The PEOPLE Programme has taken another step toward making the connection between international affairs and everyday life by launching a one hour news and talk show.
Every Sunday from 6-7pm CST Chicago area listeners can tune in to the simulcast on 1240AM and 1470AM. The rest of the world can hear the show online at www.peopleprogramme.org. “Our program is about helping people understand that things happening in places like Brussels and London have an impact on their lives here at home,” said Edward L. “Buzz” Palmer, founder and Co-director of the PEOPLE Programme organization. “This show allows us to bring the public directly into the international affairs dialogue,” he said.
The show will feature noted scholars and international affairs experts who will field questions and commentary from popular host David Robinson who hosted Global Affairs Philadelphia, a similar program on the famous WHAT 1390AM station in the city of brotherly love.
“I always saw my role as a kind of interpreter, someone who tries to distill what can be some pretty complex and high-concept ideas into something that makes sense to regular people, said Robinson, a former journalist for United Press International and the Detroit News.
Some of the topics regularly discussed on the show include China’s economic impact on post industrial urban planning and development, the assault on pension funds, and the UN’s Global Compact as a model for community growth. “We strive to invite guests who are on the cutting edge of critical policy questions and who are not afraid to challenge conventional thinking,” Robinson said. Dr. Richard Rubenstien, author and expert on conflict resolution theory, Dr. Manfred Stassen, former head of the German Exchange Center and Professor Jan Carew, poet, author and advisor to numerous heads of state have all been on the program. Check the website for information on future guests.
The show also allows listeners to phone in and join the dialogue. Dial 773-792-1240 or 773-594-1474 to get involved. And as Robinson says when signing off, “Get informed, get thinking, and get busy.”
