital in Massachusetts, the schizophrenia that consumed him as a result of his treatment, his self-led recovery, partially based on a spiritual experience, and his subsequent extraordinary life in academia. Professor Dole, who is fluent in seven languages, teaches English as a Foreign Language at the University of Chicoutimi in rural Quebec, Canada, where he has lived for 30 plus years.  He and I visited by phone from his office at the University of Chicoutimi on November 4, 2011 and began our conversation when I asked to describe the schizophrenia he experienced. The books Professor Robert Dole recommends are: “The Death of Ivan Ilych,” by Leo Tolstoy and any book from Stefan Zweig. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 28:59 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/10/31/kennedy-randall-racial-politics-and-the-obama-presidency/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/10/31/kennedy-randall-racial-politics-and-the-obama-presidency/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:14:52 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=2030 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/10/31/kennedy-randall-racial-politics-and-the-obama-presidency/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Randall Kennedy, author of “The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency,” and "Nigger:The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word." Racial Politics in America is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious, in our third visit with author and Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy, whose latest book is “The Persistence of the Color Line:  Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency.”  Kennedy is also the author of  “Nigger:  The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word,” and “Interracial Intimacies:  Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption.”  We visited by phone from his home in Massachusetts on October 28, 2011, and began our conversation when I asked him to describe the current role of race in American politics. The book Randall Kennedy recommends is “Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination,” by Alondra Nelson. The interview with Professor Kennedy about his book "Nigger:  The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word,” may be heard here and the interview about his book, "Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption," may be heard here. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=55424&version_id=61948&version=1) to download and subscribe to our podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/08/30/aanestad-christina-gold-oil-and-a-journalist%e2%80%99s-adventure-in-ecuador/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/08/30/aanestad-christina-gold-oil-and-a-journalist%e2%80%99s-adventure-in-ecuador/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:11:44 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1953 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/08/30/aanestad-christina-gold-oil-and-a-journalist%e2%80%99s-adventure-in-ecuador/feed/ 0 Radio Curious speaks with Associate Producer Christina Aanestad about her recent journalistic adventure to Ecuador and her findings about oil pollution, mining and community resistance. One of the things I learned in law school about bankruptcy was that if you have to borrow money to take a trip and then go bankrupt, the judge can’t take the trip away from you. In this edition we have a travel report from Christina Aanestad the Associate Producer for Radio Curious. Christina recently returned from a 6 week exploratory, journalist visit from Ecuador, a favorite country of mine. We visited at the Radio Curious studios on August 29, 2011, to discuss her adventures and what she learned about oil drilling, gold mining and dam construction, as well as what motivated her to take this trip. The books that Christina Aanestad recommend are, "Now is the Time to Open Your Heart," by Alice Walker and "Pronoia is the Antidote to Paranoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings," by Rob Brezney. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-AANESTAD_INTERVIEW_2_8-29-11_CA.mp3) to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=54066&version_id=60461&version=1) to download and subscribe to our podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/05/03/sisk-franco-caleen-puberty-rights-of-the-winnemem-wintu/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/05/03/sisk-franco-caleen-puberty-rights-of-the-winnemem-wintu/#comments Tue, 03 May 2011 20:22:41 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1769 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/05/03/sisk-franco-caleen-puberty-rights-of-the-winnemem-wintu/feed/ 1 This edition of Radio Curious is a visit with Caleen Sisk-Franco, Chief and spiritual leader of the Winnemem-Wintu tribe in Northern California, discussing their rights to hold an ancient puberty ceremony that honors a girls transition to womanhood. The "Middle Water People" are a small tribe near Mount Shasta, in Northern California. During World War 2, they were relocated and their homeland was flooded to make the Shasta Dam.  After an 80 year lapse, the tribe has reinvigorated a ceremony there, called the Puberty Ceremony, which honors a girls transition into womanhood.  For 3 days and nights, men sing and dance on one side of a river, while the women, pass on traditions to girls on the other side. The summer of 2011, the tribe will be holding the puberty ceremony for it’s future chief.  But holding a ceremony on stolen land can be a challenge. The forest service refuses to grant the tribe private access to their ancestral land along the McCloud river, because they are an “unrecognized” tribe.  Their ceremony is held with recreational boaters driving by, and camping as the tribe holds it's right of passage. Under the guidance of their Chief and Spiritual Leader, Caleen Sisk Franco, the Winnemem-Wintu have sued the federal government to protect their rights and their ancestral land. She describes the puberty ceremony and it’s importance to their way of life. Radio Curious Associate producer Christina Aanestad spoke with Caleen Sisk Franco, the chief and spiritual leader of the Winnemem Wintu tribe in Northern California in August 2011. The Book Caleen Sisk Franco recommends is “Winnie the Pooh,”  by A.A. Milne. For more information on the Winnemem Wintu you can visit their website: www.winnememwintu.us (http://www.winnememwintu.us/) Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=51442&version_id=57652&version=1) to download and subscribe to our podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/04/26/johnson-richard-w-his-philosophy-and-optimism/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/04/26/johnson-richard-w-his-philosophy-and-optimism/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:24:51 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1753 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/04/26/johnson-richard-w-his-philosophy-and-optimism/feed/ 0 This edition of Radio Curious is again about Richard W. Johnson Jr., publisher of a group of newspapers in Mendocino County, California, called Mendocino Country, who died March 16th, 2011. He talks about his philosophy and optimism. This edition of Radio Curious is again about Richard W. Johnson Jr., publisher of a group of newspapers in Mendocino County, California, called Mendocino Country.  