NPR the first 40 years

Book On CD 2010

A celebration of this anniversary milestone, featuring both new content and some of the most historic and iconic moments in NPR's first forty years on the air. Each disc covers one decade, starting with the 1970s.

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ISBN:

9781615731039
1615731032

Edition:

Unabridged

Description:

4 audio discs (5 hr.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in
digital
optical
1.4 m/s
stereo

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National Public Radio [book on CD] : the first 40 years
All things considered (Radio program)
Weekend edition (radio program)
Morning edition
Tell Me More
Planet Money
Fresh Air

Notes:

Compact discs
Aired May 3, 1971 through November 19, 2008
Featuring David Sedaris, Chris Rock, Dame Edna, Terry Gross, Little Richard, Red Barber, Ira Glass, Car Talk's Tom and Ray Magliozzi, and many more

Contents:

Disc 1. May Day demonstration in Washington against the Vietnam War
Life Savers give off sparks
Special coverage of President Nixon's resignation
Nazi demonstration at Marquette Park
Robert Krulwich and the $5 bill
Aftermath of Three Mile Island
John Henry Faulk on the bicentennial
Pickle ranch: family run
Life at the South Pole
Sunset
Disc 2. Watching a solar eclipse with your head in a box
Revolution in Prague
Fridays with Red: a retrospective
Miniskirt: fashion industry mistake
Little Richard, the quasar of rock
Yuppie anguish: a concept for the '80s
Jim Crow: blacks survived with dignity
Challenger disaster
Roger Boisjoly, Morton Thiokol engineer
Goodbye, Saigon
Disc 3. Driving lesson with Click and Clack
Clarence Thomas accused of sexual harassment
Prom night
Dorothy West and the Harlem Renaissance
Rwanda carnage claims over 500,000 lives
President Clinton interview
Objects of affection
Chris Rock interview
Adolescence in war-torn Bosnia
Santaland diaries
Disc 4. Planet money: giant pool of money
A bit of a chat with Dame Edna
Change has come
Vernon Jordan on politics, Obama and civil rights
September 11, 2001
StoryCorps: wives, daughters, mothers
War update: view from Baghdad
Katrina: the Chertoff interview
Stuck and suicidal in post-Katrina trailer park
April Fool's: New England suffers maple woes
Couple frantic to find loved ones in rubble
Safety, prosperity return to Afghan village

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799591

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HighBridge Audio (Firm)

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