Radio Times Archive
The early causes and lasting impact of the education and knowledge gap
For their newly-published book, Giving Our Children A Fighting Chance, e ...
Air Date: January 31, 2013
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Immigration reform: reaction and response
Yesterday afternoon, President Obama announced his blueprint for immigration reform in response to a set of principles laid out by a bipa ...
Air Date: January 30, 2013
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Penn’s Eve Troutt Powell on ‘Tell This in My Memory’
Hour 2 What does the slave trade in North Africa of the late 19th Century have to tell us about the co ...
Air Date: January 30, 2013
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The ongoing threat of al-Qaeda
In her Congressional testimony last week regarding the attack on an American consulate in Benghazi, Hillary Clinton said that the recent ...
Air Date: January 29, 2013
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Temple University Symphony Orchestra’s Grammy-nominated “Music of Ansel Adams: America”
The late photographer, Ansel Adams, and late jazz composer and pianist, Dave Brubeck, were the f ...
Air Date: January 29, 2013
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An end to the combat ban for women
Last week Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that he was ending the military’s ban on women serving in combat positions. “Femal ...
Air Date: January 28, 2013
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Reflections on Haiti: Farewell, Fred Voodoo
GUEST: AMY WILENTZ It’s been three years since Haiti was rocked by the 2010 earthquake that has left the countr ...
Air Date: January 28, 2013
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Debating mental health legislation after Newtown massacre
The massacre last month at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut galvanized the national conversation on gun control, but ...
Air Date: January 25, 2013
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Julie Otsuka-The Buddha in the Attic
Novelist JULIE OTSUKA didn’t dream of being a writer. She pursued fine ...
Air Date: January 25, 2013
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Will Obama’s second term change prospects for climate?
In his inaugural speech, President Obama made climate change a central priority of his second term: “We will respond to the threat of c ...
Air Date: January 24, 2013
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Ayana Mathis on The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
AYANA MATHIS is living every aspiring writer’s fantasy. Your first book gets published and then the good reviews start ...
Air Date: January 24, 2013
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Former Congressman Mickey Edwards on why political parties are the real problem with government
In his new book, The Parties Versus the People: H ...
Air Date: January 23, 2013
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The Mary Wilson, co-founder of the Supremes
Last month marked the 50th anniversary of “Meet the Supre ...
Air Date: January 23, 2013
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The Inauguration and Obama’s next term
Yesterday President Obama was sworn into his second term as commander in chief of the United States , something that has only happened ...
Air Date: January 22, 2013
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NPR’s Andy Carvin, a ‘Distant Witness’ via social media
The Arab Spring changed history, and changed the way breaking news is reported around the world and who controls the news. NPR social med ...
Air Date: January 22, 2013
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