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The Daily is the radio edition of the popular podcast by the same name, produced by The New York Times. Hosts Michael Barbaro and Sabrina Tavernise provide an irresistible layman’s approach to some of the most compelling and complicated stories of our time.

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Radio Times

‘The Great Stewardess Rebellion’

Stewardesses 60s and 70s could only be single, childless, and attractive women. Nell McShane Wulfhart talks about how stewardesses organized to change these sexist policies.

Air Date: May 3, 2022 10:00 am

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ister Delphine Okoro, a nun with the Oblate Sisters of Providence, high fives a student as she teaches a fifth grade class at Mother Mary Lange Catholic School in Baltimore, Md., Wednesday, April 27, 2022.
Arts & Entertainment

Black Catholic nuns: A compelling, long-overlooked history

Historian Shannen Dee Williams' comprehensive and compelling history of America's Black nuns, “Subversive Habits,” will be published May 17.

3 years ago

Floyd Cooper is seen on a piece of promotional material
Arts & Entertainment

Children’s author Floyd Cooper to be honored nationally with his own day

Children’s Book Council has created Floyd Cooper day on May 6, honoring the late children’s book author and artist from the Philadelphia area.

3 years ago

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Radio Times
Lifestyle

The Shame Machine: Who Profits In The New Age Of Humiliation

We discuss the public shaming on social media, where one tweet or post can make you the subject of humiliation by millions of people and end your career in an instant.

Air Date: April 19, 2022 10:00 am

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Visitors look at a globe in the map division at the main branch of the New York Public Library in New York. The library announced an effort this week to make commonly banned books available through their app. (Seth Wenig/AP)
NPR
Community

New York Public Library makes banned books available for free

The initiative is called Books for All and allows any reader aged 13 and older to access commonly banned books through the library's app until the end of May.

3 years ago

Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist is published by W.W. Norton and Company. Photo by Catherine Marin.
Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Frans de Waal on gender roles and primates

In studying a society of male dominated monkeys and comparing them to a female-led group of monkeys, primatologist Frans de Waal challenges human assumptions about gender.

Air Date: April 14, 2022 10:00 am

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(Meghan Collins Sullivan/NPR)
NPR
Community

Efforts to ban books jumped an ‘unprecedented’ four-fold in 2021, ALA report says

Book banning is not new — in the U.S. alone the practice goes back to Puritan times.

3 years ago

'Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff' by Matt Paxton was released last month by publisher Portfolio. (Penguin Random House)
Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

‘Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff’: How to Declutter for Good

In Matt Paxton's latest book, America’s top cleaning expert and star of the hit PBS series 'Legacy List' distills his fail-proof approach to decluttering and downsizing.

Air Date: March 30, 2022 10:00 am

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U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright shakes hands with U.S. soldiers during her visit to Air Base Eagle near Tuzla, Aug, 30, 1998. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022.(AP Photo/Amel Emric, File)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Special Archive Edition: Former Sec. of State Madeleine Albright

On this special edition of the Radio Times podcast, we revisit our interview with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who died Wednesday at the age of 84.

Air Date: March 24, 2022 6:00 pm

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Heather Havrilesky is the author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage, published by Ecco Harper Collins, available February 8, 2022.
Radio Times
Lifestyle

‘Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage’

A new book, 'Foreverland', has been called an "illuminating, poignant, and savagely funny examination of modern marriage from Ask Polly advice columnist Heather Havrilesky."

Air Date: March 15, 2022 10:00 am

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(photo credit, Stanley Staniski)
Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Azar Nafisi on ‘Read Dangerously’

With book banning on the rise, author Azar Nafisi's timely new book reminds us of the power of fiction to challenge tyranny, fight injustice and open minds.

Air Date: March 8, 2022 10:00 am

Listen 49:27
Springfield Township Public Library
Community

Delaware County Libraries unveils new plan — and plans to debut a first-ever app

The agency, in charge of 26 member libraries across Delco, has put forth a strategic five-year plan to guide its vision through 2026.

3 years ago

The 28th annual African American Children's Book Fair at the Community College of Philadelphia was held pre-pandemic on Feb. 8, 2020
Arts & Entertainment

After 30 years, African American Children’s Book Fair expands to the Convention Center

After 30 years, the African American Children’s Book Fair has expanded into the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

3 years ago

We Are Not Like Them is published by Simon & Schuster. (Christine Han/Brittney Valdez)
Radio Times
Lifestyle

Christine Pride and Jo Piazza on ‘We Are Not Like Them’

The novel is written from alternating perspectives and tells the story of two women of different races whose friendship is altered by a tragic police shooting in Philadelphia.

Air Date: February 22, 2022 10:00 am

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Drexel Students Jeremy Wortzel and Lena Champlin wrote a children’s book about climate change. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Science

A West Philly couple wrote a children’s book to help parents have ‘The Climate Talk’

Lena Champlin, Jeremy Wortzel, and the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry wrote a children’s book about climate change and anxiety.

3 years ago

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