FRONTLINE: Audiocast
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The Retirement Gamble
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "The Retirement Gamble" airing April 23, 2013 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Ten trillion dollars in Americans' retirement savings are invested in large and small accounts managed by banks, brokerages, mutual funds, and insurance companies. But whether your IRA or 401K will assure a safe retirement is largely a gamble. Building off reporting from the groundbreaking special Money, Power and Wall Street, FRONTLINE...
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Kind Hearted Woman Night One
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Kind Hearted Woman" airing April 1, 2013 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (The Farmer's Wife, Country Boys) creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a 32-year-old divorced single mother and Oglala Sioux woman living on North Dakota's Spirit Lake Reservation. Sutherland follows Robin over three years as she struggles to raise her two...
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Kind Hearted Woman Night Two
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Kind Hearted Woman" airing April 1, 2013 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. In a special two-part series, acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (The Farmer's Wife, Country Boys) creates an unforgettable portrait of Robin Charboneau, a 32-year-old divorced single mother and Oglala Sioux woman living on North Dakota's Spirit Lake Reservation. Sutherland follows Robin over three years as she struggles to raise her two...
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Raising Adam Lanza
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Raising Adam Lanza" airing February 19 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. In the wake of the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, FRONTLINE investigates a young man and the town he changed forever. Adam Lanza left behind a trail of death and destruction, but little else. He left no known friends, no diary. He destroyed his computer and any evidence it might have provided. His motives, and his life, remain...
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Cliffhanger
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Cliffhanger" airing February 12 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. FRONTLINE investigates the inside history of how Washington has failed to solve the country’s problems of debt and deficit. Drawing on interviews with key players in Congress and the White House, FRONTLINE shows how a clash of politics and personalities has taken the nation’s economy to the edge of the "fiscal cliff," and now to a second round of...
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The Education of Michelle Rhee
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "The Untouchables" airing January 22 2013 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. FRONTLINE producer and correspondent Martin Smith investigates why the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has failed to act on credible evidence that Wall Street knowingly packaged and sold toxic mortgage loans to investors, loans that brought the U.S. and world economies to the brink of collapse. Through interviews with prosecutors, government...
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Inside Obama's Presidency
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Inside Obama's Presidency" airing January 15 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. As Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term, FRONTLINE takes a probing look at the first four years of his presidency. Obama has hinted that he aspires to be a transformational president. Four years in, has he met the mark? On the eve of his second inauguration, FRONTLINE presents a rare look Inside Obama's Presidency. Drawing on hundreds...
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The Education of Michelle Rhee
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "The Education of Michelle Rhee" airing January 8th on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. FRONTLINE was granted unprecedented access to Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of the Washington, DC public schools as she attempted to fix a broken school system.
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Poor Kids
These are hard times in the Quad Cities, a great American crossroads along the border of Iowa and Illinois, where the Mississippi River intersects Interstate 80. It's home to John Deere manufacturing and the nation's breadbasket. But it's also an area deeply scarred by the Recession. FRONTLINE spent months following three young girls who are growing up against the backdrop of their families' struggles against financial ruin. The result is an intimate portrait of the economic crisis as it's...
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The Suicide Plan
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "The Suicide Plan" airing November 13 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. In this groundbreaking 90-minute film FRONTLINE explores the underground world of assisted suicide and takes viewers inside one of the most polarizing social issues of our time ... told not only by the people choosing to die, but also by their "assisters," individuals and right-to-die organizations that put themselves in legal jeopardy by helping...
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Big Sky, Big Money
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Big Sky, Big Money" airing October 30 2012 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. In a special investigation in collaboration with Marketplace, FRONTLINE travels to the remote epicenter of the campaign finance debate for a tale of money, politics, and intrigue. How has the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision changed campaigns in America? Ask Montana, which has tried to challenge the ruling in court, is investigating...
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Climate of Doubt
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Climate of Doubt" airing October, 23 2012 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Four years ago, climate change was a hot issue and politicians from both sides seemed poised to act. Today public opinion on the climate issue has cooled considerably. Politicians either ignore it or proclaim their skepticism. What's behind this massive reversal? On Oct 23, FRONTLINE goes inside the organizations that fought the scientific...
