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Local, award-winning poets DAISY FRIED and LYNN LEVIN
GUESTS: DAISY FRIED and LYNN LEVIN “Women’s poetry is like a car – it might have purple li ...
Air Date: April 25, 2013
ListenRevisiting King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Guest: Jonathan Rieder Fifty years ago this month, from his cramped, dirty jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama, Ma ...
Air Date: April 24, 2013
ListenCelebrating 100 years of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
GUEST: DAVID LUDWIG This May marks the 100th anniversary of Russian composer ...
Air Date: April 24, 2013
ListenSenate politics: Immigration reform and gun laws
Last week was an interesting one in the U.S. Senate. A bi-partisan “Gang of Eight” unveiled their long-awaited bill to overha ...
Air Date: April 23, 2013
ListenThe botany in our booze with author Amy Stewart
Guest: Amy Stewart Plants are popping out of the ground and spring gardening is well underway so we’re liftin ...
Air Date: April 23, 2013
ListenThe Boston Bombings: Our Hearts, Our Homeland
Explosions, loss of life, lockdowns, and a manhunt–the story of the Boston Bombings has a nation on edge and transfixed by daily de ...
Air Date: April 22, 2013
ListenPhiladelphia Science Festival Continues
April 22, 2013 Image credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech [Dave Heller]: Get out the shampoo and ...
Air Date: April 22, 2013
ListenWhat drives radicalization; then media coverage of the Boston bombings
Guests: John Horgan and Rem Rieder What does it take for a young man to go from being what friends said was a ...
Air Date: April 22, 2013
ListenTaxidermy: history, art and culture
Guests: Rachel Poliquin, Beth Beverly Walk into any natural history museum and you’ll see the animal dioramas ...
Air Date: April 22, 2013
ListenFirst for Friday, April 19, 2013
Cyberbully no more Plans are in motion for every school district to come up with a plan to prevent cyberbullying. First looked ...
Air Date: April 19, 2013
Eddie Redmayne and Amanda Seyfriend for “Les Miserables”
Eddie Redmayne and Amanda Seyfriend (the young lovers in LES MIS, now on dvd) talk about the freedom the live music on the set gave them ...
Air Date: April 19, 2013