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Interview 1|2 with Dori Smith of WHUS Storrs
An interview with David Rovics about his writing and the meaning in his songs
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David Rovics
 Dori Smith  Contact Contributor
Oct. 23, 2009, 6:08 a.m.
We hear about the news and history within Rovic's music, songs about the little known figures in history, the farmers, revolutionaries, and miners, who worked for human and worker's rights.
Produced by Dori Smith for Pacificas Sprouts

Write to Dori at talknationradio@gmail.com

Songs we hear in full or in part are available at David Rovic's web site: davidrovics.com and other sites on the net.

We hear: Guanajuato, Operation Iraqi Liberation, OIL, Saint Patrick Battalion, From Kabul to Khartoum, In the Name of God, John Brown, Berkshire Hills, Brad, Song for Eureka Stockade, from the new CD, Ten Thousand Miles Away, and also from an earlier album, Living in These Times, and also a song about Ginger Goodwin in British Columbia, killed for standing up for worker's rights.

Sprouts is a weekly program that features local radio production and stories from many radio stations and local media groups around the world. It is produced in collaboration with community radio stations and independent producers across the country.

The program is coordinated and distributed by Pacifica Radio and offered free of charge to all radio stations. For information, or if you would like to feature your work on Sprouts, contact Ursula Ruedenberg at ursula@pacifica.org.

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