The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor: ‘Anniversary’ by Davi Walders, and the literary and historical notes for Thursday, May 23, 2013.
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2013/05/23
The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor: ‘Anniversary’ by Davi Walders, and the literary and historical notes for Thursday, May 23, 2013.
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2013/05/23
The A-11 Offense : Two frustrated coaches at Piedmont High School in Northern California were brainstorming ideas to keep their small team competitive. What they devised was a crazy new offensive strategy called the A-11 that took advantage of the "scrimmage kick" formation. If you have no idea what that is, you’re not alone, but the A-11 strategy worked and the Piedmont Highlanders began winning. Is it the future of football?
http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/11/08/a11_football
JUN 5, 1998 What’s frustrating about music lessons, what’s miraculous about them, and what they actually teach us. This show was recorded in front of a live audience at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, with help from KQED-FM, during the 1998 Public Radio Conference in San Francisco.
Tagged with this american life david sedaris anne lamott
Podcast transcript to be added later.
Dr. Benjamin Gilmer (left) gets a job at a rural clinic. He finds out heâs replaced someone â also named Dr. Gilmer (picture) â who went to prison after killing his own father. But the more Benjaminâs patients talk about the other Dr. Gilmer, the more confused he becomes. Everyone loved the old Dr. Gilmer.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/492/dr-gilmer-and-mr-hyde
F1B Downshift: EXCLUSIVE interview with Steve Matchett
http://www.formula1blog.com/2013/03/04/f1b-downshift-exclusive-interview-with-steve-matchett/
The number of Americans receiving federal disability payments has nearly doubled over the last 15 years. There are towns and counties around the nation where almost 1/4 of adults are on disability. Planet Money’s Chana Joffe-Walt spent 6 months exploring the disability program, and emerges with a story of the U.S.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/490/trends-with-benefits
Stories of people living completely outside the grid of American life. Americans in Paris. Chinese in America. West Virginians in treehouses. Mexican-Americans in Rochester.
Stories of people starting over, sometimes because they want to, other times because they have to.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/233/starting-from-scratch
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