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Pat Duggins
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News Director, Alabama Public Radio, 1st radio newsroom to win the “John Seigenthaler Prize for Courage in Journalism” from RFK Human Rights. Award winning journalist, author, & former NPR NASA correspondent. Member, U.S. State Department Speaker Program.
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Stand up comedy — at gun point? Comedian Roy Wood, Junior says it happened. Wood and I also discuss his first book “The Man of Many Fathers,” on Alabama Public Radio’s “APR Notebook.”

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APR Notebook: Roy Wood, Junior and "The Man of Many Fathers"
Roy Wood, Jr. has come a long way from Birmingham. He launched his comedy career making prank phone calls for a local radio station in the Magic City in 2001. Along with his current success as a stand...
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Stand up comedy — at gun point? Comedian Roy Wood, Junior says it happened. Wood and I also discuss his first book “The Man of Many Fathers,” on Alabama Public Radio’s “APR Notebook.”

www.apr.org/podcast/apr-...

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APR Notebook: Roy Wood, Junior and "The Man of Many Fathers"
Roy Wood, Jr. has come a long way from Birmingham. He launched his comedy career making prank phone calls for a local radio station in the Magic City in 2001. Along with his current success as a stand...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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“Destroy the humans!” We don’t even watch Doctor Who, and this Dalek costume was a whopper! #halloween #boo #ghost #trickortreat @joshuajfriedman.com @jongraywb.bsky.social @jarjarfan69.bsky.social @universalstudiosfl.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Doing the final edit for “APR Notebook” with Birmingham comedian Roy Wood, Junior. We’ll talk about his new book “The Man Of Many Fathers.” Click for other shows…

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October 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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So many reasons why we need public broadcasting! And so glad @repscfigures.bsky.social interview is one we can all hear 👇🏽
October 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Many thanks to the National Association of Black Journalists! Alabama Public Radio won a 1st Place “Salute to Excellence” Award. Click below.

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October 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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“No Kings” protest at Tuscaloosa, Alabama’s Government Plaza.

#protest #nokings #march #demonstration #Trump #Musk #firstamendment
October 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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#Alabama Public #Radio #news helped inspire a new #film at the #Telluride Film Festival in #Colorado. “Sallie’s Ashes” is based on APR’s investigation into #toxic #chemicals killing Alabama neighborhoods.

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October 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Click below for my conversation with six-time Grammy award winner Jason Isbell on “APR Notebook.” His music event ShoalsFest returns to Florence, Al next week.

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@npr.org #jasonisbell #music #grammy #shoals #muscleshoals #festival #alabama #400unit
October 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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I know a new advisor to the Prime Minister of #Mongolia! “Bill” Khishigbat was part of a delegation I addressed for the #Congressional Office of #International #Leadership. Congrats!

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September 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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A U.S. State Department delegation of #European journalists will visit the Alabama Public #Radio’s newsroom will visit on Friday. Our student interns can’t wait! @kyivindependent.com @news.rte.ie @antena3.com #news #diplomacy @efjeurope.bsky.social @statedept.govmirrors.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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With the #television industry’s #Primetime #EMMY awards coming on #Sunday, here’s a shameless plug for “APR Notebook” on Alabama Public #Radio.

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Alabama actor’s memory of the Primetime Emmy awards—no food
The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat is coming for the television industry. This year’s Primetime Emmy awards will be handed out this coming Sunday. Actor Michael Emerson has two of the gold ...
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September 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Rebuilding #Ukraine “one #jigsaw #puzzle at a time.” Click here for “APR Notebook” on Alabama Public #Radio.

