Rough Translation
How are the things we're talking about being talked about somewhere else in the world? Gregory Warner tells stories that follow familiar conversations into unfamiliar territory. At a time when the world seems small but it's as hard as ever to escape our echo chambers, Rough Translation takes you places.
Latest episodes
May 5, 2021 • 46min
War Poems Revisited
As the U.S. pulls out of Afghanistan, we look back at a time when Taliban poetry and a local cooking show became part of the war. And the U.S. had the perfect person to fight on that front.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Apr 21, 2021 • 35min
How To Speak Bad English
Heather Hansen used to teach people to speak "perfect" English. Until she realized that so-called "bad English" might be a better way to communicate.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Apr 7, 2021 • 50min
Liberté, Égalité, French Fries... And Couscous
Our favorite McDonald's in Marseille, France has reached its afterlife. It took court cases, spray paint, and the slogan you know turned upside down (literally) to get there.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Mar 26, 2021 • 27min
"We Already Belong": A Conversation With R.O. Kwon
In the wake of the shootings in Atlanta, a Korean-American writer reconnects with her own family.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Mar 10, 2021 • 22min
Welcome To The Vaccination Club
Two very different approaches to wooing vaccine skeptics. And how a little FOMO can go a long way.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Feb 25, 2021 • 27min
Rewriting The Travel Guidebook With Nanjala Nyabola
What happens when your guidebook isn't written with you in mind? Nanjala Nyabola on her new book: Travelling While Black.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Feb 10, 2021 • 27min
Boxing Back
Your stories and creative solutions to not quite fitting in.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Jan 27, 2021 • 25min
Our Boxes, Ourselves
From Montréal to Edinburgh, and from São Paulo to Taipei: your stories about belonging, or longing to just be.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Dec 16, 2020 • 50min
We (Still) Don't Say That
France is the place where for decades you weren't supposed to talk about someone's blackness, unless you said it in English. Today, we're going to meet the people who took a very French approach to change that.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Dec 9, 2020 • 28min
Presenting 'It's Been A Minute': White Supremacy And Its Online Reach
For close to a year, Talia Lavin went undercover in white supremacist online communities, creating fake personas that would gain her access to the dark reaches of the internet normally off-limits to her, a Jewish woman. That research laid the groundwork for her book, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. Lavin talks to It's Been A Minute host Sam Sanders about what it was like to infiltrate those online spaces, what she learned, and how white supremacy cannot exist without anti-Semitism.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
