Rapid Travel Chai

Podcasts for your Labor Day:

• Paul Theroux on the US Deep South and  Mark D. Van Ells on American WWI sites in Europe (Travel with Rick Steves, download here)
• The World Next Week Summer Reading Special (Council on Foreign Relations, download here)
• Why They Hate US (Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN, download here)
• Offshore processing of asylum seekers (ABC Big Ideas, download here)
• Wolfson History Prizes: Nazi camps and St Augustine, for the lead interview with Robin Lane Fox where he talks about influence of British writers and mentions, “the French can’t write a novel, I mean that just can’t begin to, the Germans write history books that are bound in black with gold tool spines that look like a kind of assembly manual for car parts, they are incredibly accurate and good, but they’re totally unreadable or unusable.” (BBC History Extra, download here)
• Jennifer Wilson on an American family living in Croatia and Francis Tapon on living in each Balkan country (Travel With Rick Steves, download here)