Accessibility links

All Things Considered for May 31, 2004 Hear the All Things Considered program for May 31, 2004

All Things Considered

Subscribe to Breaking News Alerts

World

Baghdad Car-Bomb Kills Four

by Melissa Block , Peter Kenyon

Baghdad Car-Bomb Wounds Dozens Near U.S. Complex

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1917170/1917171" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

National

Violent Storms Strike in Midwest

Violent Storms Strike in Midwest

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1917172/1917173" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

National

Miami Offers Aid to Hispaniola Flood Victims

Miami Offers Aid to Hispaniola Flood Victims

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1917174/1917175" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Commentary: Remembering Dash and Cox, Watergate

by Daniel Schorr

Commentary: Remembering Dash and Cox, Watergate

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1917176/1917177" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Business

Station Retailers Calibrate Gas Price Hikes

by Scott Horsley

Station Retailers Calibrate Gas Price Hikes

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1917178/1917179" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Thefts of Diesel Fuel Rise at Remote Farms

Thefts of Diesel Fuel Rise at Remote Farms

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1917180/1917181" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

A Combat Photographer's Memories of War

A Combat Photographer's Memories of War

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1914938/1917207" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

World

France Warms Up to Foreign Wine

France Warms Up to Foreign Wine

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1917182/1917183" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Remembering Larry Capune, Paddle Boarder

by Melissa Block

Remembering Larry Capune, Paddle Boarder

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1917184/1917185" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

National

Bush, Kerry Mark Memorial Day

by Pam Fessler

Bush, Kerry Mark Memorial Day at Observances

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1917186/1917187" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Washington's World War I Memorial

Washington's World War I Memorial

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1914915/1917214" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

World

Fatal Blast at Pakistan Mosque

by Melissa Block

Blast at Pakistani Mosque Kills More than a Dozen

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1917188/1917189" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Culture

Preview of the Summer Movie Season

by Bob Mondello

Preview of the Summer Movie Season

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1917190/1917191" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Culture

'Bound for Glory': New Deal America in Color

by Melissa Block

'Bound for Glory': New Deal America in Color

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1915331/1917212" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

National

Last Known Civil War Widow Dies at 97

by Melissa Block

Last Known Civil War Widow Dies at 97

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1917192/1917193" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

World

Vietnam Plans to Counteract 'Short' Shrift

by Michael Sullivan

Vietnam Plans to Counteract 'Short' Shrift

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1917194/1917195" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

National

Discarded Mobile Homes a Growing Problem

by Adam Hochberg

Discarded Mobile Homes a Growing Problem

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1917196/1917197" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Culture

'Redneck Woman' Rules Country Charts

by Melissa Block

'Redneck Woman' Rules Country Charts

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1917198/1917199" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Searching for a song you heard between stories? We've retired music buttons on these pages. Learn more here.

All Things Considered

Browse archive or search npr.org