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The Story with Dick Gordon brings the news home - through passionate points of view and personal experiences. The program brings together ordinary and extraordinary people to provide perspective on the issues which affect us all. Our goal is to inspire co Primary Format : Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of APM: The Story Podcasts Methings.com listings of APM: The Story Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

The Iraq War: Coming Home Our second day of looking back on the Iraw War. Today, we look at its effects at home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Iraq War: Fighting and Surviving It Looking back on the Iraq War and our guests who have shared their stories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Standing Tall A former pro basketball player uses his anger over being shot to motivate him out of his wheelchair. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Unlacing the Slippers A ballerina at the top of her art walks away from the stage. Also, an aerialist performs on New York City's Williamsburg Bridge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dreaming of Technology Looking back at reviewing two decades of reviewing the newest technology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Advancing Expectations Advancing expectations for high school students. Also, an original audio essay from Radio Rookies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | An Ordinary Day of Death Taking a look at the Mexican drug war on one day, in one town. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Looking Back, Looking Forward Former Weather Underground member Mark Rudd is proud of his work to stop the Vietnam War, but regrets that his push for peace involved violent actions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mojo Music The music of Scott Biram and the memory of blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Robbing Piggy to Pay Paul Using a blog to find emotional support in the tough economy. Also, 1999's battle in Seattle and the decision to use tear gas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Across Many Mountains An escape from Tibet in 1959. Also, music from the Tibetan Endangered Music Project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Vengeance To Doubt A Guantanamo Bay prosecuter shares his story. Also, photographing kids in juvenile detention centers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Recovering Memory in Joplin Reconnecting photos with familes 6 months after the Joplin tornado. Also, a 22-year-old mayor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Arab Spring Becomes Winter Checking in with guests from Syria and Egypt on the state of the revolutions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | What Are We Supposed To Do? Day 2 of our two-part series exmaining Detroit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Taking the Keys First in our two day look at Detroit: a home forecloser, a photographer, an auto worker and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Leapfrogging College Bypassing college to develop computers. Also, teaching life skills to inmates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Teacher Starts a Movement A teacher tackles the National Board Certification Exam. Also - competing in the Putnam Math Competition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Never-Ending Road Trip A 3-day road trip turns into a 10-day, never-ending trek. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Thanksgiving Escape A daring Thanksgiving ship-jump escape from East Germany. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gathering the Tribe Learning to love those large Thanksgiving gatherings. Plus, the National Day of Listening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Forgiven An innocent Muslim man shot after 9/11 fights for his shooter on death row. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Made in the USA: A Factory Reopens A US-based furniture factory, once closed due to overseas competition, repoens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Tale of Two Hearts Living with a failing heart, with the support of a committed doctor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Occupy the Future Scott Carrier and Alex Chadwick report from Portland Occupy and Occupy Wall Street. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Occupy the Future Scott Carrier and Alex Chadwick report from Portland Occupy and Occupy Wall Street. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Why I Didn't Say Anything Former NHL player Sheldon Kennedy talks about surviving child sexual abuse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Telling A couple is able to attend their first promotion ceremony together since the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Love the Recruit, Love the Athlete Talking with an advocate for college athletes. Plus - documenting a fallen Sequoia tree. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Keeping a Father's Words Rediscovering a father who died in World War II through a found diary. Also, remembering A Prairie Home Companion sound man Tom Keith. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Facing Their Accusers Prosecuting the first rape case treated as a war crime. Plus, coming to terms with a father who served in Hitler's Army. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Occupy Oakland Stories from Occupy Oakland and the library based in Zucotti Park. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Interrupters A child of Chicago's gang culture now works to stop violence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Safe Haven Law Stories from those who pushed for and those who benefited from the Safe Haven Law. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | From the Diddy Bow to Bo Diddley Folklorist Bill Ferris talks music with Dick Gordon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Checkmate An inmate and his former 5th grade teacher play chess via the mail and find that their correspondence goes beyond the game. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Revolution 101 Mariem Masmoudi is back from Tunisia, and almost ran for office. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Crossover Move During the basketball lockout, Stephen Curry is back in school. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The General's Ear Former reporter Sarah Chayes runs a soap co-op in Afghanistan, becoming an advisor to top military leaders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Many Voices A receipient of a 2011 Macarthur Genius Grant explains the power of music in his youth chorus. Also, talking with photographer Bruce Davidson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fighting for his Freedom After 26-years in prison, Dewey Bozella finally enters the boxing ring. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Harvesting Without Workers New immigrations laws forces change for Alabama farmers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Blame Testosterone Is testosterone to blame for Wall Street's struggles? Also - getting a Facebook friend request from a rural tribemember in Papua New Guinea. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | After Ghaddafi Looking at Libya after Ghaddafi's death. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Feel the Rhythm Jazz percussionist and Macarthur Grant winner Dafnis Prieto explains the stories behind his rhythms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Rabies And Recovery Jeanna Giese is the first person known to get a full-blown case of rabies and survive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | To Be A Man A hip-hop artist finds balance between his music, background and sexuality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | What it is Like to Go to War A vietnam Vet reflects on what it's like to go to war. Also - songs inspired by a 100-year-old found diary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Truth of the Hillborough Disaster 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ticket to Ride A flight attendant from 1978 shares how the job opened her world. Also, picking up change on runs proves lucrative. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | In Class with Mr. Jackson Checking in with the first-time teacher The Story is following. Also, a high school senior acts as a doula to teen moms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Taking on Wall Street A protester against Wall Street shares his story and how he feels he's making a difference. Also, fighting for sick day pay. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Different 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | After the War Checking in with Iraqi diarist, Ahmed Fadaam. Also, a memoir from a U.S. soldier who served in Iraq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Lost Town of Trochenbrod Discovering the lost town of Trochenbrod - through a son and a survivor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Somalia: Through the Lens Documenting the drought in Somalia. Also, building a school in the world's newest nation, South Sudan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | On the Move in Syria Touching base with "Osama," an opposition member in Syria. Also, another piece by independent producer Scott Carrier. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seeking New Opportunity 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | New Strategies for Job Hunting A 47-year-old takes an internship while continuing the job hunt. Also, creating at the TechShop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Father of Bluegrass Exploring the music and stories of Bill Monroe, the founder of bluegrass. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lessons for Greece Talking with Mario Blejer about turning around Argentina's economic crisis. Also, using evidence from a documentary film to prosecute a dictator. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | After Don't Ask, Don't Tell A discharged military member considers rejoining after the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Surviving a Deployment, at Home and Away A Marine Corps couple shares the work they put into their marriage and family during deployments. Also, remembering Wangari Maathai. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kosmos 954 A CBC reporter shares stories from covering the 1979 reentry of a Soviet satellite. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fosterhood and the Single Gal Young, single and being a foster mother. Also - leaving the Quiverfull movement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fosterhood and the Single Gal Young, single and being a foster mother. Also - leaving the Quiverfull movement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Firefighter, Rehired Checking in with a firefighter who lost her job. Also, the end of Don't ask, Don't Tell. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Classroom in Michigan Former street rivals meet again in community college classroom. Also - metal workers in Detroit find a new craft. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Truffles Unlimited 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Turning Their Backs on Bullying An immigrant protests bullying at his Philadelphia high school. Also, crossing the cultural divide by learning to sing Chinese Opera. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | From Night to the Edge of Day Musician Azam Ali shares the Middle Eastern lullabies she collected for her newborn son. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Afghanistan: From the Ground Up Two women experience Afghanistan: one as a reporter, one as a U.S. Marine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Protesting in Syria A report from Syria on the current protests. Also, a reading from Scott Carrier. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Attica: Memories from a Prisoner & a Guard Memories from both a prisoner and a guard held hostage at the Attica Prison uprising of 1971. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cattle Drive Away From Texas Driving cattle away from the wildfires in Texas. Also - providing fresh foods via bus to Chicago neighborhoods. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | They Did What They Could: Three Stories 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Vermont Rebuilds a Cemetery Rebuilding a Vermont cememtary after Hurricane Irene. Also - the world's tallest tree house. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Living In Between Siblings discuss what it means to be biracial. Also - stories from the INdian Student Placement program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Finding a Life's Work on a Freedom Ride Looking Back on Civil Rights: Reflections from a Freedom Rider, plus, songs and stories from a Freedom Singer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bacon Salt A quest for bacon-flavored everything. Plus - one last dip in the summer-time pool with the Bikini Team. