Guest host Neil Drumming wonders what it would be like to know exactly where he’s from. (4 minutes)
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Act Three: Lullaby of Broadway
Host Ira Glass meets some of the city’s newest arrivals in every New Yorker’s least favorite place. (9 minutes)
Act Four: The New Kids
Three girls, whose families traveled thousands of miles to get to New York, navigate their latest challenge: American middle school. (11 minutes)
Act One: No Sleep ‘Till Brooklyn
Producer Valerie Kipnis follows a group of people who’ve just arrived at their new home, a tent shelter in the middle of nowhere. (11 minutes)Reporting help from Jika Gonzalez.
More by Neil Drumming
Act One: Stars & Bars & Bars
Producer Neil Drumming talks with the rapper Breeze Brewin about a toy car they both loved playing with as kids: The General Lee from the hit TV show The Dukes of Hazzard.
Act Two: Daddy Lessons
Parents try to shape who we are in their own image.
Act One: Metropolis Now
Producer Neil Drumming spends a couple days exploring Detroit, first with a quirky mayoral candidate running an Afrofuturist campaign, and then with a couple of locals.