He died March 16th, 2011.  The interview was recorded in June  2008 shortly after voters passed Measure B, a ballot measure that attempted to regulate marijuana growth and production.  The measure repealed an earlier ballot initiative Richard Johnson wrote, Measure G in 2000, that set a limit of 25 plants and 2 pounds of processed marijuana.  Measure B reduced the limits to 6 plants person and 8 ounces of processed marijuana.  Richard Johnson was opposed to Measure B and we began our conversation when I asked him why he took on this issue considering the fact that he did not use marijuana. Richard W. Johnson said he didn’t have time to read because he was too busy writing. Originally Broadcast: June 18th, 2008 Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download and subscribe to our podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/03/21/johnson-richard-the-life-and-times-of-mendocino-countrys-curmudgeon/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/03/21/johnson-richard-the-life-and-times-of-mendocino-countrys-curmudgeon/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:46:54 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1693 http://www.radiocurious.org/2011/03/21/johnson-richard-the-life-and-times-of-mendocino-countrys-curmudgeon/feed/ 4 Radio Curious pays homage to Richard Johnson, activist and publisher of 4 newspapers in Mendocino County, CA under the banner Mendocino Country. Johnson died Wednesday January 16th, in hospice care. He was 66 years old and leaves a legacy of activist v... Few people in Mendocino County, who are not elected officials, have created as much enmity and as many disruptive relationships as has Richard W. Johnson, Jr., who was the owner, editor and publisher of four local news papers under the banner: Mendocino Country.  Johnson died Wednesday March 16th, 2011, in hospice care.  He was 66 years old and will be remembered by his stalwart stance  activist vigor and irascible nature. He was an original organizer of California Certified Organic Farmers, the recipient of the Mendocino Environmental Center's ‘Walking Stick Award’ in 1992 for promoting an ocean sanctuary off the Mendocino Coast, and as an original proponent of Measure G on the Mendocino County ballot in 2000, which legalized marijuana in Mendocino County.  When we visited he said he wanted to discuss the misunderstood and seldom appreciated Richard Johnson, his life and times.  And he does. The interview was recorded at the studios of Radio Curious in Ukiah, CA on February 19th , 2008.  Richard Johnson's papers will continue.  Radio Curious Associate Producer, Christina Aanestad and Annie Esposito are publishing Mendocino Country Independent, Vistas and Confluence.  Augusto "Zezzy" Chirre will publish El Sol. Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=50319&version_id=56456&version=1) to download and subscribe to our podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/08/02/wells-spencer-the-unforseen-cost-of-civilization/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/08/02/wells-spencer-the-unforseen-cost-of-civilization/#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:07:44 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1239 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/08/02/wells-spencer-the-unforseen-cost-of-civilization/feed/ 0  - In this edition of Radio Curious we visit again with Spencer Wells and discuss his new book, “Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization,” published n 2010.  Our interview is a follow-up to a 2004 conversation about his book,  In this edition of Radio Curious we visit again with Spencer Wells and discuss his new book, “Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization,” published n 2010.  Our interview is a follow-up to a 2004 conversation about his book, "The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey," in which Wells traces our routes as small bands of hunter-gatherers when our ancestors walked out of Africa approximately 60,000 years ago and began populating the world.  Our 2004 interview may be found here (http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/02/10/spencer-wells-the-peopling-of-the-world/). “Pandora’s Seed” tells the story of what we humans, with our hunter-gatherer biological construct have created in the past 10,000 years. These multiple live style changes have produced what we call “civilization,” with systems and mechanisms that will not allow us to continue the life-styles to are emulated by many people world-wide, and exploited by those who have access to them. In other words we can’t last much longer doing what we are doing without radically reducing the way we all live, if not outright killing our species. Spencer Well is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., where he leads the Genographic Project, which is collecting and analyzing hundreds of thousands of DNA samples from people around the wold in order to decipher how our ancestors populated the world.   He is also a professor a Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. In this interview with Spencer Wells, recorded on July 19, 2010, we began by describing the changes necessary for our species survival. The book Spencer Wells recommends is “The Histories," by Herodotus, the 5th century B.C. Greek historian. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/44618/50309/65742/?url=http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-WELLS_SPENCER.2_1_CA_7-19-10.mp3) to begin listening. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=44618&version_id=50309&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/08/vedantam-shankar-have-you-found-your-hidden-brain/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/08/vedantam-shankar-have-you-found-your-hidden-brain/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:11:40 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1185 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/08/vedantam-shankar-have-you-found-your-hidden-brain/feed/ 0 Part One - How do we make the big decisions in our lives?  Who to vote for—or who to choose as a life mate or form an opinion about politics or war?  Most of us are certain we consciously evaluate these decisions.  But, we may be fooling ourselves, Part One How do we make the big decisions in our lives?  Who to vote for—or who to choose as a life mate or form an opinion about politics or war?  Most of us are certain we consciously evaluate these decisions.  But, we may be fooling ourselves, if not being fooled by others.  Shankar Vedantam, author of “The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives,” encourages us to be aware of how our unconscious mind is capable of controlling our decision making capabilities.  In this, the first of two conversations with Shankar Vedantam, we explore the unconscious mind, how we rely upon it and how it is can be manipulated by advertising  and our anecdotal experiences.  These interviews with Shankar Vedantam were recorded on May 17, 2010 by phone from his home in Massachusetts.  We began with his description of the “hidden brain.”  