Description:
American Public Media's American RadioWorks creates documentaries, series projects, and investigative reports for the public radio system and the Internet. American RadioWorks releases documentaries in the spring and fall.
40 Podcasts:
 1. arw_nukes_64.mp3 (played 24 times)
2. arw_gangster_64.mp3 (played 23 times)
3. arw_rememberking_64_64.mp3 (played 22 times)
4. arw_king_64.mp3 (played 22 times)
5. arw_design_64.mp3 (played 22 times)
6. arw_fostercare_64.mp3 (played 22 times)
7. arw_deseg_64.mp3 (played 21 times)
8. arw_wwii_64.mp3 (played 23 times)
9. arw_testing_64.mp3 (played 22 times)
10. arw_nola_64.mp3 (played 22 times)
11. arw_greenrush_64.mp3 (played 22 times)
12. arw_vistula_64.mp3 (played 23 times)
13. arw_radiofights_64.mp3 (played 22 times)
14. arw_cuska_64.mp3 (played 22 times)
15. arw_vegas_64.mp3 (played 22 times)
16. arw_siblings_64.mp3 (played 24 times)
17. arw_ohfreedom_64.mp3 (played 22 times)
18. arw_korea_64.mp3 (played 23 times)
19. arw_rwanda_64.mp3 (played 22 times)
20. arw_corrections_64.mp3 (played 23 times)
21. arw_stalin_64.mp3 (played 23 times)
22. arw_newyorkworks_64.mp3 (played 22 times)
23. arw_hospice_hour_64.mp3 (played 22 times)
24. arw_bipolarkids_64.mp3 (played 22 times)
25. arw_mandela_64.mp3 (played 22 times)
26. arw_marshall.mp3 (played 22 times)
27. arw_congress.mp3 (played 22 times)
28. arw_prestapes.mp3 (played 22 times)
29. arw_shakespeare.mp3 (played 22 times)
30. arw_vietnam_hour_128.mp3 (played 22 times)
31. arw_warmingplanet_128.mp3 (played 22 times)
32. arw_noplaceforawoman.mp3 (played 23 times)
33. arw_romania.mp3 (played 22 times)
34. arw_sayitplain.mp3 (played 23 times)
35. arw_japan.mp3 (played 22 times)
36. arw_sonicmemorial.mp3 (played 22 times)
37. arw_biloxi_hour.mp3 (played 22 times)
38. arw_vietnamconf.mp3 (played 22 times)
39. arw_marsha.mp3 (played 22 times)
40. arw_welfare_2.mp3 (played 22 times)
Content:
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American RadioWorks - What Killed Sergeant Gray
Sergeant Adam Gray made it home from Iraq only to die in his barracks. Investigating his death, American RadioWorks pieces together a story of soldiers suffering psychological scars -- because they abused Iraqi prisoners.
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American RadioWorks - Pueblo, USA
Latino immigrants are changing the culture and economy of America, and not just in big coastal cities. We follow a small Southern town as it adjusts to its deepest cultural change since the Civil Rights movement, and in a Midwestern city, a neighborhood is reborn when immigrants move in. But the rebirth comes at a price.
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American RadioWorks - Business of the Bomb: The Modern Nuclear Marketplace
How the global expansion of nuclear know-how is challenging efforts to contain the spread of atomic weapons.
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American RadioWorks - Gangster Confidential
For 20 years, Rene Enriquez fought his way to the top of one of America's most ruthless gangs. He killed and ordered the deaths of gang rivals on Southern California streets and behind bars. Then he had a change of heart. Gangster Confidential follows Enriquez's quest for redemption and freedom inside America's most brutal prison system.
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American RadioWorks - Remembering King
To mark the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, American RadioWorks hosted a special evening of discussion at the Riverside Church in New York City. The event was moderated by Clayborne Carson, a leading King historian and director of the King Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. King's close colleagues, Dorothy Cotton and Vincent Harding, discussed King's radical stance on poverty and the Vietnam War, and talked about King's legacy in the context of the 2008 election.
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American RadioWorks - King's Last March
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Four decades later, King remains one of the most vivid symbols of hope for racial unity in America. But that's not the way he was viewed in the last year of his life.
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American RadioWorks - Design of Desire
New research is lending insight into why we want stuff that we don't need. It also explains why some people are what are called tightwads, while other people are spendthrifts. Why do we buy? How are designers and marketers influencing what we buy? And how are individuals using market ideas, tricks, and tools to market themselves?
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American RadioWorks - Wanted: Parents
Advocates for kids are trying to persuade more families to adopt teenagers. If teenagers in foster care don't find permanent families, they face a grim future. They "age out" of foster care, usually when they turn 18 years old, and many wind up on the streets. Every year, more than 24,000 American young people age out of foster care.
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American RadioWorks - An Imperfect Revolution: Voices from the Desegregation Era
In the 1970s, for the first time, large numbers of white children and black children began attending school together. It was an experience that shaped them for life.
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American RadioWorks - Battles of Belief
America seemed united in fighting "The Good War" but not everyone fought in the same way.
