July 05th, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5…the growing season. We continue the documentary series "Five Farms," with a look at how farmers tend crops and livestock, feeding and protecting them and helping them to grow. It′s a life driven by hard work and the rhythms of nature.

Join us for Part 2 of "Five Farms: Nurturing" on the next Sunday @ 5 July 5th.

Weblink: http://www.fivefarms.org

June 28th, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5…Five Farms. Once upon a time, most Americans were farmers. But now, only about one in a hundred works the land and few Americans know where their food comes from. A new documentary series makes the connection between the food on our tables and the farm families who produce it.

Join us for Part 1 of “Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families” on the next Sunday @ 5 June 28.

Weblink: http://cds.aas.duke.edu/fivefarms/

June 21st, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5…Talking Dads. For Father's Day, sons and daughters talk about their dads: Storyteller Kevin Kling shares pancakes with his "Dad." Sarah Vowell has her story of a gunsmith's daughter, "Shooting Dad." And Joe Frank lets us eavesdrop on a father-son phone call between Larry and Zachary Block.

It’s all about dads, a Hearing Voices special, on the next Sunday @ 5 June 21.

June 14th, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5…the future of higher education. The high cost of tuition, changing demographics, the effects of technology – all are affecting colleges and universities as we know them. BYU President Cecil Samuelson and University of Utah President Michael Young talk about the challenges and opportunities facing life on campus.

Join us for the future of higher education – a Hinckley Institute of Politics special – on the next Sunday @ 5 June 14th.

Weblink: http://www.kuer.org/hinckley.html

June 7th, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5…diplomacy with Iran. President Obama says he’s “committed to diplomacy…that is honest and grounded in mutual respect” when dealing with Iran. But will it work? Hear arguments on both sides from senior Bush administration official Nicholas Burns, former state department official -- and daughter of a very vocal former vice president --  Liz Cheney, and others.

Join us for an Intelligence Squared debate on dealing with Iran on the next Sunday @ 5 June 7th.

Weblink: http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/Event.aspx?Event=42

May 31st, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5…lessons from the New Deal. President Barack Obama wants to create jobs by building infrastructure. So did another president. Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to put people to work by building roads, bridges, dams, sewers, schools, hospitals and even ski jumps. The structures that New Deal agencies built transformed America.
Join us for “Bridge to Somewhere” an American RadioWorks documentary, on the next Sunday @ 5 May 31st.

Weblink: http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/infrastructure/

May 24th, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5…an hour of compelling stories. First, we hear from the best radio students at the University of Utah. And in the second half of the show, a Memorial Day special on the struggles Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are having coming home and the role educational institutions can play in helping former soldiers adjust to civilian life.

Join us for student stories and the documentary "The War Comes Home" on the next Sunday @ 5 May 24th.

Weblink: http://www.radioproject.org/archive/2009/1109.html

May 17th, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5...the American Dream. In the current recession many people fear the American Dream of the 20th century will not be sustainable in the 21st. As part of American Public Media's "Next American Dream" project, this documentary chronicles the evolution of the American Dream from the Great Depression to the present day and questions the future of an ideal that has fueled American aspirations for centuries.

Join us for "A Better Life: Creating the American Dream" on the next Sunday @ 5 May 17.

Weblink: http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/americandream/

May 10th, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5...torture. We hear from David Irvine, a retired Brigadier General and Army Reserve Strategic Intelligence Officer who taught prisoner interrogation and military law for 18 years. He describes what works, what's legal and what's right.

Tune in for "Torture and Rendition," a Hinckley Institute of Politics special on the next Sunday @ 5 on May 10, 2009.

Weblink: Stream Torture and Rendition from the Hinckley Institute here.

May 3rd, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5…real estate woes in Sin City. Until recently, thousands of people flocked to Las Vegas, lured by the promise of good jobs and a chance to own a home. But now, Las Vegas has the nation’s highest foreclosure rate. American Radio Works looks at the roots and the fall-out of the Las Vegas foreclosure crisis.

“Foreclosure City” on the next Sunday @ 5 May 3.

Weblink: Foreclosure City

April 26th, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5…judging the international criminal court. In the summer of 1998, 120 countries created the ICC, but the reality of international justice has been slow to materialize. America Abroad explores the 20th century’s history of halting attempts to create an international criminal court. The global justice system on the next Sunday @ 5 April 26.

