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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Program Podcast: #234 -- Things Fall Apart</title><link>http://www.radio4all.net/program/62356</link><description>Podcast for Program: #234 -- Things Fall Apart</description><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:40:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><ttl>240</ttl><item><title>New World Notes - #234 -- Things Fall Apart</title><link>http://www.radio4all.net/program/62356</link><description>The economy ... American political democracy ... the climate ... the whole ecosystem--all seem to be collapsing at once. In a poem of 1920, W.B. Yeats noted, &amp;quot;Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.&amp;quot; The show features a great routine on the very subject by GEORGE CARLIN (early 1990s), music by JAMES McMURTRY (&amp;quot;Ruins of the Realm&amp;quot;), Yeats&amp;#039;s poem, and somewhat-humorous reflections by K.D.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Kenneth Dowst</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:40:43 +0000</pubDate><enclosure length="41MB" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://www.radio4all.net/files/kdowst@hotmail.com/3415-1-NWN-234_ThingsFallApart_192k.mp3"/></item></channel></rss>