Sesame Street moves to HBO
Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, and the gang will have a new home for the next five years. No, they’re not moving off Sesame Street, but the long running television program of the same name will begin airing on HBO in the fall of 2015. Sesame Street had previously aired on public television since its debut…
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Clare Hollingworth: The reporter who broke the news of World War II
In August 1939, less than one week after becoming a journalist, Clare Hollingworth witnessed Nazi troops gathering at the Germany-Poland border. She reported this news in England's Daily Telegraph, and…
The End of FM in Norway
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