This week's Hearing Voices from NPR episode is "Nine to Five: The Work Week." The entire hour will be at NPR.org/podcasts/. Here's one of the stories- Producer Jeff Rice gets wet with professional golfball diver Paul Neibuhr. (2:14)

This week's Hearing Voices from NPR episode is "Old School: A Back-to-School Special." The entire hour will be at NPR.org/podcasts/. Here's one of the stories- Producer Hillary Frank gets the shy "Quiet Kids" to speak up. (3:24)

This week's Hearing Voices from NPR hour is "Caregiver." The entire hour will be at NPR.org/podcasts/. Here's one of the stories- "The Person I Admire Most" by Jake Warga: A day with Jenafir in Ethiopia, trying to save the world. (5:43)

Our story podcast is back with excerpts from the weekly hour Hearing Voices from NPR. This week's episode is "The Old Country: Back to the Homeland." The entire hour is at NPR.org/podcasts/. Here's an excerpt: "Eyes of Sibiu"- Andrei Codrescu returns to Romania, his homeland. "Look at the old lady looking out. She's been looking out for three hundred years. And she's still curious. She looks like she's seen everyone: the Romans in their sandals, Germans in jackboots, gypsies with feet of silver, and the communists in their dialectical slippers; and pretty soon, the rollerblades will be coming. She's not going anywhere." Produced by Larry Massett (16:49).

Audio excursions from the early eighties: Four traveling stories from public radio's past, hosted by the independent producers who made them, Scott Carrier attends a native service of "Navajo Pentacostalists." The Kitchen Sisters ride with the "Road Ranger," an American auto-mechanic hero. John Rieger samples small-town life "Fifty Miles Out of Gerlach." And Larry Massett takes a nitrous-oxide fueled "Trip To the Dentist." (53:00)

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