Hey, promise listeners, it's Maribonite. I know it's been a really long time since I've come into your feed,

but I'm here to tell you about a new show from my colleague Rose Gilbert. It's a show that's close to me because I got to

edit it. It's called The Country in Our Hearts, and it is so incredibly special and so beautiful.

It tells the story of Nashville's Kurdish population.

But really, that description does not do it justice.

The thing that is so special about this show is that Rose traveled all the way to Kurdistan to make it.

That's right.

She flew to northern Iraq.

She spent more than a month talking to one family who is splintered across America and northern Iraq

to tell the story of how this city became the largest Kurdish diaspora in America. It is such an epic

story and I'm so excited for you to hear it. So the trailer is going to play when I'm done talking,

but then I want you to go and I want you to subscribe. Search for the country in our hearts wherever you get your podcasts.

Again, the show is called The Country in Our Hearts.

Subscribe, follow.

Episode one is out today.

And we'll have three more episodes dropping every Thursday in June.

Thank you so much for listening.

The reporting in The Promise is incredibly in-depth.

And there's another Nashville Public Radio podcast with similar aspirations.

Curious Nashville investigates your questions about the region,

like why there's a mysterious rumble each morning in West Nashville, and the history of the long-defunct Glendale Park Zoo.

You can listen to these reporting endeavors and help us investigate at curious.wpln.org.

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