Shankar Vedantam is a national correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post and 2009-10 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. The book Shankar Vedantam recommends is “A House For Mr. Biswas” by V.S.Naipaul. Click here to begin listening to part one Click here to download the podcast to part one (http://radiocurious.podomatic.com/enclosure/2010-06-08T11_57_33-07_00.mp3) Part Two Not too long before the pseudo religious organization known as “The People’s Temple moved to the remote jungles of Guyana in the northeast corner of South America where over 900 people killed themselves at the direction of Jim Jones in 1978, they were based in Redwood Valley, California, about 10 miles from Ukiah, the home of Radio Curious.   In this, the second Radio Curious conversation with Shankar Vedantam author of “The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives,” we explore what compelled these people to kill themselves. We’ll examine what compels suicide bombers of the early 21st century to take their own lives and those of others? And are we, in fact, all susceptible to these ideas? The conversation with Shankar Vedamtam, recorded from his home in Massachusetts on May 17, 2010, began when I asked him to explain the attraction of cults, who are drawn to them, and why.  Shankar Vedantam is a national correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post and 2009-10 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. This interview was recorded on May 17th, 2010. The book Shankar Vedantam recommends is “Heart Of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad. Click here to begin listening to part two Click here to download the podcast of part two (http://radiocurious.podomatic.com/enclosure/2010-06-08T15_08_50-07_00.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/08/basta-michael-relationship-warning-signs/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/08/basta-michael-relationship-warning-signs/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:26:48 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1182 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/08/basta-michael-relationship-warning-signs/feed/ 0 Why some couples get along and others don’t, sometimes to the extent of terminating their relationship, is a curious question, the answer to which is likely to bring both pleasure and unhappiness to each of us. Why some couples get along and others don’t, sometimes to the extent of terminating their relationship, is a curious question, the answer to which is likely to bring both pleasure and unhappiness to each of us.  Michael Basta has been a licensed clinical social worker based in Sonoma, County California, since 1988.  He is trained and certified as a Gottman Couples’ Therapist.  This training identifies the traits and behaviors of couples that are useful to predict how long their relationship will last.  Michael Basta visited Radio Curious on May 21, 2010, and began by describing the negative traits and behaviors that indicate a dark future for the relationship. The book Michael Basta recommends is “The Female Brain,"  by Dr. Louann Brizendine. Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/43281/48842/64504/?url=http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-BASTA_INTERVIEW_5-21-10_HB_mono.mp3) Click here to download the podcast (http://radiocurious.podomatic.com/enclosure/2010-06-08T10_18_43-07_00.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/03/weidlinger-tom-jim-thorpe-the-worlds-greatest-athlete/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/03/weidlinger-tom-jim-thorpe-the-worlds-greatest-athlete/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:56:19 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1173 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/03/weidlinger-tom-jim-thorpe-the-worlds-greatest-athlete/feed/ 0 A sports icon of the first half of the 20th century, Jim Thorpe, was a Native American athlete who rose to athletic stardom at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, winning two gold medals at the 1912 Summer Olympics and continued, A sports icon of the first half of the 20th century, Jim Thorpe, was a Native American athlete who rose to athletic stardom at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, winning two gold medals at the 1912 Summer Olympics and continued, despite some controversy, to gain fame in professional baseball and football. In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Tom Weidlinger, the director and co-writer and co-producer of the movie “Jim Thorpe, The World’s Greatest Athlete.”  Tom Weidlinger spoke from his home in the San Francisco bay area on Sunday, May 30th 2010.  I began by asking him “Who is Jim Thorpe?” The book  Tom Weidlinger recommends is “Cutting For Stone” by Abraham Verghese. Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/43167/48720/64400/?url=http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-WEIDLINGER_TOM_INTERVIEW_5-30-10_HB_mono.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/03/stiefel-frank-ingelore-speaking-without-hearing/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/03/stiefel-frank-ingelore-speaking-without-hearing/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:44:23 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1171 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/06/03/stiefel-frank-ingelore-speaking-without-hearing/feed/ 0 What would it be like for you if you were deaf? If you could not speak your first word until you were six? If you had three years of education, your first language was German, and you later emigrated to another country where they speak English? What would it be like for you if you were deaf? If you could not speak your first word until you were six? If you had three years of education, your first language was German, and you later emigrated to another country where they speak English?  Ingelore is the first name of a woman who was born in Germany in 1924, and came to America in 1940 at the beginning of the Third Reich, right after Kristallnacht. The film “Ingelore” was made by Inglelore's son Frank Stiefel, and it tells his mother’s story.  This edition of Radio Curious begins with we a piece from the movie “Ingelore” in which she explains who she is and a little of her story. As we hear is her ability to articulate words in English it’s important to remember  she cannot hear. This interview was recorded on May 29th, 2010 with Frank Stiefel from his home in Santa Monica, California. The books that Frank Stiefel recommends are “Hand Of My Father,” by Myron Uhlberg, and “The Road,” by Cormac McCarthy. Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/43165/48718/64399/?url=http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-STEIFEL_FRANK_INTERVIEW_5-28-10_HB_mono.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/04/25/1121/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/04/25/1121/#comments Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:44:33 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1121 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/04/25/1121/feed/ 0 Sharing interpretations of the human condition and the love of music with lyrical power and determination is the artistry of Joanne Rand, our guest on this edition of Radio Curious.  