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James Fallows on 'China Airborne'

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Hour 1

JAMES FALLOWS’ new book, “China Airborne,” combines his two passions: flight & China. More than two-thirds of the new airports under construction today are being built in China; Chinese airlines expect to triple their fleet size over the next decade; and China is buying up American companies that manufacture airplanes and their parts. Fallows takes stock of this effort and what it means for China’s present and future and its relations with the rest of the world.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Buzz Bissinger's cross country trip with his extraordinary son

Monday, May 21st, 2012

HR 2

Pulitzer Prize-winning author BUZZ BISSINGER takes a road trip with his 24 year old son to get to know him better. This is not your usual father-and-son bonding story – Bissenger’s sons, Gerry and Zach are twins, but they live in very different worlds. Gerry, three minutes older, is attending graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, but Zach is an intellectually challenged savant who suffered brain damage at birth, and can’t live by himself nor drive a car, despite some unusual talents, like memory and navigation. The former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter’s new book, “Father’s Day: A Journey Into the Mind & Heart of My Extraordinary Son,” takes us across the United States and into the mind of a special son.


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The tragic life & career of groundbreaking singer-actress Ethel Waters

Friday, May 18th, 2012

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 [...]


Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman on ending the Great Recession

Friday, May 18th, 2012

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 [...]


Suzzy Roche's debut novel, 'Wayward Saints'

Friday, May 18th, 2012

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 [...]


A conversation with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

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 [...]


Terry Tempest Williams on her mother's mystifying bequest

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

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 [...]


Combat advising in Iraq with 3rd-generation Marine Owen West

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

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 [...]


After the President’s endorsement, what’s next in the battle for same-sex marriage?

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

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 [...]


Why students drop out of college & what can be done to help them graduate

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

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 [...]



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