The two episodes will be broadcast on PBS fall 2011. The trip took Rudy Maxa from Papeete, the capital city on Tahiti, to Bora Bora, Moorea, Fakarava and Hiva Oa (one of the Marquesas Islands approximately 850 miles from Tahiti).

In addition to filming "Rudy Maxa's World," Rudy also recorded two radio shows on the islands visited. 

May 14, 2011 - Hour 1:

This one-hour show hour was recorded in French Polynesia where Rudyinterviewed: Mark Eddowes, historian and anthropologist. MichaelShapiro, Paul Gaugin cruise director. Bobbi JoyVerdegaal, naturalist and scuba diver.

May 14, 2011 - Hour 2:

This one-hour show hour was recorded in French Polynesia where Rudy interviewed: Frank Tehaamatai, black pearl oysterfarmer and black pearl expert. Richard Bailey, ManagingDirector of the Pacific Beachcomber and owner of the cruise ship, PaulGauguin. And Toni Mirkovic, Captain of the cruise ship, PaulGauguin. 

For more information you can go on www.rudymaxa.com and listen the twopodcasts.

Rudy Maxa is host and executive producer of the public television travel series, Rudy Maxa's World. The 78 episodes he has hosted have won numerous awards,including a 2008 regional Emmy for his episode "Rajasthan." He's acontributing editor with National Geographic Traveler magazine and haswritten for a host of national travel magazines and newspapers. For nearly 15years he offered consumer travel commentary on public radio's business show Marketplaceas "The Savvy Traveler," which was also the name of a one-hour,coast-to-coast weekend show on public radio that he co-created and hosted forfour years. Prior to his career as a travel writer and broadcaster, Maxa was anaward-winning Washington Post investigative reporter, magazine writer,and columnist for 13 years, during which time his reporting was nominated forthe Pulitzer Prize. He was a senior writer at The Washingtonian magazineand Washington, D.C., bureau chief of Spy magazine. The author of twonon-fiction books, Maxa lives in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota.