Big Talk: Do you drop the hammer on that “special dish”?… Turning Points: Sitting Bull was the last great chief of the buffalo-hunting Sioux. Laura goes back in time to speak with him at the moment of his greatest sorrow … Boom Radio: Word meanings DO change you know, and Clodagh finds this especially [...]
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Episode 30 Featuring Sitting Bull, Spying and Privacy
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Episode 22 Featuring Woody Guthrie and Buy Now! Free!
Big Talk: Why does Mom want me to play outside? Turning Points: A lot of people have heard of poet and songwriter, Woody Guthrie, but few know his incredible story. Kelsey goes back in time to 1946 for an interview… Boom Radio: Ben Jammin thinks Hummers are kid stuff …. In News Update, [...]
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Episode 34 Featuring Robert Frost and Globalization 2
Big Talk: Here’s one way to get rich… Turning Points: Kelsey goes back in time to speak with that classic American poet, Robert Frost… On Boom Radio, Cloe is planning her very own Memorial Day parade… A client’s piano lesson seems to go ON and ON, and it’s up to Tucker Jones to see if [...]
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Episode 35 Featuring Aldo Leopold and Globalization 3
Big Talk: Should this writer toss his Dad’s old newspaper pile?… Aldo Leopold saw the earth’s soil and rivers and wildlife as one connected organism. Our BOOMERANG! reporter goes back in time to talk to this environmental pioneer … Boom Radio: Clodagh has a new pastime she is just dying to tell you about… [...]
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Episode 37 Featuring Margaret Bourke White and Water Water Everywhere (Water 1)
Big Talk: This snoring Mom is in denial… Turning Points: She thought she was going to study insects for a living. Instead Margaret Bourke-White photographed some of the most important people in the world. Emily goes back to the 1950’s for an interview with this amazing woman… Boom Radio: Clodagh has a [...]
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Her accomplishments are breathtaking. Yet you ask someone: “Who is Gertrude Bell?” and the reply usually comes back blank. In our Turning Points interview, Natalie goes back to 1921 to speak with the British mountaineer and desert explorer… Boom Radio: Clodagh believes online “security” questions may be a tad too complex… [...]
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