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An American missionary and his wife travel to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too. Year Title Role Notes; 1979: Little Romance, A A Little Romance: Lauren King: 1980: Touched by Love (aka To Elvis, with Love) Karen: 1981: Cattle Annie and Little. Which tells you a lot about “Trumbo”: it’s another of those simplistic, made-to-order films about the Hollywood blacklist in which the blacklisted movie folks. Times entertainment news from Hollywood including event coverage, celebrity gossip and deals. View photo galleries, read TV and movie reviews and more.

The story of one Southern activist, N. F. Thompson, reveals connections between racial violence and anti- union activism. Writer and broadcaster Robyn Ravlich visited Akhmatova's apartment in St Petersburg, where the gifted poet secretly wrote her poetic masterpieces, Requiem and Poem Without a Hero - - right under the noses of KGB forces, who kept watch on her 2. It would take decades for the poems to be published, first abroad in translation, and then at last they appeared in full in Russian in the 1. Soviet empire. This personal literary pilgrimage revealed surprising details of the poet's intimate and dramatic life that are not widely known, shedding new light on her poems. The program captures what one of Robyn's specialist guide- companions described as 'trembling moments'. Although long absent, Akhmatova remained a powerful presence in the apartment where she lived for over twenty five years: it is still furnished as it was when she lived there, replete with her memorabilia and treasured artwork.

The apartment - - in a former palace that was nationalised after the Russian Revolution - - is now a museum devoted to the enduring legacy of Anna Akhmatova. Music in the program is from the album The Trackless Woods, Iris De.

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Segment 1 . Despite the Founding Fathers rejecting the crown for a democratic form of government, Americans are still fascinated with royalty. This selection from the Motion Picture Films series . She vacationed in Lee, Massachusetts, and visited New York City, Boston, and Albany, New York. In the latter city she attended the 3. First Church in Albany, the city's oldest, established by Dutch settlers in the 1. She addressed the U. S. Congress on 5 August 1.

Gambling is a part of America's DNA - - Native Americans played dice games prior to contact with Europeans and in 1. English proprietors held a lottery to raise funds for the Virginia Company's settlement of Jamestown. Pitch Perfect 3 (2017) Theater Movie.

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We look at how speculators bet on land - - America's most plentiful commodity - - and created the . The Guys also uncover how gambling, once outlawed throughout much of the U.

S., has become a major source of revenue for cash- strapped communities. From Native American gaming to the rise of Las Vegas, this episode unpacks how some Americans found opportunity in gambling, while others lost big. Inspired by Dostoyevsky's own addiction to roulette gambling, the short novel .

Dostoevsky completed the novella under a strict deadline so he could pay off gambling debts. Incorporating field recordings to capture the tension and brutality outside the convention hall, we'll hear Black Panther co- founder Bobby Seale at a rally, Dick Gregory at President Lyndon Johnson's 'birthday' party, and comments from Allen Ginsberg and Studs Terkel regarding police brutality at religious prayer vigil. This program was produced by Elsa Knight Thompson, and features news reports by Dale Minor, Phil Watson, and Bob Fass. For more information on the song, see: http: //www. Only about 2% of the U. S. In this episode of Back. Story, the Guys explore the history of Judaism in America, from George Washington’s famous letter to the Jewish congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, to efforts to establish a Jewish city of refuge, near Buffalo, New York in the l.

Jewish American culture. Guests include: Eran Shalev, Historian at Haifa University in Israel, and the author of American Zion: The Old Testament as a Political Text From the Revolution to the Civil War; Dianne Ashton, Professor of religious studies at Rowan University, and the author of Hanukkah in America: A History; Steve Oney, Author of And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank; Jonathan Sarna, Historian at Brandeis University; Ted Merwin, Professor of Judaic studies at Dickinson College and author of Pastrami on Rye: An Over. Stuffed History of the Jewish Deli. In March of 1. 94. Isaac Mayer Wise - - the founder of Reform Judaism in America. The Guys go back to the eighteenth- century and look at how elite colleges replaced social status with merit and behavior as a way to grade students.

We uncover the links between President James Garfield's 1. The Guys explore the long and troubled history of how Americans have used tests to both exclude and include people from the citizenry. Sixty- nine metres long, the ship had three masts and was built to carry over four hundred men. It was to be the symbol of the growing Swedish empire, but ended up becoming a disaster. On its maiden voyage, the Vasa sailed just over one kilometre and then sank in the middle of Stockholm’s harbour.

Due to the depth of the sea, and the mud in which the Vasa sank into at the bottom of the harbour, divers found an almost intact ship; the submerged Vasa was described as a marine Pompeii. Journalist Johan Gabrielsson delves into the royal archive and speaks with marine archaeologists and historians to try and discover why the ship sank on her maiden voyage. Parker was famous for the highly acclaimed series of Radio Ballads that he made in the 5. Ewan Mac. Coll and Peggy Seeger. It was labelled 'Off Limits #2' and was one of a series of programs produced by Parker along with musicians of what was known as the Critics' Group - a radical leftist folk ensemble led by Mac.

Coll. Dated 1. 97. Vietnam war - it features the voices of American draft evaders, discontented soldiers and deserters from the conflict. It carries with it the echoes of a world at war, but a war that was never simply black and white, country against country, right or wrong; because Charles Parker didn’t make Off Limits for the BBC. He made it for the Vietcong. For this episode of Back.

Story, the Guys take a break from the race for the White House and examine local power brokers: from big city political bosses and small town sheriffs to some of the social reformers wh'’ve shaped their communities from the ground up. Deutsch, Sarah Deutsch is a historian at Duke University.

She is the author of Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1. Adam Cohen, Adam Cohen is a journalist and co- author of American Pharoah: Mayor Richard J Daley: His Battle for Chicago and the Nation; Daniel Joseph Watkins, DJ Watkins is the author of Freak Power: Hunter S. Thompson’s Campaign for Sheriff; Bob Braudis, Bob Braudis served as Pitkin County sheriff for 2. Steven Jackson, Steven Jackson is a freelance reporter and producer. For more details, see: http: //backstoryradio. Segment 2 . Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (Libri.

Vox reading; selection)One of the more influential leaders of New York's Democratic political machine,Tammany Hall, George Washington Plunkitt (1. Here is a selection (a Libri.

Vox reading) from. William Riordon's William L., Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics (1. Plunkitt offers his explanation for honest graft. They were protesting police abuse and government closure of their work places. She speaks with those who were there, and with the aid of archives, presents an .

The voices of the original 1. French sex workers are re- voiced here by Sydney sex workers.