Kaari Pitkin produces Radio Rookies, New York's Peabody Award winning radio project for teenagers. She and one of the Rookies, Jaimita Haskell, tell Jim Fleming about the project.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Mick Foley thrilled wrestling fans for years as the character “Mankind.” He’s since written two best-selling autobiographies and two children’s books. Now he’s a novelist.
Henrietta Lacks was a poor, African American woman who died of cervical cancer at the age of 31...
Keli Goff tells Steve Paulson that today's young Black voters don't look at politics through the lens of the Civil Rights Movement.
Maybe Mr. Rogers was right and every neighbor is a potential friend – someone worth inviting over, getting to know. On the other hand, maybe the weird guy next door will turn out to be Jeffrey Dahmer.
Jon Ronson was assigned by The Guardian newspaper to find out how easy it would be to build a dirty bomb. So he did.
Richard Hand describes several of the programs that made that period the Golden Age of radio.
Kevin Powers has spent the last decade reflecting on his experiences as a machine gunner in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. He talks about his new poetry collection "Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting."
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