Sunday, May 1: Radio Lab - The Good Show
repeat Wednesday, May 4 at 7:00 p.m.
Here's a disturbing question that haunted Charles Darwin: if natural selection boils down to a battle for survival, how do you explain why one creature might stick its neck out for another? Radiolab looks at the cold calculations of kin selection, talks to heroes who risked their lives for strangers, and looks to game theory -- where doing good can actually be a good strategy.
Sunday, June 12: The Promised Land - Nat Turner: “Planting Seeds for a Lifetime”
For Nat Turner, garden rakes and shovels are tools for transformation. He's transformed an old store in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward into an urban Eden. Blair Grocery is now both a nontraditional school and an urban farm run by youth who've dropped out of mainstream education. Majora spends two days observing the teaching and training that makes the Blair Grocery Project a true innovation.
Sunday, June 19: The Promised Land - Wilma Subra: ”Chemistry of the Aftermath”
Chemist Wilma Subra has spent her career defending local communities against Louisiana's powerful oil and gas industry. Since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, her phone hasn't stopped ringing. At first, the calls were from people who knew men on the rig; later, from coastal residents complaining of nausea and breathing problems. Majora Carter spends a day with Subra as she takes water and sediment samples and meets with community members whose concerns are now the focus of her investigation.
Sunday, June 26: The Promised Land: “Reimagining A Way of Life”
New Orleans East is home to the most-dense ethnically Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. In the Gulf region, about 80 percent of Vietnamese Americans were connected to the fishing industry, and the BP oil spill hit the community hard. Vietnamese fisherfolk are trying to rebuild their lives - opening sustainable farms, gas stations, nail salons, and aquaponic projects - while also dealing with the mental anguish that surfaces when a lifetime on the water suddenly disappears.