Podcast appearances and mentions of Barbara Demick

Journalist and author Barbara Demick discusses her new, powerful, and must-read book "Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins". With a deep boots-on-the-ground experience, she details the brutality of China's one-child policy and the profound lasting effects it continues to have. She describes the scandalous adoption frenzy that took place, where officials illegally kidnapped Chinese children from their families and disappeared them. Demick found a needle in a haystack and managed to reunite one set of twins who were strewn across the planet, from America to China. Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rumble / Substack / YouTube Geopolitics & Empire · Barbara Demick: Abducted & Adopted, The Story of China's One-Child Policy #553 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.com Donate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donations Consult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopolitics easyDNS (15% off with GEOPOLITICS) https://easydns.com Escape Technocracy course (15% off with GEOPOLITICS) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopolitics PassVult https://passvult.com Sociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.com Wise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites Website https://www.barbarademick.com Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins https://www.barbarademick.com/book/daughters-of-the-bamboo-grove X https://x.com/barbarademick About Barbara Demick Barbara Demick is author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea and Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood and the recently released Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town, published by Random House in July 2020.  She was bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times in Beijing and Seoul, and previously reported from the Middle East and Balkans for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Demick grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Yale College Her work has won many awards including the Samuel Johnson prize (now the Baillie Gifford prize) for non-fiction in the U.K., the Overseas Press Club's human rights reporting award, the Polk Award and the Robert F. Kennedy award and Stanford University's Shorenstein Award for Asia coverage. Her North Korea book was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She was a press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Bagehot fellow in business journalism at Columbia University and a visiting professor of journalism at Princeton University.  She lives in New York City. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick joins host Steve Yates on The China Desk Podcast for a powerful and emotional conversation about China's one-child policy, forced adoption, and the story behind her latest book, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove. Demick, a former Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, shares her investigation into the brutal enforcement of population control and the heartbreaking case of twin sisters separated by coercive policies and reunited years later. From her reporting in Sarajevo and North Korea to deep dives into Tibetan life and Chinese orphanages, Demick sheds light on life under authoritarian regimes and the hidden human cost of policy decisions. This episode explores the personal, political, and global consequences of one of the most consequential social engineering projects of the modern era.

A cosa serve la letteratura? Perché leggere i classici?A queste ed altre domande ci risponde Silvano Petrosino, autore del libro Letture. La verità della finzione (Vita e pensiero, 240 p., € 18,00).Nella seconda parte le recensioni di altri interessanti libri: Sul tormentato Tibet, il libro di Barbara Demick, I mangiatori di Buddha. Vita e ribellione in una città del Tibet, Iperborea;La Svizzera, vicina ma lontana allo stesso tempo, è la protagonista del libro di Graziano Capponago del Monte, Enigma Svizzera, Infinito editore;A trent’anni dalla pubblicazione di Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo, Enrico Brizzi ci regala un nuovo viaggio nel mondo di Alex e Aidi nel libro, Due per HarperCollins;Il ricordo di Franco Ferrarotti, scomparso questa settimana a 98 anni, nel suo ultimo libro, Lettera a un giovane sociologo, editore Bibliotheka, a questo punto, il suo testamento spirituale.Il confettino: Alastair Steele, Treni. Una storia visuale del trasporto su rotaie, Edizioni Clichy.

Le minoranze, la lingua e l'identità: lo spirito del divenire minoritario si basa sull'ascolto e sul tentativo di capire come popolazioni anche apparentemente bene inserite in contesti statali e culturali alieni, cerchino di difendere le proprie origini. Dal Tibet, accompagnati da Barbara Demick, ci sposteremo tra Svezia, Norvegia, Russia, Finlandia e Bielorussia. Gli inserti audio sono tratti da: The Long March, Communism, China in 1934, canale YouTube Kinolibrary, 18 giugno 2019; “歌唱二郎山”, canale YouTube Mister Zhonggua, 11 agosto 2023; Tibetan Monks Chanting - Tibetan Buddhist Prayer- Buddhist Ritual canale YouTube Tibetanbuddhists, 7 giugno 2001; China wants to rename Tibet as 'Xizang'—the latest Beijing ploy to control the region, canale YouTube Voice of Tibet, 6 ottobre 2024; Fighting for recognition: The Sámi people's struggle to preserve tradition, Euronews, 13 settembre 2023; Янушкевіч: кожны павінен зрабіць свой выбар, які мусіць быць на карысць Беларусі, canale YouTube Еўрарадыё, 13 agosto 2020; Stephen King Wearing a Ukraine Hat Today in NYC, canale YouTube New York Mickey, 5 settembre 2023; Lukashenko calls himself a 'dictator' in annual address, Euronews, 28 gennaio 2022. Libri, articoli e serie tv citate nella puntata: Barbara Demick, I mangiatori di Buddha, Iperborea, 2024; ‘A lot of collective trauma': Sweden's Indigenous Sami people speak to truth commission, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/30/a-lot-of-collective-trauma-swedens-indigenous-sami-people-speak-to-truth-commission, 30 aprile 2024; ‘They want total control': how Russia is forcing Sami people to hide their identity, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/20/russia-forcing-indigenous-sami-people-to-hide-their-identity; La ragazza delle renne, https://www.netflix.com/it/title/81520685; Norwegians Get a Bitter Taste of Their Own History, https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/19/norway-sami-indigenous-rights-truth-reconciliation-report/, 19 giugno 2023; Repressed By Lukashenko, the Belarusian Language Rallies His Opponents, https://balkaninsight.com/2024/02/15/repressed-by-lukashenko-the-belarusian-language-rallies-his-opponents/, 15 febbraio 2024. Il 25-26 ottobre a Lugano si svolgerà Plan B Forum, conferenza su Bitcoin che riunisce figure del mondo tech e imprenditori per discutere di adozione di Bitcoin, economia, libertà finanziaria e libertà di parola. Con il codice WILLMEDIA ricevi uno sconto dedicato. Scopri di più qui. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Washington Post looks into why Helene’s floods caught North Carolina off guard. Wall Street Journal reporter Elizabeth Findell on how the Harris and Trump campaigns are battling over working-class voters in Nevada. The state could go either way. Barbara Demick with the New Yorker reports on the end of China’s international adoption program, which offered new lives to abandoned infants but also depended on abuse, abduction, and trafficking. Federal prosecutors laid out their most extensive case to date against Trump for his effort to overturn the 2020 election. CNN has details. Election-betting markets are poised for a revival after a court rejected a government plea. Politico explains why. NBC News has the story of a determined dad who traveled 27 miles in a hurricane to walk his daughter down the aisle. Today’s episode was hosted by Shumita Basu.

