Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Making sense of the experiences of war through poetry. Hear about a new documentary that lets the voices of soldiers, psychiatrists, refugees, scholars, and other observers — from ancient Babylonia to the fields of Troy to the current war in Iraq — speak about war, memory and emotion.
Guests
- Jonathan Shay, MD, PhD Staff Psychiatrist, Boston VA Outpatient Clinic; author of Odysseus in America: Combat, Trauma, and the Trials of Homecoming” (Scribner)
- Andy Himes Executive Producer, "Voices of Wartime"
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