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Arizona Spotlight for August 15, 2014

Composer Randy Newman talks about revisiting his classic songs; local organic farmers ally with Community Food Bank; long-time Colossal Cave director shares her experience at park; Tales of Tucson explores Colossal Cave's mysteries.

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Featured on the August 15th, 2014 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:

  • Composer Randy Newman has been revisiting his classic songs alone at the piano as part of a songbook album series. Mark McLemore talks with Newman about his career, and his upcoming appearance at The Fox Tucson Theatre...

  • Luis Carrion visits a Tucson gathering that lets local organic farmers sell and share their harvests while supporting the Community Food Bank...

  • Meet Martie Maierhauser who talks with Laura Markowitz about her 52 years as manager of the tourist attraction Colossal Cave Park...

  • Colossal Cave is also famous as the possible site of hidden gold from a 19th century train robbery, and for monster movies made around the cave in the 1970s. The radio drama series Tales of Tucson explores how some of the cave's deeper secrets come together in Legends of the Lost Loot...

Listen:

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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