
Archives: Episodes
Explore the city's culturally enriching spaces with the Movers and Makers who helped create and preserve them.
Air Date: May 7, 2020
In Vikram Paralkar's new novel, a surgeon in India has one night to bring three people back from the dead, raising questions about medicine, corruption, and the afterlife.
Air Date: May 7, 2020
Listen 49:01Princeton economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case discuss their book, "Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism" about income inequality and increased morbidity.
Air Date: May 6, 2020 10:00 am
Listen 49:00Black churches step up to help hard-hit community
As African-Americans die from the virus at disproportionately high rates, some Black churches and doctors are filling in the gaps in testing and health care.
Air Date: May 5, 2020
Listen 13:01As the coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt the economy, government officials and business leaders consider how to reopen economic activity while keeping citizens safe.
Air Date: May 5, 2020 10:00 am
Listen 49:08Learning about life on Earth at the Wagner Museum
In the next installment of our series 'Why didn’t I go there?' co-host Shai ben-Yaacov and his son take a virtual tour the Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philly.
Air Date: May 4, 2020
Listen 18:39Congressman Dwight Evans on COVID testing needs in African American neighborhoods. The pandemic's impact on employment among undocumented workers. And birding while isolating.
Air Date: May 4, 2020 10:00 am
Listen 49:14Women now make up 26 percent of the Senate and 23 percent of the House, the highest percentages ever.
Air Date: May 4, 2020
Listen 0:59When asked, what is music to you, cellist Oliver Herbert replied, “great music can make you feel like you are the center of the universe.”
Air Date: May 1, 2020
Addiction, recovery and the pandemic
How are people living with addiction or in recovery coping during the pandemic? And how is the covid-19 impacting the opioid crisis in Philadelphia?
Air Date: May 1, 2020 10:00 am
Listen 48:58Outbreaks and Epidemics: The Role of Public Health
You know you’ve made it when you get parodied on Saturday Night Live … by none other than Brad Pitt. And you really know you’ve ...
Air Date: May 1, 2020
Listen 48:56What to know about the limits of COVID-19 stats
Every day, the Pa. Health Department releases data about COVID-19 cases in the state. But that data is incomplete — which makes it hard to understand how things are going.
Air Date: April 30, 2020
Listen 15:26Meet the Movers and Makers who have turned fun into a full time job.
Air Date: April 30, 2020
Jane Krakowski & Terry Crews talk with Patrick Stoner about the somewhat dark & sardonic animated film, “The Willoughbys& ...
Air Date: April 30, 2020