When you hear about prison work programs, you think license plates or chain gangs – not buffalo milk cheese. On today’s show, we’ll look into the artisanal foods and other under-the-radar, prisoner-made products that line the shelves of stores across the country.
Then, in 1939 Rhett Butler stunned audiences when he uttered the now famous line in Gone with the Wind: “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.” We’ll talk about the history of onscreen cursing, and how four letter words have come out of the shadows and into the mainstream.
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From Prison to Table
- Graeme Wood is books editor at Pacific Standard, where we found his article “From Our Prison to Your Dinner Table”. WOM03162015A.mp3From Prison To Your Table
The Last Meal
- Brent Cunninghamis deputy editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. He wrote about the history and meaning of the last meal for Lapham’s Quarterly. We spoke to him in 2013.WOM03162015B.mp3The Last Meal
Prison Doulas
- Shaunnah Ray brings us this story about the Birth Attendants-Prison Doula Project, who work with the Washington Correctional Center for Women in Olympia Washington.
- You can listen to this story again at PRX.org.
Damn! A Cultural History of Swearing in Modern America
- Rob Chiricois the author of several books, including Field Guide to Cocktails and his latest is Damn! A Cultural History of Swearing In Modern America.WOM03162015D.mp3Damn!