Randa Abdel-Fattah
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3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This week on Shortwave, could your next ride to the airport be...
In a flying taxi.
So you open up your Uber app and you've got Uber X and Uber Pet.
And now there'll be Uber Air.
That reality may be only a few years away.
But how is this futuristic travel possible?
Find out on Shortwave NPR Science Podcast.
Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
Laura Downs has been traveling around the country talking to scholars, historians, and musicians, with music as her guide.
The first piece we're going to hear from Laura is an interview with author Iman Perry about the song Amazing Grace.
John Newton, an English clergyman, poet, slave trader, and eventual abolitionist.
He writes this song in the early 1770s.
Yes.
And it's kind of never gone away.
It's remarkably resilient.
There are, I think, over 3,000 recordings of this song in the Library of Congress.
And I think every time I hear it, I do ask myself, what is this thing called grace?
Grace is that unearned gift, right?
Something divine within that you are born with.
And there's sort of a story that the lyrics are a direct response to Newton's experience of being horrified while working aboard a slave ship.
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