Öll finnum við fyrir einmanaleika einhvern tíma á lífsleiðinni. Sum upplifa hann aðeins tímabundið, hjá öðrum er hann viðvarandi en hann snertir líf okkar allra með einhverjum hætti. Í Einmana – tengsl og tilgangur í heimi vaxandi einsemdar fjallar Aðalbjörg Stefanía Helgadóttir um einsemdina frá fjölmörgum hliðum. Hún skoðar hver eru einmana, hvenær og af hverju en leitast líka við að varpa ljósi á það sem einmanaleikinn getur kennt okkur og hvernig bregðast megi við honum. Við ræddum við Aðalbjörgu í þættinum. Við fengum svo vinkil í dag frá Guðjóni Helga Ólafssyni. Vinkill dagsins fjallar meðal annars um menningarferð í kvikmyndahús, hláturpokann og uppfinningamanninn Walter Thiele, um það að mynda sér skoðun á málum sem tekist er á um á samfélagsmiðlum með einar saman tilfinningar til grundvallar, um athugasemdir á samfélagsmiðlum og um gildi þess að líta í eigin barm. Og lesandi vikunnar í þetta sinn var Valgerður Garðarsdóttir forstöðumaður námsvers Menntaskólans við Hamrahlíð. Við fáum að vita hvaða bækur hún hefur verið að lesa undanfarið og hvaða bækur og höfundar hafa haft mest áhrif á hana í gegnum tíðina. Valgerður sagði frá eftirfarandi bókum og höfundum: Vonin, akkeri fyrir sálina. Kjarnyrðabók e. sr. Þorvald Víðisson. Valskan. Skáldsaga byggð á heimildum um formóður höfundar sem uppi var á síðari hluta 18. aldar. Eftir Nönnu Rögnvaldsdóttur. Engan þarf að öfunda, daglegt líf í Norður Kóreu. Barbara Demick bandarískur blaðamaður skrifaði bókina eftir samtöl við fólk sem flúið hafði frá N-Kóreu til S-Kóreu. Elín Guðmundsdóttir þýddi. Kjörbúðarkonan e. Sayaka Murtata, Elísa Björg Þorsteinsdóttir þýddi. Bækur sem kveiktu lestraráhuga Valgerðar í æsku. Pabbi, mamma, börn og bíll, og framhald hennar e. Anne-Cath Vestly. Tónlist í þættinum: Vor í Vaglaskógi / Friðrik Ómar og Pálmi Gunnarsson (Jónas Jónasson og Kristján frá Djúpalæk) Ég mun bíða þín / Heiða Árnadóttir og Gunnar Gunnarsson á píanó (Michel Legrand og Bragi Valdimar Skúlason) Ferry Cross the Mersey / Gerri and the Pacemakers UMSJÓN GUÐRÚN GUNNARSDÓTTIR OG GUNNAR HANSSON

9. syyskuuta 1948 Korean demokraattinen kansantasavalta, tuttavallisemmin Pohjois-Korea, julistautui itsenäiseksi valtioksi Kim Il-Sungin johtamana. Pohjois-Korean talous alkoi naapurien runsaasta tuesta huolimatta supistua, kunnes 90-luvulle tultaessa tottelevainen kansakunta alkoi kollektiivisesti nähdä nälkää. Ihmisten elämä oli selviytymistä päivästä toiseen. Pohjois-Korean nälänhätä koskee noin vuosia 1994-1998, minä aikana jopa 3,5 miljoonaa ihmistä on saattanut kuolla nälkään. Podcastia voi nyt myös tukea ostamalla kahvikupposen osoitteesta: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/katastrofinkaava Sisältövaroitukset: nälkäkuolema, lasten kuolema Lähteitä: Suljettu maa: Elämää Pohjois-Koreassa, Barbara Demick, 2013 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11244825 https://globalis.fi/maa/pohjois-korea https://www.sitra.fi/app/uploads/2017/02/tiikeriportti_-_pohjois-korea-1.pdf https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/north-koreas-1990s-famine-in-historical-perspective/

The latest episode of The Read Smart Podcast features Razia Iqbal speaking to Margaret MacMillan, author of Paris 1919, formerly titled Peacemakers, about how the book casts a new light on the negotiations that influenced the modern world. As the first woman to ever win the Baillie Gifford Prize in 2002, MacMillan explores the fascinating figures behind the peace process and what could have been done differently to avert World War Two. Listen now to hear all about it. The podcast is generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. For more podcasts from The Baillie Gifford Prize, click here. Follow @BGPrize on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube. If you've found hearing about the six books interesting, be sure to come along to Cambridge Literary Festival at 6pm on 23rd April to hear three of our shortlisted #WinnerofWinners authors - Barbara Demick, Craig Brown and Patrick Radden Keefe – delve into their previously winning books and how they are feeling about making the shortlist. Click this link to buy tickets to the Cambridge Event: https://www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/baillie-gifford-prize-winner-of-winners/ The winner of the award will be announced on Thursday 27 April at an event held at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

The latest episode of The Read Smart Podcast continues our Winner of Winners series, where each of the shortlisted authors are interviewed. This week, host Razia Iqbal will be speaking to James Shapiro, who won the prize in 2006 with 1599: A Year In The Life of William Shakespeare. Iqbal and Shapiro explore life in Elizabethan England, how Shakespeare managed to produce four great works (including Hamlet) in just one year and why the rumours that Shakespeare was in fact more than one person are false. Hear more to find out how and why Shakespeare become one of the greatest writers who ever lived. Listen now to hear all about it. The podcast is generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. For more podcasts from The Baillie Gifford Prize, click here. Follow @BGPrize on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube. If you've found hearing about the six novels interesting, be sure to come along to Cambridge Literary Festival at 6pm on 23rd April to hear three of our shortlisted #WinnerofWinners authors - Barbara Demick, Craig Brown and Patrick Radden Keefe – delve into their previously winning books and how they are feeling about making the shortlist. Click this link to buy tickets to the Cambridge Event: https://www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/baillie-gifford-prize-winner-of-winners/ The winner of the award will be announced on Thursday 27 April at an event held at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

The latest episode of The Read Smart Podcast features host Razia Iqbal speaking to Craig Brown about his book One, Two, Three, Four: The Beatles in Time, which won the Baillie Gifford Prize in 2020. Brown's book has been described by The Guardian as “not a biography so much as a group portrait in vignettes, a rearrangement of stories and legends whose trick is to make The Beatles gleam anew.” One Two Three Four is a kaleidoscopic and unique exploration of the timeless band. In the podcast, the originality of the book is explored, alongside how Brown feels ahead of the winner announcement. Listen now to hear all about it. The podcast is generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. For more podcasts from The Baillie Gifford Prize, click here. Follow @BGPrize on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube. Craig Brown will be appearing live at 6pm on 23rd April at Cambridge Literary Festival alongside two other shortlisted #WinnerofWinners authors - Barbara Demick and Patrick Radden Keefe. Click this link to buy tickets to the Cambridge Event: https://www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/baillie-gifford-prize-winner-of-winners/ The winner of the award will be announced on Thursday 27 April at an event held at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick's book 'Nothing to Envy' has been short-listed for this year's Baille Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of Winners Award; North Korean defectors spoke about love, family life and the terrible cost of the 1990's famine. Front Row examines the controversy surrounding Dungeons and Dragons, the world's most popular table-top role playing game and now a Hollywood film, as fans protest against a clampdown on fan-made content. Professional Dungeons and Dragons player Kim Richards and Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, Dr. Hayleigh Bosher, join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss what this means for fans and copyright owners. Hack-Poets Guild is a collaboration between the renowned folk musicians Marry Waterson, Lisa Knapp and Nathaniel Mann. Their new album Blackletter Garland is inspired by the collection of broadside ballads in the Bodleian Library, news sheets that circulated between the 16th and 20th Centuries. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Olivia Skinner

The latest episode of The Read Smart Podcast kicks off the first of our special Winners of Winners episodes, in which each of the shortlisted authors will be interviewed. This week, host Razia Iqbal will be speaking to Barbara Demick, who won the Prize in 2010 with Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea. In the book, Demick weaves together the stories of resilience between six residents of Chongin, North Korea's third-largest city. From extensive interviews and investigative work, Barbara Demick recreates the culture and concerns of North Korean citizens within this extraordinarily secret country. The winner of the award will be announced on Thursday 27 April at an event held at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Listen now to hear all about it. The podcast is generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. For more podcasts from The Baillie Gifford Prize, click here. Follow @BGPrize on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube.

