Listen to show...

It’s Friday, November 9 – From HPR2, it’s The Conversation.

Post-modern Politics? Pre-calling the election?

Professor John Hart chairs the Communications Department at Hawaii Pacific University and is a political analyst.

Fleas people love to have...

Mike Chock is the Executive Director of the ‘Ukulele Guild of Hawai’i. The Guild’s annual 'Ukulele Exhibition will be held at the Princess Kaiulani Hotel on Saturday, November 17th.

US manufacturing-- Wanna make something out of it?

Dieter Ernst is a Senior East-West Center Fellow. He is a former senior advisor to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris; was a  research director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy at  UC Berkley and  has co-chaired an advisory committee of the US Social Science Research Council to develop a new program on Innovation, Business Institutions and Governance in Asia.

And a “Costley” road to freedom...

Carl M. Adams is a scholar who has done extensive research into the story of the first slave freed by Abraham Lincoln; her name was Nance Legins Costley.

Plus a cloth shortage in the backyard, today’s reality check and the world view from the BBC … next the news… from NPR.