Highlights of recent All Things Considered and Morning Edition shows:
- Hungarian WWII prisoner released from russian psychiatric hospital -- hospital workers mistook his hungarian for gibberish for 53 yrs?!
- work song for technology temps -- "got to do some consulting/way down in Palo Alto"
- couple's plan to set up beach decoys backfires
- psychiatric patients' Bible study group offers interesting insights -- "heaven is an amusement park with bumper cars; you don't need a license to drive"
- Walpole, NH is engaged in a project to record a year in the life of the town -- would be nice to see similar undertakings focus on ethnically, economically and geographically diverse subjects.
- inventor of the lava lamp was a nudist
- the Siberian mining city of Norilsk was built on the bones of the dead
- NPR 100: Carole King's Tapestry
- interview with the co-authors of the self-published Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing, a book about the Washington DC punk rock group house scene in the early 90s -- NPR's inane questions about the protests get a great answer "they don't lack anything. they have many messages, and that's a very complicated thing to understand... and if people paid attention i think there are a lot of articulate people who are there."
- writer Desiree Cooper wonders if 1700s classified ads about runaway slaves tell the story of her ancestors
