Fresh Air, Mark Malloch Brown and Donald Hall

De: Terry Gross

Narrado por: Terry Gross

Mark Malloch Brown of the UN Development Programme and poet Donald Hall on this edition of Fresh Air. Brown heads the United Nations Development Programme. He'll discuss their efforts in Afghanistan, the West Bank, and Gaza to help with reconstruction. Brown is from Britain. He is also the chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee of the heads of all UN development funds, programmes and departments. Donald Hall returns to the show to discuss his new collection of poetry, The Painted Bed (Houghton Mifflin), much of it written in mourning for his late wife, poet Jane Kenyon, who died in 1995. Hall has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry, and the 1990 Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. (Broadcast Dates: May 2, 2002 and April 10, 2002)

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