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| APR 6 Viva la Evolucion: Cuba after Castro: Fidel Castro's communist government has survived a US trade embargo, a missile crisis and the collapse of its Soviet patron. Now, after 49 years, the world's longest serving political leader has stepped down, handing power to brother Raúl. This program explores what this change means for Cuba and its relationship with the US. |
| APR 13 Independent Minds: John Adams: This program offers an engaging glimpse into our nation's forgotten father and the trials he faced constructing a nation. This hour long program features interviews with David McCullough and other preeminent historians, journalists and experts. |
| APR 20 Exodus '47: This is the story of three men who served aboard the Exodus 1947, a Jewish refugee ship that tried to run thousands of holocaust survivors past the British blockade of Palestine in 1947. |
| APR 27 Stories from the Heart of the Land, part 3: In this hour, a few brave radio producers go out into nature on a mission of discovery: to Mexico, to the Australian outback and elsewhere. |
| MAY 4 Fitchburg Rising from Radio Boston: Mayor Lisa Wong inherited a big job when she won Fitchburg's mayoral election last year. An old mill town with closed factories, a crime problem and a record number of foreclosures are just some of her worries. The 28-year old Wong has a plan and Radio Boston heads to Fitchburg to find out what it is. |
| MAY 11 The People Next Door: From Salt Lake City to Washington DC, from the Republic of Georgia to Oakland, we look at neighborhoods, communities and the people who inhabit them. |
| MAY 18 2007 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, Part 1: Part One of 2007's best new documentaries produced worldwide |
| MAY 25 2007 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, Part 2: Part Two of 2007's best new documentaries produced worldwide. |
| JUN 1 One Room School in the 21st Century: One-room schools were once ubiquitous in the US - at the end of WW1 there were 200,000 of them. Today only about 300 remain and they're disappearing fast. Neenah Ellis travels to seven states to visit public schools where one teacher manages multiple grades in a single room. |
| JUN 8 Radio Lab: Laughter: In this episode, we explore the power of laughter. Along the way, we tickle some rats, listen in on a baby's first laugh, talk to a group of professional laughers and travel to Tanzania to investigate an outbreak of contagious laughter. |
| JUN 15 B-Side: Family and Dads: In this program, the B-Side crew offers a little unsolicited advice and some fatherly humor as they explore our relationships with people we're tied to by blood or common history. |
| JUN 22 Stories from the Heart of the Land, part 4: In this hour we are invited onto other people's sacred ground, to the history of the Namgis Nation to Charles Bowden's home in the Sonoran Desert, from the monastic home of Barry Lopez to Arizona's Glen Canyon. |
| JUN 29 Radio Lab, Deception: This program explores the lies we tell and the people who try to spot them. It takes a close look into the faces of liars and explores the lives and the brains of people who can't stop lying. It also follows two psychiatrists to a bar as they try to uncover the lies we tell ourselves. |
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