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Sun November 11, 2012

Veterans Struggle To Find Jobs, Peace Of Mind

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Finding lasting employment and the peace of mind that goes with it has proved a challenge for many of the men and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years. It's one of the issues we've been covering in our series Home Front.

STAFF SERGEANT JASON COPP: My name is Staff Sergeant Jason Copp.

CORPORAL TERRY NARCIS: I am Corporal Terry Narcis(ph).

CAPTAIN MICHAEL CURRY: I am Captain Michael Curry.

PFC MCCITRICH: PFC McCitrich(ph).

STAFF SERGEANT JEFF BARLOW: Staff Sergeant Jeff Barlow.

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5:39 am
Sun November 11, 2012

'The Last Refuge': Fighting Al-Qaida In Yemen

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

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Movie Interviews
5:39 am
Sun November 11, 2012

'A Royal Affair' That Grew A Danish Revolution

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Host Rachel Martin talks with director Nikolaj Arcel about his new film, A Royal Affair. The movie focuses on an affair between the 18th-century queen of Denmark and her German physician, which led to a revolution. Arcel also wrote the screenplay of the Danish film adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

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5:39 am
Sun November 11, 2012

Philip Pullman: Rewriting The Brothers Grimm

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Philip Pullman is the author of the His Dark Materials fantasy trilogy, which includes The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.
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Originally published on Tue November 20, 2012 11:02 am

Two hundred years after the Brothers Grimm first published Children's and Household Tales, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are getting another rewrite.

Philip Pullman, who wrote The Golden Compass of the young-adult fantasy series His Dark Materials, took on the challenge of retelling 50 of the original Grimm stories for his latest book, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm.

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4:46 am
Sun November 11, 2012

'Heat' Imagines Life After 'Madame Butterfly'

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David Rain teaches creative writing at Middlesex University in London.
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The second act of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly opens with the aching aria "Un Bel Di," one of the most famous in the Italian repertoire. Onstage, an abandoned young woman sings longingly for "one fine day" when her lover might return to her and their young son in Nagasaki, Japan.

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