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The Choice 2012
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "The Choice 2012," airing October 9, 2012 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. It's been called the starkest choice in years, between two men with sharply different backgrounds, views, and prescriptions for fixing the country's problems. Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to tell their own stories, but in The Choice 2012, FRONTLINE goes far beyond the headlines on a journey deep into...
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The Regime Responds
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "The Regime Responds" airing September 18 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Eighteen months into Syria's rebellion, how is Bashar al-Assad holding onto power?
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Dropout Nation
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Dropout Nation," airing September 25, 2012 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. What does it take to save a student? Every year, hundreds of thousands of teenagers in the United States quit high school without diplomas - an epidemic so out of control that nobody knows the exact number. What is clear is that massive dropout rates cripple individual career prospects and cloud the country's future. At Houston's Sharpstown...
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ENDGAME: AIDS in Black America
An audio version of FRONTLINE'S documentary "Endgame: AIDS in Black America" airing July 10 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Every ten minutes, someone in the U.S. contracts HIV. Half are Black. Thirty years after the discovery of the AIDS virus among gay white men, nearly half of the one million people in the United States infected with HIV are black men, women and children. "ENDGAME: AIDS in Black America" is a groundbreaking exploration of one of the country's...
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Middle School Moment
Audiocast description: An audio version of FRONTLINE'S documentary "Middle School Moment" airing July 17 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. FRONTLINE investigates: does the make-or break moment for high school dropouts happen in middle school? Johns Hopkins researcher Dr. Robert Balfanz argues that for most students, middle school is when the habits that predict whether or not a student graduates are formed.
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Fast Times at West Philly High
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Fast Times at West Philly High" airing July 17 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Students and teachers from West Philadelphia High School, a public high school serving one of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in Philadelphia, defy expectations as they design and build two super-hybrid cars for international competition and compete for the chance to be part of a technological revolution. In Fast Times at West Philly...
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Alaska Gold
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Alaska Gold" airing July 24 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. The Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska is home to the last great wild Sockeye salmon fishery in the world. It's also home to enormous mineral deposits-copper, gold, molybdenum-estimated to be worth over $300 billion. Now, two foreign mining companies are proposing to extract this mineral wealth by digging one of North America's largest open-pit mines, the...
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Dollars and Dentists
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Dollars and Dentists" airing June 26 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Millions of Americans can't afford a visit to the dentist. FRONTLINE and the Center for Public Integrity investigate the flaws in our dental system and nascent proposals to fix them.
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My Father, My Brother, and Me
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "My Father, My Brother, and Me" airing June 12 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. In 2004, FRONTLINE correspondent Dave Iverson received the same news that had been delivered to his father and older brother years earlier: He had Parkinson's disease, a degenerative neurological disorder that affects more than 1 million Americans, the causes of which remain largely unknown and the cure for which has proved frustratingly...
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Six Billion Dollar Bet
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Six Billion Dollar Bet" airing May 22 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. FRONTLINE investigates MF Global's disastrous bet on European debt.
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Cell Tower Deaths
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Cell Tower Deaths" airing May 22 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. The smartphone revolution comes with a hidden cost. A joint investigation by FRONTLINE and ProPublica explores the hazardous work of independent contractors who are building and servicing America's expanding cellular infrastructure. While some tower climbers say they are under pressure to cut corners, layers of subcontracting make it difficult for safety...
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Al Qaeda in Yemen
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Al Qaeda in Yemen" airing May 29 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Since the death of Osama bin Laden, Yemen has become the hottest front in the war against Al Qaeda. Now, with headlines about a terrorist plot to bomb a U.S.-bound airliner, award-winning reporter Ghaith Abdul-Ahad travels deep into Yemen's radical heartland. In this first-hand report, FRONTLINE looks at how members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula...
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Murdoch's Scandal - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "The Murdoch Scandal" airing March 27 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Over half a century Rupert Murdoch's business audacity and political shrewdness built one of the world's most powerful media empires. Now his dynasty is under threat - not from outside competition, but from shocking accounts of bribery, blackmail, and invasion of privacy. The scandal has prompted criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic....
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The Real CSI - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "The Real CSI" airing April 17 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. From the courtroom to the living room (thanks to the hit television series CSI), forensic science is king. Expertise on fingerprints, ballistics and bite mark analysis are routinely called on to solve the most difficult criminal cases - and to put the guilty behind bars. But how reliable is the science behind forensics? A FRONTLINE investigation finds...
