The actor Kevin Bacon researched pedophiles to play one in The Woodsman. Now convicted sex offenders are watching the film as therapy.

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Except for that One Problem...

A radical therapy group in a Missouri prison solves a problem that's plagued corrections for years...the problem of inmate self-mutilation. But prison guards are trying to sandbag the program – even though it makes their work safer – because it means giving some prisoners special treatment. (This American Life…forward 21 minutes into episode).

A Rogue Ordination

On a boat on the St Lawrence River, nine women risked excommunication by participating in an illegal ordination ceremony to become Catholic priests and deacons. (NPR's Day to Day)
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Evangelical Strongmen Break Bats, Preach Gospel

The evangelical group known as the Power Team smash concrete blocks! Blow up hot water bottles! And curl frying pans like burritos... in the name of Jesus Christ. They performed for soldiers just come home from Afghanistan. (Weekend America)
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Alex's Story: Sophomore Year, with Autism

People with autism typically have language difficulties and trouble relating to other people. They have an obsessive need for things to stay the same. So 15-year-old Alex Smith has had to figure out a few tricks to get through high school. (NCPR). Awarded a 2006 Edward R Murrow award for ‘Best Hard News Feature.'
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Klezkanada

The resurgence of Yiddish music and culture has been fueled by members of a younger generation searching for their roots. They've helped bring some older musicians back to the traditions they once put aside. We go to Canada's Klezkanada on PRI's The World.
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Hardest Working Mud Show

The Kelly Miller Circus is one of the last "mud shows," setting up in small towns and breaking down the same night on a grueling 8-month season. It's family entertainment, pre-Disney...but don't mention PETA...or Cirque de Soleil. (Studio 360).

Flight School

It started with a classified ad. And ended 2300 feet in the air. (Weekend America)

Poker Run

It's bar hopping for charity on motorcycles! Really. (Weekend America)

What better way to celebrate National Nurses Week than to have yourself strapped to a gurney and wheeled to the emergency room? (Weekend America)

Faith Healing

What do you do when you believe in God but faith healing doesn't work? Well, only an agent of Satan would ask that question! (NCPR)

The Perfectionist and the Pornographer

The legendary perfectionist Orson Welles spent 30 years on his epic film of Don Quixote, but he never finished it. So after his death, the famously prolific art porn director Jess Franco decided to try. (Studio 360)

Remembering a pioneer in the rights of terminally ill patients. Social worker Zelda Foster died after a long struggle with ovarian cancer. (NPR's All Things Considered)

The Biofuel Economy, Part III: Pellets and Solid Fuel

Solid fuel isn't a sexy technology, but it's amazingly energy efficient. But the United States has always been a liquid fuel economy. Can farmers tip the balance? Also hear Part I (ethanol) and Part II (biodiesel) of this NCPR series.

The Minutemen are controversial civilian border watchers who stake out the Mexican border. Less well known are the Minutemen who do stake outs on the far less busy Canadian border. And why are so many of them Vietnam vets? (Weekend America)

Last Nun Standing

Meet Sister Gert, the last nun left in the convent in Tupper Lake. A story about what happens to the sisterhood when the sisters are gone. (Weekend America)

A specialized court for people with severe mental illness combines a criminal justice and mental health approach. (Weekend America)