2004-03-29 Rock and Roll History, Part 1
(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA, in VOA Special English. This is Ray Freeman, with Rich Kleinfeldt. Today we begin the story of the first fifty years of…
2004-03-22 Presidential Campaign Update
(THEME) VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA, in VOA Special English. I’m Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember. This week — a progress report on the race…
2004-03-15 Grandparents
(THEME) VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA, in VOA Special English. I’m Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember. This week — meet the grandparents! (THEME) VOICE ONE:…
2004-03-08 Dictionaries in the United States
(THEME) VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA, in VOA Special English. I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Phoebe Zimmermann. This week — a look inside the world of…
2004-03-01 Unusual Museums
(THEME) VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA, in VOA Special English. I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Phoebe Zimmermann. Come along with us this week as we visit…
2004-02-23 Academy Awards
(THEME) VOICE ONE: Welcome to This is America in VOA Special English. I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Phoebe Zimmermann. Today, we tell about the seventy-sixth Academy Awards ceremony…
2004-02-16 Dating
(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA, in VOA Special English. I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Phoebe Zimmermann. Our show this week is about the search for…
2004-02-09 Lincoln Portrait
(THEME) ANNCR: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA, in VOA Special English. Next Monday is a holiday that honors American presidents. I’m Shirley Griffith. Today Rich Kleinfeldt and I tell about…
2004-02-02 Girl Groups’ in Rock Music
(THEME) VOICE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA, in VOA Special English. I’m Phoebe Zimmermann. In the later years of the twentieth century, female musicians helped define new sounds in popular…
2004-01-26 Campaign to Reopen the Statue of Liberty
(THEME) VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA, in VOA Special English. I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Faith Lapidus. This week, learn about a campaign to let the…
2004-01-19 Health Care in the United States
(THEME) VOICE ONE: In recent years, health care spending in the United States has grown to fifteen percent of the economy. The care is often described as the best in…
2004-01-12 Presidential Race
(THEME) VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA, in VOA Special English. I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Phoebe Zimmermann. This week, we examine the events ahead in the…
2004-01-05 Asian-American Writers
(THEME) VOICE ONE: The United States is made up mostly of people whose ancestors came from other continents. Writers who came here from other countries continue to explore how immigrants…
2003-12-15 Philanthropy
(THEME) VOICE ONE: I’m Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I’m Steve Ember. Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA, in VOA SpecialEnglish. VOICE ONE: This week, we tell about philanthropy in the…
2003-12-08 Kennedy Center Honors
VOICE TWO: At thirteen, Itzhak Perlman came to the United States. He soonappeared on television. He attended the Juilliard School in New Yorkand won a major performance prize in nineteen-sixty-four.…