
This was first produced in 1989, for Weekend All Things Considered. It ran on This American Life in 1997. I use it often in reporter seminars because it was a quick-turnaround feature (5 hours of reporting; 2 days to write and produce) that still has...
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We receive several hundred CDs a week at All Songs Considered and do our best to listen to a bit of everything....
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We're deciding if we want to join the military. We're deciding if we want to protest something. We're fighting wars in o...
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For more than a century, U.S. Steel's Homestead Works was the flagship mill of the American steel industry, buzzing with activity. But in the 1980s, it shut down, costing thousands...
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HOST: Our This I Believe essay today was sent to us by an inmate at Kinross Correctional Facility on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Troy Chapman is serving a sentence of 60-90 years for second-degree murder. So ...
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He was one of the true legends or rock n’ roll, recording alongside
Elvis,
Johnny Cash,
Carl Perkins –all the greats. And yet twenty years after his untimely death on December 6th, 1988, one coul...
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"1977 on Stage and Screen"
The best of the year including Broadway's "Annie" and Hollywood's "Saturday Night Fever," plus two Liza Minnelli m...
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