Hour 1 All eyes are on Delaware and Pennsylvania in advance of next week’s mid-term elections.  Two highly coveted Senate seats are up for grabs and the races have been controversial and contentious.  Christine O’Donnell and Chris Coons are fighting for Joe Biden’s vacated seat and in Pennsylvania its Joe Sestak pitted against Pat Toomey.  [...]

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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 The constitution, its relevance  and how it should be interpreted has been the matter of some debate during this campaign season.  In question among some candidates is the separation of church and state, the definition of citizenship (14th Amendment) the government's right to tax (16th Amendment), how senators are elected (17th Amendment), as [...]

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Hour 2 John and Abigail Adams’ marriage was spent apart as much as they were together. Documenting their letters to each other when John was in Philadelphia and Paris and Abigail in Massachusetts is a favorite topic for professional and amateur historians.  Pulitzer-prize and National Book Award winning biographer, JOSEPH ELLIS looks at the famous [...]

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Hour 1 Google recently announced that it was investing heavily in offshore wind energy.  The company is putting money into a five billion dollar transmission line that would run on the Atlantic seabed from Virginia to New Jersey.  The cable would connect offshore wind projects and carry the energy generated back to land to power [...]

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Hour 2 A cholera outbreak in rural Haiti has killed more than 250 people. Though the rate of cholera transmission appears to have slowed, public health experts and relief agencies say Haiti is most likely not done with the deadly disease that sickens millions of people around the world each year and kills 100,000. On [...]

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Hour 1 With the mid-term elections only a week away, we’ll take a look the media coverage of the campaigns, the political ads, and the relationship between the press and the candidates.  Marty talks with EVAN TRACEY, founder and president of Campaign Media Analysis Group, ERIC BOEHLERT, a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, [...]

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Hour 2 When the New Yorker music critic ALEX ROSS, was a teenager he first heard the conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein’s analysis of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. The C sharp 'jabbing' through the key of E flat that was discussed in the piece sent Ross on a listening trajectory he’s still on about 25 years [...]

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Hour 1 You know one story about Rosa Parks, but not this one: The woman who gained worldwide fame when she “refused to give up her seat” on a Montgomery bus was also a radical activist and a top NAACP investigator into the routine and ritual rape of black women by white men in the [...]

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Hour 2 Five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease and that number is expected to grow considerably with the aging population.  But there is some good news.  Recently there have been some promising new developments that could lead to advances in the diagnosis and the treatment of the disease. This hour, Marty sits down with [...]

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