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Saturday, March 13, 2010 9pm
Producer: Murray Street Productions
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For his clients, he is an angel of mercy; for his opponents, a doctor of death. But behind the fierce debates and spectacular trials is an accomplished inventor and artist; a man who never married but devoted his life to his work; a passionate crusader who has brought us to a moral and constitutional crossroads. In this special, host David D’Arcy discovers how a curious pathologist turned into an expert on death and challenged our ideas of life and self-determination.
Jack Kevorkian looks back on his controversial life, with observations from his defense lawyer Geoffrey Fieger and biographer Neal Nicol. Journalist Jack Lessenberry and NPR’s Don Gonyea take us through the sensation trials in the Michigan court system. Medical ethicist Dr. John Hardwig, end-of-life specialist Dr. Timothy Quill and disability advocate Marilyn Golden illuminate the complicated facets of physician assisted suicide.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010 8pm
Producer: Al Letson
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Al Letson travels to the surprisingly metropolitan and remarkably progressive city of Des Moines, Iowa. He hears an immigrant Iraqi family’s take on the American dream, how traditional farming techniques have once again become relevant to 21st century business and he gets a Middle-American take on the Gay Marriage debate.
State of the Re:Union is a joint production of NPR and PRX.
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Saturday, March 6, 2010 9pm
Producer: American RadioWorks
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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. The documentary investigates the mysterious death of an Iraq War veteran and uncovers new allegations of detainee abuse. This powerful documentary follows members of a U.S. Army unit and their struggle to come to terms with what they did, and didn’t do, in Iraq.
American RadioWorks has earned a 2010 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for the documentary, “What Killed Sergeant Gray.”
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Saturday, March 6, 2010 8pm
Producer: American RadioWorks
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In the 1970s and ’80s, a generation of Americans took part in a vast social experiment. They got on buses, and rode across racial lines. Nearly everyone who experienced school desegregation has a story to tell about crossing racial lines. Together they reflect an era marked by struggle and hope, anger and idealism.
American RadioWorks travels to Charlotte, NC to talk with people about their memories of integration. Also featured in the documentary is Deborah Stallworth, who – along with other African American parents – sued the Jefferson County Public Schools when their kids couldn’t get into Central in Louisville. In 2000, they won. Now, the school is mostly black.
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Saturday, February 27, 2010 9pm
Producer: American RadioWorks
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When the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech is broadcast each February to mark Black History Month, the magnetic cadence of his words is almost impossible to resist.
Like black speakers before and after him, King testified to how America betrayed its founding ideals through slavery, segregation and racial bigotry. King and scores of other black orators sounded the charge against Jim Crow and stung the moral conscience of America. Many powered their messages with relentless optimism that one day change would come.
This documentary highlights a selection of landmark sermons, speeches and broadcasts by African American orators over the past century. From Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey, to Fannie Lou Hamer and Malcolm X, to Shirley Chisholm and Julian Bond, you’ll hear the stirring words of African American figures as they call for action on civil rights and the unmet promise of democracy.