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Holding Class on the Court Virginia Commonwealth basketball coach Shaka Smart teaches student-athletes to succeed on court and off. Also - developing computer software to help players and coaches. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Atlanta Cheating Scandal 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Life Lessons Our education series examines the challenge of delaing with homelessness and school. Also, the end of Ramadan and checking in with Libya. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conducting a New Orchestra: First Time Teacher at 54 Our week-long education series continues. Today: beginning a new career as a high school English teacher, plus succeeding at school with ADHD. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Classroon Power Tools An innovative shop class takes students out of the classroom and into the community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Great Hurricane of 1938 Surviving a hurricane, plus reactions to when a whale wahed ashore the Maine coast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reconciliation in Sierra Leone Peace and reconciliation in Sierra Leone after years of civil war. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Calling Home to Tripoli Ismail Suyaya shares what his family is seeing in Tripoli, and what the fall of Qaddafi means to him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Innocent Confession Confessing to a crime that you didn't do - and serving 14 years for it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Give My Poor Heart Ease Bill Ferris shares the music he grew up with in Mississippi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Family Business A father/daughter opera performing pair. Als - a harrowing plane trip over the Andes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hitchhiking as a Family A woman remembers hitchhiking with her family on a childhood vacation. Also - remembering a friendship with Albert Einstein. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lady Madonna: To Find the Truth 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations with Irv Recordings of a Marx Brothers writer. Also - recreating Star Wars. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Disappearing America David Plowden photographed America for 50 years, but he feels the America that so captured his imagination and admiration is disappearing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hip Bop Hero Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mama Juggs The Story producer Anita Woodley takes her one-woman show to New York - hear about the inspiration behind "Mama Juggs." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Woman Behind the Mask 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Queen of the Flowers A woman becomes the "Queen of the Flowers" to a family friend with dementia. Also, photographing a father with schizophrenia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Soldier Soundtracks to War What U.S. soldiers are listening to on their iPods. Also, a promise in a World War I diary inspires the author's grandson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Governor and A River Talking with Montana's governor about oil spills and energy. Also, remembering forensic sculptor Frank Bender. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Looking Back to Somalia Checking in with our Somali diarist, Abdi, and talking with a Somali author about the home he creates on the page. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Tale of Two Hearts An open heart surgery results in one body and two beating hearts; the patient shares her story and her inspiring relationship with her doctor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Symphony of Terror 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 beaten and locked in prison. He gives details of daily life and the “symphony of terror” he heard every day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Going Grey - And Loving It 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 convince both Jeff and the state of California that her ideas for reusing water are easy and make sense. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Love Letter to the Mall 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 did all that - and more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Longest Shortest Day 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 exploring the truth about early motherhood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Déjà Vu - Debt Talks 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 bubble and, he says, forget common sense. The American people can tell the difference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Guantanamo Download 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 from the radio show Too Much Information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Rolling in Dough 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. His memoir "Dough" tells the story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Eight In Eight 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 write, record and distribute an album of eight songs in a single night. Sean Slade produced the session. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | At The Negotiation Table(s) A lot of talking is done in Washington and things are loud right now as officials negotiate the debt ceiling. Robert Reich was President Clinton's Labor Secretary, and he understands political tension. He tells guest host Sean Cole the story of how he negotiated for a higher minimum wage. It wasn't a victory - it was a compromise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Behind The Shuttle Controls As the final Space Shuttle retires, engineer Vance Gloster remembers the first shuttle landing in 1981. Next to the astronauts, he may have had the best view - from the "radar hill" at Edwards Air Force Base. Vance was there monitoring the tracking system he designed and built. Vance talks with guest host Sean Cole about his part in the first space shuttle landing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Forgotten Social Network Five years before the creation of Facebook, three undergrads at Stanford - Lawrence Gentilello, Aaron Bell and Tuyen Truong - started a similar website. But university officials were horrified that such information would be online and they forced the site to close. Dick Gordon talks with the three about the social network that could have been. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | How Many Is Too Many? A woman starts dating a man who seems to love animals as much as she does. But she come to realize he's an animal hoarder. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Neighborhoods - All Sides Now Producer Scott Carrier explores his neighborhood from inside garages, basements and tree limbs. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah and collects the thoughts of those who share his neighborhood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tony Schwartz: 30,000 Recordings Later Say your movement is restricted to one zip code - you might get stir-crazy, feel restricted. Sound recordist Tony Schwartz knew there was enough in his NYC neighborhood to keep him recording an entire career. Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, the Kitchen Sisters, produced this profile that spans decades of Tony's archives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bloods "I think about Vietnam every day." Many veterans will say the same thing about their time as a soldier. In this oral history, we hear from five veterans, all African-Americans, who fought in Vietnam early on. They were interviewed by journalist Wallace Terry for his book "Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mei Mei: A Daughter's Song Producer Dmae Roberts travels to Taiwan with her mother. Together they grapple with her mother's harrowing childhood during World War II. Also, Dick talks with sound recordist Gordon Hempton who searches out the sounds of silence - in the Amazon and around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tossing Away the Keys Today - a classic radio documentary from a prison journalist inside Angola. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dumpster Diving for Snapdragons Liz Benjamin has imagined it all as a TV crime writer, but she never thought she'd be pulling plants out of a Dumpster in Santa Monica to rescue them. Liz tells Dick about her nightly patrol of an alley where she has found gorgeous rose bushes and snapdragons. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | War And Words Mike Kim is a veteran of the war in Iraq. He’s been working to understand his time in war through writing. When Mike read his work at the Veteran-Civilian Dialogue, he caught the attention of novelist Matt Sharpe. Now the two work together to help heal combat veterans using the power of words. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Living On The Edge Thirteen-year-old Teara Banks and her family are among those still waiting for an economic recovery. They wound up homeless and had no choice but to live and sleep in their minivan. Teara and her parents, Darnell and Teresa, join Dick to talk about their life these days. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Finding Mo A story on the program helps a mother find the daughter she gave up for adoption. Also, raising a baby as a college student. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Soap Box Derby Family The Osbon boys know what the annual All American Soap Box Derby races in Akron, Ohio mean to them. They spent their summer hours sawing, nailing, sanding and painting in the quest for the perfect Soap Box Derby car. The Osbons talk to Dick about those summer days in the 1950s, the bonds they forged among themselves and with their dad, and how this curious sport left a lasting impact on their lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Behind The Strings Joe Heydt strung tennis racquets at his tennis shop for almost two decades, but now he strings for the pros. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Looking For Whitey Whitey Bulger was arrested late last week after sixteen years on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List. Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in South Boston, a neighborhood that Whitey allegedly ruled as a kingpin. Michael has broken Southie’s legendary code of silence to tell how his family got mixed up in the violence and crime of the neighborhood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | From Two Jobs To No Job For years, Bernadette Lacy got up at 5 am for her first job and often returned home at 10 pm. Her doctor told her to stop working so hard, and she finally did when her health went downhill. When she started feeling better, the recession had hit and she could no longer find work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lost Choices W.C. Lynch was sterilized by the state of North Carolina, part of a eugenics program. A task force is now looking into compensation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Doctor In Syria Ahmad is a young doctor just starting his residency in Washington, D.C. But a few weeks ago, he was with his family in Syria. He participated in the protests that took place in his city, and he was arrested by the secret police. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Good Water: Keeping The Shenandoah When Jeff Kelbe’s Shenandoah River fishing guide business ran into trouble because of fish kills, he had a choice: move on to healthier rivers, or stay and fight. He decided that he couldn’t turn his back on the river - so he took a job as the Riverkeeper. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Good Water: Fighting The Gold Mine Living with threats, Francisco Pineda led a citizens’ movement that stopped a gold mine from destroying El Salvador’s dwindling water resources and the livelihoods of rural communities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Good Water: A Marine's Fight Dick talks to a Marine who thinks water contamination at Camp Lejeune led to his daughter's illness and death. Also - a look back at the Joplin tornado. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Filter That Works Today in our Good Water series - we focus on technology. We talk with a man who invented a filter that helps millions of people, including members of his own family in India. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Good Water The first in a series - managing water use in Las Vegas, and exploring a Florida sinkhole. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Smothers Brother Dick Smothers is half of the legendary Smothers Brothers duo. Last year he and his brother announced their retirement. He talks with Dick about how he and Tom developed their jokes and timing - what made it work, and what brought it to an end. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cat Fight Texas birder Jim Stevenson faced charges four years ago for shooting and killing a feral cat that was hunting endangered piping plovers near his home in Galveston. In Jim’s trial, the jury couldn't reach a verdict and the case was dismissed. Soon after, Stevenson fled the state when someone shot a bullet through his front door. But the cat versus bird war rages on… Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Prison To Life Mike Anderson spent 17 years in prison for murder. It was his poetry, and his desire to evolve, that helped him get out of prison early and successfully re-enter society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Abuse In Assisted Living Facilities When his mother died, Randy Trout, a former police investigator, became convinced that neglect at his mother's assisted living facility played a role. This is one of a number of cases uncovered in an investigative series by the Miami Herald and WLRN. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Burning Arizona Charlie Brown is a volunteer firefighter in Pinedale, Arizona, a town burned by the Rodeo-Chediski fire in 2002. Charlie's home was lost, and he defied safety orders to help other people in his community. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Back to the Cello Cellist Shana Tucker is making a name for herself after laying the cello down in order to start a family. When lovers of her music demanded an album, Shana says they helped her raise the funds and helped reboot her career as a solo artist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Convicted Mayor Christopher Linder had already been convicted of a felony when he ran for mayor of Pawnee, Oklahoma. His voters knew the whole story and elected him anyway, but a law in Oklahoma forbids him from taking office. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Lost Farm Mitsuo Sato has a farm in the nuclear exclusion zone in Japan. He's not sure if he'll ever be able to return. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Saving Seeds Cary Fowler is in charge of a global seed bank carved into a mountain in the Arctic. Alejandro Argumedo is collecting the over 1500 varieties of potatoes in his native Peru to store in that seed vault. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | In Country with the Marines When Chris Brown got his first job in TV news in Jacksonville, he quickly became the military reporter. Chris convinced his boss to send him to Afghanistan, a month-long trip that almost got him killed alongside the Marines he was trying to understand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mama Juggs Today: Anita Woodley and her one-woman play, "Mama Juggs." The story revolves around Anita, her family members, and breasts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | AIDS - 30 Years Later Over the past 30 years, AIDS has claimed more than 30 million deaths worldwide. Dr. Mark Kaplan, a specialist in infectious disease, remembers treating patients when no one knew the source of their illness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Challenging FIFA An American sports writer attempts to unseat the head of the international soccer organization. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Trying to Lead the International "Brotherhood" Sandy Pope is one of the few women ever to run a Teamsters local, and she's running against James Hoffa to become president of the Teamsters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | For Memorial Day Colonel Jack Tueller began playing the trumpet as a boy, and it brought him good luck. It was the reason he met his wife, and the trumpet even helped save his life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | After American Idol The band born after the show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Real Me on Facebook Susan Arnout Smith discovered an obscene Facebook profile with her name, pictures, and links to her work. It took her months to find the culprits and take down the page. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Trip Through Joplin, Missouri Rick Nixon drove his tow truck around town just after the tornado. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Back to Kesennuma Ritsuko Robinson returns to her hometown of Kesennuma, Japan, which was destroyed by the tsunami. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Graffiti of War Former medic Jaeson Parsons is traveling back to Iraq to collect images of art left by American soldiers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Conversations with Irv Irving Brecher, writer for the Marx Brothers, recorded conversations with fellow writer Hank Rosenfeld during his final years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Enchanted Post-Apocalyptic Forest A visit to Europe's largest wildlife refuge - Chernobyl. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Telling His Truth A former soldier from Burma is now speaking out for peace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Speaking out in Egypt Still critiquing the leaders of Egypt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Piloting the Flooded Mississippi A Mississippi boat captain talks about the might of the river. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Saving the Rhinos Tracking and relocating rhinos - to save them from poachers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Postville Raid: 3 Years Later A lookback at one of the largest immigration raids in U.S. history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Knowing Her Rights A domestic worker learns to advocate for herself and others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pomp and Circumstance Two stories of timely help on the way to graduation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Voices Rising in Syria At the center of Syria's revolution - from Silver Springs, MD. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Training A Champion Training a Triple Crown winner, plus searcing for one daughter and finding another. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ground Zero Now A collection of voices on the world after the death of Osama bin Laden. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Life Near the Radiation Zone An art teacher near Japan's nuclear zone. Also - stories of tornadoes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 24/7 Teacher Tracy Elam does everything she can to keep the high school students she works with from dropping out. Also - fine art with Legos. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Light and Ice Photographing the beauty of icebergs. Also, a reflection on the death of Osama bin Laden. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Daddy's Little Rocker A father and daughter dream of rock stardom. Plus, remembering Jean Bartik, one of the first computer programmers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | I Robot Dick attends a regional robot competition and meets some of the student competitors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | On the Border of Libya Dick talks with a Tunisian therapist working in a refugee camp on the border of Libya. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Penny A Pound Improving work conditions for people who pick tomatoes for some of the largest fast food chains. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Taking Power Ursula Sladek wanted to live free of nuclear power, so she created Germany's first cooperatively-owned renewable power company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | From Night to the Edge of Day Lullabies, a wishing party and the return of birds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Real Face of Health Care A doctor in rural Mississippi talks about her work, and a church with very few parishioners wants to grow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Spill - One Year Ago Voices from the Gulf: shrimpers, oystermen, and Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Cost of College The triumphs and challenges of getting into college, plus recent tornados shut down a university. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Passover Meeting of the Minds Passover stories, plus a visit to 96-year-old twin sisters who are still gardening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Exonerated in Texas Two men from the "Texas 13" share their story of being exonerated with DNA testing. Also - growing up with a parent behind bars, and a story behind a song. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Living Underground Telling stories of the homeless people living in the tunnels below Las Vegas. Also, "recovery comedy." Plus Helen Hill's film is finally finished. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | What's Changing in Egypt? Talking with an Egyptian journalist about what changes - if any - she's seeing in Egypt. Plus, updates from guests with connections to Tunisia and Libya. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Unemployed? Don't Apply. Extended unemployment status makes it harder to rejoin the workforce, plus stories from the Civil War. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Big Oil in Your Backyard Monitoring big oil from your backyard, plus a 95-year-old fulfills a lifelong dream: to compoase and perform his own music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Riding Out The Storm Mike Petro survived the storm by riding on top of houses that were swept away by the storm surge. Also - a message in a bottle returned to the sender, 30 years later. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Private Astronaut Space tourism, plus stories behind favorite songs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Failure to Modify Still struggling with the mortgage crisis, plus a former oil executive buys an electric car. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Gulf Now Gearing up for shrimping season in the Gulf, remembering a New Orleans musician and the campaign for Architect Barbie. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Drugs and the Border A former border patrol guard talks about the drug trade - also, remembering the assassination of Martin Luther King. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Making of Hoosiers Acting in the film "Hoosiers," plus remembering guest Dr. Clark Wang. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A New Life in Kenya Talking with Abdi about why he has left Somalia, also, befriending a chimpanzee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Harping on Carp Controlling the Asian Carp population, plus protesting in Wisconsin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Amazon Silence Abdi - our correspondent in Mogadishu - has decided to leave the city. Also - a sound tracker shares his favorite recordings from around the world, and a remembrance of Donnie George. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Japan's Nuclear History A survivor of Hiroshima talks about Japan's new nuclear threat - from nuclear power. Also - memories of Three Mile Island and singing survivors of Chernobyl. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Life Behind Miral The true life story behind the feature film Miral. Also - saving the great old tango recordings in Argentina. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Queen of the Flowers When Lauren Silver first met Teodore, he was a cranky old man who screamed at her. Lauren didn’t understand he had dementia. Lauren talks with Dick about how she earned Teodore’s trust and became “The Queen of the Flowers.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Liquidator During the summer of 1986, Sergei Belyakov became a Chernobyl 'liquidator,' spending 40 days at the contaminated reactor during the dangerous clean-up efforts. Also - we listen back to an interview with Tyler Hicks, one of the four Times journalists recently released in Libya. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Where do you start? Residents of a town flattened by a tornado talk about what got them up and rebuilding. Also - pregnant in college, and the singer Nanci Griffith on creatively coping with change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Boots on the Ground Philanthropy An American builds the first new teaching hospital in Haiti since the quake; an audio diary from a doctor in Benghazi, Libya; a musician tries to bridge the cultural gap between the U.S. and Bahrain; and an update on our story about former Chicago police commissioner John Burge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lessons of Three Mile Island Bill Scranton was the first state official to tour the Three Mile Island plant during the crisis there 32 years ago. What he learned there helps him understand what government officials in Japan are going through. Also - a story of a friendship between Albert Einstein and a hardware store owner. