Talk of Alaska: Constructing Alaska

Tue, November 11, 2008
Posted in Talk of Alaska

Exploding trees, bridges that wash out every year, electric currents running through pipes — they’re all things that have happened on construction projects in Alaska. This week we look at the state’s really big construction projects. Pipeliners, railroaders and roughnecks (oh my!) in conversation, live statewide on the stations of the Alaska Public Radio Network.

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HOST: Steve Heimel, APRN

GUESTS:

Kenneth Mandel, Emmy-award-winning documentary producer, including the upcoming Great Projects: Building Alaska
Dermot Cole, columnist with the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and author of Amazing Pipeline Stories: How Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Transformed Life on America’s Last Frontier
Live callers statewide

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LIVE Broadcast: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. on APRN stations statewide

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