Currently based in Arcata, California, after growing up in the Georgia, Sharing interpretations of the human condition and the love of music with lyrical power and determination is the artistry of Joanne Rand, our guest on this edition of Radio Curious.  Currently based in Arcata, California, after growing up in the Georgia, and studying art, her passion as a singer – songwriter gripped and has shaped her life since. I met Joanne Rand at a house concert in here in Ukiah soon after she released her tenth CD album “Snake Oil and Hummingbirds.”  We visited in the Radio Curious studios on March 29, 2010 and began our conversation with recollections of her early memories and how they helped shape the woman she is now. The book Joann Rand recommends is "Universe: A Journey To The Edge of The Cosmos," by Nicholas Cheetham. Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/42188/47664/63615/?url=http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-RAND_JOANNE_3-29-10_MONO.mp3) Click here to download the podcast of this program. (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=42188&version_id=47664&version=1) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/04/13/clancy-susan-a-ph-d-sexual-abuse-of-children-and-the-catholic-church/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/04/13/clancy-susan-a-ph-d-sexual-abuse-of-children-and-the-catholic-church/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:33:57 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=1099 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/04/13/clancy-susan-a-ph-d-sexual-abuse-of-children-and-the-catholic-church/feed/ 0 If you have been sexually abused as a child, or know someone who was, listen to this edition of Radio Curious with host Barry Vogel and Susan A. Clancy, Ph.D, author of “The Trauma Myth:  The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children – and Its Aftermath. If you have been sexually abused as a child, or know someone who was, listen to this edition of Radio Curious with host Barry Vogel and Susan A. Clancy, Ph.D, author of “The Trauma Myth:  The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children – and Its Aftermath.”  This conversation discuss’s the myth of when trauma of child sexual abuse takes place, how and the abuse is perceived by the victim, and the effects of denial, minimization and blame, and how this issue within the Catholic Church is not being resolved.  Susan A. Clancy, Ph.D. is currently the Research Director of the Center for Women’s Advancement, Development and Leadership at the Central American Institute for Business Administration in Nicaragua.  This interview was recorded on April 12, 2010, with Susan A. Clancy Ph.D. from her home in Managua, Nicaragua. The books she recommends are “Happiness: A History” by Darrin M. McMahon, and “In The Woods,” by Tana French. Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/41791/47235/63326/?url=http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-CLANCY_INTERVIEW_BV_4-12-10.mp3) Click here to download the podcast of this program. (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=41791&version_id=47235&version=1) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/02/16/project-pooch-dogs-in-juvenile-hall/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/02/16/project-pooch-dogs-in-juvenile-hall/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:48:17 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=987 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/02/16/project-pooch-dogs-in-juvenile-hall/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/02/02/gehrman-jody-edelman-deborah-the-ticking-clock/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/02/02/gehrman-jody-edelman-deborah-the-ticking-clock/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:23:42 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=968 http://www.radiocurious.org/2010/02/02/gehrman-jody-edelman-deborah-the-ticking-clock/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/11/23/professor-freund-hugo-why-thanksgiving/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/11/23/professor-freund-hugo-why-thanksgiving/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:13:33 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=884 http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/11/23/professor-freund-hugo-why-thanksgiving/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/11/16/alexander-rudolph-jr-phd-from-the-death-penalty-to-a-doctorate/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/11/16/alexander-rudolph-jr-phd-from-the-death-penalty-to-a-doctorate/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:58:53 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=877 http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/11/16/alexander-rudolph-jr-phd-from-the-death-penalty-to-a-doctorate/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/11/01/vogel-lillian-brown-secrets-of-a-long-life/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/11/01/vogel-lillian-brown-secrets-of-a-long-life/#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:33:48 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=871 http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/11/01/vogel-lillian-brown-secrets-of-a-long-life/feed/ 0 How can you reach 100 years leading a healthy and fulfilling life? Lillian Brown Vogel, Ph.D., reached 100 in September 2009 and  published her book "What's My Secret," a memoir looking across her life and imparting thoughts and ideas to those of us wh... How can you reach 100 years leading a healthy and fulfilling life? Lillian Brown Vogel, Ph.D., reached 100 in September 2009 and  published her book "What's My Secret," a memoir looking across her life and imparting thoughts and ideas to those of us who would wish to lead a long and active life. Lillian is the mother of Radio Curious host and producer Barry Vogel.  He remembers from his childhood hearing her get to the heart of most any matter with a few simple questions.  A skill which helped put him onto his own curious path in life. This conversation recorded on October 31,  2009, begins by inquiring what makes Lillian curious. The book recommended by Lillian Brown Vogel, Ph.D., is "The Blue Tattoo: The Life Of Olive Oatman." Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/42383/47876/63750/?url=http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-LILLIAN_VOGEL_10-31-09_INTERVIEW_HB_WEB_EDITION_MONO.mp3) Click here to download the podcast (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=37175&version_id=42405&version=1) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/10/05/collier-robin-in-defense-of-mendocino-county-tomorrow-and-measure-a/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/10/05/collier-robin-in-defense-of-mendocino-county-tomorrow-and-measure-a/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:03 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=687 http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/10/05/collier-robin-in-defense-of-mendocino-county-tomorrow-and-measure-a/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/07/14/livingston-gordon-md-how-to-love/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/07/14/livingston-gordon-md-how-to-love/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:24:13 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=616 