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Survival Stories
On today's Underreported feature, we'll find out how fair trade coffee impacts Ethiopia's economy. Plus, previews of the new film version of Pride & Prejudice, and the 3rd annual Arab-American Comedy Festival. And we'll take a look at what life is like for the 2.4 million American children with parents in jail.
Underreported: Fair Trade Coffee
Teruneh Zenna, Ethiopia’s ambassador to the UN, explains why fair trade coffee is essential to his country's economic survival in this week's edition of our regular Underreported feature.
» Fair Trade Meets Good Taste in Ethiopia by WNYC's Marianne McCune Part 1:
Music:
Pieces of Africa by the Kronos Quartet
Track 7/8 Kevin Volans White Man Sleeps and track
Track 3:Foday Musa Suso: Tilliboyo (Sunset)
Pride and Prejudice
Brenda Blethyn and director Joe Wright tell us about their new film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.
» Film website
Music:
Pride and Predjudice Sountrack
By Dario Marianelli, performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Track 6: Georgiana
New York Arab-American Comedy Festival
We'll preview New York’s 3rd annual Arab-American Comedy Festival with Maysoon Zayid, Festival Co-Founder & Co-Executive Producer, and comedian Nasry Malak.
» More on the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival
Music:
Jumpstart and Jazz by Wynton Marsalis
Track 6: Ragtime
Track 2: Toyland
All Alone in the World
2.4 million American children have a parent in jail--that’s one out of every thirty-three kids. Journalist Nell Bernstein looks at the toll incarceration takes on the children who are left behind in All Alone in the World.
» Read an excerpt of All Alone in the World in the Reading Room
Music:
Sountrack from the Motion Picture Heat
Track 8: Of Helplessness
Track 6: Ultramarine by Michael Brook
Track 1: Heat
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