American Public Media
American Public Radio is a producer of over 20 public radio programs. Many of their programs are available for free to stream or download from their site or to subscribe to as a podcast, and some can be subscribed to and downloaded from Audible.com. Popular podcasted programs include Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac, parts of Marketplace, Future Tense, and Weekend America. Some of their programs offered through Audible.com are A Prairie Home Companion, The Splendid Table, Speaking of Faith, Marketplace, and Marketplace Money.
They also produce American RadioWorks audio documentaries that cover a wide variety of contemporary issues. All of these documentaries are available for free as streaming audio at: americanradioworks.publicradio.org. And most of these documentaries can be downloaded from Audible.com for a reasonable price.
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Garrison Keillor
The Writer's Almanac Podcast hosted by Garrison Keillor is a wonderful way to start your day. Though well known already for being the figurehead of NPR's "A Prairie Home Companion", Keillor has been offering this daily dose of poetry and history for many years as well.
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Stephen Smith
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In this streaming audio presentation from American Radio Works, listeners can hear a chronological history of the Korean War. Soldiers, historians and military leaders explain how this "forgotten war" was an essential event that defined global politics for the next 40 years.
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Stephen Smith
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This hour-long audio documentary from American RadioWorks is an excellent introduction to great African American speakers of the last century.
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Mary Beth Kirchner
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In this streaming audio documentary produced by American Public Media, the controversy over intelligent design is examined from all sides of the debate.
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Chris Farrell
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This audio documentary from American Public Media examines the record number of bankruptcy filings in recent years in the United States. Documentarians Chris Farrell and Sasha Aslanian travel to Memphis, a city with one of the highest rates of bankruptcy in the country.
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Julia Rooke
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In August 1944, five years after the start of World War II, the people of Warsaw, armed with just a few guns and gasoline bombs, rose up against the German occupation of their city....
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Stephen Smith
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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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John Rabe
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This audio documentary put out by American Public Media recounts the incredible true-life tale of how 28 Men survived a ship-wreck in Antarctica for 2 years.
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The documentary unit of APM Reports (formerly American RadioWorks) has produced more than 140 programs on topics such as health, history, education and justice.
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Lynne Rossetto Kasper
Lynne Rossetto Kasper answers listeners' kitchen questions. Excerpted from each week's edition of The Splendid Table.
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