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This hour we buckle up and hit the road.Don't Drive Like My Brotherby Jonathan Menjivar (This American Life [WBEZ], 2005)Charles Johnson was living in St. Louis, married with a young daughter, and he had no job. He looked around, and decided he'd try trucking. There was this company offering to train and hire drivers, so he signed up. The only problem was, he couldn't read.Stories and Drivingby Sophie Townsend with Jesse Cox and Louis Mitchell (Radiotonic [ABC RN], 2014)Sophie Townsend and her husband used to go on long driving trips, taking the back roads and scenic routes, with a cup of hot coffee between them and a constant supply of Fellini soundtracks on the stereo. Sophie no longer drives those routes though, and she's slowly losing those memories because it’s another story, one that keeps forcing it's way up to the surface, that keeps eclipsing those earlier recollections.Drive Straight Ahead by Mira Burt-Wintonick (Wiretap [CBC], 2014)A driver enlists the help of her car's GPS system to help her navigate her own emotional loss. [NOT AVAILABLE ON PODCAST]Listen online — bit.ly/W6QSeD Route Talkby Chris Garcia and Nancy Updike (This American Life [WBEZ], 2013)Chris Garcia and his dad were driving home, listening to oldies, sharing a bag of chips. A totally familiar scene for them. They’d driven this route probably hundreds of time, but something odd was happening in the car, so Chris started recording their conversation on his phone. He tells producer Nancy Updike what happened.Bus To Mexicoby Linda Lutton (WBEZ, 2014)Every week, hundreds of people board coach buses in Chicago and travel to Mexico. Linda Lutton used to live in Mexico, and has taken the 2,000-mile trip nearly a dozen times to and from Zamora, Michoacán. On her most recent trip, she brought a tape recorder along.PhotoRachelhttp://bit.ly/1mx1LOc Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A live recording of Third Coast's recent listening event with WBEZ Education reporter Linda Lutton. Linda's reporting laid the foundation for This American Life's award-winning series on Chicago's Harper High School. She spoke with Re:sound host Gwen Macsai and shared some of her favourite stories and inspirations. Teens Share Their Secretsby Hearing Voices and Curie Youth Radio, 2008Teenagers wish they could tell their parents a lot of things. These kids in Chicago and reveal their secrets in a rather public venue.Gone [Excerpt]by Linda Lutton (WBEZ, 2008)About 12,000 students drop out of Chicago Public Schools each year despite efforts by administrators and teachers to keep them on track. At Robeson High School on Chicago’s south side, even an ambitious program couldn’t stop students from slipping away. Reporter Linda Lutton tracked down a few absent Robeson students and discovered that they’d left school for very different reasons.To hear the full story: http://bit.ly/1muDqs4A Season of Football at Harper Highby Linda Lutton (WBEZ, 2013)WBEZ education reporter Linda Lutton spent much of her time at Harper High School as part of the This American Life's reporting on that school and its violence-plagued community. Now, she takes us to meet Harper's football team. Get a glimpse of how Friday Night Lights feels when you're living in the shadow of gun violenceYou Want Good Meat? You Better Have Cloutby Linda Lutton (WBEZ, 2009)For anyone into barbecuing, these are days you just have to pull out the grill. In Chicago, what you put on that grill can depend on who you know. In this story, WBEZ stumbles onto the role clout can play in everyday Chicago life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This hour: they built it and we see who came. Another Planet [Excerpt]by David Weinberg, Brendan Baker and Nick van der Kolk (Love + Radio, The Organist, KCRW, 2014)The story of Clyde Casey, a street performer who used surrealism and abstract art to fight crime on Los Angeles’ Skid Row in the 1980s, and the creator of a place called Another Planet.Listen to the entire story: http://loveandradio.org/2014/04/another-planet/The Treehouseby Karen Duffin with Nick White (Unfictional, 2014)In rural Crossville, Tennessee, you will find a peculiar mansion. It's 15,500 square feet and eight stories high, and spans seven trees.It is the world's largest tree house. This is the story of Horace Burgess, the man who made the tree house, and the price he had to pay for it.Young Ruinsby Avery Trufelman with Sam Greenspan, Katie Mingle and Roman Mars (99% Invisible, 2014)At the northwestern edge of San Francisco, right on the Pacific Ocean, is a curious jumble of concrete ruins. You wouldn’t know just looking at it, but this ruin is quite young. It’s what’s left of Sutro Baths, a palatial indoor swimming pool and amusement park built in 1898.PhotoSamantha Carlsonhttp://bit.ly/1rSTPdq Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.