Everyone has eclectic things they inexplicably like. Two of mine are country stores and county fairs. North Country Public Radio ran a nice audio postcard on two of the region's county fairs. The sights, smells, and sounds of county fairs are classic ingredients of summer. The midway barker beckoning you in to a show. The whip of the wind through your hair on the day-glow roller coaster. And of course, the smell of fried dough and French fries. My mouth waters just reading it.
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Vermont Public Radio reporter Steve Zind is airing a five part series on his trip to Iran to explore his family roots. One of Zind's ancestors ruled Persia in the mid-18th century. He recounts his arrival in his ancestral village. In a show of typical Iranian hospitality, the villagers want us to stay for lunch. Despite their poverty they are eager to share the little they have. Even after we are in the car, they're pulling open the doors and insisting we come to their homes. But the police are watching.
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The BBC World Service's Assignment program has a show about Kosovo, five years after the NATO intervention. The [anti-Serb] violence which broke out in Mitrovice this year came as a tremendous shock, not only to most of the population of Kosovo, but to the United Nations Mission, which has been running the territory for the last five years, and the international military force which has been trying to keep the peace here. It raised enormous questions about how much this international intervention has achieved and where Kosovo is now heading.
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BBC domestic Radio 4's Front Row asks: Is the [British] government's encouragement of child-friendly art galleries and museums an investment in our artistic future, or an annoying distraction for adult art lovers?
Where exactly will the future adult art lovers come from if they're not encouraged as kids?
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