This American Life Goes to the Island of Nauru
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 12.10.07 | 1:45 PM ET
Photo by Public radio’s This American Life rebroadcast its 2003 Middle of Nowhere episode over the weekend. It features a 30-minute piece on Nauru, the world’s smallest and perhaps most obscure island nation, and “its involvement in the bankrupting of the Russian economy, global terrorism, North Korean defectors, the end of the world, and the late 1980s theatrical flop of a London musical based on the life of Leonardo da Vinci called ‘Leonardo, A Portrait of Love.’” The CIA makes a terrific cameo, too. For my money, it’s public radio at its best.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
Mel 12.10.07 | 7:24 PM ET
Its the little island nations like Nauru that are one day going to take over the world…only because no one will see it coming.
Jim Benning 12.11.07 | 1:53 AM ET
True, Mel, though Nauru is in a particularly sorry state right now. If only they’d managed things differently.