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Today on The World Digest: Bruce Wallace reports on Lower Manhattan’s former Little Syria, stashing money in the Cayman Islands (re: Mitt Romney), Beer at Brazil’s 2014 World Cup and a report from Alex Gallafent about why the Charles Dickens Museum is closed during the Dickens Bicentennial.
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The World Digest: Reporter Margaret Evans returns from Syria, Revolution 2.0 with Wael Ghonim, US Presidential candidates using foreign languages (or not) and the new Angry Brides app … not Angry Birds :)
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Marco Werman talks with Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who helped jumpstart Egypt’s democratic revolution via a Facebook page that encouraged people to protest. Here, Marco asks Ghonim what he was doing a year ago today. We’ll have the rest of the conversation with Ghonim later in the broadcast.
Today in The World Digest, Marco talks with researcher Zeynep Tufekci who discusses the implications of the SOPA legislation.
Also take a listen to the (translated) recording from Italy’s Coast Guard of one of its commanders on shore speaking on the phone with Costa Concordia Captain Schettino in the middle of the crisis. Jaw dropping.
To round things out we have news of an effort to prevent people from riding on top of trains in Indonesia (hint: it involves cement balls), you’ll hear a report on new technology for determining whether planes can fly through ash clouds, and a report on using school buses as mobile classrooms in India.
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Today in The World Digest, we discuss a new graphic novel out on the 2009 Iranian protests.
And take a listen to an interview Marco did with photojournalist David Gill who has spend more than three years profiling interesting everyday people in Kabul.
You’ll also hear a report from Brigid McCarthy about Russians and other ex-Soviets and how had to learn about the culture of money.
Finally, what’s up with the price of orange juice? Alex Gallafent has more.
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Today in The World Digest, we hear from John Otis on Bogota’s new mayor (and former leftist guerrilla) Gustavo Petro.
Also in TWD (who doesn’t like acronyms?!) Ben Gilbert reports on concerns about Tunisia’s new government which is now headed by the formerly-banned Islamist party called Ennahda.
Finally, what a would digest be without Elizabeth McGovern from Downton Abbey (insert excitement here) who talks about the new season? And, we have a story on Peter Frampton being reunited with his long lost guitar that he used in “Do You Feel Like We Do.”
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Today’s selected features from the broadcast include an interview with The Guardian’s Hugh Muir who speaks with Marco about the Lawrence case in Britain and race relations in the UK.
We also have a conversation about why China is clamping down on “entertainment” programming, an effort to get conflict-free iPhones and a move to focus on the “mouth-to-mouth” part of CPR (with a song that you’ll be singing for the rest of the day).
The daily selected features is something we are experimenting with. Like it? Can it be improved?
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Hey all, Steven Davy here at The World. Thought I would try something new. How about a daily digest featuring some great interviews and reports from the show?
I put them together in one easy to use SoundCloud file for a quick listen. Let me know what you think.
It’s just three or four (or five stories like today!) that could be easy to listen to on your walk (bike? run?) to work or on your way to the grocery store. Cheers.
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