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Juries have a little known power that allows them to ignore the law and vote with their own instincts. This piece explores how juries have used tha...
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- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 11:47
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We’re back with another installment of our “Summer Dispatches” series, this time starring Field Trip Correspondent Nicole Jones as she figures out ...
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- Added: Oct 09, 2012
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This week, our stories are all about the power of friendship. Stories by George McLeod, Pat Gillum, and Susan Elder. True stories told by the South...
- Added: Oct 07, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Here's the first episode in our “Summer Dispatches” series, in which reporter Megan Molteni braves the scarred landscape of Colorado Springs after...
- Added: Oct 02, 2012
- Length: 13:57
In this episode of Happy producer JP Davidson drops into a Laughter Yoga Club. The first one started in the mid-90s in Mumbai. Now there over 8000 ...
- Added: Sep 30, 2012
- Length: 08:38
As part of the Youth Spin Summer Workshop series the teens of Youth Spin looked deep into the inner workings of four youth related organizations in...
- Added: Sep 29, 2012
- Length: 06:33
On this week's show, our writers all grapple with expectations of others or themselves. Stories by Martin Ferguson, Anne Owings Wilson, and Richard...
- Added: Sep 29, 2012
- Length: 29:00
In this week's show, our stories are all about lending a helping hand. Stories by Warren Kuhn, Jr., Nancy Louise Baxter, and Renie Prentice Rule. T...
- Added: Sep 22, 2012
- Length: 29:00
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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The University of Alabama was one of the last schools to integrate it's football team. in 1967, five African American men tried to change that.
- Added: Sep 17, 2012
- Length: 11:53
Each year, stroke affects approximately 120,000 women under the age of 45. For many young women, the idea of having a stroke at such a young age se...
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 05:14
In 2007 the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
researched why people in Minnesota were spending less time outdoors.
They found three problem...
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- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 05:00
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Anyone who has ever spent time in a greasy spoon diner knows that feeling. It's a mixture of good food, conversation, and that certain... something...
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 05:15
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Here's an excerpt from an essay by Springfield, Oregon writer Lawrence Elliott. Out of work and afoot in the scruffy neighborhood he calls home, fo...
- Added: Sep 13, 2012
- Length: 03:39
- Added: Sep 06, 2012
- Length: 06:40
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In this second of a two-part series highlighting the winners of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards to be held in Cleveland on Sept. 13th, producer...
- Added: Aug 29, 2012
- Length: 58:04
In this first of a two-part series, Dred-Scott Keyes interviews winners of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Awards David W. Blight, author of "American Ora...
- Added: Aug 26, 2012
- Length: 56:00
20 years ago today (August 24th) Hurricane Andrew turned South Florida upside down. In this hour-long documentary, WLRN uses home videos, archival ...
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 58:31
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Suhrith Parthasarathy thought he was interviewing a die-hard Manchester United fan on what it's like to follow your team in New York, thousands of ...
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- Added: Aug 06, 2012
- Length: 09:46
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One of the world's elite concert violinists talks about improvising with Hauschka, who plays a piano doctored with duct tape and ping-pong balls. ...
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- Added: Jul 31, 2012
- Length: 11:07
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With the March announcement that Best Buy is closing 50 large stores around the country, the dominance of big box retail has been called into quest...
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- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 02:31
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What a weekend of mourning and commemoration in Norway can tell us about the aftermath of the horrific killings in Aurora, Colorado this week.
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- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 02:00
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The familiar faces of the red, white and blue bus, whose lives I will never know.
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- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 03:00
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Rudy has lived on this bizarre little block since 1953, before a dozen railroad tracks and nearly as many highway lanes separated it from other res...
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- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 02:55
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This week our writers show us the not-so-pretty world of bullies and those being bullied. Stories by Angela Gattin, Wyatt Jones, and J.W. Taylor. T...
- Added: Jul 20, 2012
- Length: 29:00
A search for the Ward 8, Boston's most famous cocktail, leads to an authentic encounter with an old man at the bar. Sometimes it's the stories that...
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 07:35