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American RadioWorks - Put to the Test
No Child Left Behind has had a dramatic effect on American schools. Producers spent two years in one high school documenting how high-stakes testing has reshaped teaching and learning.
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American RadioWorks - Routes to Recovery
To mark the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, American RadioWorks teams up with Nick Spitzer of American Routes to find out how culture might save New Orleans.
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American RadioWorks - Green Rush
From carbon offsets to biofuels, companies and investors are seeking riches in the fight against global warming. What happens when good deeds grapple with the realities of the free market?
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American RadioWorks - Red Runs the Vistula
Five years after the start of World War II, the people of Warsaw rose up against the German occupation of their city. The uprising was meant to last just 48 hours. Instead, it went on for two months. A quarter of a million people were killed and the Polish capital was razed to the ground. It was one of the great tragedies of World War II, and yet it is rarely talked about outside Poland.
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American RadioWorks - Radio Fights Jim Crow
During the World-War-II years a series of groundbreaking radio programs tried to mend the deep racial and ethnic divisions that threatened America.
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American RadioWorks - Massacre at Cuska
In 1999 Serb death squads attacked the ethnic Albanian village of Cuska and left 41 unarmed civilians dead.
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American RadioWorks - Las Vegas: An Unconventional History
Trace Las Vegas' evolution from a remote railroad town to a mobster metropolis, to its current incarnation as an adult-themed resort town that nearly two million people call home.
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American RadioWorks - A Burden to be Well: Sisters and Brothers of the Mentally Ill
The effects of mental illness are well documented. But until recently, there has been little said about the siblings of the mentally ill. Now researchers are starting to look at the "well-sibling" syndrome.
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American RadioWorks - Oh Freedom Over Me
In the summer of 1964, about a thousand young Americans, black and white, came together in Mississippi for a peaceful assault on racism. It came to be known as Freedom Summer, one of the most remarkable chapters in the Civil Rights Movement.
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American RadioWorks - Korea: The Unfinished War
To fully grasp the ongoing tensions between the United States and North Korea, it is important to understand the war that ended in 1954. John Biewen and Stephen Smith of American RadioWorks examine the often-overlooked war that helped define global politics and American life for the second half of the 20th century.
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American RadioWorks - The Few Who Stayed - Defying Genocide in Rwanda
In April 1994, the central African nation of Rwanda exploded into 100 days of violence, killing 800,000 people. Most turned their backs to the bloodshed. Here is the story of those who stayed.
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American RadioWorks - Corrections, Inc.
How corporations, prison guard unions, and police agencies help to shape who gets locked up and for how long.
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American RadioWorks - Unmasking Stalin: A Speech That Changed the World
On February 25, 1956, former Kremlin leader Nikita Khrushchev revealed and denounced, for the first time in the history of the Soviet Union, the crimes of his predecessor, Joseph Stalin, dramatically shifting Soviet Russia's course, stirring a human rights movement, and opening the door to the eventual collapse of the USSR.
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American RadioWorks - New York Works
New York Works is an audio portrait of a vanishing city. From a knife sharpener who still makes house calls to one of Brooklyn's last commercial fisherman, New York Works tells the stories of those who keep the city's past alive.
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American RadioWorks - The Hospice Experiment
The '60s were a time of social movements and big changes, but a quieter revolution was underway too - one led by a few middle-aged women who wanted to change our way of death. They were the founders of the hospice movement.
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American RadioWorks - A Mind of Their Own
Most children can be volatile at some point in their development, with no particular cause for worry. But at what point do irritability, mood swings, and tantrums constitute a mental illness? Up to half a million children are believed to have bipolar illness. This is the story of three of those children, their families, and the professionals who work with them.
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American RadioWorks - Mandela: An Audio History
A decade ago, Nelson Mandela became president in South Africa's first multi-racial democratic election. Mandela's journey, from freedom fighter to president, capped a dramatic half-century long struggle against white rule and the institution of apartheid.
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American RadioWorks - Thurgood Marshall Before the Court
In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. But Marshall had already earned a place in history - as the leader of the legal campaign against racial segregation, which culminated in the landmark Brown v. Board decision.
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American RadioWorks - Imperial Washington
Members of Congress face many temptations, such as special interests who want to take them on free trips golfing or fishing, to Bermuda or Wimbledon. But voters are demanding reform. In this podcast, we look at how the perks lawmakers enjoy make it tough to clean up government. And what happens when newcomers try to play the lobbying game.
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American RadioWorks - The President Calling
Three of America's most compelling presidents - Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon - bugged their White House offices and tapped their telephones. They left behind thousands of secretly recorded conversations, from momentous to mundane. In this documentary project, American RadioWorks eavesdrops on presidential telephone calls to hear how each man used one-on-one politics to shape history.
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American RadioWorks - Urban Shakespeare
Los Angeles is perhaps the nation's capital of "wannabe" artists, filled with aspiring actors, directors and screenwriters who are waiting tables, parking cars and brewing coffee. All have hopes of someday escaping the drudgery of these day jobs for the golden opportunity when their art might become their full-time work. But a few teens in Los Angeles have been earning their first pay as working artists: studying Shakespeare and writing their own poetry and music, all while earning minimum wage.
