Archives: Episodes
Movies may not be real — but in a lot of ways, they’re real to us. Great films help us understand the world, history, and one another ...
Air Date: July 3, 2020
Listen 49:07The Radio Times Pre-Independence Day Special
Today, we listen to Marty's interviews with Leslie Odom Jr. of the musical Hamilton, Imani Perry on "The Black National Anthem," and Sarah Vowell discusses Lafayette.
Air Date: July 3, 2020 10:00 am
Listen 49:00Gas driller charged with environmental crimes
Pa.'s Attorney General has filed criminal charges against Cabot Oil and Gas — over 10 years after problems surfaced in Dimock, which became ground-zero in the fracking debate.
Air Date: July 2, 2020
Listen 17:56The Big Picture: Artist Photographs Students in Quarantine
Find out how a Drexel photographer's remote portraits of quarantined students were printed in Time Magazine.
Air Date: July 2, 2020
A moment of reckoning: What histories do our monuments commemorate?
Amidst the weeks of protests, an old conversation has gained new traction: what do we do with our monuments to slaveholders and other problematic historical figures?
Air Date: July 2, 2020
Listen 48:58The author of the best selling books about young boy who fights evil fairies talked with Patrick Stoner about the Irishness in “Artemis ...
Air Date: July 1, 2020
Russian bounties for US troops in Afghanistan
How should the U.S. respond to reports that Russia paid bounties to Taliban militants to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan?
Air Date: July 1, 2020 10:00 am
Listen 49:00Sometimes internationally famous super-hackers occupy a metaphorical underworld. Other times… ...
Air Date: July 1, 2020
Listen 15:09In Philadelphia and around the country, people are complaining about loud, mysterious booms at night. Are they fireworks? ATM explosions? ... military PSYOPs?
Air Date: June 30, 2020
Listen 20:05Joy Ike, Jeffrey Gaines, Cliff Hillis, and the Spin Doctors' Eric Schenkman perform in this hour long live session of rock, blues and pop music.
Air Date: June 30, 2020
Battleground 2020: the state of the presidential race
Recent polling in Pennsylvania shows presidential candidate Joe Biden leading President Trump. We discuss the factors influencing the state's voters.
Air Date: June 30, 2020 10:00 am
Listen 49:12A virtual tour of ‘every thing it took to make America’
In the next installment of "Why didn’t I go there?," The Why's Shai Ben-Yaacov and his 10-year-old son take a virtual tour of the time capsule that is the Mercer Museum.
Air Date: June 29, 2020
Listen 17:43Matt Vantine, a Philadelphia singer/songwriter, gained local attention as the front man for The Fleeting Ends from 2008-2018.
Air Date: June 29, 2020
Lights Out is a four-part Philadelphia vocal group that has long been hailed as "America's #1 Tribute to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons".
Air Date: June 29, 2020
Healthcare workers feel the mental health toll of the pandemic
Healthcare workers have witnessed so much suffering and tragedy, worked long hours, dealt with PPE shortages, and feared for their own safety.
Air Date: June 29, 2020
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