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The Sound of America: The Story of NPR

4 Extra Debut. Cultural commentator Joe Queenan looks at American history through programmes made by National Public Radio. From October 2005.

The Sound of America: The Story of NPR

Commentator and satirist Joe Queenan takes a look at the past 35 years of American history through the news reports and documentaries produced by National Public Radio.

Clips from the archive span 9/11, life as a minister, small town life, the death of a child, the Watergate scandal, working in New York, the seltzer delivery man, OJ Simpson, the Iraq War, a tribute to Mary Tyler Moore, struggling with obesity and many more.

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