Audio Archives
WERU has begun to make
some of our locally-produced public affairs programs available online,
on a limited basis, either on our own web site or through links
to other web sites where individual programs are stored. We
are considering whether or not to devote limited personnel and financial
resources to online archiving of more programming in the future
and would value any feedback you may have. Email comments
to: info@weru.org.
December 2005 Update: We have had some challenges with keeping our audio archives up-to-date. We have some techincal and systematic glitches to work out. You are welcome to check back for programs that you would like to hear, but we ask for your generous patience while we figure it out. Thank you!
Links to archived
programs are listed below.
(Audio links will open the “WERU
player” in a new window)
Alternative Currents:
- Aired:
04/01/05 (10-11:00)
Description: Interview with former
decorated Vietnam vet and now a Zen monk, Claude Anshin Thomas.
He is the author of AT HELL’S GATE (A Soldier’s
Journey from War to Peace), a memoir of his service in war,
subsequent emotional collapse, and healing jourrney through his
encounter with Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh to his ultimate path of
service in the Soto Zen tradition. More
info >
- Aired:
05/06/05 (10-11:00 AM)
Description: Stephanie
Kaza: Stephanie has given us a beautiful collection of Buddhist
essays on consumerism in her newly released book from Shambhala,
HOOKED! (Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire and the Urge to
Consume). Authors such as Thubten Chodron, Judith Simmer-Brown
and Kaza herself, along with many others, speak to untangling
the greed that dominates our culture and keeps us from experiencing
more authentic lives. Uplifting. More
Info>
- Aired:
06/03/05
Description: DMichael
Carroll: AWAKE AT WORK. It’s summertime,
just when you dread going into the office because you’d
rather be at the beach. A former student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche,
Tibetan Buddhist Michael Carroll can teach us how to bring harmony
and meaning into the workplace. Michael has over 20 years of business
experience holding Human Resources executive positions with such
firms as Bankers Trust Company, Paine Webber, Simon & Schuster
Publishing and The Walt Disney Company. More
info >
Baby Talk:
Behind the Soundbite:
- Aired:
03/22/05 (10-11:00 AM)
Description: Call-in program with guest Thomas
Frank: political observer and pundit, author of What’s the
Matter with Kansas and editor of The Baffler Magazine. Guest contact
information: TCF@thebaffler.com.
Boat Talk:
- Aired:
05/10/05 (10-11:00 AM)
Description: The naval duo Mike
Joyce and Alan Sprague host this show, which covers local news
about NLG terminals along the coast, 2 local fishermen drowned,
Gouldsboro sardine cannery closing, and more. Local callers
talk about lobster bating and trapping. A reading from Lauren
Becall's book By Myself and Then Some. Plus more!
- Aired: 06/09/05 (10-11:00 AM)
Camden Conference:
Every February, Camden,
Maine fills up with foreign policy experts of all sorts, along with
a lot of regular folks, and they all come together in the Camden
Opera House for the Camden Conference, which the organizers describe
as “A Forum for Rational Discourse on Global Affairs.”
The 18th Annual Camden
Conference, held in February, 2005, focused on the topic: “The
Middle East: Compromise or Conflagration.” For two days, speakers
with many different backgrounds shared their experience and expertise
on a topic that has vexed the world —
and many successive U.S. administrations - for decades.
- Interview
with General Anthony Zinni, Key Note Speaker
Description: WERU’s Dave Piszcz interviews
Anthony Zinny, the key note speaker at the 2005 Camden Conference.
Produced by Dave Piszcz.
- 2005
Camden Conference - Key Note Address by General Anthony Zinni
Description: This program features
the unedited conference keynote address delivered by retired Marine
Corps General Anthony Zinni, who spent over 15 years in the middle
east region as a military man. General Zinni is retired rather
than still on active duty because he disagreed strongly, and ultimately
publicly, with the pentagon and the administration about the invasion
of Iraq and its likely aftermath. His view, with the benefit of
looking back, was much closer to the situation as it turned out
than any that the American people heard from Administration officials,
or, for that matter, from the mainstream press, which largely
parroted the administration's wildly inaccurate reasons for invading
Iraq, and the wildly inaccurate vision of what would happen once
we did and were “victorious.” General Zinni is introduced
here by the Conference moderator, Rushworth Kidder.
Common Health:
Congressman Dennis
Kucinich
Conversations on Science
and Society:
- Aired:
04/05/05 (10-10:30)
Description: Host
Jim Campbell interviews Alan Kay I, one of the seminal thinkers
about, and designers of, personal computers and one who continues
to want to empower people by creating tools which help humans
do more of what humans do – think, investigate, create.
- Aired:
05/03/05
Family Radio Forum:
Full Circle Fair 2005:
- Cindy
Sheehan
Description: Cindy Sheehan gave
a key-note address at WERU's 2005 Full Circle Fair. Cindy
is a founding member of the Gold Star Families for Peace and is
working worldwide to end the war in Iraq.
Healthy Options:
RadioActive:
Talk of the Towns:
- Aired:
04/22/05
Description: No
Child Left Behind and Its Impacts on Maine Schools.
Host Ron Beard is joined with guests Judith Cox (Educational Studies
Program Coordinator at The College of the Atlantic) and Patrick
Phillips (Deputy Commissioner of the Maine Department of Education).
Callers also participate in this discussion about the Federal
legislation titled "No Child Left Behind" and how is
affecting Maine's schools.
- Aired: 05/20/05
Service and learning for young adults.
Voices of a War Gone
By:
- Aired:
05/17/05
Description:
Spring2005 marked the
30th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, and the 35th
anniversary of the
killing by National Guard
troops of four students at a protest against the Vietnam War
at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. "Voices of
a War Gone By" is a special one-hour WERU public affairs
program
marking these anniversaries.
Interviewed for the program were five people who were
at the Kent State
protest - three of the
five now live in Maine. Also interviewed was Dr. Ngo Vinh
Long, Professor of History at the University of Maine, a native
of Vietnam and a recognized authority on Vietnamese history.
This program was produced by WERU volunteer, Lawrence
Reichard.
Producers's Note: This
program was originally intended to also cover the killing of
two students at Jackson
State University in Jackson,
Mississippi, the same month as Kent State. We regret having
to leave this
out, and we hope to cover
this in a future program.
Womans
Windows:
Topic:
The Current Situation for Women in Afghanistan and Iraq
- May
2005 - Maine Senator Susan Collins.
Senator Collins has visited both Afghanistan and Iraq
and is particularly interested in the lives of women in these
countries.
- May
2005 - Sonali Kolhatkar. Sonali
Kolhatkar is co-director of the Afghan Women's Mission, a U.S.
based organization that supports healthcare and educational projects
in Afghanistan.
- May
2005 - Yanar Mohammed. Yanar
Mohammed is president and co-founder of the Organization of Women's
Freedom in Iraq. She is an Iraqi citizen who returned to
Baghdad soon after the latest war broke-out and has been working
for women's rights there.
Writers Forum:
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