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This website is a "video vault" for anything from goofy teenage stunts to music videos to television show clips. And recently, it's become a valuable...and controversial...political tool with users providing home-made reports and campaign ads you won't find anywhere on network television. Laura's guests are Mark Timney, Associate Professor of Journalism at Keene State College and Xeni Jardin, Tech Culture Journalist, Co-Editor of the weblog BoingBoing, and a contributor to National Public Radio and Wired Magazine. We'll also hear from Eve Fairbanks, Assistant Editor at The New Republic who reviews political ads that appear on YouTube.

Where We Lived presents, for the first time, a marriage of eyewitness accounts of early American life with the remarkable photography of the Depression-Era Historic American Building Survey. Combining images with text by gifted historian Jack Larkin, the book offers a new look into everyday life at the dawn of the new Republic, from the lives of slaves and paupers to those of frontiersman and the East Coast elites. Laura's guest is Jack Larkin, Museum Scholar and Historian Consultant at Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, MA. He is also an Affiliate Professor of History at Clark University in Worcester, MA.

In the language of the original area's inhabitants, Mount Monadnock, in the southwest corner of New Hampshire, is "the mountain that stands alone". This anthology with its rich mix of original essays, historical texts, and excerpts from oral histories, celebrates the natural and human history of this region through stories by Sy Montgomery, Jane Brox and Ernest Hebert, among others. Laura's guests are Howard Mansfield, local author and editor of this book and John Harris, Director of The Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce College.

Two term incumbent Republican Congressman Jeb Bradley joins us to talk about his bid to return to Congress representing the first district. As he campaigns, he's been talking veteran's issues, the environment, healthcare and of course, the war in Iraq. Bradley's Democratic opponent, Carol Shea-Porter, has linked him to what she calls failed policies in Iraq. We'll talk with him about the issues, the race and how he sees the next few weeks playing out.

The nuclear testing in North Korea today and the worldwide response to it is eerily reminiscent of a similar crisis 12 years ago. In 1994, talk of North Korea working on nuclear weapons under then President Kim Il-sung had many looking for a way to respond and had many more fearing eminent war. It would be former president Jimmy Carter who would go over, meet with the North Korean President and negotiate a peaceful way out of the crisis. Retired US Diplomat and Emory University Professor Marion Creekmore went over with former president Jimmy Carter in 1994. His new book “Moment of Crisis” retells that story. Creekmore will speak about his experiences later today in Concord as part of the World Affairs Council lecture. First he joins us on the Exchange to bring us back to the North Korean nuclear crisis of 1994 and look at how we can apply the lessons learned from the past to the current crisis of today. Laura's guests are Marion Creekmore, former ambassador, current Distinguished Visiting Professor of History and Political Science at Emory University, and author of "A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter, The Power of a Peacemaker, and North Korea's Nuclear Ambitions"; and Wayne Lesperance, professor of Political Science at New England College.