How to Talk to Kids

#341 - 5 October 2007

Stories of adults taking very different approaches to communicating with children.

The Devil in Me

#340 - 7 September 2007

Stories of people trying to exorcize their inner demons.

Break-Up

#339 - 24 August 2007

Writer Starlee Kine on what makes the perfect break-up song and whether really sad music can actually make you feel better. Plus, an eight-year-old author of a book about divorce, and other stories from the heart of heartbreak.

The Spokesman

#338 - 10 August 2007

Attention listeners. In the Internet version of Act One of this show, we have left one curse word un-bleeped at a critical moment.Stories of what can happen when you go from being a private person to a public face.

Man vs. History

#337 - 27 July 2007

Stories about people taking history into their own hands. We hear from two men in two different wars. One is trying to make a difference in the current war in Iraq. The other is with the CIA at the very end of the Cold War.

Who Can You Save?

#336 - 6 July 2007

Stories about the pitfalls of trying to do the right thing.

Big Wide World

#335 - 15 June 2007

When he was a teenager, Haider worked in the Iraqi Ministry of Information. He was specially trained to talk to visiting dignitaries and foreign reporters, and he loved his job. It was exciting, and he was treated like a celebrity.

Duty Calls

#334 - 1 June 2007

Josh's mother and younger brother were a mess. His mother drank too much. His brother got arrested a lot. Josh hadn't lived with them since he was nine, and they didn't play much of a role in his daily life—until duty called, and they took over his life.

The Center for Lessons Learned

#333 - 25 May 2007

Four years into the Iraq War, what have we learned? Soldiers, civilians, Iraqis, and Americans talk—and sometimes yell—about what they've learned in the last few years...including how to stay alive and why the aftermath of a war can be the trickiest time of all.

The Ten Commandments

#332 - 4 May 2007

Stories of people struggling to follow the Ten Commandments from the book of Exodus.