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NewsWorks 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
ListenNewsWorks Tonight September 12, 2012
Carolyn Beeler visits the dredging vessel that’s set to begin deepening the Delaware River in Philadelphia. Elizabeth Fiedler repor ...
Air Date: September 12, 2012
ListenSasha Issenberg on ‘The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns’
Hour 1 What convinces a voter this way or that? It’s an age-old question that’s driven one of the surest, fas ...
Air Date: September 12, 2012
ListenKevin Powers: A war veteran’s debut novel, “The Yellow Birds”
Hour 2 Writer and 10-year U.S. Army veteran ...
Air Date: September 12, 2012
ListenNewsWorks Tonight Full Show, Sept. 11, 2012
On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, Tom MacDonald reports Philadelphia is unveiling a memorial for local victims of the attacks. We ta ...
Air Date: September 11, 2012
ListenClap Your Hands Say Yeah, whose members met years ear ...
Air Date: September 11, 2012
Did the 2009 $787 billion stimulus stop a second Great Depression?
A few months after taking office, President Obama signed the $ 787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which gave most Americ ...
Air Date: September 11, 2012
ListenFriendships in adulthood — the challenges and rewards
Hour 2 A ...
Air Date: September 11, 2012
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