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Judson Hale of Yankee Magazine

By John Walters on Monday, December 31, 2001.

He’ll talk about his more than 40 years at Yankee and the Old Farmers Almanac. Hale reflects on New England people and culture and the challenge of moving Yankee in new directions, while retaining its loyal readers. Yankee Magazine is on-line at [http://www.newengland.com] This interview was originally broadcast in August.

What Stories Should NHPR News Cover Next Year?

By Mark Bevis on Monday, December 31, 2001.

On this last day of the year, a popular feature on news programs is the look back….usually a collection of sounds…and for TV, pictures….of the events we’ve all just lived through. Well, this year New Hampshire today is trying something different. We’ve asked people across the state to tell us what stories we should cover next year.

Here are a few of their answers. If you'd like to add your own ideas just click on this link.
http://www.nhpr.org/static/programs/nhtoday/visuals/2002ideas.php

Tabloids

By Trish Anderton on Monday, December 31, 2001.

Space aliens meet with President Bush, and a donkey-man is banned from drive-in movies! It?s time to talk about the magazines that spice-up your check out line. We?ll get a sneak peak at the industry that gives us so many stories of the seedy, incredible and bizarre. Trish is joined by Bill Sloan, a former editor of the National Enquirer and author of ?I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby!: A Colorful History of Tabloids and Their Cultural Impact.? Original Air Date: 9/7/01

NHPR Folk Show Playlist 12/30/01

By Kate McNally on Sunday, December 30, 2001.

NHPR Folk Show Playlist 12/30/01

New Year Resolutions

By Shay Zeller on Friday, December 28, 2001.

Co-hosts Rosemary Conroy and Iain MacLeod team up to suggest ways you can enjoy New Hampshire's flora and fauna in 2002.

listen: Windows Media |

Men and Their Fathers

By Laura Knoy on Friday, December 28, 2001.

We'll talk about how a man's life is shaped by his relationship with his dad, and how fathers continue to play a crucial role in the lives of their grown children. Laura's guest is Samuel Osherson, a Harvard Medical School psychologist and author of "Finding Our Fathers: How a Man's Life is Shaped by His Relationship with His Father." www.hms.harvard.edu This is a rebroadcast of an earlier program.

Baseball, Opera, Cuba and Medieval History

By John Walters on Friday, December 28, 2001.

You�ll hear all that and more from Manuel Marquez-Sterling. He left Cuba in 1960 after Castro came to power and eventually wound up at Plymouth State College, teaching ancient history. He�s a prolific writer in English and Spanish, he�s an opera buff and he appeared in Ken Burns� Baseball series as an expert on Latin American baseball.

The Olympic Torch Comes Through NH

By Roger Wood on Friday, December 28, 2001.

The Olympic torch began its trip through New Hampshire this morning in the seacoast city of Portsmouth.

Correspondent Roger Wood was on hand to see the flame carried through the downtown streets and files this report on the celebration.

A News Update with the Nashua Telegraph

By Lisa Peakes on Friday, December 28, 2001.

This week?s holidays didn?t slow down the Board of Aldermen in Nashua.
They voted 8 to 6 not to set a tougher standard for smoking in restaurants?and they also banned by an overwhelming 12-2 all night public dancing.
Nick Pappas, the Managing Editor at the Nashua Telegraph updated NHPR?s Lisa Peakes on those stories and more news from the region.

Polls

By Laura Knoy on Thursday, December 27, 2001.

We constantly see surveys cited in the news on everything from politics to soup. We'll look at how polls are developed and how they influence policy. Laura's guests are Andy Smith, Director of UNH's Survey Center www.unh.edu/ipssr/survey-center , and Lynn Vavreck, Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth's Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and Civic Leadership www.dartmouth.edu/~rocky/TheCenter/nelson.html . This is a rebroadcast of an earlier program.