The VPR Saturday Special
The VPR Saturday Special
True Stories Told Live
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This week on The Moth, an author who treasures the art of letter-writing is spellbound by an inmate who becomes a pen pal, and more true stories told live!The VPR Saturday Special
True Stories Told Live
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In this episode of The Moth Radio Hour, a severely stuttering child years later becomes the world’s premier jaguar expert, and more true stories told live.The VPR Saturday Special
True Stories Told Live
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The Moth features true stories told live without notes. This week on The Moth Radio Hour, a batboy for the New York Yankees goes on a wild goose chase for a left-handed bat-stretcher, an Irish-Catholic family obsessed with the Kennedys dedicates a summer to spying on their idols, a comedian experiences the ultimate heartbreak, and a drill sergeant faints at the sight of blood.The VPR Saturday Special
State Of The Re:Union: Summer In Sanctuary
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This episode chronicles Al Letson’s journey teaching at a summer camp at the Sanctuary on 8th Street, a community center in an economically challenged neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida.The VPR Saturday Special
State Of The Re:Union: Pike County, Ohio
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Al Letson and guest producer Lu Olkowski visit a tiny town in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio where, for a century, residents have shared the common bond of identifying as African-American despite the fact that they look white.The VPR Saturday Special
State Of The Re:Union: Internet Communities
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With this episode of State of the Re:Union, we tell stories of the Internet’s impact on community-building in human terms, on the messy level of people’s daily existence, where its effects are rarely solely positive or negative.The VPR Saturday Special
State Of The Re:Union: The Story of Bayard Rustin
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Bayard Rustin was a pivotal figure in the civil rights movement that you may not have heard of. He counseled Martin Luther King on the value of non-violence and helped engineer the March on Washington. Al Letson tells Rustin’s story Saturday at 4.The VPR Saturday Special
State Of The Re:Union: Tucson, Arizona
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Tucson sits in the borderlands, the desert landscape where America and Mexico meet. We visit Tucson this week on State of the Re:Union.The VPR Saturday Special
