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BBC World Service
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Morning Edition
Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne
Swine flu is now widespread over many parts of the U.S.
Doctors' offices and clinics are packed with patients who are sick
or just trying to get the vaccine.
And there's still a lot of confusion about symptoms, treatment,
and how to keep the flu from spreading.
NPR reporters get the answers to your questions about swine flu.
Local Anchor: Christina Shockley
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Morning Edition
Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne
One of the "Three Tenors" wants his fans to get to know him again,
as a baritone.
After decades as one of the world's most beloved tenors,
Placido Domingo just made his debut in a deeper baritone role.
He says he wants to perform as both a tenor and a baritone
for the rest of his career.
Local Anchor: Christina Shockley
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Morning Edition
Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne
Voters are choosing governors in New Jersey and Virginia,
and a Congressman in New York.
And the rest of the country is paying attention.
It's a chance to see how the Democrats do without Candidate Obama,
and how Republicans do with a boost from the party's
very energized conservative wing.
Election results and analysis from NPR's political reporters and editors.
Local Anchor: Christina Shockley
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Morning Edition
Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne
The New York City Opera has always existed in the shadow of the Met.
It has a much smaller budget, a more daring repertoire,
and it features up-and-coming young singers, not big stars.
The New York City Opera barely survived the financial crisis.
But it's starting up a new, scaled-back season
with a new director and a renovated hall.
Local Anchor: Christina Shockley
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Morning Edition
Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne
Up-to-the-minute news, background analysis, commentary, and coverage of arts and sports.
Local Anchor: Christina Shockley
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Living on Earth
Steve Curwood
PRI's weekly environmental news magazine
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Marketplace Money
Tess Vigeland
Personal finance that's pertinent to your wallet |
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On the Media
Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield
An up-close look at what the media are covering and why.
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Speaking of Faith
Krista Tippett
Public radio's national conversation about belief, meaning, ethics, and ideas.
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Weekend Edition
Scott Simon
NPR's Saturday news magazine
Local Anchor: Rina Miller
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Weekend Edition
NPR's Sunday news magazine
Local Anchor: Rina Miller
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BBC Newshour
Live from the BBC World Service, 60 minutes of news and analysis.
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The Diane Rehm Show
Diane Rehm
Debate begins in the House on its version of healthcare overhaul legislation.
How the House and
Senate plans compare; impact on the deficit -- short and long-term, and the
overall outlook for the
U.S. economy.
A mystery and love story rolled into one. The author of "The Time Traveler's
Wife" returns with a
new novel set near a famed London cemetery.
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The Diane Rehm Show
Diane Rehm
U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. How Afghan President
Karzai's victory might influence the Obama
administration s deliberations on troop levels.
America's love/hate relationship with shopping. Why
we crave that little black dress or power tool. And
what the things we buy say about our character.
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The Diane Rehm Show
Diane Rehm
Morning after election analysis. What results in
Virginia, New Jersey, and New York s 23rd
congressional district indicate about the Obama
presidency and the future of the Republican party.
It may be best known as the land of Olympic
gymnasts, bleak orphanages, and Dracula, but Romania
today is a flourishing democracy. A former U.S.
ambassador on why Romania thrived after the fall of
communism, and lessons for other budding
democracies.
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The Diane Rehm Show
Diane Rehm
China has become the world's leading producer of greenhouse gasses in large
part from burning coal.
An update on collaborative efforts between the U.S. and China to reduce coal
plant
emissions and why they could be key to addressing global climate change.
Bestselling writer Barbara Kingsolver discusses her ongoing work for social
justice
and the importance of stories in our culture. Her latest novel explores
how history and public opinion can shape a life.
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The Diane Rehm Show
Diane Rehm
Diane Rehm's unique interview style takes us behind the headlines, and into often personal stories... plus, your calls.
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Car Talk
Tom and Ray Magliozzi
The one car advice show where the car advice is almost beside the point.
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Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
Peter Sagal
NPR's weekly news quiz.
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Car Talk
Tom and Ray Magliozzi
The one car advice shows where the car advice is almost beside the point
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Fresh Air
Terry Gross
Author and media critic Ken Auletta
talks Google -- the company that redefined
the search engine, and has changed the landscape
for online video, books, mapping, applications.
His new book is called
"Googled: The End of the World as We Know It."
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Fresh Air
Terry Gross
Mary Karr's 1995 best-selling memoir
"The Liar's Club" is about growing up with
a troubled mother (she once threatened to kill Karr
with a butcher knife).
KARR has a new memoir
about her own struggles with alcoholism,
depression and motherhood.
It's called "Lit."
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Fresh Air
Terry Gross
We'll hear from David Plouffe.
In his position as Barack Obama's campaign manager,
he always stayed behind the scenes.
But now he's written a new memoir about the campaign
and how they won.
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Fresh Air
Terry Gross
We'll hear from Lee Daniels
about directing his new film "Precious."
It's about an obese 16-year-old African American girl
who is beaten by her mother
and sexually abused by her father.
It has really surprising performances
from singing star Mariah Carey
and the comic Monique.
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Fresh Air
Terry Gross
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of "Sesame Street"
we listen back to an interview
with the late Jeff Moss,
who wrote many of the show's best known songs,
and created "Cookie Monster" and "Oscar the Grouch."
Chris Cerf will also talk about
writing songs for the show.
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Whad'Ya Know
Michael Feldman
The original public radio comedy quiz show. Don't miss a minute of the fun.
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A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor
Music, comedy and the News from Lake Wobegon.
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Here and Now
Robin Young
From Indian Reservations to poor Appalachian towns, rural America is competing for stimulus money. Also, Beethoven and the Peanuts comic strip. Were those notes coming out of Schroeder's piano the real thing?
Local Anchor: Mike Perini
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Here and Now
Robin Young
The new black Barbie has a hair straightening kit. A black journalist asks what's up with that? Also, Andy Williams, the nice guy from the Midwest who sang America's soundtrack.
Local Anchor: Mike Perini
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Here and Now
Robin Young
Framing the war. A photographer talks about his experience embedded with Marines in Afghanistan. Also, Spanish 101 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is now entirely online. Is that any way to learn a language?
Local Anchor: Mike Perini
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Here and Now
Robin Young
Growing medical marijuana in California. Business is booming. Also, how the liberation of Jews in Europe following the French Revolution can inform today's debate over the assimilation of immigrants.
Local Anchor: Mike Perini
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Here and Now
Robin Young
How young is too young for a sentence of life in prison? The supreme court takes up the issue. And the region around Lake Champlain in New York and Vermont is feeling the effects of a bridge closing. We'll have the view from the local diner.
Local Anchor: Mike Perini
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Talk of the Nation
Neal Conan
NPR's call-in and conversation about the latest news and trends.
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Science Friday
Ira Flatow
There's lots of fish in the sea, but...how many? And for how long? A conversation with the diva of the deep,
Sylvia Earle. Plus, bacterial robots that change color when they detect
pollution...and ten million dollars for a better lightbulb...got one?
The health care debate continues, the arguments get louder, but are we missing
the whole point? A talk with Bioethicist
Thomas Murray on what values we, our health insurers, and our doctors should
look for in a health care system. Plus, athletes and the danger of concussions.
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This American Life
Ira Glass
True stories of regular people and the extraordinary circumstances we can find ourselves in.
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The Splendid Table
Lynne Rossetto Kasper
Public radio's weekly exploration of food and culture
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Jonathan Goldstein
Jonathan Goldstein's funny, sad, wistful, and even slightly strange telephone conversations and monologues. |
This American Life
Ira Glass
Compelling stories - movies for radio
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All Things Considered
Robert Siegel, Michele Norris, Melissa Block
The Republicans are out of power in Washington, and they could use some fresh
faces.
Is Florida's Marco Rubio one of them?
Or is he too far to the right?
We'll meet this rising star of the G.O.P.
Local Anchor: Charity Nebbe
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All Things Considered
Robert Siegel, Michele Norris, Melissa Block
Over the summer, thousands of Marines moved into southern Afghanistan
to take back villages from the Taliban and to win over the Afghan people.
The troops say they're making progress, just very slowly.
Is it enough progress to mean winning the war?
Local Anchor: Charity Nebbe
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All Things Considered
Robert Siegel, Michele Norris, Melissa Block
Weapons and drugs aren't the only things slipping across the Iraqi
border.
Corpses are being transported to one of Shiite Islam's holiest
cemeteries.
Many are smuggled in; others come through by more legitimate means.
Local Anchor: Charity Nebbe
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All Things Considered
Robert Siegel, Michele Norris, Melissa Block
The latest news, including analysis and commentary.
Local Anchor: Charity Nebbe
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Only a Game
Bill Littlefield
There's the sports world and there's the rest of the world; NPR brings them together.
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Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
Peter Sagal
NPR's weekly news quiz.
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All Things Considered
Debbie Elliott
The day's news.
Local Anchor: Kyle Norris
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A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor
Music, comedy and the News from Lake Wobegon
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Marketplace Money
Tess Vigeland |
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Marketplace
Kai Ryssdal
Ford reported $1 billion in third-quarter profits today. It's an
amazing turnaround for a company that hasn't made a profit in more than four
years. What did Ford do right?
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Marketplace
Kai Ryssdal
With unemployment continuing to rise, more people are turning to for-profit
colleges for retraining. That means they're taking out more loans, often on
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taxpayer's dime. But defaults on those loans are rising. Some question whether
the system is hurting the people it's supposed to help.
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Marketplace
Kai Ryssdal
The International Monetary Fund has sold 200 tons of gold to India's central
bank, causing the price of the precious metal to jump even higher. Marketplace's
Rico Gagliano reports.
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Marketplace
Kai Ryssdal
Public radio's premier program of business and economic news
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Marketplace
Kai Ryssdal
Low attendance has plagued race tracks all around the country for years, and
some organizers are betting on jockeys to lure fans back. Andrea Bernstein
reports.
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The World
Lisa Mullins
In-depth news and stories from around the world.
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On the Media
Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield
An up-close look at what the media are covering and why.
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The Story
Dick Gordon
As the trial of former Serbian leader
Radovan Karadzic begins, Dick talks with attorney Steven Kay, who was appointed
to the defense team of Slobodan Milosevic. The case was more difficult than
Steven had imagined. But during the several year trial, Steven also came to
know Milosevic in ways he never expected.
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The Story
Dick Gordon
It's been one year since the election of Barack Obama. Dick Gordon talks about
race and the workplace with an African American architect.
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The Story
Dick Gordon
Two stories about solar power. A couple from San
Francisco are installing solar panels and getting pushback from neighbors. And
a solar pioneer died recently. Now his children are trying to keep their dad's
dream of solar power alive.
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The Story
Dick Gordon
Carolyn Schapper served in Iraq:
the only woman in a unit full of men. She found companionship in a pet bunny
and the bunny unexpectedly brought her closer to the men she was serving with
as well.
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The Story
Dick Gordon
In the 60's, Bill Ferris set out to record music in the
African American community in his native Mississippi. He stops by the studio
to talk about his latest work: "Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the
Mississippi Blues."
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American Routes
Nick Spitzer
Blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop. The shared musical, historical and cultural threads in these American styles.
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Speaking of Faith
Krista Tippett
Public radio's national conversation about belief, meaning, ethics, and ideas.
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On Point
Tom Ashbrook
Tim Geithner and Barney Frank say they'll rein in banks that are Too Big To
Fail. Critics say their plan won't fix Wall Street. On Point hears the debate.
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On Point
Tom Ashbrook
Rethinking alimony. With the old model of breadwinning father and stay at home
mother mostly gone, does a lifelong obligation to an ex still make sense?
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On Point
Tom Ashbrook
Conservative grassroots purists are shaking up the Republican Party. On Point
looks at the fight within the GOP as it looks ahead to 2010.
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On Point
Tom Ashbrook
The Copenhagen climate conference is one month away. U.S. climate action is going
nowhere in Congress. On Point looks at the global implications of America's
domestic climate politics.
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On Point
Tom Ashbrook
Republican wins. A profit at Ford. And the Yankees take another World Series.
On Point's weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
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Living on Earth
Steve Curwood
PRI's weekly environmental news magazine.
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BBC World Service
Live news from London all night... and programs including The World Today and Outlook.
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BBC World Service
Live news from London all night... and programs including The World Today and Outlook.
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BBC World Service
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