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Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane

Archive for October, 2009

politics

The New Jersey gubernatorial race, down to the wire

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Hour 1
Leading off the last weekend before the election, we'll take a look at the New Jersey gubernatorial race with Newark Star-Ledger columnist Tom Moran and Jonathan Tamari of The Philadelphia Inquirer's Trenton Statehouse Bureau. They'll take stock of the increasingly close race between incumbent Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine and Republican challenger Chris Christie, as well as the vigorous challenge from Independent Chris Daggett.

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entertainment

Philadelphia Spectrum Obit

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Hour 2
The Philadelphia Spectrum opened in the fall of 1967 swinging with the Quaker City Jazz Festival and is closing October 31st rocking out with Pearl Jam. Philadelphia's first indoor arena was home to the Flyers and 76ers championships, boxing and wresting matches, monster truck shows, and rock concerts.

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health

A conversation about child abuse

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Hour 1
Ten year old Charleeni Ferreira died last week in Philadelphia from injuries related to physical abuse. Her family was the subject of several abuse investigations and she was seen by health care providers over the course of several years. We talk about this case and the challenges facing the child welfare system and the people who work in it.

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author

[REBROADCAST] Neil White – "In the Sanctuary of Outcasts"

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Hour 2
[REBROADCAST] Neil White, a journalist, magazine publisher and family man, was convicted in 1993 for check fraud and sentenced for eighteen months in federal prison. That prison, was also the U.S. Government-sanctioned National Leprosarium. White tells the stories of these people in a memoir, "In the Sanctuary of Outcasts," as well as his story of the transformed, humbler man he had become when he was released.

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entertainment

"The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity"

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Hour 1
The InterAct Theatre Company's new play, "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity," slams into the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre with an action-packed mix of professional wrestling, race and geopolitics.

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author

Sherman Alexie – "War Dances"

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Hour 2
Novelist, poet, film-maker and National Book Award-winning writer, our guest Sherman Alexie grew up on an Indian Reservation fifty miles north of Spokane Washington. "War Dances" is Alexie's latest book, a collection of short stories filled with characters dealing with complex issues as wide reaching as a failed marriage, alcoholic death, hate crime, obituary writing and courtship.

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health

How physicians and nurses really talk to dying patients and their families

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Hour 1
In the debate over health care legislation, end of life counseling by physicians and nurses has been reduced to a frightening sound bite – "death panels." In fact these meaningful conversations go on every day.

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sports

Phillies vs. Yankees

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Hour 2
The 2009 World Series promises to be one for the ages. In one dugout its the returning champions, the Philadephia Phillies. But the guys in the other dugout know something about dynasties: It's the dreaded, hated New York Yankees.

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economy

The debate over governmental regulation of Wall Street salaries

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Hour 1
Last week the Treasury Department announced a plans to cut the salaries of top executives of the seven companies that took government bailouts; the Federal Reserve also made public its own risk-based guidelines for banking salaries.

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author

New York Times columnist Gail Collins on the contemporary women's movement

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Hour 2
In her new book, "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of Women from 1960 to the Present," New York Times columnist Gail Collins explores the determination and persistence that shaped the contemporary women's movement.

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