Weekend All Things Considered
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Privacy, Water Rights, And The Music Of Matthew Morrison
On this episode of the Weekends on All Things Considered Podcast, a look at privacy in the U.S., and a look at our water resources, as growing populations strain many rivers and reservoirs. Plus, Matthew Morrison's new CD of Americana classics.
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Rethinking Retirement, Shining Girls, And Ghost Brothers
On this week's podcast of Weekends on All Things Considered, a generation of people worry that they will never reach the promised goal of retirement. And, a new thriller novel for summer reading, and a collaboration of John Mellencamp, Steven King, and T-Bone Burnett about their opera.
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Tornado Safety, School Suspensions, And Darius Rucker
In this week's podcast of Weekends on All Things Considered: A look at tornado safety, and one LA school district's decision to end school suspensions. Plus, the rise of bike sharing, Sheri Booker on 9 years spent working in an inner-city Baltimore funeral home, and Darius Rucker.
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Veteran's Benefits, Pearl S. Buck's Lost Manuscript, And...
In this week's podcast of Weekends on All Things Considered: A look at the challenge veterans face in applying for benefits. Also, a lost and found manuscript, a novel set in Chechnya and an interview with Broadway star Keith Carradine
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Saving Rhode Island, Intern Rights, And Amanda Knox
In this week's podcast of Weekends on All Things Considered: A look at the state of Rhode Island as it fights for economic stability. Also, intern rights, writer Clair Messud, and how a 1965 American novel became a hit in Europe. Plus, Amanda Knox on her new memoir, and a-capella king Deke Sharon.
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Guantanamo, A Multiracial Nation, And Rudresh Mahanthappa
In this week's podcast of Weekends on All Things Considered: Guantanamo, an increasingly multiracial America, closed-caption glasses in movie theatres, James Salter's new novel, a biography of Robert "Believe It Or Not" Ripley, and the soul-infused jazz of Rudresh Mahanthappa.
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Drones, Dur-Dur Band, And A Derby With Hunter S. Thompson
In this week's podcast of Weekends on All Things Considered: targeted killings, a game-changing week in Syria, the coming out of Glenn Burke, a remembrance of Hunter S. Thompson's trip to the 1970 Kentucky Derby, and the Somali dance music of Dur-Dur Band.
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