Weblink: http://www.americaabroad.org

April 19th, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5…pointing fingers in the down economy. Intelligence Squared takes up the question of who’s to blame for the financial crisis … Washington or Wall Street? With investment banks leveraged 30 to 1, some put the blame squarely at the feet of the Big 5 firms. But others say the Federal Reserve gave way too much credit and way too little supervision.

Debating the financial crisis on the next Sunday @ 5 April 19.

Weblink: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102312504

April 12th, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5…the Rwandan genocide. In 1994, 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of just 100 days. Marking the 15th anniversary of the genocide, a survivor and a UN prosecutor discuss violence, justice and forgiveness.

Remembering Rwanda – a Hinckley Institute of Politics special – on the next Sunday @ 5 April 12th.

Weblink: Stream Remembering Rwanda here.

April 5th, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5…space. In the 60s, space exploration was an American obsession. But the growing reality of space has turned the romance to cynicism. RadioLab examines the mystery of outer space with Ann Druyan, the widow of Carl Sagan, astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson and others. Join us for RadioLab’s "Space" on the next Sunday @ 5 April 5.

Weblink: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/05/12

March 29th, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5… the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. There’s widespread agreement that the greatest threat to the United States is lurking in the mountainous border region of the two counties.

Ray Suarez and Elizabeth Arnold of America Abroad explore the threats this troubled area presents to the U.S. Tune in for "Terror, Tribes and the Taliban" on the next Sunday @ 5 March 29th.

Weblink: http://www.americaabroad.org

March 22nd, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5, guns and public safety. Do more guns mean less crime? Intelligence Squared takes up the question, pitting an attorney, a criminologist and an economist against a professor, an anti-gun advocate and a police chief in this lively and timely debate.

Join us for "Guns Reduce Crime" – another Intelligence Squared debate – on the next Sunday @ 5 March 22nd.

Weblink: http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/

March 15th, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5… hospitals. Hearing Voices from NPR enters the world of I.V.s, bedpans, pills and long goodbyes. Hear stories from Nancy Updike, Brian Brophy, Carmen Delzell and others.

Tune in for “Visiting Hours” on the next Sunday @ 5 March 15.

Weblink: http://hearingvoices.com/shows/

March 8th, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5…the legal debate over gay marriage. Same-sex marriage is certainly one of America’s most contentious social issues. In this recent forum at the Hinckley Institute of Politics, two lawyers pick apart the case law and spar over the legal arguments for and against gay marriage.

Join us for the legal arguments of same-sex marriage – a Hinckley Institute special – on the next Sunday @ 5 March 8.

Weblink: Hinckley Forum same sex marriage debate. Click here to stream the forum.

March 1st, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5…the strange kinds of relationships scientists have with science. RadioLab relates some truly odd tales including the story of a geneticist who gets infected with a brain-eating parasite and instead of running for medical attention, he falls in love with it, and nurtures it there - in the egg-sized welt on his head.

Join us for “Yellow Fluff and Other Curious Encounters” on the next Sunday @ 5, March 1.

Weblink: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/  

February 22nd, 2009 This week on Sunday @ 5…ending a war. During his campaign, President Obama vowed to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq and refocus the country’s military efforts. But how to do that? Jeb Sharp from PRI’s “The World” looks to history for some answers, examining the endings of past U.S. wars to shed light on resolving current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Join us for “How Wars End” on the next Sunday @ 5 February 22.

Web link: http://www.theworld.org/how_wars_end

February 15th, 2009This week on Sunday @ 5...exploring love. Hearing Voices from NPR presents a tribute to Valentine’s Day featuring lovelorn letters to an advice columnist, tales of true but tainted "Cringe Love" and stories of weddings at the World Trade Center collected by The Kitchen Sisters.

Join us for "Love’s Labors" on the next Sunday @ 5 February 15.

Weblink: http://hearingvoices.com/shows/show/loves-labors

February 8th, 2009: This week on Sunday @ 5…combating climate change. Intelligence Squared takes up the question, Is taking on global warming worth the cost? President Obama says reversing climate change is a top priority, but skeptics say the “cap and trade” proposal – which would set limits on pollution and allow polluters to trade their licenses – would drive up energy prices.

Join us for “Intelligence Squared” debate on the costs of climate change on the next Sunday @ 5 February 8.

