Podcast appearances and mentions of bryan mealer

Dr Waheed Arian is a radiologist who set up a charity called Arian Teleheal in 2015. The charity enables volunteer doctors in the west to advise colleagues in conflict zones using smartphone technology. The charity has helped save many lives in countries including Syria, Uganda and Afghanistan where Waheed was born. In 1988, at the height of the Soviet-Afghan conflict, Waheed and his family fled Kabul for Pakistan where they lived in a refugee camp for the next few years. Waheed was just five when they arrived there and contracted tuberculosis. The doctor who saved his life planted a dream and Waheed decided that one day he would study medicine. When he was 15 Afghanistan was in the grip of the Taliban and Waheed and his parents knew it was only a matter of time before he would be recruited to join their fight. Waheed's family found someone who, for a fee, offered to help him leave the country and claim refugee status in the UK. He arrived in the UK in 1999, studied A levels while working in a number of jobs and then in 2003 took up a place to read medicine at Cambridge University. In 2014 he began training as a radiologist and currently works in the A&E department at a busy NHS hospital. In 2017 he won a UN Global Hero Award for his charity work. DISC ONE: Lose Yourself by Eminem DISC TWO: Gule Sori by Farhad Darya DISC THREE: Eye of the Tiger by Survivor DISC FOUR: Never Enough by Loren Allred DISC FIVE: Home by Michael Bublé DISC SIX: Fly by Celine Dion DISC SEVEN: Are You Ready for Love by Elton John DISC EIGHT: Everything I Wanted by Billie Eilish BOOK CHOICE: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba LUXURY ITEM: Pen and paper CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Fly by Celine Dion Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Paula McGinley

Lesen, probieren, ernten. William Kamkwamba erzählt zusammen mit Bryan Mealer in dem Buch 'Der Junge, der den Wind einfing' seine einzigartige Geschichte. Er kommt aus der Armut. Er durchlebt die schreckliche Hungerkrise 2000 in Malawi. Anschließend kann er nicht zur Schule gehen, weil seinen Eltern das Geld dafür fehlt. Was machte er also? Den Kopf in den Sand stecken? Ganz sicher nicht. Er bringt sich selber alles über Elektrotechnik bei und baut mit viel Gegenwind, Fleiß und Anstrengung ein Windrad für seine Familie. Dieses sollte sein Leben verändern. Viel Spaß beim Hören! Misha & Franz Link zu Williams TED Talk Feedbackanregungen und mehr Inhalte? -> https://www.instagram.com/readandtalk.de/

William's inspiring story is told in his New York Times bestselling memoir The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, co-authored with Bryan Mealer, and in the Netflix film adaptation, directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, which was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the Sundance Film festival. Since its debut, William's book has been published in two additional editions, a young readers version, and a children's book. The autobiography has sold more than 1 million copies and been translated in nearly twenty languages worldwide. William has been featured on The Wall Street Journal, Nyasa Times, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer. After graduating from Dartmouth College in Environmental Studies, William began work as a Global Fellow for the design firm IDEO.org. William is an entrepreneur, TED Fellow, and has worked with the WiderNet Project to develop appropriate technologies curriculums focused on bridging the gap between “knowing” and “doing” for young people in Malawi and across the world. William splits his time between the U.S. and Malawi and is currently working full-time with the Moving Windmills Project to bring the Moving Windmills Innovation Center to life in Kasungu, Malawi. https://movingwindmills.org/

Reviewing the inspiring book: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Part 4. Written by William Kamkawamba and Bryan Mealer. An absolutely inspiring and moving story about a boy who used his drive, intuiting and determination to bring electricity and hope to an impoverished nation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mdrnac/message

Reviewing the inspiring book: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Part 4. Written by William Kamkawamba and Bryan Mealer. An absolutely inspiring and moving story about a boy who used his drive, intuiting and determination to bring electricity and hope to an impoverished nation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mdrnac/message

Reviewing the inspiring book: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Part 3. Written by William Kamkawamba and Bryan Mealer. An absolutely inspiring and moving story about a boy who used his drive, intuiting and determination to bring electricity and hope to an impoverished nation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mdrnac/message

Reviewing the inspiring book: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Part 2. Written by William Kamkawamba and Bryan Mealer. An absolutely inspiring and moving story about a boy who used his drive, intuiting and determination to bring electricity and hope to an impoverished nation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mdrnac/message

Reviewing the inspiring book: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Part 1. Written by William Kamkawamba and Bryan Mealer. An absolutely inspiring and moving story about a boy who used his drive, intuiting and determination to bring electricity and hope to an impoverished nation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mdrnac/message

As a teenager, Bryan Mealer disavowed the Christianity of his childhood and confirmed his disbelief as a war correspondent. Now he is a Christian seminarian.

Some people don't want much or anything to do with the religion of their childhood ... and then go all in.

