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Fri, May 25
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The Whole Library In His Hands
Dick speaks with Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. Also in this show: A marketing professional tells Dick how he was turned down for a job because he didn’t seem influential enough on Twitter, and Dick reads letters about the fictional story "The Book."
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Thu, May 24
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Walking Away From Wall Street
Alexis Goldstein, a former Wall Street computer programmer, tells Dick about why she’s pushing for reform through the Occupy Wall Street movement. Also in this show: Amanda Palmer, formerly of the Dresden Dolls, on how she raised more than $800,000 on Kickstater to produce her new album.
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Wed, May 23
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Leasing a Patch of Paradise
Jeff Dick, a geologist and former oil man, leased his land in Ohio to a company looking for natural gas by fracturing underground rock. He says he's at ease with the risks of fracking. Also in this show: veterinarians in Ithaca, N.Y., are investigating the effects of fracking on farm animals, a competitive rower is rowing across the North Atlantic Ocean to the Olympics in London, a producer sends an audio postcard from Newfoundland, and the Cowboy Junkies' front man speaks.
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Tue, May 22
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Riding Out the Joplin Tornado
In 2008, a tornado swept through Tom Cook’s home, killing his wife. Distraught, he moved with his daughter to Joplin, Mo., where he bought a new house – and a steel shelter. When a tornado came three years later, they were prepared. Also in this show: Angela Walters talks to Dick about the photos she found scattered after the tornado, and the archive she started.
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Mon, May 21
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Two Men and their One Voice
Scott Haren and Ben Harris met in a support group for people with Lou Gehrig's disease. They speak together: Scott speaks the words of his friend Ben, who types them onto a computer because he no longer can speak. Also in this show: an award-winning new map of the U.S.
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Fri, May 18
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Studs Terkel at 100: Talking Dance
Dick sits down with Keenan Kampa, a U.S.-born dancer to talk about the rigorous work it takes to find a place in a dance company, and how she was invited into the storied company The Mariinsky Ballet. Also in this show: legendary dancer Dame Margot Fonteyn speaks with Studs Terkel, and The Story ends the four-day series with a short musical about Studs.
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Thu, May 17
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Studs Terkel at 100: The Work Goes On
As The Story celebrates the work of oral historian and broadcaster Studs Terkel, Dick interviews a woman who was laid off and found herself offered a job as captain of a river ferry. Also: the words of a steel hauler in Indiana, a 14-year-old paper boy and a waitress.
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Wed, May 16
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Studs Terkel at 100: Working
In The Story's second day featuring the work done and inspired by oral historian Studs Terkel, Dick speaks to steel worker Ed Sadlowski and knife maker Joel Bukiewicz.
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Tue, May 15
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Studs Terkel at 100: Hearing America
Today, The Story begins a four-day celebration of the work of oral historian Studs Terkel, who would've turned 100 this year. We’ll share some of his conversations with writer Eudora Welty, poet Dorothy Parker, futurist R. Buckminster Fuller and singer Mahalia Jackson.
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Mon, May 14
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Gay Rights in Russia
Dick speaks with Alexander Kargaltsev, a gay filmmaker who faced harassment in his native Russia. Also in this show: a New York teen gets advice from her gay uncle on coming out, listeners respond to Dick’s conversation with illustrator Ashley Bryan, and writer Hans Anderson tells the story of a pantry and a curious homeowner.
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Fri, May 11
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Angie's List
Angie Hicks, founder of Angie’s List, tells Dick how she started her business by knocking on doors. Also in this show: a woman who started a list for Londoners to rent out their gardens to Olympic visitors, Producer Larry Massett plans a trip with his mother, and photographer Aaron Shuman tells the story of a photograph he chose not to take.
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Thu, May 10
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What to Tell the Children
Dick speaks with Alison Feigh, whose classmate Jacob Wetterling was abducted in 1989 and never found. She now works at the National Child Protection Safety Center. Also in this show: the debate on whether a small Massachusetts town should build a new library, and an actress remembers working with Maurice Sendak when she was a child.
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Wed, May 9
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Finding Miles
We hear a year-long audio diary of a young woman who transitions into being a man. Also in this show: Producer Phoebe Judge talks with writer Edward Hoagland, the novelist and essayist noted especially for his writings about nature and wildlife.
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Tue, May 8
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Teachers Examine The Test
Dick speaks with a Los Angeles high school teacher who says a standarized test failed to evaluate the essence of her work, and to an upstate New York teacher who apologized to her students for giving them standarized tests. Also in this show: Steve Penney talks about how he was plucked from the minor leagues to play for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1984 NHL playoffs.
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Mon, May 7
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Udacity: Teaching Online
Dick speaks with Sebastian Thrun and David Evans, who teach computer science to thousands of students through the website Udacity. Also in this show: how a 20-something husband-and-wife team made one of the top-grossing mobile phone games of the year.
