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By WLRN: Under the Sun
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Podcast Description
We're telling the stories of South Florida. Under the Sun tells the extraordinary stories of everyday people in South Florida, bringing you the perspectives, passions, accents, and sounds of this colorful and complex part of the country. This radio special airs on WLRN in South Florida and WKWM in the Keys. Under the Sun is a co-production of WLRN and ZG Public Media.
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Interview with Robert Battle of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater | Alicia Zuckerman interviews Robert Battle, the new artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Battle grew up Liberty City and he remembers being inspired when he first saw the legendary dance company perform at the Jackie Gleason Theater. Listen to the interview here. | 2/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Green Card Stories | Alicia Zuckerman interviews the author of the new book Green Card Stories, along with a high school principal who used to pick strawberries as a migrant worker. Listen to the interview here. | 2/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Loyalty Oath | Journalist and professor Madeleine Blais contemplates a move back to South Florida for a job as a visiting professor: "My time in South Florida coincided with the worst period in its history." Listen to her personal essay here. | 2/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Miami Outlaw | Terence Cantarella takes in a stray and battered dog--a pit bull. It's illegal to have a pit bull in Miami-Dade. Cantarella tries to find a way to get rid of the dog that sits well with his conscience. It doesn't quite work out. Listen to the story here. | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lost Between Two Nations | When an earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, the United States stopped deporting Haitian immigrants to the devastated nation. But deportations resumed in January, and Franco Coby, convicted of selling drugs, found himself banished from the country he grew up in since the age of 6. Now he lives in a country that is foreign to him. | 1/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fiction: Dolphins, Oysters and Crabs | Jeremy Glazer writes about that weird liminal space between high school graduation and supposed adulthood. It's set against the backdrop of Key Biscayne. Listen to his latest work of fiction. | 1/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Diana Abu-Jaber on Sharing the Table During the Holidays | Floridians are the hosts of the nation during the holidays, as snowbirds land here for the season. Listen to author Diana Abu-Jaber’s essay on her family’s heritage of hosting guests. | 12/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Wilton Manors Came Out | It used to be that Key West, Victoria Park and South Beach were the centers of gay life in South Florida. Over the last decade, this tiny town of about 12,000 people, just outside of Fort Lauderdale – has taken over. Wilton Manors has more same-sex couples per capita than anyplace but Provincetown, Massachusetts. Kenny Malone tells the story of how this little village surrounded by metropolitan South Florida became a gay mecca. | 12/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bunny Yeager: “Sexy in a Nice Way” | Local photographer Bunny Yeager was behind the lens for some of the most classic images of 1950s pinup girls. Now the art world has discovered her. | 11/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From alien to citizen | Former immigration reporter and Under the Sun producer Ruth Morris decides it's finally time to leave her permanent resident alien status behind and become a U.S. citizen. | 11/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
true miami!
i have waited along time to finally hear a radio show like this- its smart its funny and best of all its about miami! finally taking the 305 out of the Miami Vice shadow :) Thanks for making such a great show! d.
South Florida best under the sun
Please upload MOAR please!
