Exploring history, news and culture, Soundprint is one of the longest running public radio documentary series. Produced by Soundprint Media Center, Inc., Soundprint documentaries have aired on U.S. public radio stations for more than 20 years.
Two episodes combined, dealing with people on a precipice. First, those addicted, without money, or disabled find themselves living on the streets. During the second half, a look at how mental health services fail many.
A WWII story about an African-American's ordeal. While serving in a segregated Navy, Lanier Phillips faced death in a shipwreck
in the icy North Atlantic. He was rescued by the inhabitants of the small Newfoundland fishing village that had never seen a black man before. Their kindness galvanized Lanier to fight racial discrimination.
John Williams' Stoner sold just 2,000 copies when it was originally published in 1965. It's now acknowledged as a classic work, is a best-seller across Europe and the No. 1 novel in the Netherlands.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a 16th-century artist who liked to play with his food, transforming it into the building blocks of many of his fantastical portraits. Artist Philip Haas has taken those portraits out of museums, reinterpreting them as colossal statues that interact with the natural environment.
Controversies dominated this past week's political headlines, leaving the Obama White House on the defensive, trying to contain any lasting damage. Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Mara Liasson.
College students and recent graduates crammed the top floor of a tech hub in Nairobi for a competition built around the theme "Solutions for the Next Billion Mobile Users." Africa has more than 600 million mobile phone users (approximately 11 percent of the global total) – and the number is growing.