Produced by Mary McGrath

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About the Whole Wide World

The Whole Wide World decodes the riddles of the new race, the new map, the post-Cold War 21st Century system known as "globalization," through the voices of artists, economists, refugees, and historians and plain folk.

Hosted by Christopher Lydon, the seven-part series encompasses trends that could kill us--viruses, habitat collapse, starvation, terrorism and war--and also the technologies, cultural connections that could rescue us. Each program features voices both famous and obscure, such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, psychologist Steven Pinker, novelist Zadie Smith, and prophetic political scientist Samuel P. Huntington.

A collaboration of Lydon and producer Mary McGrath (both formerly of The Connection) and the Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, The Whole Wide World weaves literary voices and an extraordinary range of musical texture into every hour and engages listeners in critical topics of discussion.

Credits

Host: Christopher Lydon
Executive Producer: Mary Mcgrath
Producers: Benjamen Walker, Katherine Bidwell
Production Assistance: Kezia Parsens
Engineer: Tom Tiger
Director of Business Development: Keith Kiya Wilson

Website: Justin Grotelueschen
Graphics: Elena Gorodenskaya
Strategic Defense: Jake Shapiro
Radio Visionary: Jay Allison

Partners: The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, Public Radio International, & Open Studio Project.

Producer Mary McGrath & Host Christopher Lydon

About Christopher Lydon

Christopher Lydon has been a distinctive voice in print, television and radio journalism for more than 30 years. In the Seventies he covered the McGovern, Humphrey, Reagan and Carter presidential campaigns for The New York Times Washington Bureau. In the Eighties he anchored public television news on WGBH, Boston. In the Nineties he founded "The Connection," on WBUR Boston and 75 public stations around the country. In Jamaica, West Africa and Southeast Asia in the past year, he has been developing a new local-global conversation, Wide World, for broadcast and Internet transmission on his website, christopherlydon.org.

About Mary Mcgrath

Mary McGrath has worked in radio and television for almost 20 years. She co-founded "The Connection" on WBUR in Boston with host Christopher Lydon. She coordinated international news coverage for the Christian Science Monitor's start-up international news program "World Monitor" during the revolutions in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. From 1984 to 1990 she worked as a producer at the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour in New York City.

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