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Third Party Candidates will be all dressed up in "Fringe" with nowhere to go this Thursday at 9 pm. While George Bush and John Kerry challenge one another's ideas on national television during the first Presidential debate, wallflowers Michael Badnarik, David Cobb, Michael Peroutka, and Ralph Nader will have to sit quietly on the sidelines. The truth is, they do not enjoy the same amount of support as the two major candidates, and therefore, are probably not viable candidates for the Presidency. But third party candidates do play a role in the democratic process. Democrats still hold Nader responsible for swaying the 2000 election and have fought hard to keep him off the dance floor in 2004.

Darren Garnick is a film maker from Amherst. With Newport native, Peter Koziell, David put together his third film about so called Fringe Candidates. Crashing the Parties premiers Thursday night on WGBH at 8pm, just before the debate. You can also catch it next Friday on NHPTV at 8pm.

A coalition of non-partisan groups says New Hampshire has too many barriers to voting. In particular, college students are being discouraged from voting in the state. New Hampshire Public Radio's Amy Quinton reports.

New Hampshire Holocaust Survivors Speak Out - A new documentary, Telling Their Stories: New Hampshire Holocaust Survivors Speak Out tells the story of four Holocaust survivors, their trials during WW2 Europe and their journeys that brought them from their home countries of Germany, Poland and Hungry to New Hampshire. We?ll hear some of their stories as well as look at the importance of keeping this time in history, now 60-years old, alive. Laura?s guests are Stephen Lewy, featured in the documentary, he?s a Holocaust survivor living in Manchester who escaped Germany, joined the US Army, and participated in the liberation of Buchenwald in 1945. Paul Vincent, Associate Professor and Director of the Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies at Keene State College. Thomas Weisshaus, A Holocaust survivor living in Exeter who was one of the thousands of Hungarian-Jews helped by Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg and David DeArville, Director of Telling Their Stories.

House Speaker Gene Chandler's has recently admitted he's received nearly 64 thousand dollars from annual fundraisers over the last four years.

Chandler says he's used the proceeds to pay for gas, new tires, and possibly his mortgage.

The Speaker says he considers the contributions gifts.

But New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein looks at whether these donations are gifts, or something else entirely.

Dave Gerard has been making music for more than 20 years as a solo artist and as one-fourth of the rock band Truffle. Dave's latest CD is called Dreams of Kings. Dave talks about a musician's life on the road. He figures he's logged about a million miles, traveling the country, making music. (This interview aired previously in August 2003).

Dave will perform at the Stone Church in Newmarket this Thursday night. He will also perform as part of Truffle this Friday and Saturday night at the Red Parka Pub in Glen, NH.