http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/07/14/livingston-gordon-md-how-to-love/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with psychiatrist, Dr. Gordon Livingston about his book, "How to Love." Everybody thinks about love and many people say "I love you", but how is love defined? The book "How To Love" written by psychiatrist Dr. Gordon Livingston answers these and many other questions about love and how to find a compatible and pleasurable partnership. In this interview, we discuss how to choose more carefully in matters of love to get what we desire and deserve. The song "Do You Love Me?" from the musical "Fiddler On The Roof," is our background music. Dr. Gordon Livingston spoke from his home in Columbia, Maryland on July 13th 2009, where he lives and practices psychiatry. The conversation began when I asked Dr. Livingston to define love. The book Dr. Gordon Livingston recommends is "All He Ever Wanted," by Anita Shreve. Click here to begin listening or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/02/02/blevis-marcianne-are-you-jealous-do-you-know-why/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/02/02/blevis-marcianne-are-you-jealous-do-you-know-why/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:21:18 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2009/02/17/blevis-marcianne-are-you-jealous-do-you-know-why/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2009/02/02/blevis-marcianne-are-you-jealous-do-you-know-why/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/07/28/keller-irwin-the-kinsey-scale-and-the-kinsey-sicks/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/07/28/keller-irwin-the-kinsey-scale-and-the-kinsey-sicks/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:54:34 +0000 http://www.radiocurious.org/?p=555 http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/07/28/keller-irwin-the-kinsey-scale-and-the-kinsey-sicks/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/05/21/gottlieb-dr-daniel-learning-from-the-heart/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/05/21/gottlieb-dr-daniel-learning-from-the-heart/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 00:39:10 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/05/21/gottlieb-dr-daniel-learning-from-the-heart/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/05/21/gottlieb-dr-daniel-learning-from-the-heart/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/04/16/johnson-richard-w-jr-an-activist-journalist/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/04/16/johnson-richard-w-jr-an-activist-journalist/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:49:39 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/04/16/johnson-richard-w-jr-an-activist-journalist/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/04/16/johnson-richard-w-jr-an-activist-journalist/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/04/16/sutherland-amy-lessons-about-ourselves-from-animal-trainers/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/04/16/sutherland-amy-lessons-about-ourselves-from-animal-trainers/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:21:55 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/04/16/sutherland-amy-lessons-about-ourselves-from-animal-trainers/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/04/16/sutherland-amy-lessons-about-ourselves-from-animal-trainers/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/04/16/roach-mary-human-sexuality-a-conversation/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/04/16/roach-mary-human-sexuality-a-conversation/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:07:57 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/04/16/roach-mary-human-sexuality-a-conversation/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/04/16/roach-mary-human-sexuality-a-conversation/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/02/01/michael-shuman-keeping-the-culture-of-small-towns/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/02/01/michael-shuman-keeping-the-culture-of-small-towns/#comments Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:40:52 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/02/01/michael-shuman-keeping-the-culture-of-small-towns/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2008/02/01/michael-shuman-keeping-the-culture-of-small-towns/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2005/10/25/gordon-neufeld-hold-on-to-your-kids/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2005/10/25/gordon-neufeld-hold-on-to-your-kids/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:34:53 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/16/gordon-neufeld-hold-on-to-your-kids/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2005/10/25/gordon-neufeld-hold-on-to-your-kids/feed/ 0 Hold On to Your Kids, Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers The economic and cultural changes that have occurred in North American society in the past fifty or so years have resulted in today’s children looking to and associating with their peers... Hold On to Your Kids, Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers The economic and cultural changes that have occurred in North American society in the past fifty or so years have resulted in today’s children looking to and associating with their peers instead of their parents, for direction, for a sense of right and wrong and for values, identity and codes of behavior. This peer orientation works to undermine family cohesion. It interferes with healthy development and fosters a sexualized youth culture in which children lose their individuality and tend to become conformist, desensitized and alienated. These concepts and what to do about them to develop strong families and emotionally healthy children are explained in “Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers, “ by Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D. and Gabor Mate, M.D. When I spoke with Dr. Gordon Neufeld from his home in Vancouver, British Columbia we began our conversation with a discussion of the importance of the development of an attachment between the adult caregiver and the child, beginning at infancy. www.GordonNeufeld.com Gordon Neufeld recommends “The Anatomy of Dependence,” Takeo Doi. Originally Broadcast: October 25, 2005 Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/pub/archive2/07.01.07/curious@pacific.net/1197-1-20051029-GORDON_NEUFELD_10-17-05.