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Money, Power and Wall Street Hour 1 - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Money, Power and Wall Street Part 1" airing April 24 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Since 2008, Wall Street and Washington have fought against the tide of the fiercest financial crisis since the Great Depression. What have they wrought? In a special four-hour investigation, FRONTLINE tells the inside story of the struggles to rescue and repair a shattered economy, exploring key decisions, missed opportunities, and...
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Money, Power and Wall Street Hour 2 - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Money, Power and Wall Street Part 1" airing April 24 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Since 2008, Wall Street and Washington have fought against the tide of the fiercest financial crisis since the Great Depression. What have they wrought? In a special four-hour investigation, FRONTLINE tells the inside story of the struggles to rescue and repair a shattered economy, exploring key decisions, missed opportunities, and...
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Money, Power and Wall Street Hour 3 - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Money, Power and Wall Street Part 2" airing May 1 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Since 2008, Wall Street and Washington have fought against the tide of the fiercest financial crisis since the Great Depression. What have they wrought? In a special four-hour investigation, FRONTLINE tells the inside story of the struggles to rescue and repair a shattered economy, exploring key decisions, missed opportunities, and the...
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Money, Power and Wall Street Hour 4 - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Money, Power and Wall Street Part 2" airing May 1 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Since 2008, Wall Street and Washington have fought against the tide of the fiercest financial crisis since the Great Depression. What have they wrought? In a special four-hour investigation, FRONTLINE tells the inside story of the struggles to rescue and repair a shattered economy, exploring key decisions, missed opportunities, and the...
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The Interrupters - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "The Interrupters" airing February 14 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. The Interrupters presents unforgettable profiles in courage, as three former street criminals in Chicago place themselves in the line of fire to protect their communities. The two-hour film follows the lives of these "Violence Interrupters," who include the charismatic daughter of one of the city's most notorious former gang leaders, the son of a...
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Rules of Engagement - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Rules of Engagement," airing February 7, 2012 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. After years of delays, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich went on trial in January 2012 in connection with the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians more than six years ago, one of the worst incidents of its kind of the war. What really happened on November 19, 2005, in the village of Haditha? FRONTLINE cuts through the fog of war to reveal...
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Nuclear Aftershocks - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Nuclear Aftershocks," airing January 17, 2012 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. It's been almost a year since a devastating earthquake and tsunami crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, leaving the country's once popular energy program in shambles. In response, Germany decided to abandon nuclear energy entirely. Should the U.S. follow suit? FRONTLINE correspondent Miles O'Brien examines the implications of...
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A Perfect Terrorist - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "A Perfect Terrorist," airing November 22nd, 2011 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. It has been called the most spectacular terror attack since 9/11. On the night of November 26, 2008, ten men armed with guns and grenades launched an assault on Mumbai with a military precision that left 166 dead. India quickly learned the attackers belonged to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani militant group associated with Pakistan's...
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The Regime - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "The Regime," airing November 8, 2011, on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid and other experts tell the story of President Bashar al-Assad and how the Syrian dictator has managed to hold onto power in the months since the Arab Spring, in The Regime.
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Lost in Detention - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Lost in Detention," airing October 18, 2011, on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. More than one million immigrants have been deported since President Obama took office. Under his administration deportations and detentions have reached record levels. The get-tough policy has brought complaints of abuse and harsh treatment, including charges that families have been unfairly separated after being caught in the nationwide...
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The Anthrax Files - Audiocast
OcFRONTLINE Audiocast: "The Anthrax Files" FRONTLINE, ProPublica and McClatchy investigate the country's most notorious act of bioterrorismtober 11, 2011, on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. In the fall of 2001 envelopes carrying deadly Anthrax were delivered to U.S. Senate offices, network news divisions, and a tabloid newspaper. Five people were killed, many more infected and the nation was terrorized. Seven years later, after mistakenly pursuing one suspect, the...
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An Optimist in Haiti - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE’s documentary "An Optimist in Haiti," airing Sept 27, 2011 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Adam Davidson of NPR's Planet Money returns to Haiti to meet a man with an unlikely plan to help turn around his country's economy through tourism.
