Skip to content
The latest news and information from the world's most respected news source. BBC World Service delivers up-to-the-minute news, expert analysis, commentary, features and interviews.

BBC World Service

Listen Live

Listen Live

Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.
Next

Fresh Air Weekend

Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

WHYY
rewind
play
fast-forward
 
 
 
Radio Schedule
WHYY
  • DONATE
Primary Menu
  • News
  • Radio & Podcasts
    • Radio Schedule
    • Ways to Stream
    • WHYY Listen App
  • TV
    • WHYY TV Schedule
    • WHYY Watch App
    • Live TV
    • Watch on Demand
    • Stream PBS Kids
  • Arts
  • Events
  • Education
    • WHYY Youth Media
    • WHYY Media Labs
    • WHYY Early Education Programs
    • For Students
    • Pathways to Media Careers
    • Youth Media Awards
  • Support
    • Membership
    • WHYY Passport
    • WHYY Member Portal
    • Sponsorship
    • Vehicle Donation Program
    • Volunteer
  • NEWSLETTERS
  • DONATE

Economic Development

 The Delaware River between Camden N.J., left, and Philadelphia, right. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)
Speak Easy
Urban Planning

Greens and labor come together on the waterfront

After such an intensely polarizing election, it’s hard for people to imagine how communities with very different backgrounds might ...

10 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Advocates pitch vertical farming to a City Council ready to help

10 years ago

PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

Investor green card program that has greenlit Philly’s building boom faces uncertain future

10 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Gov. Wolf announces $292 million for Port of Philadelphia to expand container capacity

10 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Takeaways from the State of University City, 2016

10 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Property owners vote down 9th Street Business Improvement District

10 years ago

Sarorng Sorn is shown speaking at a public forum at WHYY in 2015. (Ifanyi Bell for NewsWorks)
Speak Easy
Community

A tangled path from Khmer Rouge refugee to community healer

Imagine for a moment your childhood memories included living in a bomb shelter for years, watching your 2-year-old sister die in your arms.

10 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

2016 Storefront Design Challenge honors

10 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

City to weigh ‘social impact’ of development proposals on public land

10 years ago

PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

Council supports Keystone Opportunity Zone expansions, called for greater transparency

10 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Penn’s Lower Schuylkill innovation campus opens new center to incubate big ideas

10 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Mayfair starts envisioning new futures for Frankford Avenue

10 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Design Committee asks PHA to improve design for new headquarters but supports Cobbs Creek, East Market, and Winchester Park projects

10 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf is shown delivering his budget address for the 2016-17 fiscal year. (AP Photo/Chris Knight
Speak Easy

Solutions across ideological lines are closer than we think

Ask any Pennsylvanian what he or she wants in life, and the answers will probably be remarkably similar: a great job, freedom to make cho ...

10 years ago

Luxury apartments go up on South Broad Street near Wharton Street in South Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY
Speak Easy
Money

Impact fee on new Philly construction would support affordable housing

The city controller’s latest economic report shows many promising signs for the City of Philadelphia’s finances, driven large ...

10 years ago

Page 35 of 39« First«...3334353637...»Last »
Arts & Entertainment Community Courts & Law Education Health Lifestyle Money Politics & Policy Science Urban Planning Weather
  • WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor
  • WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor

Latest News

  • New Jersey residents will see Affordable Care Act premiums jump 20% on average for 2027 health insurance

    6 hours ago

  • The art of scrapple: Philly’s weirdest sculpting contest is back

    7 hours ago

  • At Philadelphia summit, U.S. Sen. McCormick offers a prescription for high costs: Less government red tape

    10 hours ago

    Listen 0:59
  • WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor

Want a digest of WHYY’s programs, events & stories? Sign up for our weekly newsletter.

Together we can reach 100% of WHYY’s fiscal year goal

Donate
Learn about WHYY Member benefits
Ways to Donate
WHYY

WHYY provides trustworthy, fact-based, local news and information and world-class entertainment to everyone in our community.

WHYY offers a voice to those not heard, a platform to share everyone’s stories, a foundation to empower early and lifelong learners and a trusted space for unbiased news. Learn more about Social Responsibility at WHYY. It’s how we live.

Contact Us

Philadelphia

215.351.1200
talkback@whyy.org

Delaware

302.516.7506
talkback@whyy.org

Our Programs

  • Albie’s Elevator
  • Ask Governor Meyer
  • Billy Penn at WHYY
  • Check, Please! Philly
  • The Connection
  • The Declaration’s Journey
  • Delishtory
  • Flicks
  • Fresh Air
  • Good Neighbor Club
  • Good Souls
  • Hittin’ Season
  • Jukebox Journey
  • On Stage at Curtis
  • Peak Travel
  • PlanPhilly
  • The Pulse
  • The Source
  • Sports In America
  • Studio 2
  • Things To Do
  • WHYY News Climate Desk
  • You Oughta Know

Inside WHYY

  • About WHYY
    • Social Responsibility at WHYY
    • Board and Executives
    • Community Advisory Board
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Employment
    • Internships
    • Press Room
    • Meet Our Newsroom
    • WHYY News Style Guide
    • WHYY Productions
    • WHYY Spaces
    • Submissions
    • History
    • Directions
    • Coverage Area
    • Financial Statements
    • WHYY Community Report
    • Supporters
    • Privacy
  • Mobile Apps
  • Meet Our Newsroom
  • Employment
  • Lifelong Learning Award
  • Bridging Blocks
  • Contact Us
  • Sponsorship
  • Directions
  • FCC Public Files
  • FCC Applications

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
Sign up for a Newsletter

© 2026 WHYY

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use for WHYY.org