Make sure you tune into the latest episode of The Read Smart Podcast, which explores what life is like in dictatorships across the world and throughout history. Our host Razia Iqbal will be joined by three former winners of the prize; Historian Michael Burleigh, journalist Barbara Demick and historian Frank Dikötter. They delve into the fascinatingly complex definitions and qualities behind the term ‘dictator', as well as the role that secrecy and terror plays in countries living under authoritarian rule. As we continue to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Baillie Gifford Prize, keep an eye out for more special episodes of The Read Smart podcast, where faces from the prize's past will be returning to give their insight on more fascinating topics. We will also be sharing special episodes dedicated to the authors shortlisted for our Winner of Winners competition, which is being judged by Chair Jason Cowley, Shahidha Bari, Sarah Churchwell and Frances Wilson. Listen now to hear all about it. The podcast is generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. For more podcasts from The Baillie Gifford Prize, click here. Follow @BGPrize on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube.

Barbara Demick is a journalist, an essayist, and is the author of both "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" and "Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town." During our conversation, Barbara talks about how she became interested in North Korea, the founding of North Korea in 1945, how its society is structured, its ability to isolate its citizens from the outside world, its famine in the 1990's, the defectors she met who became the key characters in her book, and whether its leadership are true-believing Communists or primarily hungry for power.She also talks about her more recent book, "Eat the Buddha," which details the Chinese history and relationship with Tibet, the day-to-day lives of ordinary Tibetan citizens, what happened in 1958, Tibetan acts of self-immolation, and the influence of the Dalai Lama. As Barbara mentions during the interview, it's the role of the journalist to provide the truth, not to provide hope. And in both of these oppressed places, any enduring hope that may change the plight of North Koreans and Tibetans must start by having an accurate understanding of the tragedy, the history, and lived reality of its people.------------Support this podcast via VenmoSupport this podcast via PayPalSupport this podcast on Patreon------------Show notesLeave a rating on SpotifyLeave a rating on Apple PodcastsFollow "Keep Talking" on social media and access all episodes------------(00:00) Introduction(02:35) Early life and interest in studying North Korea(05:53) The creation of North Korea(08:50) North Korea from the 50s to 80s(11:32) Getting access to North Koreans(19:22) The traumas of the North Koreans(23:08) “Nothing To Envy” quotes and the book's impact on North Koreans(28:10) The North Korean famine of the 90s(31:31) Is the North Korean leadership evil, or committed Communists?(35:45) North Korea in 2022(39:27) “Nothing To Envy” quotes – abuse of power in North Korea(44:48) Threats to freedom in the US(48:34) Hope for North Korean people(49:01) Interest in studying the relationship between China and Tibet(55:09) The importance of the year 1958 for Tibet(59:58) “Eat The Buddha” quotes(01:05:37) Life of a Tibetan(01:12:06) Lesser-known truths about North Korea and Tibet

Welcome! Today Deborah is joined by artist and interior designer, Jennifer Evans. Together they host a sumptuous soirée where the guest list is packed with women who have given Jennifer food for thought.  Round the table, you will find:Jennifer herself;Sally Gunnell;Christiane Amanpour;Miranda July;Gina Miller;Freya Gabie;Guerrilla Girls;Joan Harris;Barbara Demick;Mary Seacole.

(Recorded June 07, 2015) This week: a discussion of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. Image Credits: Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il Theme music by ProleteR.

(Recorded June 07, 2015) This week: a discussion of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick.

(Recorded June 07, 2015) This week: a discussion of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick.

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Blaðakonan Barbara Demick hefur ferðast um heiminn undanfarinn aldarfjórðung og fjallað um nokkur af lokuðustu samfélögum heims. Í nýjustu bók sinni fjallar hún um bæinn Ngaba í Tíbet sem er einn allra lokaðasti staður í Kína. Við ræddum við Barböru á bókmenntahátíð í Reykjavík í síðustu viku, um starf erlenda fréttaritarans, um ofríki kínverja í Tíbet, og hvað gæti gerst eftir að andlegur leiðtogi Tíbeta, hinn áttræði Dalai Lama, fellur frá. Í október fer eitt stærsta rafíþróttamót heims fram í laugardagshöll þar sem stjörnur í heimi tölvuleiksins League of Legends takast á. Mótið er stærðarinnar skrautfjöður í hatt Rafíþróttasamtaka íslands sem einblína þó ekki á peningana, heldur setja heilsu og velferð ungs fólks í miðið í sinni vinnu. Og Steindór Grétar Jónsson flytur okkur pistil um bókina Afropean: Notes from Black Europe eftir Johny Pitts. Pitts þessi nýtir þetta hugtak, afrópean eða afrópskur, til að lýsa sjálfum sér og öðrum svörtum evrópumönnum í bókinni sem er allt í senn ferðabók og djúpköfun hvað það þýðir að vera svartur í Evrópu.

Blaðakonan Barbara Demick hefur ferðast um heiminn undanfarinn aldarfjórðung og fjallað um nokkur af lokuðustu samfélögum heims. Í nýjustu bók sinni fjallar hún um bæinn Ngaba í Tíbet sem er einn allra lokaðasti staður í Kína. Við ræddum við Barböru á bókmenntahátíð í Reykjavík í síðustu viku, um starf erlenda fréttaritarans, um ofríki kínverja í Tíbet, og hvað gæti gerst eftir að andlegur leiðtogi Tíbeta, hinn áttræði Dalai Lama, fellur frá. Í október fer eitt stærsta rafíþróttamót heims fram í laugardagshöll þar sem stjörnur í heimi tölvuleiksins League of Legends takast á. Mótið er stærðarinnar skrautfjöður í hatt Rafíþróttasamtaka íslands sem einblína þó ekki á peningana, heldur setja heilsu og velferð ungs fólks í miðið í sinni vinnu. Og Steindór Grétar Jónsson flytur okkur pistil um bókina Afropean: Notes from Black Europe eftir Johny Pitts. Pitts þessi nýtir þetta hugtak, afrópean eða afrópskur, til að lýsa sjálfum sér og öðrum svörtum evrópumönnum í bókinni sem er allt í senn ferðabók og djúpköfun hvað það þýðir að vera svartur í Evrópu.

Barbara Demick is the author of Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town (2020), Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (2009), and Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo neighborhood (1996). She spent 12 years as bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times in Beijing and Seoul and previously reported from the Middle East and Balkans for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Barbara has won many awards for her work, including the Samuel Johnson prize (now the Baillie Gifford prize) for non-fiction in the UK, the Overseas Press Club's human rights reporting award, the George Polk Award, the Robert F Kennedy Award, and Stanford University's Shorenstein Award for Asia coverage. Her North Korea book was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She was a press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Bagehot fellow in business journalism at Columbia University, and a visiting professor of journalism at Princeton University. She grew up in New Jersey, graduated from Yale College, and now lives in New York City.Barbara joins NuVoices board member Sophia Yan to discuss her most recent book, Eat the Buddha, which tells the story of Ngaba, a town high on a Tibetan plateau that is one of the most hidden corners of the world, and near-impossible for foreigners to visit. Through the rich tales of those linked to this town, Barbara illuminates decades of intertwined Tibetan and Chinese history, and explores what it means to be Tibetan today — to preserve a culture, faith and language despite all odds. Barbara talks about navigating reporting on China, despite the challenges, imparts sage writing advice, and previews her next book in the works. Recommendations:Sophia: Read Barbara's books! Eat the Buddha; Nothing to Envy; Logavina Street. Also this fascinating New Yorker article from May that I just read (the issues take forever to arrive abroad) about cutting-edge research on using electricity to regenerate limbs.Barbara: The Ministry for the Future, a science fiction book set in the near future about people trying to save the world from the ravages of climate change. I was reading it as the New York City subways flooded from the tail of Hurricane Ida. Evan Osnos' forthcoming Wildland: The Making of America's Fury, about how America is tearing itself apart with political polarization. Yes, I know you'd say not exactly soothing bedtime reading. More cheerful listening to podcaster Mike Duncan's Hero of Two Worlds about the Marquis de Lafayette.Self-Care Suggestions:Sophia: Not looking at your phone and emails/messages the minute you wake up! Try setting a timeframe – say half an hour – or perhaps until your morning routine is over (ie brushing teeth, washing face, making/having breakfast. Look out the window, enjoy your coffee/tea/Oatly/delivered jianbing! Then.... thumb scroll! Barbara: I'd say read before bed (don't watch Netflix or other streaming late at night) and turn off the lights before midnight. Researchers say if you don't get enough sleep in middle age, you increase your chances of dementia.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The pandemic has affected the lives of people with substance use issues. We hear about a new report when we speak with Alex Maheux from the Canadian Institute for Health Information. A strongly worded report from the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner has been handed down to the Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay regarding their body camera program. The CBC's Meg Roberts tells us what was in that report. Not everyone gets honoured with a civic holiday in their name, but not everyone is Levi Pottle. We speak with his granddaughter Elsie Wolfrey. We get reactions on the Moya Greene report released yesterday. Peter Woodward, Chad Letto, and Amy Norman join us. Also, we hear from Yvette Coffey, the president of the province's nurses union. It's Friday and you know that means we're hanging with the Waynes. We hear from Film and TV reviewer Wayne Walsh about the television show The Serpent, and the movie The Pedal Movie. We also hear from book reviewer Wayne Button about the novel Nothing To Envy by Barbara Demick.

