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In this Front Porch rerun show, Ted Leach jokes that running a marionette theatre is not much different than running for political office. And he would know. For much of the 90's Ted ran the New England Marionette Opera in Peterborough. Today, he serves as the Republican State Representative from Hancock and Chairman of the Clean Air Subcommittee. In his spare time, he is writing an opera, a novel, and a musical and pulling all the right strings to make his various projects a reality.

It's been said that only Shakespeare and the Bible are quoted more than the Alice in Wonderland works. Since it was first released, the iconic Alice has been adapted in movies, plays even video games. A new book looks at the duality of author, protagonist, and work… half-sanitized, disneyfied children's story, half-dark, psychedelic, borderline pedophilic fantasy. The many sides and influences of Lewis Carroll and Alice in Wonderland is on the next Exchange. Trish's guest is Will Brooker, Associate Professor of Communications at Richmond, the American International University in London and author of "Alice's Adventures: Lewis Carroll in Popular Culture".

*This show was originally broadcast on 5/10/04*

As a child in rural England, Ashland resident Claire Robson knew that she would one day leave and head for great adventures. Five decades later, she's captured her great adventures in her memoir Love in Good Time. In this rebroadcast of The Front Porch, Claire describes trying on Marxist politics at University, making a dramatic escape from her brief marriage on a motorbike, joining a group of radical Lesbians, squatting in abandoned housing in London and getting in trouble with the law.

As of December 29th / December 30th, 18 people have been murdered in New Hampshire in 2004.

Two-thirds of those homicides are a result of domestic violence.

That's in keeping with the pattern the state has seen over the past 14 years and are in line with national figures.

While a relative few people are murdered annually, New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein reports, officials are anxious to improve how they deal with domestic violence.

In the late 60s, Michel Peltz was an American soldier in the war. He developed a close friendship with a Vietnamese nun, but after the war, he lost touch with her. This year, he made a return trip to Vietnam. It was a journey that healed some of the emotional scars of his wartime experience, and reunited him with his long-lost friend.