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EAST MEETS WEST PART THREE:
THE NEW SILK ROAD
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Program 07-11-18-A |
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The ancient trading routes through Persia, India and
China were once the crossroads between East and West. Is the blogosphere
the new Silk Road? Hear heartrending e-mails between an American professor
and an Iraqi colleague. And renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma explains his quest
to bring together the classical music traditions of East and West.
SEGMENT 1:
The Silk Road was once the great meeting place between the East and the West - a network of ancient trading routes winding through China and India, across Central Asia and Iran to the Mediterranean. British travel writer Colin Thubron recently spent eight months trekking the 7,000 miles of the old route for his book "Shadow of the Silk Road." He talks with Jim Fleming about the book and the journey. Also, Yo-Yo Ma is one of the world's most famous classical musicians. He's founded the Silk Road Ensemble in an effort to bring together musicians from different backgrounds to use music as a cultural force for understanding and peace. He talks with Steve Paulson, and we hear music from the Silk Road Ensemble.
SEGMENT 2:
Marian Salzman is director of strategic content for J. Walter Thompson, America's largest advertising firm, and co-author of "Next Now: Trends for the Future." She comments on the rising economic importance of China and India. Also, Robyn Meredith is the author of "The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What it Means for All of Us." She talks with Steve Paulson about China's embrace of capitalism and the Indian advances in providing telephone support services.
SEGMENT 3:
Susan Friedman is an English professor at the University of Wisconsin. She tells Anne Strainchamps about her friendship, initiated and maintained via e-mail over the internet, with a young woman scholar in Iraq, facing death threats while trying to survive in a war zone. Also, Josh Rushing spent 14 years as a Marine and was the spokesman for the U.S. Central Command to the entire Arab world. He now works for Al Jazeera's English language service and is the author of "Mission Al Jazeera." Rushing tells Jim Fleming how he found out everything he used to believe about Al Jazeera was wrong, why he went to work for them, and why it's in America's own interest to improve its image in the Arab world.
CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 07-11-18-A.
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Books:
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Robyn Meredith, The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What it Means for All of Us (Norton) |
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| Josh Rushing, Mission Al Jazeera (Palgrave MacMillan) |  |
| Marian Salzman & Ira Matathia, Next Now: Trends for the Future (Palgrave MacMillan) |  |
| Colin Thubron, Shadow of the Silk Road (Harper Collins) |  |
Music:
- Series Theme Music:
Ikarus, Touched the Sun
http://www.ikarusmusic.at/ - Silk Road Ensemble:
From “New Impossibilities”:
”Arabian Waltz”
”Vocussion” - From “Beyond the Horizon”:
”Yanzi”
”Oasis”
”Night at the Caravanserai”
“Galloping Horses” - From “A Musical Caravan”:
“Dance for Tamir Agha”
From Yo-Yo Ma’s “Cellos Suites Inspired by Bach”:
“Suite No. 5 in C Minor” - After Robyn Meredith:
Anoushka Shankar & Karsh Kale w/ “PD7”
On “Breathing Under Water”
Blue Note -
After Susan Friedman:
Anouar Brahem w/ “Etincelles”
On “Conte de l’incroyable amour”
On ECM Records
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