This episode we're reviewing some poetry by a very popular author – it's Dearly by Margaret Atwood. Then to a fashion memoir with Vivienne Westwood by Vivienne Westwood and Ian Kelly.Our Audible editors keep the autobiography train going by recommending A Promised Land by former US President Barack Obama. And then it's time for a fantasy adventure with Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. We also have a clip from Ant & Dec about their thoughts on the show title I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. Here's the full list of reviews/recommendations:Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Nothing-to-Envy-Audiobook/B004FTCGEADearly by Margaret Atwood https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Dearly-Audiobook/1473581818Vivienne Westwood by Vivienne Westwood & Ian Kelly https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Vivienne-Westwood-Audiobook/B00NYBMFBYA Promised Land by Barack Obama https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/A-Promised-Land-Audiobook/0241991420The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Starless-Sea-Audiobook/147355425XAudible Sessions with Ant & Dec https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Ant-Dec-Audiobook/B08H5NTD56Once upon a Tyne by Ant McPartlin & Declan Donnelly https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Once-upon-a-Tyne-Audiobook/1405547391Ready Player One by Ernest Cline https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Ready-Player-One-Audiobook/B007PR58RQ If you have an audiobook to recommend, please email us at yhihf@audible.co.uk – we love hearing your voice notes and reading what you have to say! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With the world’s attention focused on industrial-scale oppression in Xinjiang, developments in Tibet are passing beneath the radar. But activists are warning of a full-spectrum assault on the Tibetan way of life, as Tibetan language teaching is outlawed and urbanisation campaigns relocate nomads from their ancestral pastures. The CCP has underlined its determination to choose the next Dalai Lama, and Tibetans were recently urged by their Party Secretary to ‘reduce religious consumption’ to build a ‘new modern socialist Tibet’. To hear about the sophisticated ‘rolling repression’ that characterises Chinese rule in Tibet, Louisa and Graeme are joined by Barbara Demick, author of Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town, Benno Weiner, Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University who has just published The Chinese Revolution on Tibetan Frontier and Tendor Dorjee, a Senior Researcher at the Tibet Action Institute. Image credit: Tashi Tsering at Labrang Monastery, ÓUte WallenbökSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Über das Leben in Tibet weiß man in Europa erstaunlich wenig. Ausländische Journalisten haben so gut wie keinen Zugang. Umso bemerkenswerter ist das Buch der amerikanischen Journalistin Barbara Demick über den Alltag und die moderne Geschichte Tibets. Von Ruth Kirchner www.deutschlandfunk.de, Büchermarkt Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

Ed Douglas gives an overview of Himalayan history up to the present. Barbara Demick explores Tibet to see what modern life is like in a country that it famous for its defiance against China. Host Marcus Smith and producer Tennery Taylor discuss the Sundance Film Festival.

Eat The Buddha is a gripping portrait of Tibet, spanning decades of Tibetan and Chinese modern history and told through the lives of its people. Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick explores one of the most hidden corners of the world, telling the story of a Tibetan town eleven thousand feet above sea level.

Eat The Buddha is a gripping portrait of Tibet, spanning decades of Tibetan and Chinese modern history and told through the lives of its people. Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick explores one of the most hidden corners of the world, telling the story of a Tibetan town eleven thousand feet above sea level.

In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier publisher: Cornell University Press, 15 Jun 2020 , Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first decade of the People's Republic of China: the Amdo region in the Sino-Tibetan borderland. Employing previously inaccessible local archives as well as other rare primary sources, he demonstrates that the Communist Party's goal in 1950s Amdo was not just state-building, but also nation-building. Such an objective required the construction of narratives and policies capable of convincing Tibetans of their membership in a wider political community. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pbliving/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support

On today's Global Exchange Podcast, Colin Robertson is joined by Philip Calvert, Ted Lipman, and John Gruetzner to talk about the state of Canada-China relations. Participants' Bios: - Philip Calvert is a fellow at CGAI and at the China Institute (University of Calgary): https://www.cgai.ca/philip_calvert - Ted Lipman is a fellow at CGAI and the head of a consultancy and designing firm based in Kong Kong: https://www.cgai.ca/ted_lipman - John Gruetzner is a fellow at CGAI and is responsible for international business development for the Canadian-based firm Syngrafii Inc. https://www.cgai.ca/john_gruetzner Host Bio: - Colin Robertson (host) is a former Canadian diplomat, now Vice President of and Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute www.cgai.ca/colin_robertson Read the Canadian International Council's series, “An Assessment of 50 Years of Canada-China Relations” here: https://thecic.org/category/behind-the-headlines/an-assessment-of-50-years-of-canada-china-relations/ What Philip Calvert is reading: - Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/220290/between-the-world-and-me-by-ta-nehisi-coates/ - Saleema Nawaz, Songs for the End of the World, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/558564/songs-for-the-end-of-the-world-by-saleema-nawaz/9780771072574 - Barbara Demick, Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/252968/eat-the-buddha-by-barbara-demick/ What Ted Lipman is reading: - David Brooks, The Road to Character, https://theroadtocharacter.com/ What John Gruetzner is reading: - Dexter Roberts, The Myth of Chinese Capitalism, https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250089373 - Anne Applebaum, The Twilight of Democracies: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/621076/twilight-of-democracy-by-anne-applebaum/ Recording Date: 11 Dec 2020 The Global Exchange is part of the CGAI Podcast Network. Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on LinkedIn. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips

Barbara Demick explores Tibet to see what modern life is like in a country that it famous for its defiance against China. Xi Lian tells the tragic story of Lin Zhao, a woman who resorted to using her own blood to write her story when an oppressive government tried to take away her voice. Travis McDade explains how one man stole eight million dollars in rare books. Douglas Hunter examines a hoax involving Vikings in central Ontario.

Barbara Demick explores Tibet to see what modern life is like in a country that it famous for its defiance against China. Xi Lian tells the tragic story of Lin Zhao, a woman who resorted to using her own blood to write her story when an oppressive government tried to take away her voice.