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2005/01/15/steve-hellman-the-spontaneous-spoken-word/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2005/01/15/steve-hellman-the-spontaneous-spoken-word/#comments Sat, 15 Jan 2005 22:08:08 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/16/steve-hellman-the-spontaneous-spoken-word/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2005/01/15/steve-hellman-the-spontaneous-spoken-word/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/12/14/juliet-schor-selling-to-our-children/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/12/14/juliet-schor-selling-to-our-children/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:12:58 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/16/juliet-schor-selling-to-our-children/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/12/14/juliet-schor-selling-to-our-children/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/03/09/dr-abraham-morgantaler-viagra-is-it-for-you/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/03/09/dr-abraham-morgantaler-viagra-is-it-for-you/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:47:59 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/16/dr-abraham-morgantaler-viagra-is-it-for-you/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/03/09/dr-abraham-morgantaler-viagra-is-it-for-you/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/02/17/brooke-kroeger-when-people-cant-be-who-they-are/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/02/17/brooke-kroeger-when-people-cant-be-who-they-are/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:38:15 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/17/brooke-kroeger-when-people-cant-be-who-they-are/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/02/17/brooke-kroeger-when-people-cant-be-who-they-are/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/01/27/eve-ensler-meet-the-author-of-the-vagina-monologues/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/01/27/eve-ensler-meet-the-author-of-the-vagina-monologues/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:43:57 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/17/eve-ensler-meet-the-author-of-the-vagina-monologues/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2004/01/27/eve-ensler-meet-the-author-of-the-vagina-monologues/feed/ 0 Radio Curious revisits a 2004 conversation with Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues, for Women's History Month. The Vagina Monologues The Vagina Monologues, created and produced by Eve Ensler, tell the stories of women, their relationships, feelings, and, in some cases, abuse. In this edition of Radio Curious, we spoke with Eve Ensler about the origin of the the Vagina Monologues and the film, “Until the Violence Ends.” Eve Ensler recommends "Bush in Babylon," by Tariq Ali. Originally Broadcast: January 27, 2004 Click here to listen to the program or on the media player below. Click here to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/11/01/robert-benton-the-human-stain/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/11/01/robert-benton-the-human-stain/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2003 09:48:15 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/17/robert-benton-the-human-stain/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/11/01/robert-benton-the-human-stain/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/09/30/jennifer-finney-boylan-a-man-becomes-a-woman/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/09/30/jennifer-finney-boylan-a-man-becomes-a-woman/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:54:48 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/17/jennifer-finney-boylan-a-man-becomes-a-woman/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/09/30/jennifer-finney-boylan-a-man-becomes-a-woman/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/09/02/alexandra-fuller-growing-up-white-in-africa/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/09/02/alexandra-fuller-growing-up-white-in-africa/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2003 10:03:47 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/17/alexandra-fuller-growing-up-white-in-africa/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/09/02/alexandra-fuller-growing-up-white-in-africa/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/02/18/janna-malamud-smith-why-mothers-worry-about-their-children/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/02/18/janna-malamud-smith-why-mothers-worry-about-their-children/#comments Tue, 18 Feb 2003 07:30:08 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/25/janna-malamud-smith-why-mothers-worry-about-their-children/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/02/18/janna-malamud-smith-why-mothers-worry-about-their-children/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Janna Malamud Smith, clinical psychotherapist and author of “A Potent Spell:  Mother Love and the Power of Fear.” A Potent Spell: Mother Love and the Power of Fear Is the concept of “mother blame” a method to control women? Is motherhood a really a fearsome job?  Will a mother’s mistake or inattention damage a child?  Is this different from the fear that fathers have about the safety of their children? “A Potent Spell:  Mother Love and the Power of Fear” is a recent book written by Janna Malamud Smith, a clinical psychotherapist and daughter of writer Bernard Malamud. Smith argues that the motherhood fear of losing a child is central to motherhood, and mostly overlooked as a historical force that has induced mothers throughout time to shape their own lives to better shelter their young,  the expense of their own future. I spoke with Dr. Janna Malamud Smith from her home in Massachusetts, and asked her to begin by discussing the different level of feat that fathers and mothers have toward their children. The book Janna Malamud Smith recommends is “Biography of Samuel Pepys” by Clair Tomilin. Originally Broadcast: February 18, 2003 Click here to listen or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=10889&version_id=72124&version=2) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/01/13/socrates-ron-gross-socrates-of-athens-in-conversation/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/01/13/socrates-ron-gross-socrates-of-athens-in-conversation/#comments Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:35:02 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/25/socrates-ron-gross-socrates-of-athens-in-conversation/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2003/01/13/socrates-ron-gross-socrates-of-athens-in-conversation/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2002/10/01/dr-gerda-lerner-the-foremother-of-womens-history/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2002/10/01/dr-gerda-lerner-the-foremother-of-womens-history/#comments Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:58:33 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/11/dr-gerda-lerner-the-foremother-of-womens-history/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2002/10/01/dr-gerda-lerner-the-foremother-of-womens-history/feed/ 0 Radio Curious visits with Dr. Gerda Lerner, a founder of the academic genre called Women's History. Lerner died January 2, 2013 at the age of 92. Fireweed: A Political Autobiography The history of women has existed as long as humans have, but it was not until the last half of the 20th Century that women’s history received academic attention. Our guest, Professor Gerda Lerner is a pioneer of the study of women’s history and a founder of the movement to study and record the history of women. Gerda Lerner led an extraordinary life from April 30, 1920 to January 2, 2013.  She was a historian, author and teacher, and ultimately a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin.  Her academic work was characterized by the attention she drew to the differences among women in class, race and sexual orientation. She grew up in Vienna, Austria, suffered in the Nazi persecution of the European Jews, came to the United States as a teenager, and married a writer who was subsequently blacklisted in the 1950s.  She later entered Columbia University in 1958, originally to take a few classes and by 1966 she had earned a doctorate in history. “Fireweed: A Political Autobiography,”  tells her life story up to the time she enrolled at Columbia University. Professor Lerner and I visited by phone in October 2002, began with her description why the distinctions among women of class, race and sexual orientation are important. The book Dr. Gerda Lerner recommends is "A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812" by Laurel Ulrich. Originally Broadcast: October 1, 2002 Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-LERNER_GERDA_2013_CA.mp3) to listen or on the media player below. Click here (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/podcast/podcast.xml?program_id=10861&version_id=12939&version=1) to download the podcast. LeGov clean 29:00 http://www.radiocurious.org/2001/01/02/nicolas-bothman-get-along-well/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2001/01/02/nicolas-bothman-get-along-well/#comments Tue, 02 Jan 2001 18:10:48 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/28/nicolas-bothman-get-along-well/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2001/01/02/nicolas-bothman-get-along-well/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/2000/11/07/marta-morena-vega-one-religion-people-forced-to-migrate-brought-to-the-americas/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2000/11/07/marta-morena-vega-one-religion-people-forced-to-migrate-brought-to-the-americas/#comments Tue, 07 Nov 2000 18:12:32 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/28/marta-morena-vega-one-religion-people-forced-to-migrate-brought-to-the-americas/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2000/11/07/marta-morena-vega-one-religion-people-forced-to-migrate-brought-to-the-americas/feed/ 0 The Altar of My Soul Religious beliefs normally follow people as they migrate, including people who are forced to migrate. The people forced to migrate to the western Hemisphere during the slave-trading period carried their beliefs and belief systems... The Altar of My Soul Religious beliefs normally follow people as they migrate, including people who are forced to migrate. The people forced to migrate to the western Hemisphere during the slave-trading period carried their beliefs and belief systems to the diaspora of their new world. The Santeria religion, also know as Lucumí, is a belief system that originated in Africa later brought to the Americas and is still practiced in widely separated communities of the western hemisphere. Marta Moreno Vega, a Santeria Priestess, and university professor in New York City is the author of “The Alter of My Soul.” Her book is a story of the Santeria or Lucumí religion, its traditions, how they were brought from Africa and are practiced now. I spoke with Marta Moreno Vega by phone in November of 2000, and we began when I asked her to tell us about the Santeria religion and how it differs from other religions. Marta Morena Vega recommends “Face of The Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americans,” by Robert F. Thompson. Originally Broadcast: November 7, 2000 Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/pub/files/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-20070422-VEGA__Marta_Moreno_11-7-00.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/2000/04/17/mary-catherine-bateson-do-we-really-know-the-people-around-us/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2000/04/17/mary-catherine-bateson-do-we-really-know-the-people-around-us/#comments Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:38:52 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/28/mary-catherine-bateson-do-we-really-know-the-people-around-us/ http://www.radiocurious.org/2000/04/17/mary-catherine-bateson-do-we-really-know-the-people-around-us/feed/ 0 Full Circles, Overlapping Lives (Culture and Generation in Transition) Do we really know the people around us? Our children? Our family? Our friends? Or are we strangers in our own community? Mary Catherine Bateson, the author of a book entitled, Full Circles, Overlapping Lives (Culture and Generation in Transition) Do we really know the people around us? Our children? Our family? Our friends? Or are we strangers in our own community? Mary Catherine Bateson, the author of a book entitled, “Full Circles: Overlapping Lives, Culture and Generation in Transition,” believes that we are strangers. She describes us as immigrants in time, rather than space.In this interview from the archives of Radio Curious, recorded in April 2000, we visit with Mary Catherine Bateson, the daughter of two distinguished anthropologists, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. The book Mary Catherine Bateson recommends is “Ithaka: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found,“ by Sarah Saffian. Originally Broadcast: April 17, 2000 Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/pub/archive2/07.01.07/curious@pacific.net/1197-1-20051204-Bateson_Catherine_4-17-00_and_6-25-02.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/1998/12/04/president-jimmy-carter-life-after-the-presidency/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1998/12/04/president-jimmy-carter-life-after-the-presidency/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 1998 19:33:49 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/28/president-jimmy-carter-life-after-the-presidency/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1998/12/04/president-jimmy-carter-life-after-the-presidency/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/10/21/joan-jacobs-brumberg-an-intimate-history-of-american-girls-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/10/21/joan-jacobs-brumberg-an-intimate-history-of-american-girls-2/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 1997 20:33:31 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/28/joan-jacobs-brumberg-an-intimate-history-of-american-girls-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/10/21/joan-jacobs-brumberg-an-intimate-history-of-american-girls-2/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/03/12/mother-jones-ronnie-gilbert-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-america/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/03/12/mother-jones-ronnie-gilbert-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-america/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 1997 12:55:55 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/11/mother-jones-ronnie-gilbert-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-america/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/03/12/mother-jones-ronnie-gilbert-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-america/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/02/19/bettina-aptheker-the-personal-is-the-political/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/02/19/bettina-aptheker-the-personal-is-the-political/#comments Wed, 19 Feb 1997 22:16:17 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/29/bettina-aptheker-the-personal-is-the-political/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/02/19/bettina-aptheker-the-personal-is-the-political/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/02/12/amy-bloom-love-as-creator/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/02/12/amy-bloom-love-as-creator/#comments Wed, 12 Feb 1997 22:17:27 