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Last week, publishers of a long-awaited Holocaust memoir “The Angel at the Fence” announced that the author had fabricated pa ...
Air Date: January 6, 2009
World clock jumps ahead by a second
Can’t wait another second? Neither can WHYY-FM’s Dave Heller and astronomer Derrick Pitts. A Leap Second was added at 7 p.m. ...
Air Date: January 5, 2009
HENRY ALFORD talks about his new book, “How to Live,” which brings together his research and conversations with old people, f ...
Air Date: January 5, 2009
The bad news about the economy – how we got here and what we need to do to revive the economic health of the country. We talk with ...
Air Date: January 5, 2009
The latest research about nicotine addiction with Penn’s CARYN LERMAN
Despite serious health risks and smoking bans in public spaces, more than 20% of all Americans are smokers. Scientific breakthroughs in r ...
Air Date: January 2, 2009
REBROADCAST – The Cherry Sisters
(Rebroadcast) We talk about the Vaudeville act, The Cherry Sisters. We talk with writer and director JENNIFER CHILDS and theater critic D ...
Air Date: January 1, 2009
REBROADCAST – WILLIAM HITCHCOCK The Bitter Road to Freedom
(Rebroadcast) Americans are justly proud of the role the United States played in World War II. But how did Europeans experience the liber ...
Air Date: January 1, 2009
REBROADCAST – ROSE GEORGE The Big Necessity
[Rebroadcast] Four in ten people on earth live in situations in which they are surrounded by human excrement. We talk about this little d ...
Air Date: December 31, 2008
Movies of the Year with Marty, Neil Oxman and Gary Thompson
Superheroes and robots were among the winners when it came to movies this year. The Dark Knight was the highest grossing movie in 2008 an ...
Air Date: December 31, 2008
REBROADCAST – LAURENCE TRIBE The Invisible Constitution
[Rebroadcast] Harvard law professor and constitutional scholar LAURENCE TRIBE talks about his book, “The Invisible Constitution. ...
Air Date: December 30, 2008