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What are teens learning about Civil Rights in school?
For Martin Luther King Day, we offer this rebroadcast: According to a ...
Air Date: January 19, 2015
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Beware of the belching black hole
Chandra X-Ray satellite observes enormous eruption from our Milky Way Galaxy’s black hole . This extreme outburst ...
Air Date: January 19, 2015
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Equality in the Declaration of Independence
Guest: Danielle Allen [From the Radio Times archive] Last July, America celebrated 238 years sin ...
Air Date: January 19, 2015
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Scott Cheshire’s “High As the Horses’ Bridles”
Guest: Scott Cheshire [From the Radio Times archive] In his debut novel ...
Air Date: January 19, 2015
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Are persimmons pleasing or puckering?
Are they a delicious fruit? Or an astringent annoyance only to be eaten under puckering protest? Mike McGrath, reveals the ...
Air Date: January 17, 2015
ListenNewsWorks Tonight January 16, 2015 – Full Show
WPSU’s Emily Reddy reports on the NCAA reinstating Joe Paterno’s wins. Mary Wilson joins us to discuss Pennsylvania Gov ...
Air Date: January 16, 2015
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First for Friday, January 16, 2015
Growing pains This spring, the Delaware Children’s Museum turns five years old. A milestone bringing with it its fair sha ...
Air Date: January 16, 2015
Chang-rae Lee’s “On Such a Full Sea”
Guest: Chang-rae Lee [From the Radio Times archive] ...
Air Date: January 16, 2015
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Radio Times in Review: Novelist Salman Rushdie, Memoirist Alexandra Fuller, Remembering Jim Croce
Guests: Salman Rushdie, Alexandra Fuller, Ingrid Croce It’s another edition of Radio Times in Review, our new w ...
Air Date: January 16, 2015
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Kevin McCorry reviews the Philadelphia mayoral candidates’ stances on charter schools. Elana Gordon reports on problems facin ...
Air Date: January 15, 2015
ListenA pharma revolution is afoot: biosimilars. They’re like generics, except for more complex biologic drugs that can’t exactly b ...
Air Date: January 15, 2015
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Josh Brolin for “Inherent Vice”
Josh Brolin talks with Patrick Stoner about typecasting & how he broke free of it to play roles like the one in “Inherent Vice” ...
Air Date: January 15, 2015
Does America have a political dynastic cycle?
Guests: Frank Bruni, Matthew Kerbel In this week’s edition of Ballot Talks: with the specter of another Bush v ...
Air Date: January 15, 2015
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Stewart O’Nan on “West of Sunset”
Guest: Stewart O’Nan In his new novel, West of Sunset, STEWART O’NAN ...
Air Date: January 15, 2015
ListenNewsWorks Tonight January 14, 2015 – Full Show
Tom MacDonald reports the National Rifle Association is suing several Pennsylvania cities, including Philadelphia, for passing its own gu ...
Air Date: January 14, 2015
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