Barbara Demick spoke to Sean about her book “Eat The Buddha: The Story of Modern Tibet Through the People of One Town”

North Korea and Tibet are two of the most tightly-controlled societies on earth, and as a consequence their peoples are often misunderstood by the world’s media, caricatured respectively as aggressive communists and spiritual hermits. But Barbara Demick, former Los Angeles Times correspondent in Seoul and Beijing, confesses that she likes a challenge, and so set out to build a more nuanced picture of individuals’ real lives in both places. Moreover, she did this with minimal location reporting; indeed in the case of North Korea, she never visited the city she wrote about at all. Using an almost forensic level of investigation, Demick conducted lengthy and highly detailed interviews with people who had left both places, cross-referencing testimonies and drawing on additional research to corroborate their accounts. She then used the resulting material to inform a vivid, factual storytelling style that she calls narrative non-fiction. As she explains in conversation with Owen Bennett-Jones, it is a difficult process, but one that yields fascinating insight into places whose repressive leaders would rather we knew far less about. Producer: Michael Gallagher Editor: Bridget Harney (Image: Soldiers at a military parade in North Korea. Credit: EPA/How Hwee Young)

Pulitzer prize-nominated writer, former LA Times Beijing bureau chief and foreign correspondent Barbara Demick's new book is Eat the Buddha - Life and Death in a Tibetan Town. It's a narrative nonfiction account of events that propelled the otherwise unremarkable and obscure Tibetan town of Ngaba to be deserving of the dubious title of "undisputed world-capital of self immolation" in its quest to resist Chinese domination. This is the history behind the 2008 series of self immolations in the same year as the Beijing Olympics. Of the 156 self immolations a third would take place in Ngawa. To understand how this tragic history unfolded Barbara sought out many and varied eye-witness acounts, or human portraits, including that of a nomad who became a monk, a schoolgirl and a princess. Tibet was known for a long time as a Hermit Kingdom. Barbara tells Kathryn Ryan why she is drawn to places closed to the outside world.

Anne Applebaum discusses "Twilight of Democracy," and Barbara Demick talks about "Eat the Buddha."

While researching the effects of the One Child Policy in China, LA Times journalist Barbara Demick stumbles upon an extraordinary story: twin sisters, one of whom was forcibly adopted away to the USA. Barbara sets off to find the missing twin, and reunite the family. Read all about it:https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-08-07/how-a-journalist-discovered-and-reunited-identical-twinsHosted and produced: Maeve McClenaghanProduction support: Alice MillikenTheme music: Dice MuseThis series of The Tip Off is brought to you with support from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and funding from Charities Aid Foundation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In 1978, two luminaries of South Korean cinema were abducted by Kim Jong-Il and forced to make films in North Korea in an outlandish plan to improve his country's fortunes. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the story of Choi Eun-Hee and Shin Sang-Ok and their dramatic efforts to escape their captors. We'll also examine Napoleon's wallpaper and puzzle over an abandoned construction. Intro: In 1891, Robert Baden-Powell encoded the locations of Dalmatian forts in innocent drawings of butterflies. Legal scholar Mark V. Tushnet suggests how a 16-year-old might seek the presidency. Sources for our feature on Choi Eun-Hee and Shin Sang-Ok: Paul Fischer, A Kim Jong-Il Production, 2015. Johannes Schönherr, North Korean Cinema: A History, 2012. Steven Chung, Split Screen Korea: Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema, 2014. Bradley K. Martin, Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty, 2007. "Choi Eun-hee: South Korean Actress Who Was Kidnapped by North Dies," BBC, April 17, 2018. Martin Belam, "Choi Eun-hee, Actor Once Abducted by North Korea, Dies," Guardian, April 17, 2018. "A Hong Kong Kidnap: How Kim Jong-il Had South Korea's Top Actress Abducted From Repulse Bay," South China Morning Post, March 25, 2015. "Famed South Korean Actress Choi Eun-Hee, Who Was Abducted by North Korean Spies in Hong Kong for Film Fan Kim Jong-Il, Dies Aged 91," South China Morning Post, April 17, 2018. Olivier Holmey, "Remembering Choi Eun-hee, the South Korean Film Actor Once Abducted by Pyongyang," Independent, May 14, 2018. Ilana Kaplan, "Choi Eun-Hee Dead: South Korean Actress Once Kidnapped by North Korea Dies Aged 92," Independent, April 17, 2018. Barbara Demick, "Secret Tape Recordings of Kim Jong Il Provide Rare Insight Into the Psyche of His North Korean Regime," Los Angeles Times, Oct. 27, 2016. Euan McKirdy, "South Korean Actress and Former North Korean Abductee Choi Eun-Hee Dies," CNN, April 17, 2018. Julian Ryall, "The Incredible Life Story of Actress Choi Eun-Hee, Abducted by North Korea and Forced to Make Films for Kim Jong-il," Telegraph, April 17, 2018. Nicolas Levi, "Kim Jong Il: A Film Director Who Ran a Country," Journal of Modern Science 25:2 (2015), 155-166. Choe Sang-Hun, "Obituary: Shin Sang Ok, 80, Korean Film Director," New York Times, April 12, 2006. Douglas Martin, "Shin Sang Ok, 80, Korean Film Director Abducted by Dictator, Is Dead," New York Times, April 13, 2006. Alexandra Alter, "North Korea’s Love-Hate of Movies," New York Times, Dec. 31, 2014. Peter Maass, "The Last Emperor," New York Times, Oct. 19, 2003. Chris Knight, "Kim Jong-il's Bizarre Interlude in the Movies," Ottawa Citizen, Sept. 30, 2016, E.5. "A Memoir: Shin Sang-ok, Choi Eun-hee and I," Korea Times, Oct. 5, 2016. "Choi Eun-hee: Beautiful Actress and Doyenne of Postwar South Korean Films Before Her Kidnap by North Korea Where She Lived in a Gilded Cage," Times, June 4, 2018, 48. Ronald Bergan, "Obituary: Shin Sang-Ok: South Korean Film Director Whose Life Read Like the Plot of a Far-Fetched Thriller," Guardian, April 19, 2006, 34. Lawrence Levi, "Lights, Camera, Kidnap," Newsday, Feb. 8, 2015, C.17. "The Incredible Life Story of Actress Choi Eun-hee, Abducted by North Korea and Forced to Make Films for Kim Jong-il," Telegraph, April 17, 2018. An Hong-Kyoon, "More Dramatic Than Movie," Korea Times, Oct. 6, 2016. Hannah McGill, "Acting in the Dictator's Cut," Independent, March 14, 2015, 22. Olivier Holmey, "South Korean Film Actor Abducted by Pyongyang," Independent, May 16, 2018, 36. Peter Keough, "How Kim Jong-il Got What He Wanted," Boston Globe, Sept. 23, 2016, G.8. Peter Keough, "That Time Kim Jong-il Kidnapped His Favorite Movie Star and Director," Boston Globe, Sept. 21, 2016, G.8. Khang Hyun-sung, "Director's Colourful Life Competed With His Cinematic Creations," South China Morning Post, April 15, 2006, 11. Jennifer Hunter, "The Stranger-Than-Fiction Abduction of a Director and His Star," Toronto Star, Jan. 31, 2015, IN.3. "Obituary of Shin Sang-ok," Daily Telegraph, May 6, 2006. Tim Robey, "Losing the Plot: Kim Jong-il Was So Set on Film-Making He Kidnapped Two South Korean Stars," Daily Telegraph, Feb. 28, 2015, 30. Here's Pulgasari, the monster movie that got Shin and Choi to Vienna. In the West it's regarded as a dud. "Pulgasari marked a turn in Shin's career, the first time he had put all his energy into a picture and created a stinker," writes Paul Fischer. "It was a sudden, inexplicable transformation, after which Shin never recovered his magic touch." Listener mail: Ted Chamberlain, "Napoleon Death Mystery Solved, Experts Say," National Geographic, Jan. 17, 2007. "Napoleon Death: Arsenic Poisoning Ruled Out," Live Science, Feb. 12, 2008. "Was Napoleon Poisoned?", American Museum of Natural History, Jan. 21, 2014. J. Thomas Hindmarsh and John Savory, "The Death of Napoleon, Cancer or Arsenic?", Clinical Chemistry 54:12 (2008), 2092-2093. William J. Broad, "Hair Analysis Deflates Napoleon Poisoning Theories," New York Times, June 10, 2008. Max Finkel, "Instead of a Ticket, Some Speeders in Estonia Are Getting a Time Out," Jalopnik, Sept. 28, 2019. Jonathan Schultz, "Speed Camera Lottery Wins VW Fun Theory Contest," New York Times, Nov. 30, 2010. Elizabeth Haggarty, "Speed Camera Lottery Pays Drivers for Slowing Down," Toronto Star, Dec. 9, 2010. DDB, "DDB's Fun Theory for Volkswagen Takes Home Cannes Cyber Grand Prix," June 25, 2010. Wikipedia, "Radar Speed Sign: Effectiveness," (accessed Oct. 19, 2019). "The Speed Camera Lottery - The Fun Theory," Rolighetsteorin, Nov. 12, 2010. Volkswagen, "The Fun Theory 1 – Piano Staircase Initiative," Oct. 26, 2009. Elle Hunt, "Cash Converters: Could This Dutch Scheme Stop Drivers Speeding?", Guardian, May 25, 2018. This week's lateral thinking puzzle is from Paul Sloane and Des MacHale's 2014 book Remarkable Lateral Thinking Puzzles. Here's a corroborating link (warning -- this spoils the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

