This hour: kids sing opera, they talk about life on a remote island, and they opine about running the world.

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This hour: one woman’s comments at a school board meeting in Kanawa County, West Virginia, become a catalyst for deep division within the school district, the county, the state, and the entire country.

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This hour: two amazing musicians explored through the portal of two amazing documentaries.

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This hour: the home funeral movement. Three families who've forgone traditional death rites in favor of a more DIY approach.

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This hour: three documentary poems chronicling the lives of working class mothers in Troy, NY. Plus, poets as reporters, confused readers, and more.

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This hour: change. Some of us crave it, some of us avoid it at all costs. But whenever and wherever it happens, change creates fallout, intentional or not.

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This hour: the untold story behind one of the most famous, groundbreaking, and disturbing experiments in the history of psychological research

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This hour: families, in all their messy, dysfunctional glory.

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This hour: a lobster diver in Honduras, a chocolate taster in France, a movie director in Nigeria, and other stories that reveal the workaday world in all its globalized complexity, one person at a time.

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This hour: journeys to the far north, the moon, and other places near and far.

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