Hour 1 DAN ONORATO is the Democratic candidate running to be Pennsylvania's next governor. The Allegheny County executive is touting his economic record, claiming some credit for the turnaround in Pittsburgh that convinced President Obama to choose the Steel City to host last year's meeting of the G-20 economic summit. But he faces many challenges, [...]

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Hour 2 Novelist GARY SHTEYNGART was already a critically acclaimed writer before he was featured in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” this summer for his debut novel, “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook,” published in 2003. Radio Times invites Shteyngart back to Radio Times to discuss his latest novel, “Super Sad True Love Story,” a love [...]

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Hour 1 Comedian Stephen Colbert’s testimony on Capitol Hill was met with mixed response.  Questions were raised about the appropriateness of the comedian’s appearance based on his limited experience as an advocate of immigration reform.   Have the lines between satire and legitimate discourse been crossed?  In this hour of Radio Times, we explore the increasingly [...]

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Hour 2 BETTY ANNE WATERS rescued her brother from a life of prison after he served nearly twenty years after a wrongful murder and armed robbery conviction. Actor SAM ROCKWELL is portraying Kenneth Waters in the new film, “Conviction,” directed by TONY GOLDWYN. Betty Anne Waters, a high school drop-out at the time of her [...]

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Hour 1 All week, WHYY is broadcasting The Shale Game, an in-depth look at the debate and the development of the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale. WHYY reporters KERRY GRENS and SUSAN PHILLIPS investigated several aspects of the burgeoning industry, and its myriad impacts on Pennsylvania life, politics, economy and environment, from Philadelphia [...]

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Hour 2 Senators John Ensign, Jim DeMint, and Sam Brownback have been residents. South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was a resident when he was a U.S. Congressman.  133 C St. S.E. is a tidy, red brick Washington D.C. rowhouse  registered as a church and affilitated with “The Fellowship” or “The Family,” a Christian network of nonprofits [...]

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Hour 1 Last Thursday, certain measures of the new health care law – The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – went into effect.  We’ll look at how the changes may affect you.  Also, why is there still so much confusion about the law and so little public support for it.   Marty talks with ROBERT [...]

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Hour 2 A new study shows that girls in the United States are reaching puberty earlier — some girls starting breast development as early as seven years old.  Obesity, environmental chemicals, and even absent fathers, may play a role in the disturbing trend.  Our guests PAUL KAPLOWITZ, Chief of Endocrinology at Children’s National Medical Center in [...]

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Hour 1 This week's national political roundup has Marty interviewing JAY NORDLINGER, a senior editor of National Review who writes the Impromptus column for the National Review Online, and JILL LAWRENCE, columnist for AOL's Politics Daily. They'll talk about the Republican's "Pledge to America," Obama's health care overhaul six months in, campaign politics, Tea Party [...]

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Hour 2 Actress AMY RYAN is in The Office (ours and NBCs).  She joins Marty in the studio this morning to talk about her new film Jack Goes Boating directed by and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman; Ryan has a recurring role in The Office, will also appear this season in HBO’s In Treatment and played [...]

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