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/29/amy-bloom-love-as-creator/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/02/12/amy-bloom-love-as-creator/feed/ 0 Love Invents Us Amy Bloom is a Connecticut-based author and psychotherapist and the author of a novel entitled “Love Invents Us.” This book, the enactment of psychological theory about human behavior, also traces the intimate details in the life of E... Love Invents Us Amy Bloom is a Connecticut-based author and psychotherapist and the author of a novel entitled “Love Invents Us.” This book, the enactment of psychological theory about human behavior, also traces the intimate details in the life of Elizabeth Howe from her childhood to middle age. I spoke with Amy Bloom by phone while she was on tour to discuss ‘Love Invents Us” and asked her, “how does love invent us?” Amy Bloom recommends "Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream," by John Derbyshire. Originally Broadcast: February 12, 1997 Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/pub/archive/09.01.05/curious@pacific.net/1197-1-20050606-BLOOM__AMY_2-12-97.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/01/22/manenima-hilario-born-into-the-stone-age/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/01/22/manenima-hilario-born-into-the-stone-age/#comments Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:20:33 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/29/manenima-hilario-born-into-the-stone-age/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/01/22/manenima-hilario-born-into-the-stone-age/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/01/08/chaim-potok-escaping-communism/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/01/08/chaim-potok-escaping-communism/#comments Wed, 08 Jan 1997 22:22:55 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/29/chaim-potok-escaping-communism/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1997/01/08/chaim-potok-escaping-communism/feed/ 0 The Gates of November Chaim Potok, the author of “The Chosen,” “The Gift of Asher Lev,” “Divida’s Heart,” and many other novels, chronicled the life of a Russian Jewish family in his non-fiction work, “The Gates of November. The Gates of November Chaim Potok, the author of “The Chosen,” “The Gift of Asher Lev,” “Divida’s Heart,” and many other novels, chronicled the life of a Russian Jewish family in his non-fiction work, “The Gates of November.” This true story of the Slapeck family, Solomon Slapek, his son Valodya, and daughter-in-law Masha, spans 100 years. Beginning with Solomon’s childhood at turn of the 20th century, his escape to America and return to Russia, it eventually describes Valodya and Masha’s life after they apply for an exit visa to leave Russia in 1968, in order to emigrate to Israel. Chaim Potok died July 23, 2002, at his suburban Philadelphia home of brain cancer at the age of 73. Chaim Potok recommends "The English Patient," by Michael Ondaatje. Originally Broadcast: January 8, 1997 Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/pub/archive2/07.01.07/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-20051211-_200__Potok__Chaim_1-8-97.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/1994/12/05/lucy-grealy-what-is-ugly/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1994/12/05/lucy-grealy-what-is-ugly/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 1994 22:50:19 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/29/lucy-grealy-what-is-ugly/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1994/12/05/lucy-grealy-what-is-ugly/feed/ 0 The Autobiography of a Face Lucy Grealy, a victim of Ewing’s Sarcoma, beginning when was nine years old suffered from a cancer of the jaw that is 90% fatal in the first few years. In Lucy’s case, it was not fatal. The Autobiography of a Face Lucy Grealy, a victim of Ewing’s Sarcoma, beginning when was nine years old suffered from a cancer of the jaw that is 90% fatal in the first few years. In Lucy’s case, it was not fatal. Rather it brought about many intense and emotional experiences that most of us could not imagine. She had a large part of her lower jaw removed when she was about nine and half and for two and a half years had weekly chemotherapy treatments. Throughout her teenage years, she had multiple surgeries to reshape her jaw. Her book, “Autobiography of a Face,” reveals her experiences, her mistaken conflation of beauty and love, and what she learned about emotions, both her own and other people’s. Lucy Grealy recommends “100 Years of Solitude,” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Originally Broadcast: December 5, 1994 Click here to begin listening. (http://www.radio4all.net/pub/archive2/07.01.07/curious@radiocurious.org/1197-1-20060725-_118__Grealy__Lucy_12-5-94.mp3) LeGov clean http://www.radiocurious.org/1993/11/29/judi-bari-conversation-with-judi-bari/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1993/11/29/judi-bari-conversation-with-judi-bari/#comments Mon, 29 Nov 1993 22:55:48 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/29/judi-bari-conversation-with-judi-bari/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1993/11/29/judi-bari-conversation-with-judi-bari/feed/ 0 http://www.radiocurious.org/1993/11/19/dr-david-kiersey-what-is-my-personality-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1993/11/19/dr-david-kiersey-what-is-my-personality-2/#comments Fri, 19 Nov 1993 23:02:52 +0000 http://radiocurious.org/2008/01/29/dr-david-kiersey-what-is-my-personality-2/ http://www.radiocurious.org/1993/11/19/dr-david-kiersey-what-is-my-personality-2/feed/ 0 Presidential Temperaments & Please Understand Me My guest in this program was Dr. David Kiersey, the author of a book called “Presidential Temperament.” Dr. Kiersey took the Meyers-Briggs Temperament inventories and developed what has come to be known... Presidential Temperaments & Please Understand Me My guest in this program was Dr. David Kiersey, the author of a book called “Presidential Temperament.” Dr. Kiersey took the Meyers-Briggs Temperament inventories and developed what has come to be known as the Kiersey Temperament Sorter. In so doing, he has established and identified several different types of character and temperament of people. In his book, “Please Understand Me,” the reader may use the Kiersey Temperament Sorter to get an idea of his or her personality and temperament traits. With his history and experience, Kiersey has examined the people who have become a President of the US and set out his analysis in “Presidential Temperaments.” In this program, originally broadcast in November of 1993 when Radio Curious was called Government, Politics and Ideas, we’ll be talking about the book and some of the temperaments of the various Presidents. Dr. David Kiersey recommends "Killer Angels," by Michael Shaara & The Hornblower Series, by Horatio Hormblower. Originally Broadcast: November 19, 1993 Click here to begin listening (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/11205/13333/20261/?url=http://emma2.radio4all.net/pub/archive/04.01.05/curious@pacific.net/1197-1-20050208-Kiersey__Dr._David_11-19-93.mp3) (http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/11205/13333/20261/?url=http://emma2.radio4all.net/pub/archive/04.01.05/curious@pacific.net/1197-1-20050208-Kiersey__Dr._David_11-19-93.mp3) LeGov clean