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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.
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Tiny Desk Radio

Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.

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Women officers are graduated from the Philadelphia Police Academy on October 9, 1976. (James A. Craig/Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA)
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Female cops face a blue wall of silence when reporting sexual harassment

Richard Ross resigned after ignoring sexual harassment claims filed by a female officer. Could there be a systemic problem within the Philadelphia Police Department?

Air Date: August 28, 2019

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Chester farm feeds the body and soul of a community

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Rahjiah McBride, of Chester, Pa., (right), helps her relatives, Newark residents Elnora and Bowdell Goodwin, center and second right, as Goodwin's son pitches in carrying bottled water from the Boylan Street Recreation Center, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, in Newark, N.J. (Kathy Willens/AP Photo)
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Newark to speed replacing of pipes blamed for lead in water

New Jersey's biggest city on Monday announced a plan to borrow $120M to dramatically cut the time it will take to replace pipes causing elevated lead levels in drinking water.

6 years ago

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Bryce Harper gave his son a name that’s rarer than his wealth

“Krew” is most common in Utah, a Mormon stronghold.

6 years ago

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The couple taking over the beloved indie bookshop hope to keep it open “at least 100 years.”

6 years ago

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Regional Roundup – 08/26/19

This week; Philly's City Controller reacts to the scandal at the Police Department, a the history of Newark's water crisis, and scaring away NJ's seagulls using falcons.

Air Date: August 26, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:02
(Courtesy of Layla Jones)
Billy Penn

Layla Jones is Billy Penn’s newest reporter

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6 years ago

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6 years ago

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PBS NewsHour

Paris celebrates its liberation from Nazis, 75 years on

The liberation of Paris was both joyous and chaotic

6 years ago

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A trumpet made of bullets and the kids who inspired it take hope around the country

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6 years ago

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‘We didn’t just sit down and let this happen’: Hundreds in Philly mark 400th anniversary of American slavery

"They're helping to make history. They may not realize it now, but one day they'll be able to look back and say, 'I was there.'"

6 years ago

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