April 5, 2003 -
April 5, 2003 -
April 7, 2003 - MPR’s Lorna Benson talks with Robert Palmquist, president of SpeechGear, about Interact, a handheld translation device created by the company. The device offers real-time oral translations in about 12 different languages. U.S. office of Naval Research is testing device, which will allow troops to communicate better with civilians and surrendering POWs on the battlefield.
April 8, 2003 - All Things Considered’s Lorna Benson talks with Professor Ronald Glossop, vice-president of the National World Federalist Association, about establishing a democratic world federation that would function much like the United States, but on a global level.
April 10, 2003 - All Things Considered’s Lorna Benson interviews Peter Thompson about his views on the Iraq War. He spent three weeks in Iraq during December 2002 as part of a delegation from Chicago-based Voices in the Wilderness.
April 11, 2003 - On this Word of Mouth program, MPR’s Chris Roberts looks at the Penumbra production of August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars,” Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis hosting the fifth annual American pottery festival, a play adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s “Main Street” novel, and “Dancing with Shadows” performance art.
April 11, 2003 - Northfield native Siri Hustvedt says her new book called "What I Loved," began with a single image. An naked, obese woman's corpse lying on a bed. The image doesn't appear in the novel. But Hustvedt says it launched the process of writing and re-writing which lasted several years. The image morphed into a series of portraits by an artist. One of them attracts the attention of an art historian. These two are the book's central characters. The men become friends, and the novel follows their lives. We learn how their families are changed by their loves and losses over a period of thirty years.
April 12, 2003 -
April 12, 2003 -
April 12, 2003 -