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Radio Link for WWII Prisoners in Japan 3:39 Jeff Rice

For the 60th anniversary of Germany’s surrender in World War II: British Col. R.G. Wells was among a group of soldiers in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp who heard the news on a makeshift radio they built and hid in the camp’s latrine. [transcript]

Broadcast: May 6 2005 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: War, International, Technology

Reports from Nazi Death Camps 7:45 Barrett Golding

During the weeks leading up to the surrender, Allied soldiers liberated Nazi concentration camps across Europe and reporters soon brought the full story of the Holocaust to the world. We hear BBC (Patrick Gordon Walker) and CBS (Ed Murrow) broadcasts made six decades ago by war correspondents viewing the camps for the first time. [transcript]

Broadcast: May 4 2005 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: News, International, War

The Last Frontier 10:02 Jesse Boggs

Post-991 security changes on the Texas-Mexico border affect people living on both sides of La Frontera.

Broadcast: Apr 30 2005 on APM Weekend America Subjects: Public Affairs, International, Historical, Hispanic

Traders at Chicago Board Options Exchange

Traders 15:29 Larry Massett

The art of gammas, deltas, collars, butterflies, and boxes. Options traders discuss buying and selling anything, but really nothing, at their weekly social get-together over cake and coffee. [transcript]

Broadcast: Apr 26 2005 on WBEZ Chicago Matters Subjects: Business

Falcons Followed 7:06 Jesse Boggs

Naturalist Alan Tennant and pilot George Vose track the migrations of Peregrine falcons all around the world. Their airplane flights may soon become a Robert Reford movie.

Broadcast: Apr 23 2005 on APM Weekend America Subjects: Entertainment, Environment, Travel

Homeless Romanian Dwarf 2:42 Larry Massett

Winter in a cold country is hard on the homeless, especially in Romania, where cities are full are people with no place to live. That’s a statistic, though. We hardly ever meet these people as actual human beings. Writer and anthropologist Alyssa Goodman describes an encounter she witnessed on the streets of Bucharest, late one night. [transcript]

Broadcast: Apr 20 2005 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Public Affairs, Youth, International

Poetry Month: Totally Like Whatever 3:16 Taylor Mali

From the CD Conviction. [transcript]

Broadcast: Apr 20 2005 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Poetry Month Subjects: Literature, Youth, Spoken Word

Poetry Month: Song No.2 2:40 Steve Rowland

Sonia Sanchez performs her poem "To all you youndg girls." Produced by Steve Rowland and mixed by Joe Waters (a commission from WXPN with funding from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts) with original music by Jamaaladeen Tacuma. [transcript]

Broadcast: Apr 14 2005 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Poetry Month Subjects: Spoken Word, Literature, African American, Women

Emmanuel (Brian David Mitchell) and Elizabeth Smart in veil

Invisible Girl 13:05 Scott Carrier

For weeks after teenager Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City bedroom, she walked the streets with her captors, sometimes just blocks from her home. Yet no one ever recognized her. Not a soul, even though her picture was in every paper the entire time. How is this possible?

Broadcast: Apr 8 2005 on PRI/WBEZ This American Life Subjects: News, Religious, Youth, Justice

Poetry Month: Poetry is Wanted Here 4:23 Alex Caldiero

From the collection Various Atmospheres. [transcript]

Broadcast: Apr 6 2005 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Poetry Month Subjects: Literature, Spoken Word