Prostitutes, drugs & crime in North Philly November 30
Hour 1 Someone is killing women in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. Four women have been strangled in recent weeks, two of them killed, near notoriously drug- and crime-filled lots, alleys and streets near Kensington Avenue under the [...]

Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery/Wikileaks November 30
Hour 2 Was President Abraham Lincoln a natural abolitionist? Slavery ended during the 16th president’s watch, but what were Lincoln’s opinions and policies about institutional slavery throughout his life? Our guest, ERIC FONER, the DeWitt Clinton professor of [...]

'Restrepo,' a film by Sebastian Junger & Tim Hetherington November 29
Hour 1 The best-reviewed film of the U.S. war in Afghanistan receives its world television premiere on the National Geographic Channel tonight. “Restrepo” chronicles the yearlong deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, which [...]

PA's electricity rate caps coming off November 29
Hour 2 Weeks before the rate caps for electricity expire and Pennsylvania’s energy deregulation becomes reality that hits ratepayers in their monthly bills, we’ll talk about energy and its costs with SONNY POPOWSKY, the Consumer Advocate of Pennsylvania, [...]

Wide Awake with Patricia Morrisroe November 26
Hour 2 After struggling with insomnia for years writer PATRICIA MORRISROE has chronicled her sleepless nights in a new book, “Wide Awake.” This is not only a memoir – Morrisroe thought she’d become an expert on this affliction, [...]

Love them, hate them, eat them: exploring the human-animal relationship November 26
Hour 2 Human beings have a complicated relationship with animals.  Some we take into our houses as pets, while others we serve up for dinner.  What is behind our paradoxical relationship with animals?  Psychologist HAL HERZOG has written [...]

Historian Simon Winchester on his "biography" of the Atlantic Ocean November 25
Hour 2 Historian Simon Winchester's new book,  Atlantic: Great Sea Battle, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories,  is essentially a biography of the Atlantic Ocean — from its geological birth to its [...]

TSA full-body scans: Privacy vs. security November 24
Hour 1 Today is National Opt-Out Day for many American travelers fed up with what they see as intrusive airport screening techniques. The Transportation Security Administration’s new full-body scans have provoked outrage around the country, hitting a nadir [...]

Thanksgiving & Coming Home: from prison, from war, from college November 24
Hour 2 For Thanksgiving, when many of us are going home for the holidays, Radio Times focuses on three distinct experiences of homecoming and thanksgiving. First, DEMETRIUS KELLY of Northeast Philadelphia discusses his journey home after doing time [...]

Mike Fitzpatrick & Pat Meehan, new GOP congressmen from Philly suburbs November 23
Hour 1 Two Republicans just elected to the U.S. Congress from the Philadelphia suburbs join Marty in the studio today. But neitherMIKE FITZPATRICK, Congressman-elect from Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District, nor Congressman-elect PAT MEEHAN of the 7th is a [...]

Salman Rushdie writes a childhood fable November 23
Hour 2 The Booker Prize – winning writer SALMAN RUSHDIE returns to Radio Times to discuss the new fable he has written for his youngest son, “Luka and the Fire of Life.” Rushdie, author of over ten novels, [...]

Male Sexual Abuse November 22
Hour 1 RHETT HACKETT was sexually abused by a trusted neighbor as a child growing up at the Jersey Shore.  It wasn’t until he was in his thirties that he began to deal with the damage the abuse [...]

Harold McGee on The Keys to Good Cooking November 22
Hour 2 With Thanksgiving just a few days away, we’ll get some last minute cooking tips from food writer HAROLD MCGEE.  McGee is famous for investigating the chemical and physical reactions that occur when we cook.  He’s written [...]

Winner Take-All Politics with Jacob Hacker November 19
Hour 1 Why do the rich keep getting richer?  Our guest Yale political scientist JACOB S. HACKER and his co-author, Paul Pierson of UCAL  Berkeley, have written a historical, political analysis of the United States economy beginning their [...]

