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Paternal praise, pride, disappointment and love: Scott Carrier gives his son Milo a "Ski Lesson." From Animals and Other Stories, we hear "Reflections of Fathers," aka, Bugs & Dads. Comic strip artist Lynda Barry wishes her divorced dad a "Happy Father's Day." A doctor tells his daughter about her granddad in "Story Corps- Dr. William Weaver." Jay Allison describes his daughter's questions about his love life as "Grilling Me Softly". Dan Robb's family remembers the day "Dad's Moving Out," from Life Stories. "Doc Merrick" and daughter Viki go through some girl problems. David Greenberger tells David Cobb's story "Because of Dad." Deirdre Sullivan's father advises "Always Go to the Funeral," a This I Believe essay. And from producer by Viki Merrick, Dave Masch wants to be "A Better Father."

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For World AIDS Awareness Day, December 1: Sister Agnes Ramashiga's Radio Diaries of "Just Another Day At the World's Biggest Hospital," Soweto -- 2000 patients check in daily, half HIV positive. A teenager documents her HIV "Positive Life- Tanya," by American RadioWorks. Poet Lisa Buscani is "Counting" on her mom's health advice. "And Trouble Came: An African AIDS Diary" is Laura Kaminsky's compositon for viola, cello, piano, and stories of Tamakloe: warrior, tailor, AIDS victim. Life-saving meds brought Krandall Kraus back from the dead, like "Lazarus." A dying mother's writes her son "Letters to Butchie," by Sound Portraits.

In "Enola Alone" Antenna Theater interviews bomber pilots, bombing victims, and Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay. Political speeches and popular songs chart our changing attitudes towards the "Atomic Age." Residents recall the 1950s Nevada and Utah nuclear bomb tests in Claes Andreasson series "Downwinder Diaries." Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti has "Wild Dreams of a New Beginning." Americans across the country answer Scott Carrier's question: "What Are You Afraid Of?" The band Lemon Jelly presents "Page One," presents the Big Bang with a beat. And we select some "Atomic Platters: Cold War Music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security" compiled by CONELRAD.com.

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Host Dmae Roberts of Stories1st.org, for Women's History Month, presents Stories By, For, and Of Women: The Kitchen Sisters go to "Tupperware®" parties. A supermarket checker checks out her life, in ZBS's radio soap Saratoga Springs. Jenifir returns "Home From Africa" with all 13 Symptoms of Chronic Peace Corps Withdrawal. Host Dmae Roberts has a collage of and about "Sisters." In a new syntax of whispers and words Susan Stone tells the story of "Ruby" and her husbands. And Sonia Sanchez, Tracie Morris, Jill Battson and Meryn Cadell perform short poems.

An audio Thanksgiving feast. We binge on fattening stories, then purge with a documentary on refusing food. Scott Carrier tours a "Turkey Ranch," following the gobbler from farmyard to frozen food. Joe Frank describes a typically twisted family "Thanksgiving Dinner" (from his program "Pilgrim"). Dean Olscher goes "Chowhounding in St. Paul," searching for Hmong food, with cellphone assistance from Chowhound Jim Leff. And Annie Cheney offers a touching document of her eating disorder, "Concerning Breakfast" from Jay Allison's Life Stories series.

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