Time to Eat the Dogs
A Podcast About Science, History, and ExplorationEscape from Nazi-Occupied Europe, Part II
Deportation of Jews from the Gurs internment camp in southern France, 1942 (Mémorial National de Gurs).
Ruth Gruenthal continues her story of her family’s escape from France in 1940. She also discusses the challenges of living in the United States after the war.
Ruth Gruenthal
Replay: The Identity of the Traveler
Joyce Ashuntantang with novelist Chinua Achebe
Joyce Ashuntantang talks about her experiences as a traveler and a poet, from her childhood Cameroon to her years studying in Great Britain and the United States. Ashuntantang is a professor of English at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. She is the author of many scholarly and creative texts, including Beautiful Fire, published this year with Spears Media Press.
Joyce Ashuntantang
Escape from Nazi-Occupied Europe, Part I
Refugees leaving Paris after the German invasion, June 1940 (credit: FPG/Hulton Archive via Getty Images).
Ruth Gruenthal talks about her life in Germany as the Nazi Party came to power in the 1930s. Gruenthal and her family – along with thousands of Jewish refugees — raced to escape France when the Germans invaded in the summer of 1940. Gruenthal is a practicing psychotherapist in New York City. She’s also the daughter of the publisher Kurt Enoch who co-founded the New American Library in the United States after World War II.
Ruth Gruenthal
Replay: The Archaeology of Exploration
Walter Wellman’s airship hanger in Virgo Harbor, Svalbard (1909)
Anthropologist P. J. Capelotti discusses the role of exploration archaeology in understanding the Pacific voyage of Kon-Tiki, the Arctic airship expeditions of Walter Wellman, and the fate of Orca II, a fishing boat used in the film Jaws. Capelotti is a professor of anthropology at Penn State Abington. He is the author of Adventures in Archaeology: The Wreck of the Orca II and other Explorations published by the University Press of Florida.
P. J. Capelotti
Human Exploration of the Deep Sea
DSV Alvin
Bruce Strickrott talks about the value of human exploration of the deep sea. Strickrott is the Program Manager and Senior Pilot of the United States’ deepest diving science submersible, the DSV Alvin which is owned by the US Navy and operated out of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He has participated in over 60 science expeditions worldwide and piloted over 365 dives in Alvin, spending over 2000 hours underwater.
Bruce Strickrott
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