David speaks with Rye Barcott about his new book It Happened on the Way to War. This book serves as Barcott’s very personal memoir into a life that found him balancing his humanitarian work in foreign countries with being a soldier serving in Iraq. Rye Barcott is a former Marine Corps captain and cofounder of Carolina for Kibera, an acclaimed non-governmental organization that uses a unique model of participatory development to break cycles of violence and develop leaders in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.

Original Air Date: 04-28-2011

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David speaks with Harry Shearer about his new documentary film about Hurricane Katrina called, The Big Uneasy. Shearer, a longtime resident of New Orleans’ French Quarter, is best known for his versatile voice. He does the voices for many of the Simpsons best known characters including Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Otto, Reverend Lovejoy, etc. The Big Uneasy centers on, and in many ways faults, the actions and inaction of the Army Corps of Engineers.

Original Air Date: 04-26-2011

David speaks with Geraldine Brooks about her work, The People of the Book. In this work Brooks, a former New York Times columnist, creates a fictional narrative around the true life drama of a mysterious missing Hebrew Haggadah pilfered from Sarajevo. The Haggadah is the prayer book used by Jews on Passover to tell the story of the Israelites exodus from Egypt.

Original Air Date: 04-19-2011