Greenland is the largest island in the world. Its landmass accounts for 95% of the Kingdom of Denmark, but it’s 80% covered in ice sheet.

Greenland takes up roughly the same area as Alaska and California combined, while its population is roughly the same size as the population of … West Haven, Connecticut.

Oh, and you may have noticed that Greenland has been in the news a bit lately.

This hour: an exploration of Greenland.

GUESTS:

• Elizabeth Buchanan: The author, most recently, of So You Want To Own Greenland? Lessons from the Vikings to Trump
• Simon Lynge: A Greenlandic-Danish singer-songwriter

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We’ve been doing these shows where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls, calls about anything, everything. These shows are fun for us, and they seem to be fun for you, too. So we did another one.

This hour, the conversation winds around to politics, Greenland, President Trump, hope, fear … Anything. (Seemingly) everything.

MUSIC FEATURED (in order):

• United States of Whatever – Liam Lynch
• Eyeball – They Might Be Giants
• RIP Romeo – Mariachi el Bronx
• My Very Own Ride – Kurt Elling, WDR Big Band
• Pass Me Not – Ron Carter, Ricky Diller
• Michael – Alison Brown, Steve Martin (ft. Aofie O’Donovan, Sarah Jarosz)
• Lift Every Voice And Sing – Kirk Franklin

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For many of us, handbags are an essential part of our lives. They allow us to leave the house with everything we need, and they also can be another place to show off our status or style. This hour, we look at the evolution of the handbag. We'll talk about famous "It Bags", how handbags contributed to human development, and the impact of the Walmart "Birkin."

GUESTS:

• Nancy MacDonell: Fashion journalist and fashion historian. She writes the Wall Street Journal column "Fashion with a Past.” Her new book is Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion

• Hannah Carlson: Senior Lecturer in the Apparel Department at the Rhode Island School of Design. She’s also the author of Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

• Audrey Wollen: Book critic and writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Review of Books and other outlets. Her article “A Unified Theory of the Handbag” recently appeared in The Yale Review

• Aarushi Bhandari: An Assistant Professor of Sociology at Davidson College. Her new book is Attention and Alienation

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