
Radio Times Archive
How we used to eat with food writer MARK KURLANSKY
Author MARK KURLANSKY takes us back to the days before we relied on a highway system, chain restaurants and refrigeration to get and prep ...
Air Date: May 14, 2009
State Rep Mark Cohen has authored a bill to make the use of medical marijuana legal in Pennsylvania. To date, 13 states have legalized me ...
Air Date: May 14, 2009
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repealed?
The Military Readiness Enhancement Act of 1994 included the “don’t ask-don’t tell” compromise of ending the milit ...
Air Date: May 13, 2009
The situation in Pakistan with journalist Nicholas Schmidle
We talk with American journalist NICHOLAS SCHMIDLE about his new book To Live or to Perish Forever which chronicles the two years he spen ...
Air Date: May 13, 2009
Understanding and dismantling stereotypes about Jews and money
Until recently, historians have been reluctant to talk about the roots of Jewish economic life for fear that such research would fuel ant ...
Air Date: May 12, 2009
MATTHEW SWEENEY – Lottery Wars
[REBROADCAST] The American lottery could have as many characteristics as its states. The 42 states that have a lottery use the money diff ...
Air Date: May 12, 2009
Raising happy and moral children
Raising happy – and moral – children. We talk with psychologist RICHARD WEISSBOURD about his new book “The Parents We M ...
Air Date: May 11, 2009
Ashish Jah on Electronic Health Records
As part of the Obama administration’s agenda to fix the healthcare system, the economic stimulus package allocates about $20 billio ...
Air Date: May 11, 2009
WEDNESDAY MARTIN – Stepmonster
We all remember the wicked step mothers depicted in the fairy tales, Snow White and Hansel and Gretel. In fact the words wicked and step ...
Air Date: May 8, 2009
The politics of supreme court nominations and how politics influences the court.
As the Obama administration prepares to nominate a new supreme court justice we talk about how politics influences the process and the co ...
Air Date: May 8, 2009
It is human behavior to judge people by their appearance. In this hour of Radio Times, we talk with Princeton psychology professor SUSAN ...
Air Date: May 7, 2009
Investigating Philadelphia’s Board of Revision of Taxes
Chaos and Cronyism at the Board of Revision of Taxes. Philadelphia Inquirer reporters MARK FESLOLLAH and JOE TANFANI come in to the studi ...
Air Date: May 7, 2009
Click click click. Have you dated someone you met on the internet? Have you had cybersex with that person? How do you keep up with modern ...
Air Date: May 6, 2009
Princeton Economist Alan Blinder on the economic crisis
The latest on the financial crisis including bank stress, inflation, off-shore tax havens, and the national debt with ALAN BLINDER. He is ...
Air Date: May 6, 2009
Fifteen year old Benji Cooper, one of the only black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan, spends every summer at a small, Afric ...
Air Date: May 5, 2009
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