Season 03: Remember Me - Memory can be a trickster, a balm, or sharp claws scratching at your heart. What makes some memories linger deep while others fade away? In this next season of Earshot – we're telling tales of remembering and forgetting. Stories of a departed one’s ashes dispatched across the globe, memories of a vanishing language lingering on magnetic tape, Russians reminding us not to forget them in the discord of war and a fella who lost his memory and had to relearn how to be hi ...
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Floodlines
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Some call it Hurricane Katrina. Some call it the Federal Flood. Others call it the day the levees broke. On August 29, 2005, the city of New Orleans was submerged. That story of hubris, incompetence, and nature's wrath is now etched into the national consciousness. But the people who lived through the flood and its aftermath have a different story to tell. A story of rumors, betrayal, and one of the most misunderstood events in American history. Hosted by Vann R. Newkirk II.
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