From Our Listeners

Letters: Winter Sports, Both Real And Fictive

8:02pm February 20, 2014

Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel read emails from listeners about the rock salt shortage, the Olympic sport of curling and a proposal for a brand-new sport fit for winter: "ice walking."

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Letters: Eggnog Recipe Brings Cheers And Jeers

7:15pm December 27, 2013

Robert Siegel reads emails and comments from listeners about this week's Found Recipes segment, which offered up a recipe for eggnog.

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Letters: Nancy Pelosi And The Affordable Care Act

3:59pm October 31, 2013

Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel read emails from listeners about Monday's interview with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi about the roll out of the federal healthcare law.

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Vacation Horror Stories: Train Troubles In Budapest

7:25pm August 06, 2013

Listener Dorie Pickle tells us a Vacation Horror Story about being young, female and vulnerable on an overnight train from Prague to Budapest. She almost got arrested for smoking by mistake in the wrong car.

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Vacation Horror Stories: Accidental Thief

6:13pm July 15, 2013

As part of our series "Vacation Horror Stories," listener Deborah Forrester of Malibu, Calif., shares how she picked up the wrong watch at airport security, resulting in being handcuffed, charged with grand larceny, missing the flight and being chastised by a judge.

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Letters: Researching Rare Diseases, Only Children

11:20am June 20, 2013

NPR's Neal Conan reads from listener comments on previous show topics, including research into rare diseases and the joys and myths of having an only child.

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Three-Minute Fiction: The Round 11 Winner Is ...

6:36pm June 09, 2013

by NPR Staff

After sifting through thousands of submissions for our short-story contest, we have found a winner. This round, guest judge Karen Russell asked you to write a story in which a character finds something he or she has no intention of returning.

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Letters: Prenatal Choices And The Power Of Apology

2:21pm June 04, 2013

Guest host Ari Shapiro reads from listener comments on previous show topics, including the bliss of confusion, the power of apologies and difficult prenatal choices.

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Three-Minute Fiction Readings: 'Litter' And 'The Shirt'

8:18pm June 02, 2013

NPR's Bob Mondello and Susan Stamberg read excerpts of two of the best submissions for Round 11 of our short story contest. They read Litter by Kalad Hovatter of Orange, Calif., and The Shirt by Jennifer Anderson of Shorewood, Wis.

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Three-Minute Fiction Readings: 'Compromise' And 'The F'

5:25pm May 26, 2013

NPR's Bob Mondello and Susan Stamberg read excerpts of two of the best submissions for Round 11 of our short story contest. They read The Art of Compromise by Lindsey Appleford of Boerne, Texas, and Claudia Who Found the F by Sean Enfield of Denton, Texas.

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