Weblink: http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/

February 1st, 2009: This week on Sunday @ 5…south of the border. Hearing Voices from NPR presents profiles of the people in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, a place troubled by rampant poverty and corruption, where drug-cartel murders and military violence are a daily fact of life. Told by photographer & Juarez resident Julian Cardona, author Charles Bowden, and host Scott Carrier.

That’s “Juarez, Mexico— City on the Edge, Host— Scott Carrier” on the next Sunday @ 5 February 1.

Weblink: http://hearingvoices.com/news/2009/01/hv048-juarez-mexico/

January 25th, 2009: This week on Sunday @ 5…the state of the middle class. The recent economic slowdown, combined with the collapse of the housing bubble, shows that the very fabric of the American dream is being ripped apart. Veteran NPR correspondent Anthony Brooks brings us stories of real families, and presents snap-shots of the growing challenges that many of them face. Join us for “The Vanishing Middle Class” on the next Sunday @ 5 January 25th.

Join us for “The Vanishing Middle Class: Inside Out” on the next Sunday @5 January 25th.

Weblink: http://www.insideout.org/documentaries/middleclass

January 18th, 2009: This week on Sunday @ 5…the changing of the guard. As Barack Obama prepares to take the keys to the White House, America Abroad explores the state of U.S. power and leadership as China, Russia, India and others are on the rise.

Join us for “Power Shift: The Debate over American Decline” on the next Sunday @5 January 18.

Weblink: http://www.americaabroad.org 

January 11th, 2009: This week on Sunday @ 5…the science of race. RadioLab explores if race has a genetic signature, if DNA machines can paint the portrait of a criminal and how middle school students define their own race.

Join us for "Race" produced by WNYC’s Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich on the next Sunday @ 5 January 11.

Weblink: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2008/11/28

January 4th, 2009: This week on Sunday @ 5, New Years in the West. Join in a New Year journey with host Hal Cannon to an ancient Gaelic ritual of bringing in the year with fiddler Alasdair Frazier…then delve into the Native American way of marking time with a heartfelt story from Lakota elder, Leonard Littlefinger.

Join us for a meditation on New Years as a time of reflection and healing from the Western Folklife Center on the next Sunday @ 5 January 4, 2009.

http://www.westernfolklife.org/site1/index.php

December 28th, 2008: “Student Stories” plus “Whatcha Gonna Do When The Well Runs Dry?”
This week on Sunday @ 5…student projects plus water. Tune in to the first half of the show for the best from radio students at the University of Utah. Then, hear about three communities facing water shortages along with the pressure to grow, and hear their different approaches to finding solutions, including denial.

Join us for an hour of engaging and relevant radio on the next Sunday @ 5 December 28.

Weblink: http://www.radioproject.org/

December 21st, 2008: This week…a rousing debate on the legacy of our 43rd president, George W. Bush. Is Bush 43 the worst president of the past 50 years? Intelligence Squared takes up the question with conservative editor William Kristol and Bush advisor Karl Rove on one side and British columnist Simon Jenkins on the other.

Deliberating President Bush on the next Sunday @ 5 December 21.

Weblink: http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/

December 14th, 2008: This week on Sunday @ 5...sounds for the holidays. Hearing Voices offers a unique mix of holiday stories, songs, and found sound, including a Salvation Army bell-ringer at the Mall of America, holiday history as told by second graders, and carols sung by Zulu children in a South African orphanage.

“Christmas Mash-Up” on the next Sunday @ 5 December 14.

Weblink: http://hearingvoices.com/

December 7th, 2008: This week on Sunday @ 5...Third Coast 2008 part 2. The annual Third Coast Festival honors the best audio documentaries from around the world. This week, more award-winning radio plus interviews with the winning producers and highlights from this year's award ceremony.

Tune in for the Third Coast Festival Broadcast PART 2 on the next Sunday @ 5 December 7.

Weblink: http://thirdcoastfestival.org/

November 30th, 2008: This week on Sunday @ 5...the best of best. The annual Third Coast Festival honors the best audio documentaries produced worldwide and we'll bring you samples of award winners plus behind-the-scenes interviews with the producers as well as highlights from the 2008 award ceremony.

Join us for the Third Coast Festival Broadcast on the next Sunday @ 5 November 30.

Weblink: http://thirdcoastfestival.org/

November 23rd, 2008: This week on Sunday at 5, choice. RadioLab kicks off a new season by exploring why some people are better at making decisions than others, how reason and emotion affect decision-making, and if free will has anything to do with the choices we make.

