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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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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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"Las Vegas: An Unconventional History" commemorates the 100th anniversary of Las Vegas with a sweeping look at the city's dramatic past.

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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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by Daniel Zwerdling
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Twenty-five years after the fall of Saigon, the legacy of the war affects lives on both sides of the Pacific....

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On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we visit New Orleans to explore the status of its long road to recovery. Could the preservation and restoration of the city's cultural life provide the most enduring path to its rebuilding?

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by 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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The 1968 presidential election was a watershed in American politics. After dominating the political landscape for more than a generation, the Democratic Party crumbled.

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by 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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by Brian Williams
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Vietnam tested four American presidents. It took the lives of more than 58,000 Americans, and more than one million Vietnamese.

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by Robert Rand
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How did Russia, after 30 years of Stalin's propoganda and cult of personality, come to see Joseph Stalin as the repressive and brutal leader that he was?

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