Program 741: Visiting Vienna; Visiting Bosnia; Athens Acropolis

Find yourself in the elegance of a former empire, in a city that's easy to navigate, when you visit Vienna, the capital of Austria.

See what Bosnia-Herzegovina can teach us about getting along with your neighbors, a generation after its infamous war.

And get acquainted with what you'll encounter among the sites of ancient Greece at the Acropolis in Athens.

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• Austrian tour guide Andrea Wolf
• Bosnian tour guide and educator Sanel Marić
• Greek tour guide Effie Perperi

• The Rick Steves online travel information about Vienna includes audio tours you can download.
• Rick describes highlights from a 2012 visit to Vienna in a blog post.
• The Rick Steves online site for travel information about Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• The Tunnel of Hope in Sarajevo is now set up as a museum site to visit.
• Sanel Marić can be reached for private guiding in Bosnia-Herzegovina from his "Sanel Travels" Facebook page
• Sanel volunteers with the nonprofit organization Orhideja in Stolac, which operates a hostel and teaches skills required to work in the tourism industry to the area's young people.
• The Rick Steves online site for travel information about Athens.
• Effie Perperi can be contacted for private tours in Athens through her Facebook page.

• Caller has a recommendation for experiencing traditional Viennese operettas on a budget. "'Stehplatz' or Standing Room Only tickets are available at the Volksoper (Opera House for the People) daily and the vantage points are great! There was not one performance that I missed at this Viennese gem during my years as a university student and later as an English teacher at the Austro-Amerika Institute." (Connie in New Milford, Connecticut)
• "How is Bosnian education improving relations among children from different religious backgrounds?" (David in Seattle)
• "I have heard of the Tunel spasa (Tunnel of Hope) in Sarajevo. What is this and do you recommend visiting it?" (Nicole in Victoria, British Columbia)

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• Toronto Symphony Orchestra, "Viennese Musical Clock (Kodaly)," Special Edition, vol 2 (collection) / CBC Enterprises
• Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, "Cassation in G, K63 (Mozart)," Relax with the Classics (collection) / LIND Institute
• Anton Paulik and Orchestra, "The Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss)," Night Life in Vienna / Crownstar Records
• Helmut Mayer, "The Harry Lime Theme," 15 All Time Favorites from Bavaria (collection) / Medacy
• * Andre Rieu, "The Third Man Theme," Strauss & Co. / Philips
• Divanhana, "Grana od bora," Bilješke iz Šestice / RSG Radio (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• Divanhana, "Intro," Bilješke iz Šestice / RSG Radio (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• Hari Mata Hari, "Sreća (Gitara)," Sreća / City Records
• Saban Bajramovic and Mostar Sevdah Reunion, "Djeli Mara," Off the Beaten Track (collection) / Rough Guides
• SON_SAS_0108_00301_On_Balkan_Mountain_APM
• Tamburica Orchestra, "Tri Putari Kolo," Songs and Dances of Yugoslavia / Smithsonian Folkways (recorded by Laura Boulton in 1951)
• Behka i Ljuca, "Tesko Meni Jadnoj U Sara'vu Sama," il je vedro il'oblacno / DT (Bosnia)
• * Georgia Kelley and Dusan Bogdanovic, "Yovano Yovanke," A Journey Home / Global Pacific
• Katerina Papadopoulou, "To Hioni," Dance of Heaven's Ghosts (collection) / EMI International
• CEZ_CEV_3022_01001_Dialogue_With_Gods_APM
• Old Musical Workshop, "Parthenio Tou Alkmanos," Ancient Greek Melodies (collection) / FM
• Michael Levy, "Ancient Greek Musical Fragment: Poem, Mor 1, 11f, Migne 37, 523 - arranged for a replica lyre," The Ancient Greek Lyre / (self-released)
• London Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton, cond., Nicola Benedetti, "Song for Athene (Tavener)," Essential Tavener (collection) / Decca

* Indicates filler music used during breaks between segments

• In his open to the segment B interview, Rick notes that the war in Bosnia "ended nearly 30 years ago."
• Early in his interview, Sanel Marić reports that "life is getting better" in Bosnia, and calls Sarajevo "the Jerusalem of Europe," due to having multiple different religious sites adjacent to each other.
• At 49:39, Rick asks Effie to describe the controversy of the Parthenon Marbles being kept in London. She describes how parties in Sicily and Vatican City have recently returned objects taken from Athens, and how it pressures the British Museum to return the marbles to Athens. At 52:33, Rick adds that sourecs in London told him they are no longer referring to the marbles as the "Elgin Marbles."