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Boxers glare at each other in ring before fight

Fight Night in Chicago 4:10 Chris Booker

A sound portrait of fight night at Chicago's United Center: Fighters in training, punch bags, jump ropes and talk about their chosen profession. Fans tell what draws them into the arena to see the fighters. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jul 6 2006 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Business, Sports

Album cover: Clothesline Revival's Long Gone

Clothesline Revival 6:52 Barrett Golding

The vocals on the new album by Clothesline Revival are more than half a century old: unprofessional singers recorded in the rural south, by John and Alan Lomax. The music of Clothesline Revival is by multi-instrumentalist Robert Powell and composer Conrad Praetzel Conrad is a former archeologist. His research skills came in handy unearthing material for the band's latest collection, called Long Gone. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jul 4 2006 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Music, Interviews, Americana, Historical

Circus Blood 54:00 Jay Allison, Joe Frank, Larry Massett & [Hearing Voices]

Tales from the Big Top. Emcee John Dankosky, of WNPR- Connecticut Public Radio, presents a world-class troupe of audio daredevils and media magicians: SF Chronicle journalist Jon Carroll interviews his daughter Shana as she hang upside down on her "Trapeze", ready to fly away; from the Life Stories series by Jay Allison. Joe Frank loves the lady "Lion Tamer," an excerpt from his hour "The Dictator- Part 2." Adam Rosen mixes a medley of the many versions of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." Drummer Bobby Previte composes the "Music of the Moscow Circus." Elizabeth Eck returns to the circus family she ran away to join in Larry Massett's "Circus in the Blood." And Twink serves up "The Great Circus Show" from The Broken Record. More audio, info and links...

Broadcast: Jul 1 2006 on HV SpecialSeries: Hearing Voices- Specials Subjects: Specials, Spoken Word, Entertainment

Living with Bomb Testing in the Nevada Desert 8:36 Scott Carrier

The federal government has now delayed indefinitely a plan to detonate a huge bomb in the Nevada desert. A mushroom cloud was likely to result from the detonation of 700 tons of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil in an underground tunnel. We travel to several towns around the Nevada test site to find out what people who live nearby think of the plan. [transcript]

Broadcast: May 29 2006 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: War, Environment, Public Affairs

Cambodia 2: Human trafficking 6:37 Scott Carrier

Second in a series: In this second report of his two-part series on human trafficking, the story of a Cambodian family whose daughters were sold to brothels to make ends meet. [transcript]

Broadcast: May 26 2006 on APM MarketplaceSeries: Cambodia: Human Traffick Subjects: Justice, Women, Youth, International, Children

Cambodia 1: Human trafficking 6:14 Scott Carrier

First in a series: The annual report on human trafficking next week will estimate between 600,000 and 800,000 people are trafficked across borders each year � and that doesn't include people sold within their own countries. Scott Carrier reports. [transcript]

Broadcast: May 25 2006 on APM MarketplaceSeries: Cambodia: Human Traffick Subjects: Justice, International, Women, Youth, Children

Spring Skiing in the Wasatch 4:01 Scott Carrier

When most people are headed to the beach, our producer heads for the ski slopes near his home in Utah. Carrier explains that the combination of freezing and thawing in the late spring gives the mountain snow pack a special quality that makes for a unique skiing experience. [transcript]

Broadcast: May 17 2006 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Environment, Sports

East Village Opera Company 7:00 Barrett Golding

The debut CD by The East Village Opera Company features new takes on a revered art form. This New York City musical group that mixes opera with rock 'n' roll. The group is made up of a five-piece band, a string quartet and two vocalists. [transcript]

Broadcast: May 15 2006 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Music, Opera, Rock

Mohammed Naseehu Ali's father, Alhaji Abubakar Ali III, the emir of Ghana

Song & Memory: Ghana 8:16 Ann Heppermann, Rick Moody & Kara Oehler

Mohammed Naseehu Ali is a native of Ghana, the son of the emir, or king, of the Muslims in that African nation. Unlike his brothers and cousins, Ali left Ghana to be educated in the United States. Instead of returning to tribal politics, he became a musician and writer. But he hasn't left behind the memories of a song so important to his childhood in Ghana: "Kyenkyen Bi Adi Mawu" by Alhaki K. Frimpong and his Cubano Fiesta.

Broadcast: May 13 2006 on APM Weekend AmericaSeries: Song & Memory Subjects: World, International, Youth, Music

Crossing Borders 54:00 Scott Carrier, Ann Heppermann, Kara Oehler & [Hearing Voices]

From Mexico to US, a Tale of Two Countries in this (((Hearing Voices))) Cinco de Mayo special. Your guide Marcos Martinez, of KUNM-Albuquerque, plays some border radio: Poet Luis Alberto Urrea delivers his "Hymn to Vatos Who Will Never Appear in a Poem" and travels "The Devil's Highway," from his book about death in the desert. In "Sasabe," a Sonora, Mexico border town, Scott Carrier talks to immigrants along their hazardous, illegal desert crossing, and to the border patrol waiting for them in Sasabe, Arizona. "And I walked..." (with Charles Bowden) is a border-crossing sound-portrait by Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler, from the Third Coast Festival's ShortDocs series. Guillermo G�mez-Pe�a gives a "Citizenship Lesson," from his CD Borderless Radio, and imagines "Maquiladoras of the Future," fantasy border factories. And One-minute Vacation podcasts (QuietAmerican.org) a Saint Jude's festival in the highlands of Michoacan recorded by Siamack Sioshansi, and evening mass at the Church of Carmen Alta in Oaxaca City recorded by Bronwyn Ximm. More audio, info and links...

Broadcast: May 5 2006 on HV SpecialSeries: Hearing Voices- Specials Subjects: Hispanic, International, Specials, Justice