| 9/1/2008 : Life Stories: Jobs—Women at Work at 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. |
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| These are public radio stories made over many years, by producer Jay Allison, working together with Christina Egloff, and friends, colleagues, neighbors, strangers and whoever would take the loan of one of his tape recorders. They are stories about life as we find it, and record it. For two months, the pastor of Park Union Church in Chicago kept an audio journal chronicling her daily life and thoughts about the career and the calling of the ministry. On the occasion of her retirement, one Chicago judge borrowed a cassette recorder, and with her family, reflected on her 18 years on the bench. |
| 9/1/2008 : The World at Work-A World Vision Report, 12 p.m. and 9 p.m. |
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| Women in South Africa put peanut butter to work for them—being in labor has a double meaning for women in India, waiting tables for charity in Montreal, and in Ghana, making coffins that reflect what you did for a living. |
| 9/1/2008 : Republican National Convention, 7 p.m. |
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| NPR will broadcast a nightly convention special hosted by Andrea Seabrook. The program will air from until 10 p.m. each evening, although it may be extended if the situation warrants and/or the night’s speeches are running late. |
| 8/3/2008 : American Purgatory |
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| American Purgatory is a rare look into the asylum process from start to finish through the eyes of an asylum applicant. The documentary takes listeners into the process of applying for asylum through the eyes of "H", an asylum seeker from a former Soviet country who came to New York in 2005. Through the voices of asylum seekers, asylum advocates and those responsible for enforcing U.S. asylum laws, American Purgatory explores the contradictions of a process that is there to protect people in distress, but also has to vet fraudulent applications and infiltration by terrorists. |
| 7/27/2008 : Dick Buckley's Final Show |
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| After more than 50 years in radio, the last 31 of them at WBEZ, beloved jazz radio host Dick Buckley is retiring from the airwaves. Listening to Buckley’s Sunday afternoon show has been a treasured tradition. On this special, he fills the airwaves with swing and happiness one last time. Buckley spins some of his all time favorite records, and talks with Dan Bindert and Richard Steele about his legendary career in radio. The program also includes some rare Buckley air checks from the past, as well as a few salutes from special friends. |
| 7/4/2008 : Humankind: Dreaming of America, noon |
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| This documentary features varied voices of citizens reflecting on what Americans yearn for at this time when our country prepares for a new era and a new administration. After one of the most tumultuous periods in American history, how can we find common ground to solve a long list of pressing problems? We hear from tourists standing in line to view the original Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution, a 23-year-old ex-marine who was injured in Iraq, an NBA basketball star who founded an organization for democracy, young environmentalists worried about global warming, fans in the stands before a major league baseball game and others. |
| 7/4/2008 : What's the Word?: “On the Road, The American Road”, 10:30 a.m. |
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| This program takes on how film and fiction convey the experience of America through car trips. The beat-generation writer Jack Kerouac and On the Road's postwar celebratory travel, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and the European corruption of American innocence; and travel as fear, amusement, opportunity for escape, and paranoid dream are the focus. Also, the movie Thelma and Louise as a feminist buddy film in which the heroines discover things about themselves, each other, and the United States is featured. |
| 7/4/2008 : Capitol Steps “Politics Takes a Holiday”, 10 a.m. |
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| After turning down requests to be Hillary Clinton's campaign accountant and Barbara Walters’ personal fact checker, the Capitol Steps did finally achieve a lifelong dream—an invitation to Jenna Bush's wedding as Dick Cheney's date. Tune in for brand new songs about Hillary and Obama ("Ebony and Ovaries") and John McCain ("When I m 84"). Who knows, we may throw some super delegates into the mix to, you know, just to keep it confusing. |
| 7/4/2008 : Louder Than a Bomb 2008, 9 a.m. |
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| There seemed to be a need for a space for young people to tell their stories, to meet one another and articulate their hopes, their fears, their passions and their sorrows. As co-founder of Young Chicago Authors Kevin Coval puts it, “the stories of young people, who they are and what they have to say, their names and existence, is more powerful than any weapon, is louder than any bomb” – and so the Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetry Festival and Competition was born. Now the subject of a full-length feature film, and internationally renown as the largest teen poetry festival of its kind, Louder Than a Bomb has become a celebrated annual event in which the remarkable stories of the city’s youth take center stage. |
| 7/4/2008 : American Routes: Red, White and Blues on the Fourth , 1-3 p.m. |
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| Tune in and party like it's 1776 as we celebrate our nations' birthday with a swinging soundtrack of jazz, blues and country that'll make you stand up and salute. Plus, we're off on a summer road trip to sample Ted Drewes' Frozen Custard Stand on Route 66 in St. Louis and play Drown the Clown at a Massachusetts county fair. |
| 5/26/2008 : Picking Up The Pieces: Iraq Special, noon and 9 p.m. |
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| This program visits with five families of veterans wounded by IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan. The families are coping with the aftermath of traumatic brain injuries and post traumatic stress. This special breaks new ground by focusing on the parents, especially mothers, who have given up everything to step in and care for their sons. In the coming years, as additional tens of thousands of injured veterans return home, overburdened parents will respond with love and support, but the rest of us need to become aware of this urgent problem and help our government develop comprehensive solutions. |
| 5/26/2008 : The Studio 312 Comedy Special, 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. |
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| Chicago actor, and Studio 312 host, Jimmy Carrane interviews Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlan, Saturday Night Live’s Horatio Sanz and Matt Walsh from the Upright Citizens Brigade. |
| 4/16/2008 : America Abroad: Missiles, Money and the Mainland: The Taiwan Dilemma |
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| We pre-empt BBC Outlook for America Abroad: Missiles, Money and the Mainland: The Taiwan Dilemma. The political status of the Island has the potential to ignite great-power conflict between the U.S. and China. But Taiwan's economic dynamism has made the small island the 16th largest economy and a major player on the world stage. The program travels to the Island to explore its identity and politics in the shadow of a rising China and traces the history of America's relationship with Taiwan and how those ties have impacted U.S.-China relations. |
| 4/13/2008 : Radio Lab: War of the Worlds, (So-Called) Life and Pop Music |
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| We pre-empt Says You! and To The Best of Our Knowledge from 7-10 p.m. to feature two episodes of Radio Lab. In Radio Lab's very first live hour, “War of the Worlds” takes a deep dive into one of the most controversial moments in broadcasting history—Orson Welles' 1938 radio play about Martians invading New Jersey. “(So-Called) Life” looks at the uneasy marriage between biology and engineering, and asks what counts as “natural?” In the last hour, “Pop Music” takes on those crazy tunes that delight us and haunt us. |