Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] The singers Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald were influenced by her. Lena Horne described her as “the mother of us all.” The Chester, Pennsylvania-born singer and actress Ethel Waters started her career out in black vaudeville, became one of the first African American women of the early 20th century to be heard [...]

Hour 1 The United States economy isn't recovering from The Great Recession quickly enough for Nobel laureate economist PAUL KRUGMAN. The U.S. unemployment rate is hovering just over 8 percent, when in 2007, the beginning of the financial crisis, according to Krugman, it didn’t spike above 5 percent. The New York Times columnist, blogger and [...]

Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] SUZZY ROCHE and her sisters, Maggie and Terre, have been touring together and recording for over 30 years. Suzzy, the youngest, has recently written her first novel, "Wayward Saints," about the music industry, family and small-town ghosts of the past. Marty talked to Roche about performing, writing in a different medium for [...]

Hour 1 We present a recorded and lightly edited broadcast of Marty’s Tuesday interview with Pennsylvania Gov. TOM CORBETT at The Prince Music Theater. Marty asked the governor about cuts he's made to education and public welfare programs, the impact fee for Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction, taxes, gay marriage and gay adoption, among other [...]

Hour 2 Twenty-five years ago, TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS’ mother died of ovarian cancer, and she left Terry 54 journals, one for each year of her life. Later, when Terry went to read them, longing to hear her mother’s voice again, she found that each one was blank. In her book, "When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four [...]

Hour 1 Combat advisors have been vital actors in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as they train indigenous security forces to fight their own conflicts. Our guest, OWEN WEST, a third-generation Marine, says military advising is a task many generals don’t understand, as he led a small group of U.S. reservists, Marines and Iraqi [...]

Hour 2 Last week, in a decision that may come with real political risks, President Obama publicly announced his support for gay marriage.  Since taking office, the President had frequently expressed his personal struggles with the issue but at the same time had signaled his support of gay rights through a variety of policies in [...]

Hour 1 Until a decade ago, the U.S. led the world in college graduation rates. Now we rank 12th globally in the number of young adults who hold a minimum of an associate's degree, and while almost 70 percent of high school students enroll in a higher education institution, only 57 percent graduate.  The numbers [...]