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ArchivesWriters on a New England Stage: Elmore Leonard (Full Version)By Laura Knoy on Friday, May 11, 2007.Hailed by Newsweek as "the best crime fiction writer ever," award-winning author Elmore Leonard spoke in Portsmouth as part of the Writers on a New England Stage series. This is the full, unedited program. listen:
 Buying The Right BirdhouseBy Scott Fitzpatrick on Friday, May 11, 2007.Just like our homes, not all birdhouses are the same. Learn how to tell which birdhouses are best for our avian neighbors. listen:
 Lynch Amendment Largely Panned At House HearingBy Josh Rogers on Friday, May 11, 2007.Critics outnumbered supporters by more than 3 to 1 and included officials from the Governor's hometown. listen:
A Letter from Iraq: Sgt Christopher PasternakBy Mark Bevis on Friday, May 11, 2007.Today is Friday, the day when we check in with the members of the 36-43rd Company of the New Hampshire National Guard. They’re stationed in Iraq, doing duty guarding a detention center just outside of Baghdad. We don’t want to waste too much time, because Sgt Christopher Pasternak has a lot of stories to tell NHPR’s Mark Bevis. Pasternak is the company’s lead medic. listen:
Faking the RealBy Liz Bulkley on Friday, May 11, 2007.As a society, we surround ourselves with imitations of real-life, whether it's fake color in our hair, fake wood on our desks, or fake tortoise shell in our glasses. Tonight on the Front Porch, we're taking a peek at our faux realities. Just about every society has tried to simulate real leather -- there’s Naughahyde, Ultrasuede, Fabrikoid and many, many others. We'll look at efforts to replicate leather's classiness and sophistication, and we'll try to find out what the search for the perfect faux leather says about our cultures and our economies. Our guest is Robert Kanigel, author of Faux Real: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes. He's also a Professor of Science Writing at MIT. Later in the show, we'll find out how the synthesizer has changed the work of a Hollywood composer and musician. We'll meet award-winning composer David Vanacore, who scores many of the popular reality shows on TV. (This story comes to us from the Public Radio Exchange. You can listen and comment on it by clicking here. listen:
Jamestown 400th AnniversaryBy Laura Knoy on Friday, May 11, 2007.New Englanders like to take a lot of credit for the colonization of America, but fourteen years before the Pilgrims ever arrived on the Mayflower, a ragtag band of men created a ramshackle settlement in Virginia. On the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, we look back at the story behind the first permanent English settlement in America with a new book by Benjamin Woolley. In "Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America", Woolley challenges the textbook portrayal of Jamestown as a commercial venture fueled by greed and instead lays out a different story- one of a daring enterprise led by outcasts of the Old World that worked to lay the foundation of the British Empire. We'll look back at the role Jamestown played in the creation of the United States, democracy and free enterprise and also look at some the key players, including Captain John Smith and Princess Pocahontas. Guest
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