NewsWorks Tonight, April 6, 2018
Listen 22:45Fourteen candidates for Congress are vying for the Democratic Party’s endorsement in Delaware county. Frank Newport, editor-in-chief at the Gallup Poll, gives insight on the American public’s thoughts on teachers. Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen’s final work gets a Philadelphia premiere. A Syrian musician bridges classical Arabic poetry with rap. Beer historian Rich Wagner explains the beverage’s history in Pennsylvania.
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