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Courting Attention: Covering California's Marriage Trial

(Total listening time = 38 to 48 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

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Who Killed Zebedee?
A "little novel" by Wilkie Collins (1880)
A story of murder and suspense - a chronicle of the dark underside of Victorian London.

Part One
(Listening time = 27 to 32 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Part Two
(Listening time = 29 to 34 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

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The Importance of Being Earnest
A Play by Oscar Wilde (1895)

Performed by L.A. Theatre Works on Septembers 19, 2009
 
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One

1) Obese Children
     (11 - 14 minutes long)
2) Just How Fattening is That Cupcake?
     (8 - 10 minutes long)
3) Obesity Spreads Through Friends & Family
     (7 - 9 minutes long)
4) From Pho to Fast Food, an Immigrant's Tale
     (7 - 9 minutes long)
5) Food 911
     (3 minutes long)

(Total listening time = 36 to 45 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Two

1) Immigrants Have Changed and Invigorated the United States
     (7 - 9 minutes long)
2) The DREAM Act
     (11 - 14 minutes long)
3) Immigrants Reshape California
     (5 - 6 minutes long)
4) Guest Workers
     (16 - 20 minutes long)
5) Across the Border
     (6 minutes long)

(Total listening time = 45 to 55 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Three

Reports from a Warming Planet

(Total listening time = 49 to 60 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Four

1) Global Warming: Some Unexpected Consequences
     (8 - 9 minutes long)
2) The Heat Over Global Warming
     (22 - 28 minutes long)
3) American History: Supreme Court Ruling Decides the 2000 Presidential Election
     (13 - 16 minutes long)

(Total listening time = 43 to 53 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Five

1) This American Life: Habeas Corpus - Part 1
     (30 - 35 minutes long)
2) This American Life: Habeas Corpus - Part 2
     (9 - 10 minutes long)
3) This American Life: Habeas Corpus - Part 3
     (20 - 23 minutes long)

(Total listening time = 59 to 68 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Six

Japan's Pop Power

(Total listening time = 50 to 60 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Seven

1) Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio - Part 1
     (15 - 19 minutes long)
2) Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio - Part 2
     (16 - 20 minutes long)
3) Hearing America: A Century of Music on the Radio - Part 3
     (22 - 27 minutes long)

(Total listening time = 51 - 62 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Eight

1) Is Wal-Mart Good for America?
     (8 - 9 minutes long)
2) The Wal-Mart / China "Joint Venture"
     (3 - 4 minutes long)
3) Life Without Goods Made in China: a Challenge
     (5 - 6 minutes long)
4) Corporate Compassion
     (20 - 25 minutes long)
5) Trapped in Kmart Court
     (8 - 10 minutes long)

(Total listening time = 44 to 54 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Nine

1) Home at Last?
     (22 - 28 minutes long)
2) Homeless Attacks
     (9 - 11 minutes long)
3) Feeding the Homeless in Sin City
     (5 - 6 minutes long)
4) Escape from Skid Row
     (6 - 7 minutes long)

(Total listening time = 42 to 52 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Ten

Las Vegas - An Unconventional History

(Total listening time = 48 to 60 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Eleven

1) Fixing America's Health Care Crisis
     (5 - 6 minutes long)
2) Moore Movie Takes Aim at American Health Care
     (5 - 6 minutes long)
3) Prescriptions for the U.S. Health Care System
     (36 - 42 minutes long)

(Total listening time = 46 to 54 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Twelve

1) ‘Sicko’ Paints Bleak Picture of U.S. Health Care
     (17 - 20 minutes long)
2) Medical Tourism
     (30 - 38 minutes long)

(Total listening time = 47 to 58 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Thirteen

Child Brides - Stolen Lives

(Total listening time = 50 to 58 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Fourteen

1) Gender and Education
     (11 - 14 minutes long)
2) Miles to Go
     (21 - 27 minutes long)
3) Jon Stewart: Commencement Address
     (15 - 19 minutes long)

(Total listening time = 47 - 60 minutes depending on chosen listening speed

Fifteen

1) John Edwards' War on Poverty
     
 (24 - 30 minutes long)
2) Are You Being Sarcastic?
     (5 -6 minutes long)
3) Fighting Child Prostitution
     (22 - 27 minutes long)

(Total listening time = 51 - 63 minutes depending on chosen listening speed

Sixteen

Gangster Confidential

(Total listening time = 52 to 67 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Seventeen

Women, Power and Politics

(Total listening time = 53 to 65 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Eighteen
Obama Wins; The World Responds
(Total listening time = 48 to 60 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Nineteen

1) Steve Ricks Takes us to Iran
(17 to 21 minutes long)
2) The Last Lynching
(30 to 38 minutes long)

(Total listening time = 47 to 59 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Twenty

Pueblo, USA
The nation's largest wave of immigration didn't happen a century ago. It's happening now.

(Total listening time = 51 to 64 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Twenty-One

1) Jailing Kids for Cash
(Total listening time = 5 to 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) Walls Of Red Wing
(Total listening time = 4 1/2 to 5 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) Who Killed Sister Dorothy?
(Total listening time = 20 to 25 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

4) Can Fearful Memories Be Erased?
(Total listening time = 14 to 17 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Twenty-Two

1) Authors Explore American Immigrant Experience
(Total listening time = 10 to 12 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) Motherland : A Chat and Songs - with Natalie Merchant
(Total listening time = 18 to 19 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) “We Didn’t Create a Paradise in Iraq; We Created a Hell”
(Total listening time = 16 to 21 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

Twenty-Three
1) Calling For an End to the Culture Wars
(Total listening time = 30 to 37 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) Rehabilitation Camp for Terrorists?
(Total listening time = 23 to 28 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Twenty-Four
1) Are Anti-Abortion Attacks Domestic Terrorism ?
(Total listening time = 23 to 29 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) Inside Israel's Army
(Total listening time = 23 to 29 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Twenty-Five
President Obama's Speech to the United Nations
Septembers 23, 2009
Part 1
  
Part 2

Part 3

Part 4
(Total listening time = 38 to 47 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)
Twenty-Six

1) Michelle Obama's Roots - from slavery to the Whitehouse
(Total listening time = 5 to 6 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

2) Can an Obama Debate be Colorblind?
(Total listening time = 8 to 10 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

3) A Black Author's Journey into American 'Whitopia'
(Total listening time = 30 to 38 minutes - depending on chosen listening speed)

   
 
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