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In a frank series of interviews, Soviet women, from Russia, Ukraine and Georgia talk to producers Julie Drizen and Jude Thilman about managing their birth control. It was October of 1990, a time when the government policy of openness, glasnost, was fraying. The time when abortion was the primary form of birth control was coming to an end, but contraceptives were not readily available. Women used tampons, lemons, or tried to convince their partners to use condoms.

History often celebrates dramatic acts of heroism rather than smaller, more modest acts of leadership and courage. It was an accumulation of small acts throughout Eastern Europe that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. As the wall was being taken apart, citizens of a nearby country were also dismantling their own government. In Czechoslovakia, a protest movement led primarily by college students was blossoming.

The apple may have originated not in Mesopotamia, but in Alma Ata, Kazakstan. The majority of apples around the world share a genetic heritage with apples grown in the area. There, Frank Browning discovers that one of the world's oldest apple breeding programs is still on-going. He tells us about efforts to hybridize better apples, and the place the program has in the global picture.

Producer Neenah Ellis grew up listening to stories and songs about Croatia told by her grandparents and her father. The family came to the U.S. from the island of Šolta, and Ellis's childhood was full of romantic tales about the "Old Country" and the beauty of the island that her relatives missed so much. Her grandfather had been sent to the United States after World War I, to find work that could help support his family back home. In the 1990s, Ellis and her father traveled to Šolta together to visit the family.

Picture life in the 1990s, in the war-torn Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, where shelling from Serbian troops stationed in the nearby mountains is a daily occurrence. There, the most basic activities become dangerous. Even the simple act of walking down the street can get you killed. The independent radio station called Radio Zid caters to the city's youth, broadcasting a mix of alternative rock, educational shows, and news programs.