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The Man Behind the Mosque - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE’s documentary "The Man Behind the Mosque," airing Sept 27, 2011 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. It became the most controversial building in America, a mostly derelict property in lower Manhattan made infamous overnight as the Ground Zero Mosque. Going beyond frenzied media portraits at the time, FRONTLINE tells the inside stories of Sharif El-Gamal, a real estate developer, and of the victims' relatives and anti-Islam activists who...
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The Interrogator - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE’s documentary “The Interrogator,” airing September 13, 2011, on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. In a definitive interview with Ali Soufan, the FBI agent who was at the center of the 9/11 investigations, FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith uncovers an insider's view on the "war on terror." One of only eight Arabic-speaking FBI agents, Soufan explains why he believes the attacks on the World Trade Center could have been prevented and...
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The Pot Republic - Audiocast
An audio version of the FRONTLINE magazine report "The Pot Republic," a timely investigation from the frontlines of marijuana legalization in California. The bulk of the marijuana consumed in the United States used to come across the border from Mexico, Canada and elsewhere. Now, more than half of it is believed to be home grown in California, where an enormous black market has emerged under the cover of the state's medical marijuana law. With more than a third of all states now...
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Doctor Hotspot - Audiocast
An audio version of the FRONTLINE magazine report "Doctor Hotspot." "New Yorker" writer and surgeon Atul Gawande reports on a doctor in Camden, N.J., who actually seeks out the community's sickest -- and most expensive -- patients. Dr. Jeffrey Brenner and his team are pioneering a practice called "hotspotting," in which medical care is focused on the hardest-to-treat to improve their health and dramatically reduce costs. Orig. PBS airdate: July 26, 2011. Available for viewing online at...
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The Child Cases - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "The Child Cases," airing June 28, 2011, on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. When a child dies under suspicious circumstances, abuse is often suspected. That's what happened in the case of six-month-old Isis Vas, whose death was deemed "a clear-cut and classic" case of child abuse, sending a man named Ernie Lopez to prison for 60 years. But now a Texas judge has moved to overturn Lopez's conviction, and new questions are...
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Educating Sergeant Pantzke - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Educating Sergeant Pantzke," airing June 28, 2011, on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. As troops return from Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. government spending on veterans' education will more than double to $9.5 billion this year, and a growing percentage of this money has been ending up in the pockets of for-profit colleges. In a follow-up to FRONTLINE's College, Inc., correspondent Martin Smith investigates how the...
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WikiSecrets - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "WikiSecrets," airing May 24, 2011, on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. It's the biggest intelligence breach in U.S. history--the leaking of more than half-a-million classified documents on the WikiLeaks website in the spring of 2010. Behind it all stand two very different men: Julian Assange, the Internet activist and hacker who published the documents; and an Army intelligence analyst named Bradley E. Manning, who's...
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The Meth Epidemic - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "The Meth Epidemic," airing May 17, 2011, on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. What started as a fad among West Coast motorcycle gangs in the 1970s, methamphetamine has quickly spread across the United States over the last decade. These days, meth remains as potent and widespread as ever. Despite calls to regulate its key ingredient, pseudoephedrine, which is found in over-the-counter cold remedies, "super smurfs" still...
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The Silence - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's magazine report, "The Silence," airing April 19, 2011, on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. FRONTLINE examines a little-known chapter of the Catholic Church sex abuse story -- decades of abuse of Native Americans by priests and other church workers in Alaska. Through candid interviews with survivors, this FRONTLINE report focuses on the abuse by a number of men who worked for the Church along Alaska's far west coast in the late 1960s...
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Football High - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Football High," airing April 12, 2011, on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. High school football has never had a higher profile, with nationally televised games, corporate sponsorships and minute-by-minute coverage on sports websites. In northwest Arkansas, FRONTLINE examines one ambitious high school team working its way towards national renown. With a superstar quarterback at the helm, tiny Shiloh Christian is striving...
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The Private Life of Bradley Manning - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's magazine report "The Private Life of Bradley Manning." As the fall-out from WikiLeak's continues, a profile of the early years of the young soldier now accused of leaking more than half a million classified U.S. government documents. This report includes an exclusive interview with Private Bradley Manning's father, who speaks out for the first time about his son's upbringing and troubled youth, and an audio recording of the 911 call that brought police to the...
