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Arizona Spotlight for September 12, 2014

Vail resident Nina Roosevelt Gibson talks growing up Roosevelt; The Rogue Theatre begins new season with classic play on immigrant life; Sound Fiction: C.E. Poverman's "Love by Drowning".

awake and sing cast photo spotlight The Berger Family from The Rogue Theatre Production of "Awake and Sing"

Featured on the Sept. 12, 2014 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:

  • Vail resident Nina Roosevelt Gibson is the granddaughter of Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt. She talks with Mark McLemore about traveling the world alongside her illustrious grandmother, and what it was like to grow up with the Roosevelt family legacy...

  • The Rogue Theatre begins a new performing arts season with Awake and Sing, playwright Clifford Odets' story of a depression-era immigrant family struggling to come to terms with "The American Dream". Mark McLemore visits the director and cast on-set to talk about the play's contemporary relevance...

  • And, listen to a Sound Fiction reading by author C.E. Poverman of the opening scene from his novel Love By Drowning. It tells the story of brothers with a complicated history who go on a coastal fishing trip together, and find deeper trouble awaits...

ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT airs every Friday at 8:30 am and 6:00 pm, and every Saturday at 5:00 pm, on NPR 89.1 FM / 1550 AM.

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