2004-12-19 Margaret Sanger
(THEME) VOICE ONE: I’m Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I’m Sarah Long with the VOA Special English Program, Peoplein America. Today, we tell about one of the leaders of the…
2004-12-12 William Faulkner, Part 2
(THEME) VOICE ONE: I’m Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember with People inAmerica in VOA Special English. Today, we finish the story of thewriter William Faulkner. He created…
2004-12-05 William Faulkner, Part One
((THEME)) VOICE ONE: I’m Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember with People in America in VOA SpecialEnglish. Today, we begin the story of the life of a famous…
2004-11-28 Patsy Cline
(THEME) VOICE ONE: I’m Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I’m Doug Johnson with Peoplein America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about a young womannamed Virginia Patterson Hensley. No…
2004-11-21 Movie Pioneers
(THEME) VOICE ONE: I’m Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember with People in America in VOA SpecialEnglish. Today we tell about three people who helped make Hollywoodthe center…
2004-11-14 Oppenheimer and Fermi
(THEME) VOICE ONE: I’m Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember with People in America in VOA SpecialEnglish. Today we report about two scientists, J. Robert Oppenheimerand Enrico Fermi,…
2004-11-07 Dian Fossey
(THEME) VOICE ONE: I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Faith Lapidus with People in America in VOA SpecialEnglish. Today we tell about Dian Fossey. She studied the wildmountain gorillas…
2004-10-31 Red Adair
(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Faith Lapidus with People in America in VOA SpecialEnglish. Today we tell about Red Adair. He was famous…
2004-10-24 Marlon Brando
(THEME) VOICE ONE: I’m Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And, I’m Steve Ember with People in America in VOA SpecialEnglish. Today, we tell about actor Marlon Brando. Many critics sayhe was…
2004-10-17 John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet
(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Shirley Griffith with theVOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell aboutpianist John Lewis. He created one of…
2004-10-10 Elizabeth Blackwell
(THEME) ANNCR: Every week we tell about someone important in the history of theUnited States. Today, Shirley Griffith and Ray Freeman tell aboutthe first western woman in modern times to…
2004-10-03 Doctor Spock
(THEME) VOICE ONE: I’m Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember with People in America in VOA SpecialEnglish. Today we tell about the world’s most famous doctor forchildren, Benjamin…
2004-09-26 Ralph Waldo Emerson
(THEME) VOICE ONE: I’m Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLEIN AMERICA. Today we tell about the life of Nineteenth Centuryphilosopher and…
2004-09-19 Rain-in-the-Face
(THEME) VOICE ONE: Now, the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. I’m Steve Ember. In the early days of the last century, an American doctor wroteabout the Native American…
2004-09-12 Georgia O’Keeffe
(THEME) VOICE ONE: I’m Gwen Outen. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember with People in America in VOA SpecialEnglish. Today we tell about one of the greatest painters of thetwentieth…