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- “Something the Lord Made,” a Cort/Madden Production in association with HBO Films, a documentary on white surgeon Dr. Alfred Blalock and black lab technician Vivien Thomas, who do pioneering work in heart surgery in the face of racial prejudice in the south in 1944.
- “Human Cargo,” Howe Sound Films and Force Four Entertainment in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.; six stories on the lives of refugees and people who deal with them.
- “State of Play,” Endor Production in association with BBC, BBC America; a political thriller looking at the relationships between politics, law enforcement and the media.
- “The Kumars at No. 42,” Hat Trick Productions, BBC America; part-comedy and part-interview, series about an exaggerated Indian family who run their own TV show.
- “Nursery Tap, Hip to Toe,” Nursery Tap, LLC; a collection of 30 nursery rhymes introducing children to a full range of performing arts.
- “The Suffering of Sudan,” Channel One Network; News reporter Seth Doane’s stories on Sudan’s civil war, prepared for middle school and high school audiences.
- “Takalani Sesame Presents ‘talk to me...’,” Sesame Workshop (USA) and Kwasukasukela (South Africa); documentary that was the culmination of a South African public service campaign designed to get adults and children talking about AIDS.
- “The Bully Project,” WITI-TV, Milwaukee; series of reports on playground violence in southeast Wisconsin.
- “Univision Communications, Salud es Vida ... Enterate! (Lead a Healthy Life ... Get the Facts!), Univision, Miami; Univision’s health education public service campaign.
- “On the Media,” WNYC Radio, New York, National Public Radio; reports, commentary and satire about the media.
- “Studio 360 American Icons: Melville’s Moby Dick,” WNYC Radio, New York, Public Radio International; part of the “American Icons” series, it reports on Herman Melville’s classic tale.
- “The War in Iraq,” National Public Radio, Washington; coverage by NPR’s team of foreign correspondents on the war.
- “Leonard Bernstein: An American Life,” CultureWorks, presented on WNYC, New York, and the WFMT Radio Network, Chicago; an 11-part radio documentary anchored by Susan Sarandon that looks on Bernstein’s life, career and music.
- “Let the Good Times Roll,” The Rhythm and Blues Foundation, Washington, Public Radio International; a 13-part radio series on jazz, gospel and blues in the post-World War II era.
- “To the Best of our Knowledge,” Wisconsin Public Radio, Public Radio International; a radio magazine about arts and culture.
- Grant Tinker, former head of MTM Enterprises in the 1970s and NBC chairman in the 1980s, he provided creative opportunities to a generation of writers and producers.
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