The State Were In: Labor Day -- The Right to Work -- The program talks with people who are fighting for a fair deal at work: choice of employment, just conditions of work, protection against unemployment and simply the right to hold a job -- something many in the world cannot take for granted. This program was produced by Radio Netherlands and WAMU.

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Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep from Singing? -- Pete Seeger is perhaps America's best-known folk musician, the songwriter/adapter of such hits as "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" and "Guantanamera," and 1994 recipient of the National Endowment for the Art's Medal of Arts. In this program, David Dunaway - host, producer and Seeger biographer - explores the legendary singer's life and music in three captivating hour-long documentaries. Each program features audio from Dunaway's 11 interviews with Seeger and from Seeger's 124 albums as well as an archive of 114 interviews with the artist's family and associates. The three programs comprising this in-depth look at Pete Seeger are "Origins," "Folk Songs and Ballads" and "Topical and Protest Songs."

Hearing Voices: Prime Candidates: Portraits of Past Presidential Primaries -- Politicians who fancy themselves president tromp through the New Hampshire mill town of "Claremont," produced by Larry Massett, Art Silverman and Betty Rogers. Also, the media spin myths out of misquotes in "Democracy and Things Like That," by Sarah Vowell and This American Life. And the Language Removal Service concocts the world's first wordless political debate in their "California Recall Project."

Hearing VoicesHeat: Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer -- In "I'm Not Dead," from Joe Frank's "Summer Notes," there is a perfection of family, a crippled man on a blind man's back and a collective scream. Also, Tucson residents reflect the desert "Heat," with author Charles Bowden, poet Ofelia Zepeda and music by Steve Roach; produced by Jeff Rice.
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Prime Candidates: Portraits of Past Presidential Primaries -- Politicians who fancy themselves president tromp through the New Hampshire mill town of "Claremont," produced by Larry Massett, Art Silverman and Betty Rogers. Also, the media spin myths out of misquotes in "Democracy and Things Like That," by Sarah Vowell and This American Life. And the Language Removal Service concocts the world's first wordless political debate in their "California Recall Project."
Audio currently not available for this program.

Hearing Voices: Prime Candidates: Portraits of Past Presidential Primaries -- Politicians who fancy themselves president tromp through the New Hampshire mill town of "Claremont," produced by Larry Massett, Art Silverman and Betty Rogers. Also, the media spin myths out of misquotes in "Democracy and Things Like That," by Sarah Vowell and This American Life. And the Language Removal Service concocts the world's first wordless political debate in their "California Recall Project."
Audio currently not available for this program.