در این قسمت از پادکست خلاصه کتاب افسوس نمی‌خوریم را می‌شنوید. لینک‌ها لینک گروه کتابخوانی پادکست لینک گروه گودریدز پادکست لینک‌های تهیه‌ی کتاب: گودریدز، نسخه فیزیکی، نسخه اصلی: آمازون، نسخه الکترونیک: فیدیبو کانال تلگرام آقای دارالشفایی برای سفارش کتاب متن قسمت بیست و یکم: افسوس نمی‌خوریم عنوان: افسوس نمی‌خوریم، زندگی مردم عادی در کره‌شمالی نویسنده: باربارا دمیک Barbara Demick مترجم: حسین شهرابی ، مینا جوشقانی ناشر: کتابسرای تندیس تعداد صفحات: 414

(Recorded June 07, 2015) This week: a discussion of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick.

(Recorded June 07, 2015) This week: a discussion of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick.

[rebroadcast] (Recorded June 07, 2015) This week: a discussion of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick.

We're very excited to announce our first episode from North Korea. Recorded in the heart of North Korea, Sam talks to his tour guide Ben about the country and his experiences. Sam visited North Korea over Easter 2018 and this podcast is an interview with his tour guide Ben Johnson. We discuss the country and the surprises it has in store for the people that visit. It was an amazing experience and a pleasure to bring some of it back for you. We also discuss the growing industry of dark tourism and challenging yourself to go out of your comfort zone. Sam, Ben and our Korean Hosts President Kim Jong-Un score card. Very accurate marksman Canned Food in a Freezer. They clearly didn't know what the display freezer was for. We had a fun English lesson with some students. They were just as excited as we were Pack cigarettes for $1 - Toothpaste for $8 The DMZ View of Pyonyang from my Hotel Window Kimchee Crisps Miracle Body Drink Lunch View of Pyonyang from an important war monument Playing volleyball at sunset at the outside the train station Tube station inside the Pyonyang Underground North Korea Tube Stairs Sam on the Pyonyang Tube Beautiful country but very harsh Kids love balls in Korea too TOP TIPS THE NEWS IS RIDICULOUS AND POWERFUL AS HELL The western world paints north korea as this land of crazy mental people that want to nuke everywhere and a nation of people oppressed and in massive suffering. Actually most of them are pretty damn chill about the entire affair and happy going about their lives and walking their dogs. They certainly live modest lives and don’t have a lot of money as a nation, but they aren’t distracted by social media and all that crap the whole time and if you rushed in trying to save them they’d look at you like your bonkers. It is scary the way news controls our lives and thoughts and the way it makes us percieve them. We of course are very aware of the influence of north korean news on it’s own people which is of course very controlling, yet we pay little attention to our own news and it’s influence on us. I’ve been really enjoyed reading the book ‘Factfullness’ by Hans Rosling which is one of the most informative books about the world around you. He gives an example of an Englishman going to Mexico City which is apparently one of the most dangerous places and yet the people there were scared to visit London because they’d heard of stabbings and crime and riots. and this happened to me exactly when i visited and the book is just full of funny facts we get completely wrong about how bad the world is and is a very positive book to help you question the reality of what your being told. QUESTION NORMALITY Being shut of from most of society they have a very different impression of normal. As a nation of skinny people they found fat people an amazingly rare and hilarious thing to observe. When a train gets delayed this is a perfect opportunity for everyone to practice a group dance so why just waste time standing around when you could be dancing. They also believe that dark chocolate will make you black and white chocolate will make you white. So one, never buy a north korean lady dark chocolate as a present. and think twice before tucking into your favorite white chocolate bar before chowing down on a milkbar before you lose your tan. That’s something the scientist never warned you about THE WORLD IS GETTING MUCH SMALLER With the increasing wealth of all nations and decreasing cost of travel the number of tourists is exploding. Places like North Korea and Eritrea and starting to be able to have their own tourism industry as people increasingly want rare and unusual experiences beyond the normal and completely overdone options offered on package holidays where you are just one of a million people doing the same thing. Again going back to the Hans Rosling book there are two ways of looking at this. It’s easy to see the overabundance of people at tourist attractions as annoying and a problem. But it’s actually amazing that so many more people are able to afford to take time off work and enjoy their money and go away and relax. I was really surprised to meet rich North Korean on the train into and out of China who were going on shopping holidays for the latest fashion and things. It was a concept that hadn’t even entered my brain as possible MOST THINGS AREN’T THE END OF THE WORLD. YOU REALLY DON’T NEED TO STRESS - A BIT OF RESILIENCE AND IT’S ALL FINE! Travelling opens your eyes in many ways as I’ve shown. But one of the best things is when everything goes completely wrong and the most terrible stuff happens. and yet you still walk away fine having had this completely bonkers experience. It genuinely makes you feel like there’s no point worrying about anything. Ben’s experience being stranded on different borders or my experience being arrested in Paraguay feels like it’s the end of the world. and yet it all ends up okay. I can only liken it to jumping of a skyscraper and expecting to go splat and then just landing on the floor a little awkard and then picking yourself up and feeling a bit silly and walking off scratching you head wandering why you’ve been lied to in every single physics lesson. I really think the north koreans are possibly the most resilient people ever. Whether they’ve had self imposed disasters or problems imposed on them they keep picking themselves up and carrying on without worrying to much about it. They had literally all their personal savings wiped out 10 years ago when the currency was replaced with a new official currency and they weren’t allowed to swap more than $50 dollars of their savings into the new currency or something. Sure it’s a disaster and super bad thing that the government did, but it’s also amazing that the people were able to deal with this and just move on and find happiness in their lives, and if you can get over that you can probably get over anything. And i guess this was the kind of wierd thing that I genuinely felt like on average the north koreans were mostly happier. perhaps they just stopped giving a fuck and you can’t break someone who doesn’t care. So we can all learn to be a little bit more happy for whatever we do have and not worry about things that don’t go away. So thanks North Korea for showing me that and I hope it helps you be happier also! BOOKS BARBARA DEMICK - NOTHING TO ENVY (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nothing-Envy-Lives-North-Korea/dp/184708141X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=nothing+to+envy&qid=1580473042&s=books&sr=1-1) Amazing book about lives of several north korean famalies and what they went through and expereinces defecting from the country. A completely mental experience of mankind that I feel everyone should read FACTFULNESS - HANS ROSLING (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Factfulness-Reasons-Wrong-Things-Better/dp/147363749X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=factfulness&qid=1580473083&s=books&sr=1-1) A much more positive book if Barbara Demick gets you down. This book really shows what is going on in the world and why we should find more reasons to be grateful rather then waste so much time whining about all our problems and pining for the past that was actually much worse than our current situation. Contact Us You can find out more about us and chat about anything you like Ben: LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-johnson-%E8%94%A1%E5%93%B2%E6%98%8E-70496b85/) Sam: Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/samjamsnaps/) Quora (https://www.quora.com/profile/Sam-Harris-58) Twitter (https://twitter.com/samharristweets) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharris48/) Sam's blog - SamWebsterHarris.com (https://samwebsterharris.com/) Support the Show - Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/growthmindset) Subscribe! If you enjoyed the podcast please subscribe and rate it. And of course, share with your friends! Special Guest: Ben Johnson.

