
Radio Times Archive
How make believe is important to our survival
Hour 2 Once upon a time, we told stories through oral tradition, moved on to words and pictures ...
Air Date: September 17, 2012
ListenThe 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
ListenJoe 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
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
ListenDid 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
ListenThe International Criminal Court’s first decade
Hour 1 Ten years after the Rome Statute ...
Air Date: September 10, 2012
ListenWhat is pop music and how does it change throughout the decades? The top ten songs on Itunes and Billboard may not reflect what you liste ...
Air Date: September 10, 2012
ListenAssessing the Democratic convention’s messages, impact
Hour 1 President Barack Obama made his case for re-election last night inside the Charlotte arena that has hosted ...
Air Date: September 7, 2012
ListenPaul Tough on ‘How Children Succeed’
Hour 2 In his new book, “How Children Succeed: ...
Air Date: September 7, 2012
ListenWho foots the bill for the political conventions; then, checking the fact-checkers
Hour 1 After the speeches are over, the parties have ended, the banners come down, and the delegates head home, ...
Air Date: September 6, 2012
ListenMoving forward on high speed rail
Hour 2 President Obama had big plans for high-speed rail in the United States when he came into office in 2008 ...
Air Date: September 6, 2012
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