Archives: Episodes

This month marks the 70th anniversary of African-American contralto Marian Anderson’s concert at the Lincoln Memorial. After the Da ...

On Monday, Ford Motor Company announced that it had reduced its overall debt by 28% – without taking any bailout funds from the U.S ...

In the summer of 2007 Philadelphia, in addition to other cities, was making headlines for what our guest Mark Caro calls The Foie Gras Wa ...

In 1984, JENNIFER THOMPSON-CANNINO testified that RONALD COTTON was the man who raped her. Eleven years later, DNA evidence cleared him o ...

Continuing with our celebration of The International Year of Astronomy, Derrick Pitts talks about Galileo’s telescope and how h ...

Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve on a presidential cabinet, was FDR’s Secretary of labor, close friend and advisor. She he ...

We discuss corruption in Luzerne County’s judicial system where judges Mark Ciaverella and Michael Conahan have been charged by fed ...

[REBROADCAST] TEMPLE GRANDIN is the most well-known adult with autism. In her recent book, “Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Bes ...

Members of Philadelphia City Council are holding public hearings on the proposed city budget. At the same time they’re facing a pub ...

[REBROADCAST] NEAL BASCOMB, author of “The Perfect Mile” and “Red Mutiny” tells the story of the manhunt of Nazi ...

Zambian economist DAMBISA MOYO talks with guest host Chris Satullo about her new book, Dead Aid. She says that foreign aid keeps Africans ...

[REBROADCAST] We take a look at the increasingly popular world of Mixed Martial Arts, a combat sport that blends boxing with wrestling, k ...

It’s a big weekend in Philadelphia sports, with Villanova in the Final Four and the Phillies beginning a defense of their World Ser ...

[REBROADCAST] Many of us who surf the internet enter into a kind of personal contract that our tastes are tracked because we see more cus ...

How the economic downturn is influencing the lives of young adults. We talk about jobs, higher education, debt, health care, and other is ...