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APR Notebook: Rebuilding Ukraine, one jigsaw puzzle at a time
Back in February, the US State Department asked me to speak to a foreign delegation. It was about APR’s coverage of human trafficking. One member of that group was an investigative reporter from Ukrai...
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September 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Happy birthday to retired Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier. He flew on the space shuttle mission corrected the Hubble Space telescope’s fuzzy vision. @kscartist.bsky.social @andreafarmer.bsky.social @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social @nasawebb.extwitter.link @esa.int @science.esa.int #nasa #hubble
September 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Happy birthday to retired #NASA astronaut Anna Fisher. She flew one #space shuttle mission on STS-51A, to be followed by STS-61H, which was cancelled after #Challenger. @esa.int @kscartist.bsky.social #spacex #moon #mars @andreafarmer.bsky.social
August 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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A look back at a pivotal story in my public #radio news career. www.apr.org/news/2024-09... #news #npr #journalism #oldsparky #electricchair #nitrogengas #lethalinjection #tedbundy #serialkiller #murder
Covering the execution of serial killer Ted Bundy in 1989
The State of Alabama is just hours away from the planned execution of Alan Miller. He was convicted in the 1999 murders of three co-workers. And, this isn’t the only high profile execution in the U.S....
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August 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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The meeting between #Trump and #Putin over #Ukraine hits home with one resident of #Huntsville. Yaryna Zhurba will be joining me on the next episode of “APR Notebook.”

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Huntsville resident with Ukrainian roots speaks out on situation in her home country
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to London on Thursday in a show of the U.K.'s support for Ukraine a day before a critical U.S.-Russia summit is set...
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August 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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#Alabama Public #Radio just won the national #NABJ “Salute to Excellence Award” for part one of our series, “…a U.S. House Seat, if you can keep it…” Go team!

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"...a U.S. House seat, if you can keep it." Part 1 of an APR news investigation
Voters in rural Alabama will cast historic votes this November. It’s the first time residents in the newly redrawn Congressional District Two will pick their member of the U.S. House. It took a fight ...
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August 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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#Alabama Public #Radio is honored to be nominated for tmrw’s national “Salute to Excellence” #awards from #NABJ. APR is joining #NPR, #CNN, #NBC, #ABC, & The NY Times. Thanks to NABJ!

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"...a U.S. House seat, if you can keep it." Part 1 of an APR news investigation
Voters in rural Alabama will cast historic votes this November. It’s the first time residents in the newly redrawn Congressional District Two will pick their member of the U.S. House. It took a fight ...
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August 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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#BBQ and #civil rights? And, my guest Robert Moss, #author of #Barbecue: The #History of an #American Institution,
talks about the #McRib!

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APR Notebook: Alabama Barbecue, beyond the white sauce
Everybody, it seems, has a favorite story about barbecue. Here's mine. Mrs. Duggins and I took a road trip to Memphis. We were going to see Bonnie Raitt in concert. Now, when it comes to barbecue, Mem...
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August 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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The quality journalism goes on! #Alabama Public #Radio’s 181st award is a national 1st Place #PMJA award for Special #Election Coverage.

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July 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Many thanks for the great response for #Alabama Public #Radio’s new #interview program “APR Notebook.” The premiere focused on the “darker side of #infertility” @mikereadermike.bsky.social @dallilama.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com #ivf #abortion #news #journalism

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APR Notebook-- The darker side of infertility
PAT DUGGINS-- If I were to say, ‘man, have you seen the price of eggs these days?’ You're probably thinking, Oh, he's talking about inflation and the price of groceries and how it became an issue in t...
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July 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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#Alabama Public #Radio #news team was honored with 1st Place for Special Election Coverage from the Public #Media Journalists Assoc! It’s for APR’s 8 month investigation into Alabama’s new U.S. #House seat. www.apr.org/news/2024-10... @pmja.bsky.social @npr.org #journalism #scotus #vote
June 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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#Alabama Public #Radio’s new #interview #program, “APR Notebook,” premieres #Friday at 7 pm. Ahead of that, I did some redecorating at my office. I asked #cartoonist J.D. Crowe for a signed print of the original #artwork he did for the #logo. @prx.org @npr.org #news #ivf #abortion
June 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Nothing like #Ringo Starr in Tuscaloosa! #Beatles #Toto #ColinHay #rock #concert #MenAtWork #music @colinhay.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Remembering the late #NASA #astronaut Ellison Onizuka on his birthday. My press credentials from the 1986 #space #shuttle #Challenger accident hang in my office at #Alabama Public #Radio. @kscartist.bsky.social @andreafarmer.bsky.social #news #spacex #disaster
June 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM