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In this Nov. 21, 1979 file photo, Bella Abzug, left, and Patsy Mink of Women USA sit next to Gloria Steinem as she speaks in Washington where they warned presidential candidates that promises for women's rights will not be enough to get their support in the next election. (AP Photo/Harvey Georges)
Radio Times
Lifestyle

Bonus Interview: Gloria Steinem on feminism, abortion and her memoir

In this week's bonus hour of Radio Times, Marty speaks feminist activist, speaker and writer Gloria Steinem about her life, history, feminism and abortion access in the U.S.

Air Date: October 8, 2022 6:00 am

Listen 48:57
The Philadelphia flag waves outside the city’s Municipal Services building. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
Eyes on the Street

Philly’s city flag is over 120 years old. It’s time for something new

Philadelphia’s current flag was designed back in 1895. It’s time for a new municipal flag design that represents our city’s culture, history, and future.

3 years ago

A view of the Trump Plaza Casino Hotel in Atlantic City.
Money
Billy Penn

The 1980s Philly sweepstakes charlatan who swindled folks out of $2 million in prizes

After a federal indictment, Chuck Seidman went on to gain Donald Trump as a client.

3 years ago

The Confederate flag and monument at the Marvel Carriage Museum. (WHYY file)
Community

Delaware town again votes to fund Confederate flag-flying museum

The second vote to fund Georgetown’s Marvel Museum comes after the state AG said Council violated open meeting laws when they re-issued a $25,000 check.

3 years ago

A pair of green high heels and silver high heels are in a glass display case. Museum-goers are visible in the background.
Arts & Entertainment

Michener Museum traces the history of America through shoes

The exhibit of more than 100 historic shoes at a Doylestown museum proves “shoes can tell us a lot.”

3 years ago

The Rosenbach’s 1813 edition of Pride and Prejudice. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

200 years after the ‘Pride and Prejudice’ American edition was published, The Rosenbach kicks off series exploring novel

The first American edition of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ was published in Philly. Almost 200 years later, The Rosenbach dives into the novel.

3 years ago

Listen 2:21
Artist-in-residence Shimon Attie created an 11-foot-tall replica of Bethlehem's 90-toot Star Tower for his exhibit at Lehigh University Art Galleries. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Bethlehemites are ‘Starstruck’ by an art film about their own history

Lehigh University Art Gallery asked New York artist Shimon Attie to make “Starstruck,” a film and sculptural installation about the history of Bethlehem, Pa.

3 years ago

A jersey worn by Michael Jordan during the 1998 NBA championships has sold at auction for $10.1 million. (Sotheby's)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

A Michael Jordan jersey is sold for over $10 million, setting a new record

The basketball legend wore the jersey during the 1998 NBA finals, which would cap the Chicago Bulls' historic championship run in the 1990s. The sale price set a record for ga

3 years ago

President Joe Biden speaks on the cancer moonshot initiative at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Politics & Policy

Biden hopes ending cancer can be a ‘national purpose’ for U.S.

President Joe Biden on Monday urged Americans to come together for a new “national purpose" — his administration's effort to end cancer "as we know it."

3 years ago

Researcher Simcha Gross lays out incantation bowls in the research room at the Penn Museum, nestling the objects atop long bags filled with silica gel for support. In the background, museum object keeper Katherine Blanchard pulls an item from the storage cabinet. (Eric Sucar/Penn Museum)
Radio Times

Regional Roundup: September 12, 2022

New research shows microplastics throughout the Delaware River. Pandemic-born babies reach their toddler years. And, Penn Museum digs deeper into magical incantation bowls.

Air Date: September 12, 2022 10:00 am

Listen 49:28
A black and white photo shows the Queen in a large room filled with people.
Community

‘I cannot mourn’: Former colonies conflicted over the queen

Queen Elizabeth II inherited millions of subjects around the world Upon taking the throne in 1952. Many of them were unwilling.

3 years ago

File photo: The Philadelphia Police Pipes and Drums corps marches down Second Street from the Fireman's Hall Museum to the Betsy Ross House, where a 9/11 remembrance ceremony has been held each year since 2002. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community
6abc

Communities across the Delaware Valley gather to remember 9/11 21 years later

City leaders at Philadelphia's ceremony said it's important to remember everyone impacted by 9/11.

3 years ago

A hearse makes its way through the street in Scotland, which is lined with people on either side.
Community

Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin takes long road through Scotland

Queen Elizabeth II’s flag-draped coffin has slowly processed through the Scottish countryside on a journey from Balmoral Castle to the Scottish capital of Edinburgh.

3 years ago

A view of officers from behind saluting the American flag.
Community

U.S. marks 21st anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks

The 9/11 anniversary commemoration at ground zero has begun with a tolling bell and a moment of silence, 21 years after the start of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil.

3 years ago

File photo: Actor Marsha Hunt arrives at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Aug. 13, 2013. Hunt, one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood’s so-called Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s who worked with performers ranging from Laurence Olivier to Andy Griffith in a career disrupted for a time by the McCarthy-era blacklist, has died. She was 104.  Hunt died Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022 at her home in Sherman Oaks, Calif. said Roger Memos, the writer-director of the 2015 documentary “Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity.
Arts & Entertainment

Marsha Hunt, ’40s star and blacklist victim, dies at 104

Hunt was an established actor and was a rising star in the new medium of television when the work dried up because of allegations about her liberal activism.

3 years ago

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