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- Sylviane Diouf: Slavery's Exiles--Escaped Maroon Slaves from U.S. Plantations (rebroadcast)Sylviane Diouf is one of the world’s leading experts on the transatlantic slave trade. Her new book Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons discusses a little known part of slavery in America: that many slaves ran away, formed communities of their own, and lived secretly for years in freedom. The stories of these maroons, as they're called, are fascinating and the subject of today's Thinking Aloud.29 min
- Fiona Stafford: Meaning of Trees in Our Emotional Lives and Culture (rebroadcast)Today’s guest on Thinking Aloud is the Oxford professor Fiona Stafford. Stafford is a literary scholar by training, not a botanist, but trees have been her constant companions throughout her life. Her new book The Long, Long Life of Trees talks not so much about the science of trees as about the meaning of trees: how they have always mattered for us and carried strong emotional associations.0 min
- Les Miserables: The Story of How It Came to BeScholar David Bellos explores the daunting and protracted process that resulted in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables.29 min
- Philip Ball: The Water Kingdom--A Secret History of China
Today on Thinking Aloud, Philip Ball joins us to discuss China's relationship with water from perennial efforts to conquer the Yangtze and Yellow rivers to the way water influences Chinese language and even the Chinese world view today.
29 min - Mai Sayavongs: Ambassador from Laos
Mai Sayavongs, the Laotian ambassador to the United States, talks with us about his country’s progress inovercoming the legacy of the Vietnam war and about how his country is progressing as a member of the Asian community.
31 min - Martín Lousteau: Ambassador from Argentina--Balancing Short and Long Term ConcernsMartín Lousteau, the Argentinian Ambassador, joins us to talk about some of the ways countries like Argentina balance short-term needs with long-term goals in creating an optimal future.30 min
- Ambassador of JordanWhile refugees often cling to the hope of being able to return to their homes someday, in the interim, a country like Jordan has to find ways to balance the urgent needs of refugees with its own domestic concerns.Tonight the Jordanian ambassador to the United States joins us on Thinking Aloud to speak about this ongoing struggle and tell us the story of how her country is coping.27 min
- General Lawlor: Legal Complexities of Self DefenseToday’s guest on Thinking Aloud is the author of the book “When Deadly Force is Involved: A Look at the Legal Side of Stand Your Ground, Duty to Retreat, and Other Questions of Self-Defense.” The big question is how to best handle a potentially deadly situation. The goal of his book is to help educate us about all the potential legal consequences long before such a consequential moment.29 min
- Glenn Frankel: High Noon--The Classic Film Western and the Hollywood BlacklistScreenwriter Carl Foreman was both the man who wrote the classic western film High Noon and one of the many people in the entertainment industry who were called to testify before the infamous House Committee on Unamerican Activities and later blacklisted as a result of their testimony. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Glenn Frankel discusses High Noon and its historical context tonight with host Marcus Smith.29 min
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich on PolygamyPulitzer Prize winning historian and Harvard professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich now brings us her first major work on a Mormon theme, a book titled “A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870.”29 min
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