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Interrupters Updated: 2011-11-08 06:00:00 Description: A child of Chicago's gang culture now works to stop violence....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Safe Haven Law Updated: 2011-11-07 06:00:00 Description: Stories from those who pushed for and those who benefited from the Safe Haven Law....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD From the Diddy Bow to Bo Diddley Updated: 2011-11-04 06:00:00 Description: Folklorist Bill Ferris talks music with Dick Gordon....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Checkmate Updated: 2011-11-03 06:00:00 Description: An inmate and his former 5th grade teacher play chess via the mail and find that their correspondence goes beyond the game....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Revolution 101 Updated: 2011-11-02 06:00:00 Description: Mariem Masmoudi is back from Tunisia, and almost ran for office. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Crossover Move Updated: 2011-11-01 06:00:00 Description: During the basketball lockout, Stephen Curry is back in school....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The General's Ear Updated: 2011-10-31 06:00:00 Description: Former reporter Sarah Chayes runs a soap co-op in Afghanistan, becoming an advisor to top military leaders....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Many Voices Updated: 2011-10-28 06:00:00 Description: A receipient of a 2011 Macarthur Genius Grant explains the power of music in his youth chorus. Also, talking with photographer Bruce Davidson....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Fighting for his Freedom Updated: 2011-10-27 06:00:00 Description: After 26-years in prison, Dewey Bozella finally enters the boxing ring. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Harvesting Without Workers Updated: 2011-10-26 06:00:00 Description: New immigrations laws forces change for Alabama farmers....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Blame Testosterone Updated: 2011-10-25 06:00:00 Description: Is testosterone to blame for Wall Street's struggles? Also - getting a Facebook friend request from a rural tribemember in Papua New Guinea....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD After Ghaddafi Updated: 2011-10-24 06:00:00 Description: Looking at Libya after Ghaddafi's death....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Feel the Rhythm Updated: 2011-10-21 06:00:00 Description: Jazz percussionist and Macarthur Grant winner Dafnis Prieto explains the stories behind his rhythms....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rabies and Recovery Updated: 2011-10-20 14:29:15 Description: The first person to survive rabies shares her story....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rabies And Recovery Updated: 2011-10-20 14:05:00 Description: Jeanna Giese is the first person known to get a full-blown case of rabies and survive. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD To Be A Man Updated: 2011-10-19 13:41:27 Description: A hip-hop artist finds balance between his music, background and sexuality....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD What it is Like to Go to War Updated: 2011-10-18 06:00:00 Description: A vietnam Vet reflects on what it's like to go to war. Also - songs inspired by a 100-year-old found diary....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Truth of the Hillborough Disaster Updated: 2011-10-17 06:00:00 Description: Awaiting a decision from parliament whether to release government records concerning the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster, a Liverpool resident shares stories from the incident and the cover-up....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ticket to Ride Updated: 2011-10-14 06:00:00 Description: A flight attendant from 1978 shares how the job opened her world. Also, picking up change on runs proves lucrative....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD In Class with Mr. Jackson Updated: 2011-10-13 06:00:00 Description: Checking in with the first-time teacher The Story is following. Also, a high school senior acts as a doula to teen moms....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Taking on Wall Street Updated: 2011-10-12 06:00:00 Description: A protester against Wall Street shares his story and how he feels he's making a difference. Also, fighting for sick day pay....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Different Updated: 2011-10-11 06:00:00 Description: How Steve Jobs helped a dad and son "think different" and changed their lives. Also - how a 1960s protest changed a law, and brought a couple together....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD After the War Updated: 2011-10-10 06:00:00 Description: Checking in with Iraqi diarist, Ahmed Fadaam. Also, a memoir from a U.S. soldier who served in Iraq....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Lost Town of Trochenbrod Updated: 2011-10-07 10:00:00 Description: Discovering the lost town of Trochenbrod - through a son and a survivor....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Somalia: Through the Lens Updated: 2011-10-06 06:00:00 Description: Documenting the drought in Somalia. Also, building a school in the world's newest nation, South Sudan....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD On the Move in Syria Updated: 2011-10-05 06:00:00 Description: Touching base with "Osama," an opposition member in Syria. Also, another piece by independent producer Scott Carrier....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Seeking New Opportunity Updated: 2011-10-04 06:00:00 Description: Even armed with a new assocaite's degree, a 30-year-veteran of Ohio's auto factories can't find work. Also, talking with a professional competitive bricklayer....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD New Strategies for Job Hunting Updated: 2011-10-03 06:00:00 Description: A 47-year-old takes an internship while continuing the job hunt. Also, creating at the TechShop....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Father of Bluegrass Updated: 2011-09-30 06:00:00 Description: Exploring the music and stories of Bill Monroe, the founder of bluegrass....