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Money and March Madness - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's magazine report "Money and March Madness," an inside look at the multi-billion dollar business of the NCAA and its brand of amateur college sports. In this investigation, correspondent Lowell Bergman gains access to Sonny Vaccaro, a former marketing executive at Nike, Adidas and Reebok who helped bring about the rapid commercialization of college basketball. Vaccaro's success made coaches, administrators and companies rich. But the players remain at the mercy...
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Post Mortem - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's documentary "Post Mortem," airing February 1, 2011 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Every day, nearly 7,000 people die in America. And when these deaths happen suddenly, or under suspicious circumstances, we assume there will be a thorough investigation, just like we see on "CSI." But the reality is very different. In over 1,300 counties across America, elected coroners, many with no medical or scientific background, are in charge...
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Are We Safer? - Audiocast
An audio version of FRONTLINE's new monthly magazine program, launching January 18, 2010, with three reports. In "Are We Safer?," Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Dana Priest investigates the terrorism-industrial complex that grew up in the wake of 9/11. Against a backdrop of recent mail bomb threats from Al Qaeda in Yemen and growing concerns about homegrown terrorists, Priest explores the growing reach of homeland security, fusion centers, battlefield technologies and...
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Facing Death - Audiocast
An audio version of the FRONTLINE documentary "Facing Death," airing November 23, 2010 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. How far would you go to sustain the life of someone you love, or your own? When the moment comes, and you're confronted with the prospect of "pulling the plug," do you know how you'll respond? Unfounded rumors of federal "death panels" grabbed headlines last summer, but the real decisions of how we die -- the questions that most of us prefer to...
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The Confessions - Audiocast
An audio version of the FRONTLINE documentary "The Confessions," airing November 9, 2010 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Why would four innocent men confess to a brutal crime they didn't commit? FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel ("Innocence Lost," "An Ordinary Crime") investigates the conviction of four Navy sailors for the rape and murder of a Norfolk, Virginia, woman in 1997. In interviews with the sailors, Bikel learns of some of the high-pressure police...
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The Spill - Audiocast
An audio version of the FRONTLINE documentary "The Spill," airing October 26, 2010 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Long before the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf, BP was widely viewed as a company that valued deal-making and savvy marketing over safety, a "serial environmental criminal" that left behind a long trail of problems--deadly accidents, disastrous spills, countless safety violations--which many now believe should have triggered action by...
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God in America - Night One - Audiocast
An audio version of Night 1 (Hours 1 & 2) of the PBS documentary "God in America," a co-production of FRONTLINE and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE airing October 11, 2010. The six-hour series tells the dramatic 400-year history of how religion shaped American identity and the public life of the country. The first hour, "A New Adam," explores the origins of America's unique religious landscape -- how the New World challenged and changed the faiths the first European settlers brought with them. In New...
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Death by Fire - Audiocast
An audio version of the FRONTLINE documentary "Death by Fire," airing October 19, 2010 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Did Texas execute an innocent man? Several controversial death penalty cases are currently under examination in Texas and in other states, but it's the 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham--convicted for the arson deaths of his three young children--that's now at the center of the national debate. With unique access to those closest to the...
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God in America - Night Two - Audiocast
An audio version of Night 2 (Hours 3 & 4) of the PBS documentary "God in America," a co-production of FRONTLINE and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE airing October 12, 2010. The six-hour series tells the dramatic 400-year history of how religion shaped American identity and the public life of the country. Hour three, "A Nation Reborn," explores how religion suffused the Civil War. As slavery split the nation in two, Northern abolitionists and Southern slaveholders turned to the Bible to support their...
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God in America - Night Three - Audiocast
An audio version of Night 3 (Hours 5 & 6) of the PBS documentary "God in America," a co-production of FRONTLINE and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE airing October 13, 2010. The six-hour series tells the dramatic 400-year history of how religion shaped American identity and the public life of the country. Hour five, "Soul of a Nation," explores the post-World War II era, when rising evangelist Billy Graham tried to inspire a religious revival that fused faith with patriotism in a Cold War battle with...
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Law & Disorder - Audiocast
An audio version of the FRONTLINE documentary "Law & Disorder" airing August 25, 2010 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Behind the enduring images of heroic rescues undertaken by the New Orleans Police Department in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, there is another story of law enforcement in crisis, even out of control. "Law & Disorder," a year-long, ongoing collaboration among FRONTLINE, ProPublica and the New Orleans "Times-Picayune," investigates charges...
