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Wednesday, December 31, 1969 | 11:00 AM
More On Point Music Goodness

Subscribe to the “Ultimate On Point Playlist” on Spotify and we’ll keep it up-to-date with all the music we play on the show. It’s a short playlist now, but will soon be mighty.

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Wednesday, December 31, 1969 | 11:00 AM
On Point Your Playlist

We put together a Spotify playlist of the music we played on our show on new music for 2013.

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013 | 11:00 AM
A New Playlist For 2013
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New music for a new year.

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Monday, December 31, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton

Superstar Dolly Parton joins us to talk music and where she’s found meaning in life.

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Monday, December 24, 2012 | 11:00 AM
The Rock Christmas Canon
CeeLo Green performs at the 80th annual Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012 in New York. (AP)

How rock ‘n roll saved the Christmas song.

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Advertising And Pop Music
Barry Manilow performed or co-wrote a number of commercial jingles early in his career, most notably for State Farm, Bandaid, and Stridex. (AP)

The sound of commerce. How advertising has moved in on American popular music.

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Friday, December 14, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Sitar Virtuoso Ravi Shankar
In this Aug. 3, 1967 file photo, George Harrison, of the Beatles, left, sits cross-legged with his musical mentor, Ravi Shankar of India, in Los Angeles, as Harrison explains to newsmen that Shankar is teaching him to play the sitar. Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over an eight-decade career, died Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. He was 92. (AP)

He brought Indian music to the world. We’ll remember sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar.

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Friday, December 7, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Dave Brubeck
This 1956 file photo shows American composer, pianist and jazz musician Dave Brubeck. Brubeck, a pioneering jazz composer and pianist died Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 of heart failure, after being stricken while on his way to a cardiology appointment with his son. He would have turned 92 on Thursday. (AP)

We will “Take Five” and remember jazz great Dave Brubeck.

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton speaks at The 22nd Annual Glaad Media Awards on Sunday April 10, 2011, at at The Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles, Calif. (AP)

Superstar Dolly Parton joins us to talk music and where she’s found meaning in life.

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012 | 11:00 AM
A Pop Star In The Age Of Lincoln
Louis Moreau Gottschalk pictured on an 1864 Publication of The Dying Poet for piano. (Wikipedia)

Abe Lincoln loved him. We’ll listen to the deep Americana of Civil War era composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk

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May 17, 2013
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Attorney General Eric Holder gestures as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Department. (AP)

IRS and AP scandals. White House damage control. More military sex abuse. Angelina Jolie. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Great quotations. What makes them? And how they shape our language and our view of the world

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Attorney General Eric Holder gestures as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Department. (AP)

IRS and AP scandals. White House damage control. More military sex abuse. Angelina Jolie. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Switching Shows For Our Second Hour Today
Friday, May 17, 2013

Adventures in live radio. Richard Snow, our guest for our show on Henry Ford, was held up — possibly by a faulty Model T? — so we’re running a terrific archive show on great quotations.

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Floyd Abrams On Obama Vs. Nixon
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Floyd Abrams — one of the country’s leading authorities on the First Amendment — joined us today to talk about revelations that the Justice Department seized two months of phone records from the Associated Press.

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Dr. Judy Garber On Angelina Jolie’s Cancer Decision
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Dr. Judy Garber — director of the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — joined us for the final segment of our show today to talk about star Angelina Jolie’s decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.

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