Radiolab Presents: Anna in Somalia

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🗓️ 12 September 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week, we are presenting a story from NPR foreign correspondent Gregory Warner and his new globe-trotting podcast Rough Translation. Mohammed was having the best six months of his life - working a job he loved, making mixtapes for his sweetheart - when the communist Somali regime perp-walked him out of his own home, and sentenced him to a lifetime of solitary confinement. With only concrete walls and cockroaches to keep him company, Mohammed felt miserable, alone, despondent. But then one day, eight months into his sentence, he heard a whisper, a whisper that would open up a portal to - of all places and times - 19th century Russia, and that would teach him how to live and love again. Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate.

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0:00.0	Okay, before we get going today, just a quick prompt. So we're putting together a show of questions,
0:08.4	questions that listeners have asked us over the years. We tend to get a lot of questions of people
0:12.3	being like, why? Why doesn't the big cloud up there fall down? I mean, it's full of water.
0:16.7	Right. Various kinds of questions. And so we're collecting all these questions, and we're going to do a show
0:20.6	where we're trying to answer as many as we can.
0:22.5	So if you have a question...
0:23.8	It doesn't matter how dumb or how sophisticated.
0:27.0	Any kind of question.
0:27.8	Email us at questions atradioLab.org.
0:31.1	Again, that's questions at radio lab.org.
0:34.0	You can also text us the word questions at 701-01.
0:37.7	Why do I always have more wire hangers in my closet and never enough socks?
0:44.0	That might be one that we would at least read.
0:49.4	Okay, let's get on with the show.
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