Vorige week schreef ik dat ik niet elke uitzending van KRO's voor 1 nacht even sterk vond. Ik had mijn indruk onder meer gebaseerd op het begin van de gesprekken van Marc Stakenburg met enerzijds Gijs Wanders en anderszijds Adjiedj Bakas.
Beide gesprekken hebben akelig oppervlakkige momenten. Het is niet alleen Stakenburg die zijn gasten benadert met een comfortabele vraagstelling, het is ook de overdaad aan ontoepasselijke muziek en tenenkrommend goedkope en makkelijke generaliserende uitspraken van met name Gijs Wanders, waarbij het dieptepunt wordt bereikt met zijn geborneerd stereotype beschrijving van Oost-Groningen. Ik was al afgehaakt en doorgeschakeld naar het gesprek met Arnon Grunberg dat ik meteen veel beter vond en waarover ik mijn eerste recensie schreef.
Niettemin was het programma toch goed genoeg dat ik terugging om de twee anderen tot het eind uit te luisteren en opeens werden ze heel veel beter en zelfs het aanbevelen waard. Bakas en Wanders zijn nog steeds geen geweldig diepe gesprekspartners, maar wel mensen die oprecht hun werk doen en daar een waardevol inzicht in geven.
Eerder over KRO's voor 1 nacht:
Arnon Grunberg.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Wangari Maathai on Speaking of Faith podcast
APM's Speaking of Faith has the good habit of rerunning its great quality programs. Also on podcasts, subsequently, these chapters are published again. And so, for the fourth time in about four years, SOF aired Krista Tippett's inspiring conversation with Wangari Maathai.
Here is the guest post my wife wrote about this talk last year:
Krista Tippett is speaking with Dr. Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel peace prize winner who stood up to a dictator and won. Dr. Maathai organized a group of special women who fought off encroaching desert by planting 30 million trees in Kenya. Wangari Maathai elaborates about the relationship between ecological aspects of life, human rights, the legacy of her ancestors, religion and more. She notes that one of the sources for her strength to stand up against dictators (The Moi regime in Kenya) and win was her deep conviction that they knew that she was right. She laughs a lot, speaks in an almost casual way about her great achievements, cares in a genuine manner about the suffering of other human beings, gives much credit and respect to fellow women in her life (her mother, a woman partner to the planting trees action), enjoys the interaction with western culture and yet has much respect to her roots. Indeed, a great, wise, well-balanced, impressive human being.
More Speaking of Faith:
Rumi,
The story and God,
The Buddha in the world,
Doubt,
Listening Generously - Rachel Remen (recommended).
Here is the guest post my wife wrote about this talk last year:
Krista Tippett is speaking with Dr. Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel peace prize winner who stood up to a dictator and won. Dr. Maathai organized a group of special women who fought off encroaching desert by planting 30 million trees in Kenya. Wangari Maathai elaborates about the relationship between ecological aspects of life, human rights, the legacy of her ancestors, religion and more. She notes that one of the sources for her strength to stand up against dictators (The Moi regime in Kenya) and win was her deep conviction that they knew that she was right. She laughs a lot, speaks in an almost casual way about her great achievements, cares in a genuine manner about the suffering of other human beings, gives much credit and respect to fellow women in her life (her mother, a woman partner to the planting trees action), enjoys the interaction with western culture and yet has much respect to her roots. Indeed, a great, wise, well-balanced, impressive human being.
More Speaking of Faith:
Rumi,
The story and God,
The Buddha in the world,
Doubt,
Listening Generously - Rachel Remen (recommended).
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