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American RadioWorks - Vietnam and the Presidency
For historians of war and the American presidency, the Vietnam War is a special case. With troves of audio recordings, declassified documents and other materials, historians know more about how and why the White House waged war in Vietnam than in any other conflict. At a time when the United States debates what to do in Iraq, the lessons of Vietnam are more relevant than ever.
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American RadioWorks - Reports From a Warming Planet
The early signs of climate change are showing up across vastly differing landscapes: from melting outposts near the Arctic Circle to disappearing glaciers high in the Andes; from the rising water in the deltas of Bangladesh to the "sinking" atolls of the Pacific. Reports from a Warming Planet takes you to parts of the planet where global warming is already making changes to life and landscape, and demonstrates how climate change is no longer restricted to scientific modeling about the future. It's happening now.
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American RadioWorks - No Place for a Woman
In 1970, nearly half the women in the United States had paying jobs, but most women worked for low pay. Women were waitresses, clerks, and cleaning ladies. Less than five percent of lawyers were women. About three percent of police officers were women. In the iron mines of northern Minnesota, zero percent of the steelworkers were women. But in the mid-70s, women there began taking jobs running shovels, driving trucks, and operating enormous machines in the ore processing plants. Some of the men tried to force the women miners out. Women were harassed, threatened, and even assaulted. But they needed the jobs. They wanted their rights. And they wanted to change the world for their daughters and granddaughters. So the women miners of northern Minnesota fought back, and made legal history.
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American RadioWorks - Rewiring the Brain: Early Deprivation and Child Development
After the fall of communism in Romania, the world was shocked to discover a vast system of orphanages where unwanted children languished in cribs with little attention from caregivers. Sixteen years later, much has changed in Romania; the old orphanages are emptying, although progress is much more evident in Bucharest than in the poorer provinces. As this grim chapter comes to a close, scientists are measuring how children recover from early neglect and discovering what early damage might be irreversible.
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American RadioWorks - Say It Plain: A Century of African American Oratory
Martin Luther King, Jr. was the most famous black orator in history. But he was hardly alone. For generations, African Americans have been demanding justice and equality, reminding America to make good on its founding principles of democracy. These orators, and the very act of speaking out, played a crucial role in the long struggle for equal rights. Hear some of those seminal speeches at Say It Plain.
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American RadioWorks - Japan's Pop Power
To many people, global youth culture means rock and roll and other Western fashions. But for more and more young people across to world, the capital of pop culture is Tokyo. Over the past decade, Japanese video games, animation and comic books have caught fire in much of the world, including the United States.
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American RadioWorks - The Sonic Memorial Project
To mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, we bring you a special re-broadcast of a Peabody-award winning documentary that chronicles the sounds and voices of the World Trade Center and its surrounding neighborhood. The program was produced for NPR on the first anniversary by The Kitchen Sisters and a nationwide collaboration. We offer it to you again, a sonic memorial that is just as moving and relevant five years later.
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American RadioWorks - One Year After Katrina
Biloxi, Mississippi is poised to recover faster than any other place on the Gulf Coast hit by Hurricane Katrina. Casinos are fueling a building boom, but some residents are still mired in misfortune. American RadioWorks presents an intimate portrait of several families struggling to rebuild their lives in Biloxi, and a city trying to reclaim itself.
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American RadioWorks - Vietnam and the Presidency
For historians of war and the American presidency, the Vietnam War is a special case. With troves of audio recordings, declassified documents and other materials, historians know more about how and why the White House waged war in Vietnam than in any other conflict. At a time when the United States debates what to do in Iraq, the lessons of Vietnam are more relevant than ever.
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American RadioWorks - Life After Prison
Studies indicate that two thirds of the women in prison and half of the men have children under the age of 18. That means some 1.5 million children have a parent behind bars. When prisoners are released, one of the many challenges they face is rebuilding family life. Marsha was released from a North Carolina prison after serving a 7-year sentence as an accessory to two drug-related murders. She has two children, Michael and Khire. In 2003, correspondent John Biewen followed Marsha as she and her sons worked to put their family back together.
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American RadioWorks - Ending Welfare in Wyoming
In 1996 President Bill Clinton signed the landmark Welfare Reform Bill, killing the 60-year-old welfare program known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, or AFDC. The new law gave grants to states to run their own anti-poverty programs and required them to move many welfare recipients into the workforce. Wyoming, more than any other state, ended welfare after 1996 by cutting its cash assistance roles by more than 90 percent. But Wyoming's leaders are now having a different debate: how to better support poor people who've gone to work.
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American RadioWorks - Power Trips: Congressional Staffers Share the Road
Public documents show that from 2000 through mid-2005, members of Congress and their staff took nearly 23,000 privately sponsored trips, at a cost of almost $50 million. A majority of those trips were taken by staff. Many of these staffer trips clearly violate ethics rules designed to limit the abuse of power.
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American RadioWorks - An Adoptee in Exile
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