Bryan Mealer is the author of four books: All Things Must Fight to Live — an account of his time in the Congo — Muck City — about a south Florida town with a legendary high school football team but a troubled past — The Kings of Big Spring — about his family’s history of surviving through oil booms and busts and leaning on Pentecostalism, and The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, an account of a young boy in Malawi who helps his drought-beleaguered town — that book was a New York Times bestseller and was made into a movie directed by and starring powerhouse star Chiwetel Ejiofor, who also directed 12 years a slave and has starred in numerous major films over the past two decades, starting with Amistad.Bryan grew up in the Pentecostal church in west Texas, left his faith entirely while a war correspondent in the Congo, and then has been writing over the past year or two about rediscovering Christianity in a very different form than the fundamentalism he was raised him.We talk about the ways that his time in the Congo shaped him and changed him, and about how his work on a book about his family’s roots in Texas and Georgia, and in the Pentecostal church, primed him to turn back to faith.Bryan wrote about his faith journey for The New Republic last fall, and wrote another piece about it for The Guardian over the winter.He described Rachel Held Evans this way: "To have her embrace the Bible as a tool for justice, and forgiveness and grace instead of this divine hammer against people we don’t like was just, it was like my salvation."But Bryan also ended his TNR piece this way: "No matter how angry people like me get at white evangelicals or how many calls to arms we put forth, on its own, it will get us nowhere in the end. To defeat hatred and creeping fascism and begin the healing of this nation, we—all Americans—need a new social gospel, and not just one that makes liberals feel comfortable. It is a gospel forged from the rubble, and it must include everyone. It will be messy and painful, and we must push forward even when our friends ask us, 'What’s the point?' When they ask us, 'How can you speak to those people?' Our big tent must shine like a light unto the world, and it must be a home to all—Republicans and Democrats, Jews and Romans, even to the demons that fly out from the debris."Bryan describes his experience covering a migrant caravan from Honduras last fall, and how he and his conservative father discussed their differences over immigration policy in light of that. The piece he wrote on the migrant caravan is incredible. Read it here. Outro music: “U (Man Like)” by Bon Iver Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thelonggame. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Publishers Summary; As a young boy, William Kamkwamba read about windmills and dreamed of building one that would bring electricity and water to his village in Malawi, a country withered by drought and hunger. In 2002, when his country was stricken with a famine, William's family's farm was devastated and his parents were left destitute.   Review contains spoilers.

Explore the hardscrabble times, places, and people of Texas and New Mexico in our panel discussion titled Busted: Brash Stories from Texas and New Mexico. Authors Joshua Wheeler and Bryan Mealer join Alta contributor and Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano to recount the booms, busts and bold characters of life in the Southwestern United States. Busted was recorded on March 7, 2019 at The Huntington Library in San Marino, California and is presented in partnership with the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.    Show notes: Read a condensed transcript of this event Joshua Wheeler's Acid West Bryan Mealer's The Kings of Big Spring Gustavo Arellano at the Los Angeles Times and at Alta  Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West The Huntington Library  

This week's episode features Silas, Chyanne, LilyAnne, and Mr. Dix recommending novels they love that were eventually turned into movies or television shows that can be watched on Netflix. Listen to hear us excitedly discuss Jenny Han's To All the Boys I Loved Before, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba, The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way, and JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Join authors Bryan Mealer and Joshua Wheeler in a discussion about hardscrabble times, places, and people in Texas and New Mexico. Bryan Mealer's The Kings of Big Spring, has been called "the Texas version of Hillbilly Elegy," a saga of God, family, and oil across many generations of the author's own family. Joshua Wheeler's Acid West, is a collection of essays about Southern New Mexico, and has been called a "freaky, stylish, heart-cracking-open book." The evening's discussion is moderated by Gustavo Arellano of the Los Angeles Times. This event is sponsored by The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, and The Journal of Alta California. Reception and booksigning follows the program.

Join us this Wednesday as we speak with writer Bryan Mealer

Mr. Waffles and his guest, Mr. Claritin, discuss "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer. Learn more about Mr. Kamkwamba and his foundation at http://www.williamkamkwamba.com/

Join us this Wednesday as we speak with Bryan Mealer

Ethan Hawke tells Andy Langer about his new film, "Blaze", and the importance of balancing paying the bills with finding creative fulfillment. Plus, Frances Varner and Bryan Mealer are on a 1,700-mile road trip to the White House. She loves Trump, and he doesn't. They are talking with folks along the way, hoping bring us all together in the process.

This week, we talk to bestseller Bryan Mealer, whose new memoir, THE KINGS OF BIG SPRING, is an affecting account of his family's life in the tumultuous, wild oil industry of West Texas. And Downton Abbey fans will want to check out our interview with Jessica Fellowes, the niece of Downton Abbey's creator; the first in her new series of mysteries, THE MITFORD MURDERS, is just out now. Our editors then join us for their thoughts about which bestselling books are worth your time! 

I will be talking about Food Empires, a society's system of feeding itself. I got my information from "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer, "Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations" by Evan D. G. Fraser and Andrew Rimas, and "Marlow's Hierarchy of Needs" by Saul McLeod.

Dispatches from foreign lands: We talk with reporter and author Bryan Mealer about his time in Congo--His book "All Things Must Fight To Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo" is out from Bloomsbury--and we hear from filmmakers Doug Carr and Eddie Boyce. They traveled with Fordham Law School’s Crowley Scholars on their 2007 mission to Malawi to study the effects of AIDS on women there...and they reported back with the 2007 film "The Face of AIDS".