Tune in for RadioLab’s "Choice" on the next Sunday @ 5 November 23.

Weblink: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/

November 16th, 2008: This week on Sunday @ 5…"State of the Re:UNION" and the unseen side of our nation’s capital. Winner of the Public Radio Talent Quest, "State of the Re:UNION" is a new public radio show that focuses on one American city at a time, aiming to prove that we’re more alike than we’re different. Performance artist, poet and writer Al Letson is the host.

Join us for "State of the Re:UNION Washington, DC" on the next Sunday @ 5 Nov. 16.

Weblink: http://stateofthereunion.com/

November 9th, 2008: This week on Sunday @ 5…Veterans of the West. Produced by Hal Cannon and the Western Folklife Center, this Veterans' Day program pays tribute to America's fighting men and women through first-hand accounts of battle, as well as music and poetry that draw inspiration from the experience of war.

Join us for a Veteran’s Day special on the next Sunday @ 5 November 9th.

Weblink: http://www.westernfolklife.org/site/

November 2nd, 2008: This week on Sunday @ 5…Campaign ‘68. On the eve of this year’s historic election, we look back 40 years to another watershed year in American politics. After dominating the political landscape for more than a generation, the Democratic Party crumbled, Richard Nixon was elected president and a new era of Republican conservatism was born.

Join us for Intelligence Squared on Nov. 2nd at 5 p.m.

Web link: http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/campaign68/index.html

October 26th, 2008: This week on Sunday @ 5…universal health care. Intelligence Squared, the Oxford-style debate, takes on the issue of whether health coverage should be the responsibility of the federal government. This lively panel discussion includes Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.

Join us for Intelligence Squared on Oct. 26 at 5 p.m.

Web link: http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/Event.aspx?Event=30

October 19th, 2008: This week on Sunday @ 5…the next president. America Abroad partners with CNN and George Washington University to bring you a conversation with five former Secretaries of State: Madeleine Albright, James Baker, Warren Christopher, Henry Kissinger and Colin Powell. We'll hear their thoughts on the world of challenges facing the next president.

Join us for America Abroad: “The Next President” on the next Sunday @ 5 here on KUER.

Web link: http://www.americaabroad.org

October 12th, 2008: This week on Sunday @ 5…immigration. Big, coastal cities have absorbed immigrants for decades. But today, immigrants are changing the culture and the economics of cities and small towns nationwide. This American RadioWorks documentary shows how the immigrants are both a boon and a burden to their new communities.

Join us for Pueblo, USA on the next Sunday @ 5 October 12th.

Web link: http://www.americanradioworks.org

October 5th, 2008: This week on Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland brings us the show from the road. She'll be in Salt Lake City on her way to St. Louis, as Marketplace staff cross the country talking about the nation's economic crisis. We'll also hear from a psychiatrist – who's also a hedge fund manager - about how to handle emotions during tumultuous financial times. African-American churches are offering spiritual guidance -- and mortgage counseling -- to their congregations. We hear a day-in-the-life of a financial planner. And as always our economic expert Chris Farrell answers your questions and weighs in on topics that matter to your with his opinion-editorial Straight Story.

Web link:Marketplace project road to ruin.

September 28th, 2008: This week on Sunday @ 5…Are Tough Interrogations Necessary? Waterboarding and the infamous Justice Department torture memo paint a picture of an administration tramping on civil liberties and human rights. But how relevant are rights to terror groups who don’t abide by Geneva principles, don’t wear uniforms, and kill and maim civilians?

Intelligence Squared debates the issue on the next Sunday @ 5 September 28.

Web link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88478965

September 21st, 2008:This week on Sunday @ 5…identity. The "mind" and "self" were formerly the domain of philosophers and priests. Today, it’s neurologists who, armed with giant magnets, are asking the big questions, like "How does the brain make me?"

Join us for RadioLab’s “Who Am I?” on the next Sunday @ 5 September 21.

Weblink: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2005/02/04

September 14th, 2008:This week on Sunday @ 5…green politics. Republican John McCain agrees with Democrat Barack Obama that the US must play a leading role in cooling down mother earth. But they don’t exactly agree on how to do it. And the winner of the election will face stormy skies next year as the world tries to hammer out a successor to the contentious Kyoto accord.

Join us for the America Abroad documentary “Feeling the Heat: The Global Politics of Climate Change” on the next Sunday @ 5 Sept. 14.