LARB Radio was live at The Last Bookstore in Downtown LA this past Sunday at the Book Release Party for author Tim DeRoche's and illustrator Daniel Gonzalez's 21st century recasting of Mark Twain's American Classic: The Ballad of Huck and Miguel. Co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher facilitated the main event, a free flowing discussion with Tim and Daniel that captivated the overflow crowd with reflections on a book that, much like the original, illuminates many of the central concerns and crises of contemporary American society. Tim and Daniel explain the project's evolution: why Huck's companion Jim, a runaway slave, became Miguel an undocumented migrant; the Mississippi became the LA River; and how Los Angeles, with its limitless diversity and underappreciated nature, plays a staring role accentuated by Daniel's gorgeous prints. Once again, the searing social critique resonates because our hearts are drawn in by the battered-but-unbroken adolescent who finds on the river an older role model, something unavailable to him in "proper" society, in the person of a fellow outcast, Miguel - a human connection, as with Jim, all-but-forbidden by white America. Also, Dan Lopez drops by to share his Olympic Fever, by recommending a book that the Winter Games inspired him to read: Barbara Demick's study of life in the world's most closed and mysterious country, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.

E chegamos ao último programa de 2017! Vamos falar das coisas boas do ano que passou? Pedimos para as funcionárias e os funcionários da editora fazerem três listas com os melhores do ano, indicando em cada uma delas os três melhores itens de cada categoria, sendo que pelo menos uma das listas deveria ser sobre as melhores leituras. Voltaremos na primeira semana de 2018 com a segunda parte deste episódio! Aproveitamos este último post para desejar que todos os nossos ouvintes tenham boas comemorações de final de ano e ótimos momentos de leitura neste período. Até 2018! ;) --- As listas deste episódio: Paulo Santana, Marketing Melhores leituras no ano: “Só garotos”, de Patti Smith; “Câmera lenta”, de Marília Garcia; “Tartarugas até lá embaixo”, de John Green (Editora Intrínseca). 2. As edições mais bonitas: “Com O Mar Por Meio - Uma Amizade Em Cartas”, por José Saramago e Jorge Amado; “Todo amor”, de Vinicius de Moraes; “Cidades invisíveis”, de Italo Calvino. 3. Melhores piadas internas do departamento de Comunicação: “Alô, Rosildo?”; “sinonimos.com.br”; Pessoas “fardo” x “alegria” de viver. Indicação de YA LGBT: Tash de Tolstói, de Kathryn Ormsbee. Antonio Castro, editorial Seguinte e Companhia das Letrinhas Três livros infantis que o deixaram mais feliz: “Ah, os lugares aonde você irá!”, de Dr. Seuss (será lançado em 2018); “O Homem-cão”, de Dav Pilkey; “Coisa de menino”, de Pri Ferrari. 2. Melhores livros de literatura “YA” LGBT: “A lógica inexplicável da minha vida”, de Benjamin Alire Sáenz; “Fera”, de Brie Spangler; “Quinze dias”, de Vitor Martins (Editora Globo Alt). 3. Melhores aplicativos: Headspace; Citymapper; Moment. Marina Pastore, e-books Melhores leituras - “4321”, de Paul Auster (será lançado em 2018); - “Hibisco roxo”, de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; - “Laços”, de Domenico Starnone (Editora Todavia). Diana Passy, departamento de Marketing Melhores leituras: “O conto da aia”, de Margareth Atwood (Editora Rocco); “Fraude legítima”, de E. Lockhart; “As perguntas”, de Antônio Xerxenesky. 2. Autores que quer ver na Flip de 2018: Celeste Ng; George Saunders; Colson Whitehead. 3. Podcasts para quem quer ser escritor: 88 cups of tea; Curta ficção; Os 12 trabalhos do escritor. Clara dias, assessoria de imprensa Melhores leituras: “O pretérito imperfeito”, B. Kucinski; “Dias de abandono”, Elena Ferrante; “Laços”, Domenico Starnone. 2. Séries: “Billions”; “The crown”; “Empire of the Tsars”. 3. Melhores discos do universo hipsters: “Recomeçar”, de Tim Bernardes; “Ottomatopeia”, de Otto; “Em noite de climão”, de Letrux. Max Santos, Eventos Melhores eventos de lançamento: “Uma história do samba - Vol. I”, de Lira Neto, no Rio de Janeiro; “Na minha pele”, de Lázaro Ramos, em Salvador e em Paraty, na Flip; “A glória e seu cortejo de horrores”, de Fernanda Torres, em São Paulo.(hyperlink em vídeo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrqRLzsp9tA&list=PLZfXeVfyL9eWsmTR05mTTpmr7pl0FFq6s&index=3) 2. Livros para ler com crianças no final do ano: “O Homem-cão”, de Dav Pilkey; “Coisa de menino” e “Coisa de menina”, de Pri Ferrari; O mundo seria mais legal, de Marcelo Tolentino. Laura, produtora do Rádio Companhia Melhores leituras “Tudo o que tenho levo comigo”, de Herta Müller; “Você é minha mãe?”, de Alison Bechdel; “Nada a invejar - Vidas comuns na Coreia do Norte”, de Barbara Demick. Taize Odelli, Redes sociais Melhores leituras: “Lincoln no limbo”, de George Saunders; “Manual da faxineira”, de Lucia Berlin; “História da sua vida”, de Ted Chiang. 2. Álbuns: “Sleep Well Beast”, de The National; “ American Dream” de LCD Soundsystem; “Pure Comedy”, de Father John Misty. 3. Autoras para ler em 2018: Zadie Smith; Celeste Ng; Sally Rooney.

The most important story in the world right now is how real the chance of war with North Korea is — and how cataclysmic such a war would be.Part of the reason the risk of war is so real is that our understanding of North Korea is so sparse. "The Hermit Kingdom" is a world unto itself; a land of deprivation, of lunacy, of tyranny, of delusion. We have no diplomatic relations, no trade, no cross-cultural exchanges. We don't understand Kim Jong Un, we don't understand his people, and they don't understand us. And so, ignorant, we lurch towards the possibility of nuclear war built atop mutual miscomprehension. The best view we have into life in North Korea is Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy: The Ordinary Lives of North Koreans. Demick was the Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Seoul and Beijing, and she found herself obsessed with this country she couldn't cover and couldn't understand. So she began talking to the people who had left it, the refugees who escaped across the DMZ. She began asking them to reconstruct their lives, to tell her what it was like, to make everyday life in North Korea intelligible. And they did. They told her what it was like to grow up, and to fall in love, and to go to school, and to have dinner, and to flee. They told her what it was like to build new lives, to remember past friends, to know their family was in a place they could never visit again, to hear the rest of the world fear and pity the place they had once called home. This conversation is about North Korea, but it's also about North Koreans — about what it's like to live in the most closed society on earth, about what they know and don't know of the outside world, about how their existence can be both ordinary and extraordinary, about what would happen to them if there was a war. And this is a conversation about what we need to know about North Korea, about how the country's past informs its present, about what Demick would tell Trump if he would just listen.

