Rough Translation
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  • Home/Front: Battle Rattle
    He's a veteran looking for love. She's a civilian who learns more about war than she ever imagined. Part 1 of the story of Matt and Alicia Lammers.

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    39 min
  • Home/Front
    Is it true that "you can't understand" if you've never been to war? In the first episode of our new season, we hear from people on opposing sides of a widening divide.

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    22 min
  • War Poems Revisited
    As the U.S. pulls out of Afghanistan, we look back at a time when Taliban poetry and a local cooking show became part of the war. And the U.S. had the perfect person to fight on that front.

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    46 min
  • How To Speak Bad English
    Heather Hansen used to teach people to speak "perfect" English. Until she realized that so-called "bad English" might be a better way to communicate.

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    35 min
  • Liberté, Égalité, French Fries... And Couscous
    Our favorite McDonald's in Marseille, France has reached its afterlife. It took court cases, spray paint, and the slogan you know turned upside down (literally) to get there.

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    51 min
  • "We Already Belong": A Conversation With R.O. Kwon
    In the wake of the shootings in Atlanta, a Korean-American writer reconnects with her own family.

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    27 min
  • Welcome To The Vaccination Club
    Two very different approaches to wooing vaccine skeptics. And how a little FOMO can go a long way.

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    22 min
  • Rewriting The Travel Guidebook With Nanjala Nyabola
    What happens when your guidebook isn't written with you in mind? Nanjala Nyabola on her new book: Travelling While Black.

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    28 min
  • Boxing Back
    Your stories and creative solutions to not quite fitting in.

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    28 min
  • Our Boxes, Ourselves
    From Montréal to Edinburgh, and from São Paulo to Taipei: your stories about belonging, or longing to just be.

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    25 min

About Rough Translation

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How are the things we're talking about being talked about somewhere else in the world? Gregory Warner tells stories that follow familiar conversations into unfamiliar territory. At a time when the…

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