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lessons for Greece Updated: 2011-09-29 06:00:00 Description: Talking with Mario Blejer about turning around Argentina's economic crisis. Also, using evidence from a documentary film to prosecute a dictator....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD After Don't Ask, Don't Tell Updated: 2011-09-28 06:00:00 Description: A discharged military member considers rejoining after the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Surviving a Deployment, at Home and Away Updated: 2011-09-27 06:00:00 Description: A Marine Corps couple shares the work they put into their marriage and family during deployments. Also, remembering Wangari Maathai....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kosmos 954 Updated: 2011-09-26 06:00:00 Description: A CBC reporter shares stories from covering the 1979 reentry of a Soviet satellite. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Fosterhood and the Single Gal Updated: 2011-09-23 06:00:00 Description: Young, single and being a foster mother. Also - leaving the Quiverfull movement....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Fosterhood and the Single Gal Updated: 2011-09-23 06:00:00 Description: Young, single and being a foster mother. Also - leaving the Quiverfull movement....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Firefighter, Rehired Updated: 2011-09-22 06:00:00 Description: Checking in with a firefighter who lost her job. Also, the end of Don't ask, Don't Tell....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Classroom in Michigan Updated: 2011-09-21 14:55:51 Description: Former street rivals meet again in community college classroom. Also - metal workers in Detroit find a new craft....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Truffles Unlimited Updated: 2011-09-20 06:00:00 Description: A teenager starts his own truffle company. Also, Rolling Stone writer Ben Fong-Torres shares how he balanced his traditional upbringing with his rock-n-roll work world....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Turning Their Backs on Bullying Updated: 2011-09-19 06:00:00 Description: An immigrant protests bullying at his Philadelphia high school. Also, crossing the cultural divide by learning to sing Chinese Opera....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD From Night to the Edge of Day Updated: 2011-09-16 06:00:00 Description: Musician Azam Ali shares the Middle Eastern lullabies she collected for her newborn son....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Afghanistan: From the Ground Up Updated: 2011-09-15 06:00:00 Description: Two women experience Afghanistan: one as a reporter, one as a U.S. Marine....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Protesting in Syria Updated: 2011-09-14 06:00:00 Description: A report from Syria on the current protests. Also, a reading from Scott Carrier....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Attica: Memories from a Prisoner & a Guard Updated: 2011-09-13 06:00:00 Description: Memories from both a prisoner and a guard held hostage at the Attica Prison uprising of 1971....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cattle Drive Away From Texas Updated: 2011-09-12 06:00:00 Description: Driving cattle away from the wildfires in Texas. Also - providing fresh foods via bus to Chicago neighborhoods....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD They Did What They Could: Three Stories Updated: 2011-09-09 06:00:00 Description: A tree found at Ground Zero is revived and replanted. Also - feeding the firefighters of New York, and a 22-year-old remembers a brother lost in the attacks....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Vermont Rebuilds a Cemetery Updated: 2011-09-08 06:00:00 Description: Rebuilding a Vermont cememtary after Hurricane Irene. Also - the world's tallest tree house....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Living In Between Updated: 2011-09-07 06:00:00 Description: Siblings discuss what it means to be biracial. Also - stories from the INdian Student Placement program....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Finding a Life's Work on a Freedom Ride Updated: 2011-09-06 06:00:00 Description: Looking Back on Civil Rights: Reflections from a Freedom Rider, plus, songs and stories from a Freedom Singer....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bacon Salt Updated: 2011-09-05 06:00:00 Description: A quest for bacon-flavored everything. Plus - one last dip in the summer-time pool with the Bikini Team....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Holding Class on the Court Updated: 2011-09-02 06:00:00 Description: Virginia Commonwealth basketball coach Shaka Smart teaches student-athletes to succeed on court and off. Also - developing computer software to help players and coaches....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Atlanta Cheating Scandal Updated: 2011-09-01 06:00:00 Description: Talking to the reporter who helped uncover the Atlanta Cheating Scandal. Also - a high school custodian wins the lottery and uses it to better his school....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Life Lessons Updated: 2011-08-31 06:00:00 Description: Our education series examines the challenge of delaing with homelessness and school. Also, the end of Ramadan and checking in with Libya....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Conducting a New Orchestra: First Time Teacher at 54 Updated: 2011-08-30 06:00:00 Description: Our week-long education series continues. Today: beginning a new career as a high school English teacher, plus succeeding at school with ADHD....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Classroon Power Tools Updated: 2011-08-29 06:00:00 Description: An innovative shop class takes students out of the classroom and into the community....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Great Hurricane of 1938 Updated: 2011-08-26 06:00:00 Description: Surviving a hurricane, plus reactions to when a whale wahed ashore the Maine coast....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reconciliation in Sierra Leone Updated: 2011-08-25 06:00:00 Description: Peace and reconciliation in Sierra Leone after years of civil war....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Calling Home to Tripoli Updated: 2011-08-24 06:00:00 Description: Ismail Suayah shares what his family is seeing in Tripoli, and what the fall of Qaddafi means to him....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Innocent Confession Updated: 2011-08-23 06:00:00 Description: Confessing to a crime that you didn't do - and serving 14 years for it....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Give My Poor Heart Ease Updated: 2011-08-22 06:00:00 Description: Bill Ferris shares the music he grew up with in Mississippi....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Family Business Updated: 2011-08-19 06:00:00 Description: A father/daughter opera performing pair. Als - a harrowing plane trip over the Andes....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Hitchhiking as a Family Updated: 2011-08-18 06:00:00 Description: A woman remembers hitchhiking with her family on a childhood vacation. Also - remembering a friendship with Albert Einstein....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lady Madonna: To Find the Truth Updated: 2011-08-17 06:00:00 Description: A son investigates his father's claim that he wrote the song "Lady Madonna." Also - a woman gets scammed by jewel dealers in Thailand and shares how she got most of her money back....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Conversations with Irv Updated: 2011-08-16 06:00:00 Description: Recordings of a Marx Brothers writer. Also - recreating Star Wars....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Disappearing America Updated: 2011-08-15 06:00:00 Description: David Plowden photographed America for 50 years, but he feels the America that so captured his imagination and admiration is disappearing....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mama Juggs Updated: 2011-08-11 06:00:00 Description: The Story producer Anita Woodley takes her one-woman show to New York - hear about the inspiration behind "Mama Juggs."...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Woman Behind the Mask Updated: 2011-08-10 06:00:00 Description: Summertime means baseball ... a female umpire shares her story, as well as a man who tracked down Jackie Robinson for an interview while a college journalism student, and, 50 years later, still has the tape to prove it....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Queen of the Flowers Updated: 2011-08-09 06:00:00 Description: A woman becomes the "Queen of the Flowers" to a family friend with dementia. Also, photographing a father with schizophrenia....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Soldier Soundtracks to War Updated: 2011-08-08 06:00:00 Description: What U.S. soldiers are listening to on their iPods. Also, a promise in a World War I diary inspires the author's grandson....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Governor and A River Updated: 2011-08-05 06:00:00 Description: Talking with Montana's governor about oil spills and energy. Also, remembering forensic sculptor Frank Bender....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Looking Back to Somalia Updated: 2011-08-04 06:00:00 Description: Checking in with our Somali diarist, Abdi, and talking with a Somali author about the home he creates on the page....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Tale of Two Hearts Updated: 2011-08-03 06:00:00 Description: An open heart surgery results in one body and two beating hearts; the patient shares her story and her inspiring relationship with her doctor....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Symphony of Terror Updated: 2011-08-02 06:00:00 Description: As violence continues in Syria, guest host Alex Chadwick speaks with former Syrian prisoner Bara Sarraj. He was in the infamous Tadmor prison for nine years and was tortured on a regular basis. He tells of getting picked up and not charged, then beat...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Going Grey - And Loving It Updated: 2011-08-01 06:00:00 Description: Guest host Sean Cole sits down with greywater activist Laura Allen and plumbing inspector Jeff Hutcher. When they first met, in his plumbing class, Jeff considered Laura's ideas something like the "Frankenstein of plumbing." Laura has managed to conv...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Love Letter to the Mall Updated: 2011-07-29 06:00:00 Description: Writer Ann Hood talks with Sean Cole about the mall in Warwick, Rhode Island. When it first opened, one mile from her home, it felt like an Emerald City. The mall ushered in her future and gave her a sense of confidence and curiosity. Yes, the mall d...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Longest Shortest Time Updated: 2011-07-28 06:00:00 Description: There were a lot of things Hillary Frank was not prepared for when she had her first child. So, she invented the perfect job for a new mom: calling up other moms on the phone, talking through things like naps and breast feeding. She now has a podcast...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Déjà Vu - Debt Talks Updated: 2011-07-27 06:00:00 Description: Former White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater says debt talks are par for the course in the past decades. He says budget talks were often held in secret, but a lot of the arguments are the same as they ever were. Politicians tend to go into a b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Guantanamo Download Updated: 2011-07-26 06:00:00 Description: A conversation with a man from Tajikistan who was detained in Pakistan, questioned and eventually flown to Guantanamo. After two years, he was released - and he speaks with journalist McKenzie Funk about his time in prison. This piece comes to us fro...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rolling in Dough Updated: 2011-07-25 06:00:00 Description: There's money and then there's dough. This story is about both. Mort Zachter grew up in New York, where his uncles ran a bakery. He always thought his family was scraping by. But when one uncle died, Mort learned that the men had a financial secret. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Eight In Eight Updated: 2011-07-22 06:00:00 Description: Can an album cycle be reduced to a single day? That’s what three musicians, a lyricist and a producer set out to discover recently. The project is called “Eight in Eight." The crew holed up overnight, podcast the session live, and set out to writ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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