HELENA SMITH — WRITER FOR LONELY PLANET AND ROUGH GUIDES AND AUTHOR OF HACKNEY GUIDES Helena Smith is a travel writer and book author. She writes for the ‘Lonely Planet’ and ‘Rough Guides’ publications whilst exploring the world, and has self-published her own books ‘Inside Hackney’ and ‘Eat Hackney’ in which she shares her insights travelling just a few miles from her doorstep. She shares her insights into travelling and how she worked her way into a dream job being paid to follow her passions. TOP TIPS 1. Pack minimally The less stuff you have the better your trip will be. trust me. baggage drags you down, there is more stuff to lose, more stuff to carry. more stuff to unpack and repack every stop and it literally is a huge drain on your energy and attitude to do fun stuff and ties you down. having just a tiny backpack with everything you need is the most liberating thing you can do for a good travel experience! This can also be applied as a general life strategy to keep you freer and able to take new opportunities without being so entrenched in stuff 2. Want to have a job as a writer — Just start writing. Actually pretty obvious in hindsight. to get good at writing you need to do it. By showing initiative and interest in writing about travel or local insights is the only way to get started in the world of travel writing. Just self-publish on a personal blog or submit to online magazines and grow from there. You can also review things on TripAdvisor and answer questions and give advice on Quora. In this modern age also things like an Instagram wouldn’t hurt… 3. Bananas are awesome You can do lots of healthy alternatives to things with them and keep all your vegan friends happy. And you can basically buy them anywhere in the world cheaply. So no excuses. HELENA’S BOOKS Inside Hackney (http://insidehackney.com/) If you’re in London or plan to visit the inside Hackney is a great resource beyond the average guidebook or using TripAdvisor. So many cool things she’s put in the book. Eat Hackney (http://eathackney.com/) For culinary travellers, Eat Hackney is your chance to get hold of and recreate the best food available in Hackney from the comfort of your own home. I’m already keen to try the Mung-bean curry she mentions and excited to see what other gems she has inside. HELENA’S FAVOURITE BOOKS True History of the Kelly Gang (https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=true+history+of+the+ned&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss) by Peter Carey Her absolute favourite book. It sounds pretty interesting and as I’m about to visit Australia I’m lining it up on my next books to read. Daunt Bookshop A great shop in London, it pairs travel books with novels about the country. So you can read a nice story about where you are going. SAM’S FAVOURITE TRAVEL BOOK PAIRINGS ‘The Shadow of the Wind (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadow-Wind-Cemetery-Forgotten-Books/dp/1474609880/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LC8F5WMPKP13&keywords=the+shadow+of+the+wind&qid=1580045060&s=books&sprefix=the+shadow%2Cstripbooks%2C484&sr=1-1)’ — Carlos Ruiz Zafón — Barcelona, Spain A beautiful captivating tale from early 20th century Barcelona, it’s one of my absolute favourite books also so a great read to lose yourself in. The Caesar (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Conn-Iggulden-Emperor-Books-Collection/dp/B00JBAJV6E/ref=sr_1_17?crid=2J6Z5DCSEF4LQ&keywords=conn+iggulden&qid=1580045555&s=books&sprefix=conn+%2Cstripbooks%2C371&sr=1-17) —  A Series of 5 Books by Conn Iggulden — Rome, Italy, Europe Just an epic account of the great man. All about Julius Caesar, Rome, Italy and also his conquests across Europe in general. ‘Memoirs of a Geisha (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Memoirs-Geisha-Arthur-Golden/dp/0099771519/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2KKKZAVWYEOTG&keywords=geisha&qid=1580045283&s=books&sprefix=geisha%2Cstripbooks%2C365&sr=1-1)’ by Arthur Golden. — Japan A stunningly beautiful book all about the last true geisha’s of Japan that follows the story of a young girl who goes to Geisha school to try help her family in a troubled age and goes on to be a leading geisha but during a time when Japan was catching up with the modern world. It’s just a really interesting book into a crazy country and a crazy life that doesn’t really exist anymore but with many poignant life lessons about how to succeed and stay relevant in a changing world around you. ‘Nothing To Envy (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nothing-Envy-Lives-North-Korea/dp/184708141X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=6RNWPP9AAZMN&keywords=nothing+to+envy&qid=1580045243&s=books&sprefix=nothing+to+en%2Cstripbooks%2C490&sr=1-1)’ by Barbara Demick, North Korea This book blew my mind. I literally had no idea about what has been going on in North Korea and it is a truly fascinating and shocking book about the crazy world of an entire country ran in a big brother state. it follows the tale of several families and characters and the effects that politics, famine and desperation has on them and the amazing resilience of human beings and the shocking power or information and what can happen when it is withheld from us. Obviously, I haven’t been to North Korea (YET) but I’ll update you on any progress on that front as I’m totally looking into it! Try a free Audible trial of any book here (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Free-Trial-Digital-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?tag=samharris48%E2%80%9321) CONTACT Helena: You can find out more about Helena and her projects at: helenasmith.co.uk (https://helenasmith.co.uk) Twitter — Helena (https://twitter.com/HelsTravels) Twitter — Inside Hackney (https://twitter.com/insidehackney) Sam: Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/samjamsnaps/) Quora (https://www.quora.com/profile/Sam-Harris-58) Twitter (https://twitter.com/samharristweets) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharris48/) Subscribe! If you enjoyed the podcast please subscribe and rate it. And of course, share with your friends! Special Guest: Helena Smith.

0:00:00 - Opening 0:03:24 - Book Review, "Nothing to Envy" by Barbara Demick. 0:59:08 - Mind Control / Mental Slavery. 1:13:26 - Solid Internet/Onnit Stuff. 1:17:13 - How to train BJJ when Injured. 1:24:08 - Knowing Personality Types. 1:28:05 - How to change the culture of a company. 1:33:20 - Dealing with Over-thinkers. 1:41:35 - Greg Jackson's Criticism on Jon Jones (UFC). 1:46:26 - Feeling like Sisyphus pushing a rock up a hill.

January 2016 marked the end of China’s one child policy—a regime of family planning policies and enforcement that scarred generations of parents and children. On this edition of Making Contact, China correspondent Gady Epstein speaks with Mei Fong, author of One Child:The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment, and Barbara Demick, journalist and former Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times.

January 2016 marked the end of China’s one child policy—a regime of family planning policies and enforcement that scarred generations of parents and children. On this edition of Making Contact, China correspondent Gady Epstein speaks with Mei Fong, author of One Child:The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment, and Barbara Demick, journalist and former Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times.

Friday Late is a weekly interview program from the people who bring you PM. Daily current affairs doesn't always have time to let guests stretch out and expand on their knowledge - Friday Late will fill that gap. This week, Mark Colvin talks to James Robinson, co-author of Why Nations Fail. Barbara Demick on secretive North Korea. Professor David Lyon on the growing intrusion of personal privacy and Roy Baumeister on rediscovering our willpower.

Friday Late is a weekly interview program from the people who bring you PM. Daily current affairs doesn't always have time to let guests stretch out and expand on their knowledge - Friday Late will fill that gap. This week, Mark Colvin talks to James Robinson, co-author of Why Nations Fail. Barbara Demick on secretive North Korea. Professor David Lyon on the growing intrusion of personal privacy and Roy Baumeister on rediscovering our willpower.

The Lone Reader; one librarian talks about the books he reads. Music: North Korean National AnthemState Merited Chorus, Korean People's Army   time: 0:02:10size: 2.037 mb

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *"The Son of Man Came to Seek and to Save the Lost:" Reformation Sunday* for Sunday, 31 October 2010; book review: *Nothing to Envy; Ordinary Lives in North Korea* by Barbara Demick (2010); film review: *Frozen River* (2008); poem review: *For All the Saints* by William How.