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    225: Home Movies

    Dec 4, 2015
    Home movies are often all the same—kids on the beach, people getting married, birthday parties—so why do we make and watch so many of them? Maybe it's because the story they show and the story they tell are different. In this show, we bring you five stories that all start with a fairly typical home movie but go on to tell a unique story.

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    574: Sinatra's 100th Birthday

    Dec 11, 2015
    For Frank Sinatra's 100th Birthday: stories, tributes, and attempts to understand the Chairman of the Board.

    An updated version of an episode originally broadcast back in 1997.

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    575: The Poetry of Propaganda

    Dec 18, 2015
    Sure, there's a crude message that propaganda is trying to get across. But like poetry, when you know how to read it, propaganda contains lots of more subtle messages that you might not see at first glance. This week: examples, big and small, from around the world.

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