All about running a marathon November 19
Hour 2 This weekend, Philadelphia will host its 17th annual marathon with over 20,000 entrants expected to run, so we're devoting this hour of Radio Times to talking about long-distance running.  Our guests this hour are BART YASSO [...]

Philadelphia Clergy's HIV Prevention Campaign November 18
Hour 1 Philadelphia’s black clergy are urging their congregants to get tested for HIV.  Over 100 churches and mosques are participating in an HIV prevention campaign.  Some are even offering HIV testing on site.  Philadelphia has one of [...]

Towards gender equality, at work and at home November 18
Hour 2 Today, women comprise 51 percent of the workforce, make up the majority of college graduates and are the primary or co-breadwinners in most American households.  Yet for a variety of reasons, they've yet to infiltrate the [...]

Lame-duck legislatures: Congress w/ Jake Sherman & Harrisburg w/ John L. Micek November 17
Hour 1 Lame duck sessions in Harrisburg & Washington DC have our elected representatives racing the clock to pass or block bills whose fortunes figure to change dramatically when new parties take over in January. In Washington, Democrats [...]

Protecting Tigers November 17
Hour 2 Tigers are in peril.  There are only around 3200 tigers left in the wild.  This weekend, scientists and diplomats will gather in St. Petersburg, Russia for a tiger summit to discuss how to save the world’s [...]

Tim Flannery, Australian scientist & climate activist November 16
Hour 1 TIM FLANNERY is an internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer and conservationist from Australia. He got his start studying kangaroos, and eventually discovered more than 30 new species of mammals. That research led him to explore why some [...]

Update on the battle against smoking — labels, messages and lawsuits November 16
Hour 2 Last week, the government unveiled a series of proposed warning labels for cigarette packs (pdf) marketed in the United States.  Many of the images are disturbing, featuring drawings or photographs of diseased lungs, a corpse, a [...]

Battling blight & vacant properties: Philadelphia's unwelcome real estate legacy November 15
Hour 1 Philadelphia’s vast tracts of vacant land and abandoned buildings – about 40,000 properties by one count – are costing the city, and taxpayers, a fortune. A new study (pdf) by Econsult and two partners found that [...]

Philadelphia's Stop and Frisk program November 15
Earlier this month, The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit on behalf of eight men who they say were subject to illegal searches since the City of Philadelphia implemented its stop and frisk policy.  We’ll [...]

The Legacy of President Bush November 12
Hour 1 Former President George W. Bush’s memoir Decision Points is out and selling well.  Even if you haven’t read it you’ve probably heard about some of the revelations in it –  Bush’s regret about his response to [...]

Thriving through Creativity with Harvard Psychologist Shelley Carson November 12
Hour 2 Think you’re not creative? Every time you make a sentence, it’s a creative act. Human creativity is essential to our ability to survive and thrive as a species, says our guest, Harvard psychologist and creativity researcher [...]

Two Combat Surgeons Talk about War November 11
Hour 1 In honor of Veterans Day, Marty talks with two surgeons who served in war. Dr.  JAMES FINNEGAN was a combat surgeon during the Vietnam War.  He commanded a surgical team which treated 2,500 marines during the [...]

NewsWorks, WHYY's launch into interactive news media November 11
Hour 2 On Monday, WHYY will launch its new online news portal, called NewsWorks. NewsWorks will strive to offer smart multimedia news coverage on issues, arts, health and politics from Princeton, N.J. to Dover, Del., along with a [...]

Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-Del): An exit interview November 10
Hour 1 U.S. Senator Ted Kaufman, Democrat from Delaware, joins us in studio just days before his term filling in for his former boss, Vice President Joe Biden, comes to an end. In that term, Kaufman distinguished himself [...]

OLIVER SACKS and The Mind's Eye November 10
Hour 2 Neurologist OLIVER SACKS returns to Radio Times explaining the complexity of the brain through new stories of his patients’ creative adaptations to losing fundamental life skills as they are still communicating with others. Sacks’ new book, [...]