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Wounded Platoon - Audiocast
An audio version of the FRONTLINE documentary "The Wounded Platoon" airing May 18, 2010 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Since the Iraq war began, soldier arrests in the city of Colorado Springs, Colo., have tripled. At least 36 servicemen based at the nearby Army post of Fort Carson have committed suicide, and 14 Fort Carson soldiers have been charged or convicted in at least 11 killings. Many of the most violent crimes involved men who had served in the same...
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Obama's Deal - Audiocast
An audio version of the FRONTLINE documentary "Obama's Deal," airing April 13, 2010 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Barack Obama promised change. Then he took on one of Washington's toughest issues: health care. During his first year in office, he found himself making one deal after another with Capitol Hill's powerful insiders -- lobbyists and influential members of Congress. He angered his political base, watched his popularity sink, and nearly failed to pass...
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The Vaccine War - Audiocast
An audio version of the FRONTLINE documentary "The Vaccine War," airing April 27, 2010 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Public health scientists and clinicians tout vaccines as one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine. But for many ordinary Americans vaccines have become controversial. Young parents are concerned at the sheer number of shots -- some 26 inoculations for 14 different diseases by age six -- and follow alternative vaccination schedules...
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College, Inc. - Audiocast
An audio version of the FRONTLINE documentary "College, Inc." airing May 4, 2010 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Higher education is a $400 billion industry fueled by taxpayer money. One of the fastest-growing -- and most controversial -- sectors of the industry is the for-profit colleges and universities. Unlike traditional colleges that raise money from wealthy alumni and other donors, many for-profit schools sell shares to investors on Wall Street. But what...
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The Quake - Audiocast
An audio version of the FRONTLINE documentary "The Quake," airing March 30, 2010 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. On January 12, 2010, one of the most devastating earthquakes in recorded history leveled Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Those responsible for handling the catastrophe, including the Haitian government and the United Nations, were amongst the victims and struggled to respond. FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith bears witness to the scale of the disaster and...
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Flying Cheap - Audiocast
An audio version of the FRONTLINE documentary "Flying Cheap," airing Feb. 9, 2010 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. One year after the deadliest domestic airline accident in seven years, FRONTLINE investigates the crash of Continental 3407 in Buffalo, NY, and discovers a dramatically changed airline industry, where regional carriers now account for half of the nation's daily departures. The rise of the regionals and arrival of low-cost carriers have been a huge...
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Digital Nation - Audiocast
An audio version of the FRONTLINE documentary "Digital Nation," airing Feb. 2, 2010 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. Over a single generation, the Web and digital media have remade nearly every aspect of modern culture, transforming the way we work, learn and connect in ways that we're only beginning to understand. FRONTLINE producer Rachel Dretzin teams up with one of the leading thinkers of the digital age, Douglas Rushkoff, to continue to explore life on the...
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The Card Game - Audiocast
An audio version of the FRONTLINE documentary "The Card Game," airing Nov. 24, 2009 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. As credit card companies face rising public anger, new regulation from Washington and a potential perfect storm of economic bad news, FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman examines the future of the massive consumer loan industry and its impact on a fragile national economy. In a joint project with "The New York Times," FRONTLINE talks to industry...
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Close to Home - Audiocast
An audio version of the FRONTLINE documentary "Close to Home," airing Oct. 27, 2009 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel chronicles how one unlikely neighborhood -- New York's Upper East Side -- is faring in this recession through the stories of the people who she's come to know at the hair salon she's frequented for the past 20 years. The film reveals salon owner Deborah Boles' struggles to stay afloat, her sister's risk of imminent...
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The Warning - Audiocast
An audio version of the FRONTLINE documentary The Warning, airing Oct. 20, 2009 on PBS and available for viewing online at pbs.org/frontline. In the devastating aftermath of the economic meltdown, FRONTLINE sifts through the ashes for clues about why it happened and examines critical moments when it might have gone much differently. Looking back into the late 1990s, veteran FRONTLINE producer/director Michael Kirk discovers early warnings of the crash, reveals an intense battle among...
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- Current Affairs, Documentary
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- English
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