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Iggy Pop Redux The influential punk band Iggy and the Stooges - reunited and reissuing music. Also: the "yarn bomber". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | What's Lost Ritsuko Robinson grew up right where much of the devastation has taken place in Japan. Slowly she's finding out what has been lost, and who survived. Also: an American parent waits for word on his son. And a mayor sells his home because of groundwater contamination from fracking. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Surviving a Tsunami Two stories of close encounters with tsunamis. And - another in our story of a song series, this one the song Say Something Nice to Sarah. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | JUDGING INTERNATIONAL CRIMINALS Thomas Buergenthal knows what it's like to try a leader like Muammar Gaddafi in criminal court. He was a judge in the International Court of Justice. Also: your post office stories. And: we check back with two of our most memorable guests. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Courage to Coach March Madness begins this weekend, when the brackets are distributed. Dick talks basketball with Coach Nolan Rochardson. Also: a b-ball coach's son makes sense of the sport through poetry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Out of the Money Pit Shana & Matthew Onigman bought a home that was soon condemned. But they didn't face foreclosure, they re-built it from scratch. Also: "The Story Behind the Song" with Pete Seeger. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Help: Nonfiction A new lawsuit alleges that not all characters in the bestselling book "The Help" are fictitious. Also: copywriter by day, sword swallower at night. And: Open Mic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Coming Back Brendan Kehoe was in a car accident and ended up having three brain surgeries. He talks about what it took to recover. Also - pianist Leon Fleisher on temporarily losing the ability to use his fingers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Peaceful Composure After spending time with a gang as a teenager, Aqeela Sherrills is now a peacemaker - trying to argue for a lasting truce among rivals. Also - using modern tools to access Civil War history. And another story of a closed post office. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Texas Killer Bees A story of escaping lawmakers - also, what's the value of a good teacher? And two stories from Mardi Gras. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Monkey Wrenching Tim DeChristopher is on trial this week, for “monkey wrenching” a federal oil and gas auction. Dick finds out what was going on in Tim's head and he checks in with Josh Fox, who made a celebrated film about the dangers of drilling for natural gas using "fracking." Also - two stories about the power of murals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Trip Through Insanity After Pippin Ross was raped while reporting on a story, she fell into drinking and ended up in prison. Also - more stories of shuttered post offices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Libya Across the Generations A son of a Libyan immigrant reflects on a new understanding of his parents' sturggles. Also, stories inspired by our Lady Madonna story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Orange Revolution Eyewitness to the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, plus artists dealing with rejection, and the closing of U.S. post offices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | From Tahrir Square to Wisconsin Protests A witness to protests in Egypt and Wisconin - plus, the state of bookstores, both big and small. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Beijing Blues An American rock star in China, plus the competitve world of grocery bagging. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Traveling to N'Ditam One doctor's mission to bring health care to people in Africa who might not otherwise get it, plus, meeting your blues idol and finding yourself jamming on stage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Camp David: Then and Now Reflections on Camp David, and tales from a 1950s divorce ranch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Evolution of Malcolm Shabazz Malcolm Shabazz is turning his life around, and finding inpiration in his grandfather, Malcolm X. Also - five years of daily comment cards at Starbucks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fly Cuba As travel restrictions to Cuba change, an airline owner talks about flying from Miami to Havana - and a man plans a baseball reunion on the island, 50 years after U.S. and Cuban youth teams played. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Race Across the Yukon Racing 430 miles across the Yukon Territory, plus a life saved by... a penguin? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Soldier Soundtracks to War What's playing on soldiers' iPods - Plus, confessions from a former fashion model and checking in with our Mogadishu correspondent, Abdi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fearing the Past Memories of Haiti's past presidents. Also, a voice of tolerance earns the Medal of Freedom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | History in the Making A long-time Egyptian activist shares her thoughts on the regime change. Also - memories of being at Tiananmen Square, plus, stories of love on Valentine's Day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | To Find the Truth A son seeks answers about a story from his dad that he grew up believing as true - or at least possibly true. And - the Grammy-nominated Carolina Chocolate Drops talk about their style of music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Up For A Grammy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Open Mic: Big Snow Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Forgotten Social Network The story behind the forgotten social network. And - an inside look at the heart of the revolution in Tunisia. Plus - a listener responds with her own story of being locked in a closet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Heart of a Revolution Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listener Feedback: Locked in a Closet Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cosmetics for Cancer A cancer resarcher finds an unorthodox way to raise money and awareness. And - a promise from World War I not forgotten. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Promise from World War I Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Saved From Captivity A woman saved from years as a sex slave turns her attention to helping other girls escape that life. And - the story of the extraordinary life of Barbara Smith Conrad. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hard Hits Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Soundtrack of Change Being part of a soundtrack of change in Egypt. And - an Estonian filmmaker reflects on the song that helped give his country its freedom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Singing Revolution Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Cost of Cutbacks The cost of cutbacks for firefighters across the country. And - a place of refuge for families whose homes have been destroyed by fire. Plus - a musician who thought he'd have to give up his passion, gets a second chance. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Speaking Up Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Alessandro Portelli's Interviewing Advice Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Barely Getting By Relying on the kindness of strangers to barely get by. And - going green in logging country. Plus - we check in with Farmer Lee Jones to hear how his veggies landed on a very important table. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Going Green in Logging Country Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Next Chapter: Farmer Lee Jones Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Open Mic: Lunch Box Surprises Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Living the Green Dream Living with a focus on the green dream. And - tubes tied at 27, what brought Brittany Shoot to make that decision. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nashville's Cinderella Mary Ranson grew up never knowing what to believe from her mother - so she decided to uncover the truth - what she found shocked and delighted her. Also - the moment that helped Louise Bell change her idea about the culture of people in the South. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mississippi Transplant A northern girl follows her father south to start a new life. And a reality show reject finds a new audience online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Raising the Boys The story of a young man who learns a real-life lesson in fatherhood. And - bringing new meaning to the words 'til death do us part. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Van Living Turning to van living to avoid debt after graduation. And - a family from New Jersey gains a new perspective on how much stuff is enough. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Christmas Past Listening through Christmases past from 1940's crooners to Gregorian chants. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | One Meaning of the Season The Christmas miracle of a family reunited after years apart. And - the reappearing nun that showed up at just the right time, twice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 30 Years of the Breaks Celebrating 30 years of hip hop with the man who many say started it all. Plus - living and working in the South Pole. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 30 Years of the Breaks Celebrating 30 years of hip hop with the man who many say started it all. Plus - living and working in the South Pole. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Unknown Rockwell The neighbor of a prolific American illustrator. And - a passion for shortwave radio, and an unexpected face-to-face meeting. 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And - a wounded soldier hits the slopes for competition. Plus - the craziness of a "Groupon" deal takes over a San Francisco cupcake shop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Leaving "The Moonies" A deprogrammer reflects on the experience that led to her line of work. And - a wounded soldier hits the slopes for competition. Plus - the craziness of a "Groupon" deal takes over a San Francisco cupcake shop. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | To Market, To Market An Ohio farmer prospers the foodie way, a chef finds a new food venture, and an unusual kind of kingdom comes to life online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Next Chapter: Samin Nosrat Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | It's Great to be King, Sometimes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A New Vision for Architecture A blind architect dedicated to creating environments for those with disabilities. Also - checking in with Chris Higginbotham and what happened after his life was interrupted by a call back into active duty. And - the art of the chewed up shoe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Next Chapter: Chris Higginbotham Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Naughty Doggy? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tortured and Torturers An investigative journalist's stories of uncovering evidence of torture in a Chicago police station. And - a mailbox, a lakeside bench and a secret community project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Open Mic: Wheeled Luggage Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Notebook Annelies Gentile and her anonymous notebook project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Fish Guys Fishing for key players in a freshwater eco-system, that can ill-afford to lose anything else. And - a family in South Florida gets stuck living alone in a high rise condo building. Plus - celebrating Hanukkah with the first Torah ever created entirely by female scribes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Motor City Denim Two Detroit natives form an unlikely partnership and bring a new industry to their hometown. And - listeners respond to stepping out of their comfort zones. Plus - one man's inspiration to work toward Korean reconciliation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Surviving Mogadishu Another update from Abdi and his messages from Mogadishu. And - the graphic reality of violence in Chicago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Recording Friends Four buddies who live far away from each other – one serving in Afghanistan – use new media to compose, record and share music. Also: unexpectedly stuck in Kashmir. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | After the Reunion Juggling the conflicting emotions of adoption. And - finding the sweet spot this holiday season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Thanksgiving Escape Reliving a Thanksgiving escape. And - separated on the Holidays - on purpose. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Never-Ending Road Trip A breakdown, a blow-out and toll booth trouble - what turned an expected three day trip into 10 days on the road. And - the brains behind the wheels on luggage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Living with the Scars of War The story of an Iraqi woman who says she was shot in the face by US forces. And - the story of Army Captain Shannon Meehan takes a new turn. Plus - how much would you spend for a good night's sleep - Joyce Wadler's night on the $50,000 mattress. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Looking Through You Today - what face-blindness has taught Heather Sellers about loving human flaws. And listeners respond to Derrick Bliss' passion for blacksmithing. Plus - more than coincidence with the song Danny Boy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Documenting Foreclosure How a realtor's own foreclosure experience is making her a better realtor. And - an art project birthed out of a river clean-up. Plus - a mom risks her life during an icy rescue to save her husband and mother-in-law. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Clean Water: The Menomonee Eddee Daniel was exploring his local watershed for a project when he found out officials were moving the river into a new channel since it was too hard to clean the old river. Eddee documented the clean-up for six years as a part of his book Urban Wilderness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Waiting for the Banks A resident in the place with the highest foreclosure rate in the country is now facing more trouble from the bank. And - the flight attendant whistle-blower had trouble finding a new job - until recently. Plus - a blacksmith prodigy: older blacksmiths are learning new tricks from Derrick Bliss. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Blue Ribbon Award A high school principal's work to change his school from the worst performing to one with a 95% graduation rate. And - choices for your child: how Krista Bremer had to make a decision about circumcision. Plus - a survivor of the military dictatorship in Argentina, the Dirty War. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | P.H.A.T.W.A. A young Muslim man tries to get people to think differently about the so-called War on Terror. And - a professional pianist helps a composer realize the soundtrack to a dream come true. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | El Sistema A Haitian-born violinist and teacher uses her passion to bring a successful classical music program to American kids. And - one PTA mom's post-election gaffe. Plus - facing fears and getting on stage again. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Veteran's Day: Saved by My Trumpet A World War II veteran's life-long connection to his trumpet. And - a silver spoon and one woman's journey to find her family roots. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Crossing the Saar -- Twice Three generations and their link to a place where soldiers fought during World War II. Plus - an Iraq War veteran uses his passion for filmmaking to help Korean War veterans tell their stories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | When Science Becomes Personal Scientists' cancer research becomes personal. And - checking in with someone on the ground in rain-soaked Haiti. Plus - a map maker's unusual way he got his business off the ground. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gulf Oil Health A woman describes her medical symptoms after the BP oil spill in her beach side Alabama home. Also: An award winning Southern Cook attributes her cooking success to French, not southern, cuisine influences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Invincible The rapper Invincible trades in fame in the Big Apple for social issues in Detroit. Also - Kristen Edsall got scammed by a neighbor she considered a friend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | I'm In Two friends recreate the 1968 World Series when the two teams meet again in 2006. And - competing in the big leagues: the World Series - of Poker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Surviving the Midterms The day after the midterms - a look back at the results in 1994 when Republicans took a large number of seats in the House. Also - an update on Vasco and the family he can now call his own. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Heading to the Polls Voters all across the country are headed to the polls for Vote 2010. 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And - a former Enron employee finds stability in the real estate business. Plus - does your daughter have "Dad Hair?" Craig Lawrey can fix that. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Painting Finds its Way Home A procrastinating grad student finds an interesting painting online, and tracks down the woman who dearly missed it. Also: an elementary school goes green. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Echoes of Kentucky The disaster that pushed one couple to demand clean water, and fight environmental degradation in Appalachia. And - an update on Dan Marcotte's need for speed on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Also - one couple's dream of a green home that almost didn't happen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Help: Nonfiction The story of an African-American maid and the white child she cared for - that could have inspired the book "The Help." Also - how frozen custard stabilized one family through a turbulent economy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Live from the Pithead As the world awaits news about the Chilean miners, one reporter's tales of what he saw during the Springhill Mines disaster. And - a memory of the USS Cole attack, from a survivor who became a pro wrestler. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Deyanira in Mexico Giving up waiting on immigration reform in the U.S. - Deyanira is back in Mexico. Also - a crippling fear of heights pushes one woman to rappel down a 30-story building. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Music & the Internet A former rocker now has a career out of the very thing he says killed his music: the Internet. Also: a former record exec is now trying to make a living with online poker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Winning the Nobel Peace Prize The winner of a Nobel Peace Prize reflects on what that honor means to her. And - an unexpected delivery in a parking garage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | No Roosters in the Desert Today - the unique perspective of a writer and lawyer on the immigration debate. Also - camping out at the Supreme Court. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | How Many is Too Many? A love of animals makes one woman an unwitting participant in an animal hoarding operation. Also - an inside look at the growing sport of Kayak Polo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | When Living in a Hotel is Not a Vacation A mom with five kids living in a hotel room knows the reality of poverty in America. And - what would you do if you found someone living in your crawl space? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Need for Speed One man's passion for racing leads him to the fastest place on earth. And a chance meeting with Pete Seeger changes one musician's life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Iraq: Walls within Walls An interview with Ahmed, our diarist from Baghdad. Also, a passion for short wave radio leads to a meeting that inspired the hobby. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Green Burial Considering a green burial. Also, running across a state - barefoot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Wind Kids The blades are starting to turn on wind power in the U.S. with the opening of the world's largest offshore wind farm. And - one musician's inspiration from a real life music man. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Recuperating After the Quake A story of survival from the earthquake in Hatiti: a brother repays a debt to a sister who once saved his life. And - the kindness of a community to a small business owner. Plus - the empowerment of a double life as a sword-swallower. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Recuperating After the Quake A story of survival from the earthquake in Haiti: a brother repays a debt to a sister who once saved his life. And - the kindness of a community to a small business owner. Plus - the empowerment of a double life as a sword-swallower. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Love in the Time of Tenure Love in the time of tenure. And - a teenager's brush with fame with Blues legend Bo Diddley. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mississippi Transplant A northern girl follows her father south to start a new life. And a reality show reject finds a new audience online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | No Longer Quivering No longer quivering: one woman's escape from a life she called spiritually abusive. Also - a hatmaker finds success in the wake of a legend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Social Media and the Search for Home Social media and the search for home. Also - more than coincidence with the song Danny Boy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A New Idea for Health Care A new twist on how some insurance companies are saving health care dollars. And - a PhD finds an unexpected passion as a cartoonist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Brown Skin Baby Using the power of music to advocate for human rights. Plus, the art of homelessness. And the daughter of James Dickey finds inspriation for her own writing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Before We Give You a Mortgage... A couple had thought they’d found their dream home, but before giving them a mortgage, the bank required the couple to spend six thousand dollars in repairs - on a house they did not own. Also, participating in a hostage rescue under the cover of the U.S. basketball team. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 40 Years After Integration The legacy of integration for two friends in a small southern town. Also: what it looks like to travel the world as a "yarn bomber." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seeking Justice for Gitmo Inside Guantanamo Bay from a man who spent more than five years in prison there. Two adults turn to playhouse living due to economic woes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Raising the Boys Today - the story of a young man who learns a real-life lesson in fatherhood. And - bringing new meaning to the words 'til death do us part. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cages for a Cause Today - cage fighting for a cause. Also - another next chapter: schools in Afghanistan. And - a small project makes a huge impact on campus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lasting Effects of 9-11 Today - lasting effects of 9-11. A firefighter is forced to retire after realizing how working in the aftermath affected his health. Also - checking in with Larry and Ellen Johnson, five months after the BP oil spill. And - the meaning of Ramadan from an American, born-and-bred. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Remnants of War A couple shares their struggles with and triumphs over post-traumatic stress disorder. Also - a teacher reflects on his first year out of the classroom in 20 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Making Big Changes Today - a teen struggling to find his place spends six weeks in a poor village in Honduras. Also - another installment in our clean water series: what mayordomos can teach us about sharing with our neighbors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Labor Day Special Labor Day Special: a firefighter shares music about his struggling hometown. Also, a photographer revisits his walk across America, and the images of working people he captured. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 30 Years of the Breaks Today - celebrating a major milestone in the history of hip hop with the man who many say started it all. Also - a group of women living with a bikini state of mind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Don't Ask Don't Tell on Campus Today - a student loses her dream job in the military and her college scholarship because of Don't Ask Don't Tell. Also - an update on the once unemployed "Dung Sisters." And - we remember a beloved guest: Jill Hollis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Principal Left Behind Today - a model principal removed from her job. Also - a cross-country trip in a Model T. And - an artist struggling to find work lands a job as a cook for Boy George. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TP for Change Today - a community effort using toilet paper to combat crime. Also - a 92-year-old WWII veteran receives medals owed to him 60 years in the making. And - the good, the bad and the embarassing from a college bus driver. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Floods in Pakistan Today: working to help flood-ravaged Pakistan recover. Also: a million images lost in Hurricane Katrina - but hope remains five years after the storm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Florestine Collection This Sunday marks the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Today - remembering two victims of the street violence that New Orleans saw in the aftermath of the storm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Behind the Strings Today - behind the strings at the US Open. Also - a practical joke gone horribly wrong. And - a sweeping success after Hurricane Katrina. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reprogramming Child Jihadists A psychologist gets a life-changing job: undo training in young boys to become radical Islamic militants. Also: a city-raised guy trades in his comfortable surroundings for a summer job on the farm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | One Right Move A teacher struggling to connect with his students turns to the game of chess. Also: a life in the ring...one man's fight to get past his past. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Working in a War Zone An aid worker returns to the Afghanistan war zone as civilian casualties rise. Also: retirement and a love affair with a camera bring one man's future into focus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Which side are you on? One woman's award-winning fight to protect her land from a new coal mining technique known as "mountain top removal." Also: a small town, summer job that changed one woman's trajectory of her life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fishing Perfect A day of fishing unlike any other. Also: stranded and met with the kindness of strangers on a cross-country bike trip. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Meeting Steinbeck Meeting one of America's greatest writers: John Steinbeck. Also: the not so perfect summer vacation spot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discovered A self-taught artist makes it big. Also: a summer job checking toes at the local pool. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Bionic Woman A mother adjusts to life with a permanently implanted heart pump. Also, what happens when lightning strikes more than twice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reuniting the Kinks In a midlife crisis move, Geoff Edgers tried to get the rock band The Kinks back together. He failed, but he made a movie about trying. Also: an emerging playwright expresses her true feelings about Obama. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Layoff - A Child's Perspective Unemployment doesn't only affect working adults. Nine-year-old Alison Spiller has some advice for kids who also feel the effects. Also: a coincidence that helps resolve the past. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Return from War Javorn Drummond struggled to find his footing after five years of service in the army. Now he's using his GI Bill to earn a degree. Also: lessons learned from a summer job caring for someone who really needed it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Not at Home in Mexico Until recently, lbert Becerril thought of Warrenville, Illinois as his hometown. Now he's adjusting to life in Mexico where U.S. Immigration officials say he belongs. Also: a summer job selling "questionable" timeshares. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Back from Afghanistan Major Ted Kuppinger has served two deployments in Afghanistan; he knows what it's like to live and work among the Afghan people, some of whom have changed his life. Also: a Deadhead teenager and his brush with fame. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Mushroom Man Paul Stamets hunts edible and medicinal mushrooms; he's an entrereneur and self-made scientist. Also: a successful photographer pays tribute to the mentor who inspired him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Staying Afloat Can't find a job these days? This Ivy League grad is a gondolier. Also: braving fire in California to deliver goods via mule. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | El Fronterizo The similarities between El Paso-Juarez and Jerusalem. Also: falling in love at the top of Mt. Everest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Immigration Changes to the North George and Verna thought they'd get married and have no trouble with U.S./Canada immigration rules - they were wrong. Also: a young woman's racing dreams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Six String Salvation Blues singer Augusta Lee Collins and his new single, 1,000 Miles from Nowhere. Also: A summer hike becomes much more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Turtles and the Gulf Oil Spill Saving sea turtles from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Also, what happens when balloons meet an office chair. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Homeless on the Road Five years ago, Diane Nilan sold her home and hit the road in a R.V. to document the lives of homeless children. Also - The soul of water. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Home in Morningside Building a home and a community in a rundown Detroit neighborhood. Also - the damage caused by natural gas drilling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Vimala’s Curryblossom Café Microloans help a restaurant get started in a slumping economy. And a farmer and a fisherman fight over the same water. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Rising Star on a Fiddle Fifteen-year-old fiddling phenom Ruby Jane shares the stage with Willie Nelson and other legends. Also: what happened to the BUMS (the Brotherhood of Unemployed Men). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Living a Dream Elden Nelson started a funny cycling blog called "Fat Cyclist" a few years back. When his wife was battling breast cancer, he began to talk about her struggle and raise money, eventually catching Lance Armstrong's attention. Elden talks to Dick Gordon about losing his wife, how he's managed to raise so much money to fight cancer, and his once-in-a-lifetime ride with Lance and Team Radio Shack. Also, Marc Hoecker goes above and beyond to find his stolen car. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Will Dive for Food A dumpster diver confronts food waste in the U.S. Also, a long walk combined with Native American foods start the journey towards better health. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Children of Children Keep Coming Russell Goings has written an epic poem, in the tradition of The Odyssey and Gilgamesh, about African-American history. Also - undercover in white hate groups. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | In Memoriam A Navy lieutenant begins an art project to recognize all the servicemen and women who have died in American wars. Also, Cracker in Iraq. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Revenge of Uncle Baldy An uncle's musical legacy inspires his nephew to take to the stage. Also, a Yankee legend who sits in the stands. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Love Letters in War Letters to a soldier in Afghanistan lead to a love story. Also, an Iranian nuclear scientist considers tensions between Iran and the U.S. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Cost of Deepwater Drilling Casey DeMoss Roberts lost her father in an oil rig disaster, and years later became an environmentalist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | El Salon Mexico - The Movie A retired New York filmaker - a young, talented artist - and a 12 minute animated masterpiece. Also - an unlikely path to publishing success. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Six Months Since the Quake A special feature on Haiti from WLRN's Under the Sun. Also: fighting CAFOs & saving a church on the Gulf. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Timeless Jam Geoff Greif, Jasey Schnaars and Bob Thompson were something of a one hit wonder in the early seventies. Now they're back. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | El Gringo Mariachi Matthew Stoneman has attracted a lot of attention for playing classic Spanish songs - but for years he had a secret. Also - observing birders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The If Question Inmate LaKeisha Hamilton is learning to see her past differently, thanks to one provocative question. Also - running with the bulls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ixtoc Road Trip A slightly-less disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Also: a powerful surprise for a father. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mustard Seed Dreams The 4th of July holiday means big business for a mustard entrepreneur. Also, a photographer's quest to connect past with present. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hitchhiking as a Family An eccentric father takes his wife and two daughters on vacation - without any money. Also - remembering the 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Decades of Spills A Nigerian reflects on the spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Also, remembering Senator Robert Byrd as a an old-time fiddler. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Soapbox Derby The Osbon boys spent their summer hours sawing, nailing, sanding and painting in the quest for the perfect Soap Box Derby car. Also, a summer job as a golf caddy puts one man in the middle of an anti-apartheid protest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Big Changes in the Gulf Larry and Ellen Johnson fish and distribute Gulf coast seafood. Their way of life is threatened. Also: How's this for a summer job? "Horse urine tester." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Experimenting with the Headscarf A 9-year-old girl is finding out what it feels like to wear a headscarf. Also: We check in with a Mexican journalist seeking asylum in Canada. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jody Nelson Dick Gordon speaks with Lieutenant Colonel Jody Nelson about what she's seeing on the ground in Afghanistan. Also: remembering the King of Pop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | FINALLY, AN ANSWER A young rower, waylayed by Lyme disease. Also: scammed by very nice gem merchants! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Haiti: Two Children and a Tarp Two women in Haiti on life since the quake: tents are frayed and leaking, and both children and the injured still need care. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Hand of God On the pitch when the "Hand of God" granted Maradona a goal. Also - a wedding veers off course as the groom suffers from acute appendicitis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Much More to Heal Catherine Piwang lost nine siblings to HIV-AIDS. Since then, she's devoted her life to caring for people impacted by the disease in Uganda. Also: a photographer's work, lost for years under a pile of junk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | We Don't Talk About That Two stories for Father's Day: A son wrestles with the knowledge that his father was a Nazi officer. And a son remembers his dad's love affair with New York City. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Inmates to Entrepreneurs Former inmates train one another to make a new start outside. Also, a father-son canoeing trip gone awry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Cost of a Fin A fight to save sharks turns international. Also: a summer job can make you grow up quickly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Following the Plumes Grad student Lisa Nigro went on an unexpected expedition to study the oil plumes in the Gulf of Mexico. Also, Deadhead Jeff Schiff remembers meeting his idol, Jerry Garcia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Haiti: A View from the Street Sandro supports his family in Haiti by selling stuff out of his backpack. Also, an update from Abdi in Mogadishu and a tale of sneaking into an old French cemetary. