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GUESTS: PIERS MARCHANT, MATTHEW QUICK and SAM FRENCH The 85th Academy Awards are this Sunday, February ...
Air Date: February 22, 2013
ListenNewsWorks Tonight, February 21, 2013 – Full Show
Emma Jacobs hears Senator Pat Toomey speak about the looming sequestration. Shirley Min reports on Wilmington’s new crime safety pl ...
Air Date: February 21, 2013
ListenKahlil Byrd brings “disruptive politics” to education reform
NewsWorks Tonight Guest Host Mary Cummings-Jordan speaks with Students First President Kahlil Byrd, who’s giving the keynote speech ...
Air Date: February 21, 2013
Nuclear weapons and nonproliferation
GUEST: WARD WILSON North Korea conducted its third underground nuclear test last week, the same day President ...
Air Date: February 21, 2013
ListenThe Science of Winning and Losing
GUESTS: PO BRONSON and ASHLEY MERRYMAN How can you make the best of your inner competitive spirit? According to o ...
Air Date: February 21, 2013
ListenNewsWorks Tonight, February 20, 2013 – Full Show
Dave Davies reports on the Philadelphia Ethics Board ruling on the status of grants to the city by the William Penn Foundation. Emma Jaco ...
Air Date: February 20, 2013
Listen‘A Place at the Table’ for Witnesses to Hunger: A new documentary
GUESTS: BARBIE IZQUIERDO, MARIANA CHILTON, LORI SILVERBUSH and KRISTI JACOBSON ...
Air Date: February 20, 2013
ListenObama’s early education proposal
President Obama wants to provide quality early education for all low to moderate income 4-year olds. Last week the White House ...
Air Date: February 20, 2013
ListenNewsWorks Tonight, February 19, 2013 – Full Show
Ben Herold explains Superintendent William Hite’s changes to Philadelphia’s proposed school closing plan. Tom MacDonald repor ...
Air Date: February 19, 2013
ListenAddiction: tightening the gap between research and practice
Are addiction treatment centers prepared to provide the care necessary for sustainable sobriety? And how can we successfully track those ...
Air Date: February 19, 2013
ListenThe secrets of happy families with Bruce Feiler
Guest: BRUCE FEILER For his new book, ...
Air Date: February 19, 2013
ListenNewsWorks Tonight February 18, 2013 – Full Show
Holly Otterbein brings us reaction from elated and incensed Philadelphia residents as they review their new property tax bills. Ben ...
Air Date: February 18, 2013
ListenCuriosity Rover is digging deep into Martian rock, well, maybe not that deep. A drill will go just 2.5 inches into a fine grain piece of ...
Air Date: February 18, 2013
ListenThe complicated, internal secrecy of the Eisenhower administration
[REBROADCAST] President Dwight D. Eisenhower, known for his calm, grandfatherly demeanor, was the first American preside ...
Air Date: February 18, 2013
ListenLaughing, sneezing, burping and more: the science of curious behavior
[REBROADCAST] Scientists have sent rovers to Mars and decoded our DNA but they rarely look at the strange assortment of ...
Air Date: February 18, 2013
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