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Fri, May 4
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Ashley Bryan: I'm Going To Sing
Dick speaks with Ashley Bryan, best known for his children's books, about the Harlem Renaissance, Black American spirituals, and the power of voice. Also in this show: how players used a potato one day in the minor leagues, and poet Martin Espada reads a poem about going to a baseball game with his father.
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Thu, May 3
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The Ganges River
Producer Phoebe Judge travels to the Ganges, a 1,500-mile holy river that flows through Northern India, where she meets people who live on its banks and want to clean it up. Also in this show: an essay by Tim Hetherington about a photo he did not take, and an artist who got obsessed with Moby-Dick.
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Wed, May 2
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Egypt's First Female Presidential Candidate
Dick speaks with Bothaina Kamel, an Egyptian journalist and activist who became her country’s first female presidential candidate last April. Also in this show: The makers of a film about cholera and baseball in Haiti, two stories about Olympic trials for table tennis, and a song from a recently released Louis Armstrong track.
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Tue, May 1
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Last Day In Saigon 1975
Dick speaks to two men about the last day of the Vietnam War - a Marine embassy guard, and a Saigon teenager trying to escape with his family. Also in this show: Singer songwriter Adam Cohen on picking up the family business and writing in the tradition of his father, Leonard Cohen.
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Mon, Apr 30
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Exploring the Parent Trigger Law
Dick talks to two California mothers about the parent trigger law, which allows parents to vote on the fate of their children’s school. Also in this show: Cathy N. Davidson, of Duke University, on why distraction is a good thing.
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Fri, Apr 27
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Wolves and the man who hunts them
Carter Niemeyer has wrestled with wolves to relocate them and examined the scenes of livestock kills to determine if wolves were responsible. He is a wolfer.
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Thu, Apr 26
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Life Inside Texas' Death Row
Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian took photos, filmed, and interviewed inmates at length in Texas’ death row in 1979. Their documentary and book are being re-issued this month. Also in this show: A Washington D.C.’s woman unkempt house and how it kept her neighbors in an uproar.
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Mon, Apr 23
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Saving Lake Turkana
Ikal Angelei is on a campaign to keep Ethiopia from building a dam near Lake Turkana. If completed, the Gibe 3 Dam would be the largest hydroelectric plant in Africa, and would dry up the fisheries used by thousands of people living in the desert around the lake. Also on this show: Betty Bigombe on negotiating with Joseph Kony and the spat between Lady Sovereign and a jelly donut.
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Fri, Apr 20
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A Private Austronaut
Richard Garriott self-funded a flight in 2008 to the International Space Station, where he spent 12 days. Now, he’s helping design another form of space tourism that would launch people in rockets for a long sky dive back to land. Also in this show: An episode from the Martian Chronicles, and Nathan Sawaya talks about what he builds with his 1.5 million Lego blocks.
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Thu, Apr 19
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Chinese activist tracks Apple's Environmental Runoff
Ma Jun, a former investigative journalist in Beijing, is pressuring global companies to clean up their act in his country. Using public information, he has made maps of the air and water pollution left by the supply chain of companies such as Apple. Also on this show: A teenager who a dozen-plus languages, and producer Katie Davis teaches vocabulary to a teen in her neighborhood.
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Wed, Apr 18
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Fraternity Brother
Andrew Lohse waited for years to get into Dartmouth College and pledge to his grandfather’s fraternity. The humiliating and nauseating hazing he faced when he joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon shocked him. Also in this show: Writer Kelly Ruth Winter reads her short story Tommy, and singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier performs and talks to Dick about her search for her birth mother.
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Tue, Apr 17
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The Talk
Regular guest Reuben Jackson says the Trayvon Martin murder reminded him of the talk his parents gave him when he was young man - his father didn't want him being misunderstood or hurt. Also on this show: the 1955 murder of Emmett Till; a big baseball fan who made a little field; a fan who wanted all the New York Yankees' autographs; and a man who hated the Yankees.
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Mon, Apr 16
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Flipped School
Teachers in Clintondale High School, just outside of Detroit, have reversed the places where students do schoolwork and homework. Dick talks to a student, a teacher, and the principal about the strategy known as flipping. Also on this show: Producer Phoebe Judge talks to Katherine Switzer about an amateur coach, a feisty official, and a race that helped change running for women in America.
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Fri, Apr 13
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The Loss of the Titanic
We listen to first-hand accounts from Titanic survivor Lawrence Beesly, and Dick speaks with journalist Pat O’Brien, who researched the congressional hearings held just days after the ship sank. Also on the show: Dick speaks with Bill Middendorf, campaign treasurer for 1964 Republican nominee Barry Goldwater.
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Thu, Apr 12
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The Language of Violence
Writer Andrew Lam speaks about the possible link between immigrant frustrations and violence. Dick also speaks with Dr. Mila Means from Wichita, Kansas about her effort to open a medical clince that performs abortions.
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