Web link: http://www.americaabroad.org

September 7th, 2008: This week on Sunday @ 5…remembering 9-11. Although 184 people died at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, the attack was dwarfed by the tragedy at the World Trade Center and many of the Pentagon stories have yet to be heard. This independently-produced documentary tells about that fateful day in Washington and the aftermath through the voices of survivors.

Join us for “We Were on Duty” on the next Sunday @ 5 September 7th.

Web link:http://wewereonduty.soundprint.org/

August 31st, 2008:This week on Sunday @ 5…presidential politics. In the midst of party conventions and stump speeches, NPR’s Hearing Voices presents portraits of presidential candidates from the past.  You’ll hear about politicians tromping thru the New Hampshire mill town of "Claremont” during Campaign 1980 as well as the world's first wordless political debate in their "California Recall Project.”

“Prime Candidates” on the next Sunday @ 5 August 31.

Web link:http://hearingvoices.com/news/2008/08/hv026-prime-candidates/

August 24th, 2008:This week on Sunday@5, a program in two parts. First, hear stories produced by students from the University of Utah’s radio reporting class. Then in the second half of the show, kick back and take in the latest offering from the Western Folklife Center, a tribute to the 1950s cowboy band, the Snake River Outlaws.

Join us for an hour of great locally produced storytelling on the next Sunday @ 5 August 24.

Web link: www.westernfolklife.org.

August 17th, 2008: This week on Sunday @ 5...transforming a gangster. Rene Enriquez was a leader in one of America’s most violent gangs, the Mexican Mafia. But in prison he had a change of heart. American RadioWorks followed Enriquez’s struggle to leave gang life behind and produced this riveting documentary. Hear “Gangster Confidential” on the next Sunday @ 5 August 17.

Web link: http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/gangster/

August 10th, 2008: This week on Sunday @ 5...Beyond sports. The Olympics are more than just fun and games—they’re also a forum for international politics. China hopes to make its Olympic games the nation’s coming out party. And, as America Abroad explains, it’s hardly the first time the five-ring spectacle has been the venue for national agendas or grandstanding.

Join us for "Power, Politics and the Olympics" on the next Sunday @ 5 August 10.

Weblink: http://www.americaabroadmedia.org/programs/view/id/84

August 3rd, 2008: This week on Sunday @ 5...Morality. Where does our sense of right and wrong come from? RadioLab explores the brains of people contemplating moral dilemmas, describes how chimps at a primate research center share blackberries, and observes a playgroup of 3 year-olds fighting over toys.

Join us for "Morality" on the next Sunday @ 5 August 3.

Weblink: http://www.radiolab.org

July 27th, 2008: This week on Sunday @ 5...Reflections on home. Scott Carrier describes the cultural history of the Great Salt Lake's "West Desert," a land where chlorine gas is in the air, anthrax is stored underground, and people still call the place home; Sarah Vowell talks about her childhood move from rural Oklahoma to small-town Montana; and more.

Join us for "No Place Like Home" on the next Sunday @ 5 July 27.

Weblink: http://www.hearingvoices.com

July 20th, 2008: This week on Sunday @ 5...Islam and America. A recent study released by the Pew Research Center found that Muslims in America are largely middle class and have integrated well. But the tensions in Europe have sparked fears that Islamic extremism could spread to the US.

America Abroad examines the friction between Muslim immigrants and European society, and compares that to the situation of Muslims in America.

"Integrating Islam" on the next Sunday @ 5.

Weblink: http://www.americaabroadmedia.org/programs/view/id/66.

July 13th, 2008:This week on Sunday @ 5...asylum seekers in the U.S. Only a few of the world's millions of refugees find their way to the United States. And of those, asylum officers and immigration judges decide who is eligible for protection.

Who gets protection has been caught up in a broader debate about the balance between openness and the need to protect the country from terrorism.

Join us for "American Purgatory" on the next Sunday @ 5 July 13.

Weblink: http://www.americanpurgatory.org

July 6th, 2008:This week on Sunday @ 5...John Adams. July 4th marks the anniversary of the death of America's second president, an early and ardent supporter of independence, a diplomat who raised crucial funds for the American Revolution, and a president who kept his young country out of war.

David D'Arcy talks with scholars and politicos to offer a new understanding of Adams in a critical time for America, and gain insight on our present-day leaders and candidates.

"Independent Minds: John Adams" on the next Sunday @ 5 July 6.

Weblink: http://www.murraystreet.com/johnadams.htm