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Life of a Ballerina Giving up the dream of dancing professionally. Also: two brothers on the soccer field. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hold At All Costs Sergeant Jerry Cunningham talks with Dick Gordon about his memories of the battle for Outpost Harry during the Korean War. Today is the anniversary of that battle. Also: The World Cup begins tomorrow! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Preserving Black Gospel Music Mary D. Williams teaches students how to feel the power of traditional gospel music through the hymns she knew as a child. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Roxy on Twitter Nic Adler reinvigorated The Roxy theater with social media. Also: commencement 40 years later. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Changing Schools Two mothers on one of the most complicated questions a school district could face: to bus, or not? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jamaica After the Violence Two young musicians in Jamaica who dodged last week's violence. Also: the long fight for peace in the Middle East. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Painting Finds Its Way Home A procrastinating grad student finds an interesting painting online, and tracks down the woman who dearly missed it. Also: an elementary school goes green. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Trader to Teacher Graduate Peter Sayles retrained to be a math teacher under the "Traders to Teachers" program. But these days there is no shortage of math teachers and teaching is no longer such a stable job. Also: The closing of the baseball field where Babe Ruth learned to play. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Korea's Divide Rev. Syngman Rhee has lived the divide between North and South Korea. He fervently hopes the two countries can avoid another war. Also: a surprise wedding. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Meeting General Patton A veteran of the Battle of the Bulge finally receives his service medals. Also, a son finally finds the grave of his father who died in World War II. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | BBQ PRINCESS Leslie Scott has succeeded in the male world of competitive barbecue. Also: a summer job in sauerkraut. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A New Life in Tanzania Frank Artress almost died on Mt. Kilimanjaro. When he survived, he and his wife Susan decided it was time to change everything. Also: things learned at the washeteria. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Beyond Dispersants in the Gulf The Exxon Valdez turned Riki Ott into an activist. She’s now in the Gulf helping fishermen and others handle the spill - and the cleanup. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Beyond Dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico Riki Ott fished in Alaska, and she is a marine toxicologist. She became a voice for the fishermen after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. She is now helping fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico. Also, a man helps a woman giving birth at the hospital... parking lot. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Balloons and an Office Chair A man flies into the skies with a bunch of balloons – really. It was a carefully engineered project and a personal triumph. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Safety of Mines A former mine inspector on the accident that cost him his job. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Spill in the Gulf Today: three perspectives on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Also: landing a job after layoff and retraining. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kent State, 40 Years Later Jerry Lewis was a young professor at Kent State when the shooting happened. He's devoted the last 40 years to remembering that event. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kent State 40 Years Later Jerry Lewis was at Kent State. He's spent the last 40 years trying to make sure we don't forget. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Power of the Wind Today, two stories of wind power: a rancher in Kansas encounters opposition, and a former sailor transitions to wind turbines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | She Ran for the Roses The first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Monet's Garden Elizabeth Murray quit her job to move to France and work in the famous garden. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Give My Poor Heart Ease Bill Ferris talks to Dick about growing up with the blues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Enslaved in L.A. Mimin came to the U.S. expecting to find work, and was instead forced to work without pay. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Love and Foreclosure Stephanie and Bob Walker lost their home, but ended up someplace very nice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Special Reunion Steve Barry and Carroll Walsh are connected through one powerful event in World War Two. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Courage to Coach Nolan Richardson broke race barriers in college basketball and paid the price for speaking his mind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Surviving a Tsunami Two stories of escaping tsunamis, and trying to make sense of such a catastrophic event. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Trashless After Rachelle and Richard Strauss were caught in a terrifying flash flood, they began to think more actively about climate change and the environment. It led them to make the personal choice to make as little trash as possible. Also: the Cathedral of Junk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fleeing the Drug War Today: Carlos Spector represents people trying to flee the drug violence in Mexico. Last year, Carlos became a target himself. Also: Behind-the-scenes of reality TV. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Into the Maw at Marja Photographer Tyler Hicks was embedded with U.S. Marines during the recent Marja offensive. Also: checking in with Jabari. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Avoiding Foreclosure One couple figures out a way to avoid foreclosure. Also: a teacher from Las Vegas tells Dick Gordon that she might have to leave the job she loves so she can support her family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Chilean Crush Derek Mossman runs a winery in Chile. Barrels of wine spilled out in the earthquake, but he feels optimistic about Chile's recovery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Malagasy Homecoming Razia Said tells Dick Gordon about how environmental devastation in her home country of Madagascar inspired her latest album. Also, remembering Doris "Granny D" Haddock. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Marriage and the Army Last week Dick Gordon spoke with a couple who split up during wartime while he was deployed. Today, a couple who figured out how to stay together in a similar situation. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Long History of Quakes Today: Two voices from Chile. Also: protesting budget cuts in higher education in California. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Contaminated Well Water A couple living with contaminated water as The Story continues its occasional series on U.S. water quality. Also, an unexpected friendship through foster care. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | On Leaving a Soldier A former Army wife tells Dick about making the tough choice to leave her soldier husband while he was deployed to a war zone. Also, in tough economic times, a story about a booming business: Iowa wine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Travel by Train A young woman talks about her experience as a train hopper, and a musician tells how jazz pianist Herbie Hancock changed his life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The First Miracle on Ice A member of the winning hockey team of the 1960 Olympics, and an update with Olympic skeleton racer Katie Uhlaender. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Black Farmers Seek Restitution For years, the USDA denied black farmers loans. Also: the professional fan goes to the Olympics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Literary Witness to Abu Ghraib Poet Nick Flynn talks with Dick Gordon about meeting several former Abu Ghraib detainees, including the man photographed on the end of a leash. Also: Body artists Madelyn Greco and Scott Fray discuss their recent prize-winning work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fishing Perfect An unbeatable day of fishing. Also: Stranded, and helped, on a cross-country bike trip. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | On Top of the World Falling in love on the tallest mountain peak in the world. Also: Messages from Mogadishu. And: vodou and music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Out of the Money Pit When pipes burst and termites poured out of rotten floorboards, Shana and Matthew Onigman tore down their fixer-upper and built a new house. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Life After Journalism Lori Price left the newspaper business - now she has 5 jobs. Also: an update from a doctor just back from Haiti. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Three Deaths at Guantanamo An official military report states that three detainees who died at Guantanamo Bay in 2006 committed suicide. Now a law professor and his students have analyzed the report and say the deaths could not have been suicide. Also, another in our ongoing "Your Story" series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Military to Entrepreneur Aaron Turney's career has taken some strange twists in the bad economy. Also: Haitian grief and a FedEx blunder. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Will to Win Olympic skeleton racer Katie Uhlaender. Also: answering the phones for a call girl service. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | For the Good of the Cause Brenda Saunders Hampden talks about her role in the High Point Sit-Ins. Also: stumbling across the Iron Curtain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | What's In a Name? Nomi Kaim is against a proposed name change for Asperger's Syndrome. She thinks the name has given her an identity. And: taking a picture of yourself, every day, for ten years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Photographs from Home Miami Herald photographer Carl Juste was born in Haiti. He talks with Dick Gordon about how that shaped his perspective on the tragedy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Layoff - A Child's Perspective Nine-year-old Alison Spiller has some advice for kids. Also: a coincidence that helps resolve the past. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Recording Friends Four buddies who live far away from each other – one serving in Afghanistan – use new media to compose, record and share music. Also: stuck in Kashmir. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hundreds of Babies Roody Joseph gave up the chance to return to the U.S. when he realized how many babies and young children in Haiti needed help. Also: Melody Wen Zhang looks back at the work she did helping orphans after China's earthquake in 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Emergency Green Card After the earthquake, many Haitians living in the U.S. found themselves with unexpected good news: temporary protected status – meaning it’s now legal for them to stay and work here. Dick Gordon talks with one student who is benefiting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Van Living Ken Ilgunas wanted to go to grad school debt-free, so he's found a creative way to live. Also: starting Sweet Cheeks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The First Sit-In Jean Howard was a high school student when her older brother began the famous Woolsworth's sit-in in Greensboro, N.C. She couldn't participate, but it changed her life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Home Away from Haiti Fifteen-year-old Darline Blanchard Williams was set to go to the U.S. for her adoption when the earthquake hit. It meant walking from Leogane to Port au Prince but she eventually made it home to her new family in Florida. