Name: Retro Report on PBS
Released: 2019-10-07T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Celeste Headlee, Masud Olufani

TV Show · Documentary · News

Retro Report helps viewers understand the present by revealing the past. The series is anchored by journalist storytellers Celeste Headlee and Masud Olufani and features New Yorker magazine humorist Andy Borowitz.

2019 · 53m

Starring Celeste Headlee, Masud Olufani

EPISODE 3

Why Crime Witnesses Fail to Act

Why crime witnesses fail to act, a naval officer who transformed the military, psychedelic drugs, voyage of a trash barge, lunar hoaxes.

4 min
EPISODE 4

President Trump Takes on the Press

President Trump's taking on the press with a time-tested strategy. Explore the origins of the latest measles outbreak, pro sports free agency, and the consequences of a law meant to save wild horses. Andy Borowitz on the no-apology apology.

4 min
EPISODE 5

Texting Could Reduce Suicides

Baby M and surrogate parenthood, reducing suicide with texting, lead, climate help from the Cold War, flaming river.

4 min
EPISODE 6

Public Housing Influenced by a 1970s Experiment

Lessons from a 1970 public housing experiment, newborn testing, the legacy of a boy who spent his life in a bubble, head injuries in professional sports.

4 min

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