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 GoodThings on Public Radio June 7, 2001 We want to hear from you. What's the best public radio story you heard this past week? Share. If you want to listen, you'll need RealPlayer on your computer. (If you don't already have it, it's a FREE download.) Visit Real Networks. FRIDAY, June 1 | A Piece of Irish History in New York In a remarkable attempt to reconnect generations of Irish-Americans with their cultural history, the Irish Hunger Museum is transporting Tom Slack's family farmhouse from the west of Ireland to Battery Park City in downtown Manhattan. Built in 1838, the house will be taken apart in Ireland and put back together again in New York as part of an exhibit on the Irish potato famine on display next St. Patrick's Day. [Morning Edition] Listen (length of clip 3 min 39 seconds). SATURDAY, June 2 | The "Click of Comprehension" Susan Stamberg recalls her return to Chicago for the 75th anniversary of Mary Gage Peterson Elementary School, the place she learned to read. She says one never forgets the place they learned to read. Her affection for the school -- and the neighborhood that surrounded it with all its descriptive, non-numbered street names -- is deeply rooted in the fact that it was central to her lifelong love for the written word. [Weekend Edition Saturday] Listen (3:30). SUNDAY, June 3 | New Film Bread and Roses Socially Conscious Bread and Roses, a new film by Ken Loach, charts the human struggle of janitors cleaning Los Angeles' downtown office buildings, many housing wealthy Hollywood companies. It tells the story of Maya, a vulnerable illegal immigrant determined to support herself without the help of others, who finds herself at the center of a charged labor strike. Critic Bob Mondello remarks on the film's inclusive use of both English and Spanish subtitles and on its compelling account of the efforts of real people to bring "dignity and equity into the workplace." [Weekend All Things Considered] Listen (4:00). Learn more about the film Bread and Roses. MONDAY, June 4 | Plants and People: Who Chooses Whom? Author Michael Pollan has explored the intriguing evolution of plants in his fascinating new book The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. He contends that the plants we humans have grown to love through the centuries are practicing a little self-preservation. They've evolved to guarantee their survival by appealing to people. Unable to move themselves, they have developed a remarkable bio-chemical complexity that enables them to seduce -- or choose -- us in the same way they lure pollinators. [Morning Edition] Listen (5:49). Get your own copy of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. TUESDAY, June 5 | Learning Humanity in Reporting on AIDS Former ABC News correspondent George Strait reflects upon a 20-year career reporting on the global AIDS crisis. He says that with AIDS, we've once again repeated the historical pattern of blaming the victims of catastrophic disease. In covering AIDS in everywhere from New York City's gay community where he was forced to confront his own tolerance, to the front lines in Africa in the late 1980s when he had to convince his editors that the disease threatened entire nations, Strait learned many important lessons about public health and about life. [Morning Edition] Listen (3:30). WEDNESDAY, June 6 | New Blues Collection Transcends Life's Pain Avalon Blues, an astonishing new collection of the music of late legendary bluesman Mississippi John Hurt, does justice to the amazing warmth and joy of Hurt's music, which emerged despite the trials and tribulations of his life as a black man in the Deep South. Producer and musician Peter Case has gathered some of the biggest names in modern roots music -- including Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Gillian Welch, Ben Harper, John Hiatt, Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Beck -- to record 15 of Hurt's signature blues, jazz, and gospel songs, all more about "rising above it all" than feeling down and out. Avalon Blues almost feels as if the artists gathered around a campfire, each putting their own distinct mark on a favorite Hurt tune. [All Things Considered] Listen (12:30). Get your own copy of Avalon Blues. THURSDAY, June 7 | Voting as a "Sacred Right" With the recent publication of the U.S. Commission of Civil Rights draft report on the status of voting in Florida, it's clear that what it means to have the right to vote is still very much on people's minds. It's also left some apathetic. Commentator Philip Martin acknowledges that throughout U.S. history, suffrage has been a struggle and, at its core, representative of a conflict between true democracy and the explicit proof of a group's (or individual's) legitimacy. Through their historic quests for the right to vote, women, African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and immigrants have demonstrated its fundamental value. [Morning Edition] Listen (4:49). WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. Did we miss a good public radio story this week? Want to recommend one for next week? Share it with us! |
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