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Preparing for War As Tony Blair prepares to face an inquiry panel about the war in Iraq, Dick Gordon speaks with Britain's Ambassador to the U.S. in the years leading up to the war. Also: memories of the Lake Placid Olympics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Haiti Partners Kent Annan interviews his friends and former neighbors in Haiti. Also: the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Grief and Hope in Haiti A Haitian woman continues her aid work in the face of personal tragedy. Also: a burn victim reclaims his life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Afghan American Friendship An Army colonel overcomes his distrust and becomes friends with his Afghan interpreter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Music for Quake Victims Phil Kates played in China after the devastating 2008 earthquake there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Helping the Neighbors A young Haitian in Miami goes back to help his parents run a hospital in their home. And an American survivor criticizes the way Haitians are portrayed in the media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hard Hits A former NFL linebacker talks about how repeated concussions changed his life. Also: More stories from Haiti. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Safe Spaces for Children in Haiti Sleeping in a car but still going to work to help kids. Also: a Castaneda-style adventure with Dad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Rescue Effort Stories from people who experienced the earthquake and some who are trying to help. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Help and Hope for Haiti Our earthquake coverage continues with voices from inside Haiti, and from those on the outside, trying to help. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Connecting with Haiti Trying to connect with family in Haiti. Also: the manager of the South Pole. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Feeling Cuban Eric Torres Alvarez went against his parents wishes and discovered Cuba on his own. Also: the art of grocery bagging. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bionic Woman A mother adjusts to life with a permanently implanted heart pump. Also, what happens when lightning strikes twice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mustard Girl A college kid takes over a old-fashioned mustard-making venture. Also, a photographer's quest to connect past with present. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing for the Troops How Cracker ended up in Iraq. Also: dressing the King. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Living a Dream How a man used his cycling blog to cope with his wife's cancer - and connected with Lance Armstrong. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | How Much Stuff is Enough? How a vacation in France changed one family's perspective. Also: a photographic tribute to the boys' club. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | One Public Option A nurse practitioner without health insurance opens her own clinic for the uninsured. Also, one woman's quest to finally discard her Christmas tree - in April. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Shoot-Out in New Buffalo The friendship of a police officer and a recruit. Also, a young man opens up a vinyl record shop. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Meeting Salinger A man remembers meeting J.D. Salinger as a high school student. Also, a hot tip at the race track leads to a great story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Almost Silencing the Music A musician uses his music to confront apartheid. Also, a professional fan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Dung Sisters A group of unemployed women gather to support each other during the economic crisis. Also, a couple gets stuck living on a boat when the housing market collapses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Hard Time for the Funny Pages A cartoonist tries to make it as newspapers struggle. Also, a woman tries to preserve her Native American language. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Christmas Blues Bill Ferris is a folklorist. He shares some his favorite Christmas music - the blues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Christmas in Secret A former prisoner shares Christmas memories from a Middle Eastern prison. Also: A war photographer is touched by an earthquake victim's kindness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | One Meaning of the Season A Vietnamese refugee remembers his own Christmas miracle of reuniting with his father. Also, a young boy's memory of meeting Santa in a tow truck. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Against All Odds A Hungarian Jew and the daughter of a Nazi fall in love. Also, a fan meets her baseball hero. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Her Own Bank An African-American woman opens her own bank and rides the subprime mortgage crisis fallout. Also, a window washer tells stories from the job. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Unknown Rockwell Buddy Edgerton lived next door to Norman Rockwell as a boy. 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Also: the one conversation between a coach and a wrestler that made all the difference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Double Life, One Mission Infiltrating racist groups. Also: Burmese monks living in upstate NY. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Health Care Coverage for Some A mother tries to get coverage for her son's mental health needs. Also: a brother and sister run a jewelry business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Very Long Road to Florence A sculptor's inspiring adventure in Europe. Also, the seamstress for a college football team. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Working Through It A man reconciles with his birth mother and discovers new inspiration for hard work. Also, a boxing match during the Depression bonds father and son. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Touchdown in Texas A high school football player fights for a place on the field and a place to call home. Also, a random act of kindness inspires a Vietnam vet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Love and Foreclosure A couple becomes closer while facing foreclosure. Also, a scuba diver is left by his boat in the open ocean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Meeting Abdi Introducing a new regular guest from the most dangerous city in the world: Mogadishu, Somalia. Also: The Cathedral of Junk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Affair(s) Dick talks with Angela, a woman who has had several affairs. Also: poems about a losing season. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A New Research Question A cancer specialist is using her own experience with the disease to change her research. Also: Ahmed Fadaam's new statue unveiled at Elon University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Midnight Teacher Teaching English at midnight. Also: an attachment to Ethiopia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Off The Streets A teen prostitute tells her story. Also: confessions of a Leslie Cheung fan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Beijing Blues A musician plays the Blues in China. Also, a woman returns to the secret garden of her childhood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Opening Up at Fort Hood Shannon Meehan wrote a book about his service in Iraq. He thought sharing that book with Army psychiatrists might help others. That's how Shannon ended up strangely connected to Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, the officer accused of last week's shooting at Fort Hood. Also: Over 80 and just married. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Original WASPs On Veteran's Day, a Woman's Air Force Service Pilot shares her memories of flying for her country. Also: a survivor of the sinking of the Rohna. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Behind the Wall Birgit Lindemann grew up in East Germany and remembers the day the wall came down. Also: more than a stint in retail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Give My Poor Heart Ease Bill Ferris shares stories and music from his work to document the roots of the Mississippi blues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Combat Bunny How a pet bunny helped a soldier through the war. Also, a mother and son go running every single day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Dispute Over Solar A neighborhood battle and a talk with two children of a solar energy pioneer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Since the Election One year after the election of President Obama, an African American architect reflects on race in the workplace. Also: Margo Marver and "your story." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Difficult Defense Looking back at another war crimes trial - with a lawyer for Slobodan Milosevic. Also: an earlier vaccine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nurturing Monet's Garden Elizabeth Murray gave up everything to work in the artist's garden in France. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caring for Aunt Mary Sue Perna is caring for her 105-year-old aunt. Also: A Halloween love story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Place to Belong Seth Best spent a Michigan winter in a tent city for homeless people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Paying for Health in the U.S. Two views on what's wrong with the health care system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Listening for Amelia On the day the movie Amelia opens in theaters, Dick Gordon has the real-life story of a woman who believes she heard Amelia Earhart's last words. An historic airplane recovery group believes she might be right. Also: the 35th anniversary of NY restaurant Le Cirque Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Travel by Train Audrey Hunter spent years hitchhiking and train hopping. Also: Herbie Hancock and a synthesizer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Love and Race Relations A black reporter falls for a white teach accused of racism. Also, a builder's industry is booming as he rehabs foreclosed homes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Terror in Lahore - Again Last week in Lahore, Ahmed's Diary, and an original roller derby girl. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Some Good News Buying a newspaper - in this economy. Also: losing a business and a name. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Through the Fire A burn patient and an occupational therapist form a friendship which inspires them both. Also, a couple builds their dream house from the ground-up, creating a community along the way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Deep Undercover Detective April Leatherwood went undercover as a drug addict for nearly a year. Also: Sammi DeAngelis on waitressing and the economy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | From Ships to Windmills The view from the top of a wind turbine. Also, a BBQ delivery for U2. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | One Yankee fan...and his son The unofficial mascot of the New York Yankees reunites with his son. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Looking Back to Look Forward Terrol Johnson got his Tohono O'odham Nation to go back to traditional foods, in order to fight diabetes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | I Thought I had Insurance Greg and Heather Mroz got dropped by their insurance company after they had twins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Risky Beauty Business Two manicurists share their concerns about the toxicity of their profession. Also: one good insurance story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The High Cost of Being a Foodie The recession causes a slow-food restaurant to close. Also: Counting the vote in Minnesota and Afghanistan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Unexpected Honeymoon Dana and Patricia James recall the kindness of a stranger that made their honeymoon one for the storybooks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Romeo and Tuyet A Vietnamese woman and an American soldier find each other and fall in love all over again. Also, memories from the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | After the Reunion A birth mother, adoptive mother and their son find common ground. Also: A skydive pilot and one big mistake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Becoming Fluff Chance Eric Gaskins came out as a sharp fashion blogger as his business failed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Another Look at 'Clean' Energy Josh Fox traveled the country to make a film about the environmental effects of natural gas. Also: Trying out for Ms. Senior America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Memories of '48 Memories from either side of the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1948. Also, a friend's death inspires a one-man play. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Enslaved in L.A. Mimin came to the U.S. from Indonesia to work and was kept as a virtual slave. Also: one Olympic hopeful. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |