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Non-traditional paths to higher education
Hour 2 If you attended college, did you enroll directly out of high school? Or are you like one of the 45 percen ...
Air Date: September 18, 2012
ListenNewsWorks Tonight Full Show Sept. 17, 2012
Holly Otterbein looks at what’s driving Philadelphia’s once again soaring prison population. Dave Davies profiles the m ...
Air Date: September 17, 2012
ListenCrying: The act and the emotion
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Air Date: September 17, 2012
ListenThe role religion does play and should play in American government
Hour 1 In this era of “faith and value politics,” we find ourselves frequently debating the role religion ...
Air Date: September 17, 2012
ListenHow make believe is important to our survival
Hour 2 Once upon a time, we told stories through oral tradition, moved on to words and pictures ...
Air Date: September 17, 2012
ListenSeptember 15, 2012 — Can you grow garlic in containers over the winter? Mike McGrath changes his position on this topic of gre ...
Air Date: September 15, 2012
ListenNewsWorks Tonight Full Show Sept. 14, 2012
Benjamin Herold exposes several Philadelphia charter schools using questionable application processes to possibly limit the applicant poo ...
Air Date: September 14, 2012
ListenFormer inmate Colwin Williams reflects on 6 months of freedom
In March, I went to an anti-violence rally at Love Park. When Mayor Michael Nutter showed up, there was no shortage of people trying to g ...
Air Date: September 14, 2012
The Protests in North Africa and the Middle East
Hour 1 The violent protests in the Arab world sparked by an anti-Islam video are spreading. On Tuesday armed mili ...
Air Date: September 14, 2012
ListenA local rower-turned-filmmaker goes “Backwards”
Hour 2 A promising Olympic rowing candidate is chosen, yet again, as an alternate for the U.S. team, and quits, ...
Air Date: September 14, 2012
ListenNewsWorks Tonight Full Show Sept. 13, 2012
Emma Jacobs attends the Pennsylvania Supreme Court hearings on the Voter ID Law. Also at the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Dave Davie ...
Air Date: September 13, 2012
ListenKeira Knightley for “Anna Karenina”
Keira Knightley talks with Patrick Stoner about her Oscar-buzz film “Anna Karenina” and the unusual approach to the filming b ...
Air Date: September 13, 2012
Joe Frazier — his life, career, and the City of Brotherly Love
Hour 1 Boxing legend Joe Frazier moved to Philadelphia in 1958 from rural South Carolina as a 14-year old boy and ...
Air Date: September 13, 2012
ListenPhiladelphia Live Arts Festival+Philly Fringe: creatively imagining Poe’s last days
Hour 2 Did the 19th century writer, Edgar Allen Poe, want to explore his theories of the universe in h ...
Air Date: September 13, 2012
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