1500
University Drive
Billings, MT 59101-0298
406.657.2941
800.441.2941
406.657.2977 FAX
|
1500
University Drive |
|
| | Home
| About
YPR | YPR
Broadcast Area | YPR
Program Guide | Online
Audio | YPR
News Desk | |
YPR PROGRAM GUIDE Program Guide DAILY SCHEDULES |
ypradio.org > YPR Program Guide > Local Programs > Havana: The Forbidden City Havana: The Forbidden City airing Tuesdays @ 7pm
While in Havana, Kahn walked the streets and spent time with the city's inhabitants. In the six-part series Havana: The Forbidden City, listeners will hear from a wide cross-section of people: those responsible for conserving the city's rich history; those who maintain the tradition of hand-making famous Cuban cigars; and those who drive the pulse of present-day city life.
August 3
August 10
August 17
August 24
August 31
September 7 |
| Home | About YPR | YPR Broadcast Area | YPR Program Guide | Online Audio | YPR News Desk | | Support YPR | Community Events | Underwriters | Contact YPR | Links | Site Map | |
In 1963, Congress passed the Trading with the Enemy Act, making it a
felony for American citizens to travel to Cuba. Forty-seven years later,
the law is still in effect. Journalists are among the law's few exceptions,
and in spring 2010, award-winning radio host Brian
Kahn traveled to Havana
for a ten-day stay.
Take an audio tour of the sights, sounds, and impressions of the city:
a farmer’s market, the crowd at a Sunday baseball game, lunch
at a private paladare restaurant, the ocean-side Miramar district,
and inside Floridita -- Hemingway’s favorite bar. Learn the realities
of running a private a bed and breakfast in socialist Cuba, the impressions
of European tourists, and the truth about all those 1950s-era American
cars.
Hemingway spent a great deal of time in Havana, writing some of his most
famous works there. When he won the Nobel Prize, he presented it to
a Cuban Catholic parish. Hemingway's Havana home is now a national
museum, which provides an intimate sense of who Hemingway was through
the rooms preserved just as the writer left them fifty years ago.
Old Havana is comprised of two square kilometers, more than 3,000 buildings,
and is home to 67,000 people. It is also a World Heritage site and
one of the most ambitious restoration programs in the world. The goal
is to restore all the buildings, provide jobs for its residents, and
provide health care and social services for the ill and the elderly.
Habana Radio is the project’s media voice, and Magda
Resik is
its lead broadcaster. 
Organic agriculture is viewed as an upscale niche market in America.
Not so in Cuba, where the collapse of the Soviet bloc devastated the
Cuban economy and threatened famine unless Cubans learned to farm without
petroleum, herbicides or pesticides. Havana’s pioneering Organoponica does that, using a self-financed, self-governed, 154-member cooperative
whose director uses the words “profit," “markets," and “supply
and demand."
Hear from the workers who make the world's most prized cigars: a manager,
a "roller," and a literature professor who, in the time-honored
tradition, reads to them while they work.
Talking with cab drivers is often an excellent way to find out what's
really going on. Ernesto Martinez is no exception. Hear him speak about
his life and his country--and why driving a taxi is preferable to finishing
a psychology degree.