Boat #253, Nauru

Don't know anything about Nauru? Check out this excellent episode from the This American Life archive at:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/253/The-Middle-of-Nowhere

This is from their teaser:

Nauru is a tiny island, population 12,000, a third of the size of Manhattan and far from anywhere: yet at the center of several of the decade's biggest global events. Contributing editor Jack Hitt tells the untold story of this dot in the middle of the Pacific and its involvement in the bankrupting of the Russian economy, global terrorism, North Korean defectors, the end of the world, and the late 1980s theatrical flop of a London musical based on the life of Leonardo da Vinci called Leonardo, A Portrait of Love. (30 minutes)