Rough Translation

By NPR

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 wor... more

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The podcast currently has 104 episodes available.

Rough Translation episodes:

June 02, 2021 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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39min
May 26, 2021 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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22min
May 05, 2021 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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46min
April 21, 2021 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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35min
April 07, 2021 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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51min
March 26, 2021 "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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27min
March 10, 2021 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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22min
February 25, 2021 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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28min
February 10, 2021 Boxing Back
Your stories and creative solutions to not quite fitting in.

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28min
January 27, 2021 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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25min

FAQs about Rough Translation:

How many episodes does Rough Translation have?

The podcast currently has 104 episodes available.