Election's impact on PA's political divide November 9
Hour 1 One week after the election, guest host TRACEY MATISAK will lead a discussion taking stock of what the mid-term results tell us about the state of the political/cultural divide in Pennsylvania, especially between the Philadelphia metropolitan [...]

The comforts and the complexities of sister relationships November 9
Hour 2 According to our guest, linguist DEBORAH TANNEN, sister relationships are “tugged by two dynamics – closeness and competition.”   She says sisters strive for the right blend of closeness and independence always asking, “How are we the [...]

Creating Jobs for the Middle Class November 8
Hour 1 People are talking about the disappearing middle class.  The kinds of jobs that led to a middle class life have become increasingly scarce.  This hour, where have all the good jobs gone?  We’ll look at the [...]

From Petroleum to Plugs: The Electric Car Arrives November 8
Hour 2 The electric Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt will be hitting car dealerships this December.  Other automakers including Honda, Mini Cooper, Mitsubishi, Toyota, and BMW all have electric cars in the works.  And, there’s always the $109,000 [...]

How history and our "hidden brain" helps us make political decisions November 5
Hour 1 We talk to an historian and science writer to explore the outcomes of the mid-term elections.   Historian Julian Zelizer has been reflecting on  the events of the recent past which might explain the rise of the [...]

Jay Bakker, televangelists' son preaching for LGBTQ equality November 5
Hour 2 JAY BAKKER is the son of famed televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. In one sense, he followed in his parents’ footsteps, in that he is a pastor and founder of his own church. But the [...]

The mid-term elections — how the messaging influenced the outcomes November 4
Hour 1 Political media consultants CHRIS MOTTOLA and NEIL OXMAN join Marty to talk about the campaign ads, spending and the messaging that worked and didn't.  Neil Oxman works with Democratic candidates and Chris Mottola works for Republican [...]

What's Right About Being Wrong? November 4
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] Can error be a gift and occasionally transformative? Our guest, writer KATHRYN SCHULZ was wrong when she started the process of writing her first book on human error after success as a magazine contributor and PEW fellow. [...]

Mid-term post-mortem: National results with John Avlon & Scott Huffmon November 3
Hour 1 The 2010 mid-term elections yesterday determined the political dynamic to dominate Washington D.C. for the next two years, and beyond, as the gubernatorial races have decided which party will control the political redistricting that will determine [...]

Mid-term post-mortem: PA, DE & NJ with John Baer, Lindsay Hoffman & Brigid Harrison November 3
Yesterday’s mid-term elections featured important and down-to-the-wire contests in each of the Delaware Valley three states. Pennsylvania’s General Assembly was up for grabs, in addition to nationally watched races for governor, U.S. Senator and congressional contests. Philadelphia Daily [...]

Bedbugs and Stink Bugs: Do we really need to worry? November 2
Hour 1 We’ve all heard about the resurgence of bedbugs.  There have been reports of infestations in big cities all over the country — especially in New York, where they’ve been found in the Empire State Building, the [...]

Historian Simon Winchester on his "biography" of the Atlantic Ocean November 2
Hour 2 Historian Simon Winchester's new book,  Atlantic: Great Sea Battle, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories,  is essentially a biography of the Atlantic Ocean — from its geological birth to its [...]

Revisiting ‘The Culture of Poverty’ November 1
Hour 1 Some academics say it is time to reexamine the role that culture plays in the cycle of poverty.  A recent New York Time’s article examining the trend titled ‘Culture of Poverty,’ once an Academic Slur, Makes [...]

Behind the Scenes of Philadelphia Filmmaking November 1
Hour 2 It’s 1976 in Philadelphia and a former Black Panther comes home to reconcile some unresolved issues and relationships. This sets the stage for  Philadelphia filmmaker TANYA HAMILTON’s new film, “Night Catches Us,” which she wrote, directed [...]