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ON NOW : Newsday
20/05/2013

Newsday Live news, business and sport from around the world.

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Boston Calling

Boston Calling Episode guide

  1. 08/06/2013

    How the world looks through American eyes, and the myriad and unexpected ways that the ...

    First broadcast: 08 Jun 2013

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  2. 01/06/2013

    How the world looks through American eyes, and the myriad and unexpected ways that the ...

    First broadcast: 01 Jun 2013

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  3. 25/05/2013

    How the world looks through American eyes, and the myriad and unexpected ways that the ...

    First broadcast: 25 May 2013

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  4. Global Nation Edition

    US immigration reform seen through the eyes of an undocumented immigrant

    First broadcast: 18 May 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  5. Boston's Thorny Questions

    The duel tasks of honouring victims and compensating survivors of the Boston Marathon

    First broadcast: 11 May 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  6. America's Reliance on Drone Warfare

    US Senators meet a Yemeni man whose village was targeted by a drone

    First broadcast: 04 May 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  7. Boston Bombings Aftermath

    Boylston Street reopens after the Marathon bombings

    First broadcast: 27 Apr 2013

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  8. Boston Marathon bombings

    Views from racers, war correspondents and an amputee marathon competitor.

    First broadcast: 20 Apr 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  9. North Korea crisis

    As Pyongyang ramps up threats directed at the US, Americans try to read between the lines.

    First broadcast: 13 Apr 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  10. Joseph Kony’s war in graphic novel form

    A new graphic novel about the Ugandan warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court.

    First broadcast: 06 Apr 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  11. Same sex marriage

    Immigrants offer their views on a contentious issue now before the US Supreme Court.

    First broadcast: 30 Mar 2013

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  12. A US marine’s Iraq war diary

    Tim McLaughlin's writings about the 2003 invasion of Iraq anchor a New York exhibit.

    First broadcast: 23 Mar 2013

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  13. America’s H1B workers

    Could a controversial visa program for highly skilled foreigner workers be a bad idea?

    First broadcast: 16 Mar 2013

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  14. US diplomacy: 21st Century style

    A new US diplomacy, Venezuelan-American views on Chavez and Lincoln's foot doctor.

    First broadcast: 09 Mar 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  15. Sequester: 'The United States of austerity'

    Americans and foreign visitors react to massive US government spending cuts.

    First broadcast: 02 Mar 2013

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  16. Oscar Pistorius's impact on disabled sports

    A Paralympian praises Pistorius; a soldier's tie to his interpreter and meteor hunting.

    First broadcast: 23 Feb 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  17. Visa retrogression

    How undocumented immigrants to the US have been placed behind those who got there legally

    First broadcast: 16 Feb 2013

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  18. War Cabinet

    How Vietnam War experience shaped the view of Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel

    First broadcast: 09 Feb 2013

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  19. US Immigration Reform

    How amnesty gave a 100-year-old Mexican woman a new life in the United States

    First broadcast: 02 Feb 2013

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  20. America’s Domestic Drones

    How unmanned aerial vehicles used for overseas missions are watching Americans at home

    First broadcast: 26 Jan 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  21. Girl's Ballet School in Syria

    How life goes on for young ballerinas in a suburb of Damascus

    First broadcast: 19 Jan 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  22. India’s Gender Troubles

    Indian-Americans on the treatment of women, welcoming Chinese tourists, and “war dogs”

    First broadcast: 12 Jan 2013

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  23. An Iraqi-American Family’s Sanctions Nightmare

    Jailed for sending money to Iraq; join the Army, become an American; and Mexico’s drug war

    First broadcast: 05 Jan 2013

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    over a year left to listen

  24. US-Russian adoptions

    A Russian adoptee living in Texas takes on Vladimir Putin over a new adoption ban

    First broadcast: 29 Dec 2012

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    over a year left to play

  25. US Gun Violence

    America’s 'out of control' gun culture in the wake Newtown's horrific shooting spree

    First broadcast: 23 Dec 2012

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  26. Jenni Rivera’s unique appeal

    Why was Latin music star Jenni Rivera - who died in a plane crash this week - so popular?

    First broadcast: 15 Dec 2012

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  27. Cancer triggers in the developing world

    Cancer’s link to infectious diseases, an extraordinary gem, and life without Twinkies.

    First broadcast: 08 Dec 2012

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  28. Was Hurricane Sandy a climate change wake-up call for America?

    Why some New Yorkers left homeless by the hurricane still aren't sure the dangers are real

    First broadcast: 01 Dec 2012

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  29. New York Sikhs organise help for Sandy victims

    The community providing hot meals to those hardest hit by last month's Hurricane Sandy.

    First broadcast: 24 Nov 2012

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  30. What’s going on with America’s military Generals?

    Generals David Petraeus and John R Allen are each embroiled in a scandal.

    First broadcast: 17 Nov 2012

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