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In the early 1960s, the segregated heart of the old Confederacy was chosen as the base for new agency, NASA. Hear the stories of people whose lives soared from the cotton fields to the launch pad.

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Stories of women struggling in the ultimate “Man’s World,” NASA in the 60s and 70s.  Hear from the first women scientists and engineers, the first women astronauts and from women who, in 1961, were told they would be astronauts.

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A look at how the Democrats rode Sputnik to the White House in a campaign that forever changed science, technology and academia in America.

Broadcast nationally in 2009

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Part of the “Global Challenges” series, produced for the Purdue University College of  Engineering.  No question there’s plenty of bad news when it comes to the environment.  But in this program we hear about scientists and engineers who are working, right now, on some of the tools we hope will lift us out of our environmental malaise.

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Part of the series “American Classics,” produced for ArtsEdge at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.  While Vivaldi in Italy, Bach in Germany, and their contemporary George Frideric Handel, in England, were writing marvelous and sophisticated music, America was a backwater. If you looked for classical music in the early days of America, you’d be hard pressed to find it, even in the big cities and the centers of wealth, commerce, and social sophistication. But it was there; in some odd locations including the backwoods of North Carolina and the Port of New Orleans. Miles Hoffman, Morning Edition music commentator and dean of the Petrie School of Music at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina takes us on a tour of classical music in early America.

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Part of the series “American Classics,” produced for ArtsEdge at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.  This segment looks at some little-known stories about American Classical music like the role of Cuba in Classical Music and the American who made “Carmen” a hit. Miles Hoffman, Morning Edition music commentator and dean of the Petrie School of Music at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina takes us on a tour of classical music in early America.

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Part of the series “American Classics,” produced for ArtsEdge at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.  This segment looks at how, through the 20th Century, America took its place as force in the world of classical music; not so much through its experimental work but through the music of Hollywood movies. It also looks at where Classical music is alive today at amusement parks and videogames. Miles Hoffman, Morning Edition music commentator and dean of the Petrie School of Music at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina takes us on a tour of classical music in early America.

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This podcast was produced for the Folger Shakespeare Library as part of their “Insider’s Guide” series, designed for people who want to get a firmer understanding of Shakespeare’s work before going to see it or read it.   Folger Director Gail Kern Paster and University of Maryland–Baltimore County professor (and Folger Theatre dramaturg) Michele Osherow introduce the major themes and characters of “The Winters Tale” and explain what makes Shakespeare’s romances so tricky but so satisfying for playgoers.   The podcast features performances from actors in Folger Theater’s 2009 production.

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This podcast was produced for the Folger Shakespeare Library.   Abraham Lincoln was known for many things — freeing the slaves, winning the Civil War, holding the Union together.  But he was also one of our most literary presidents.  Of the three books that sat on his White House desk, one of them was the works of Shakespeare—a writer Lincoln cherished throughout his life.  In this podcast, UCLA professor of English Stephen Dickey, John Andrews , editor of “The Everyman Shakespeare,” and Michael Bishop, founding Executive Director of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, discuss Shakespeare’s enduring influence on Lincoln.

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Broadcast on “Studio 360.”  In the 1960s there was a group of folk singers who you’ve probably never heard about.  They sang of Peace (through strength) and Love (of Barry Goldwater).  This is a story about the right-wing folks singers of the 1960s.