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Friday, August 10, 2012 | 11:00 AM
David Bowie applies his makeup.

Ziggy Stardust, high persona, and a new biography of David Bowie.

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Thursday, August 9, 2012 | 11:00 AM
In this photograph taken by AP Images for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Marvin Hamlisch is seen at the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Gala at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Tuesday, November 8, 2011. (AP)

Remembering one singular sensation, Marvin Hamlisch. From “The Sting” to “A Chorus Line,” how did he come up with all that music?

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Tuesday, July 31, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Ella Jenkins performs in a special concert, Baird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History. (Smithsonian Institution)

Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Ella Jenkins on 50 years of making music for children.

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Yoko Ono, a Japanese born artist, musician and widow of Beatle John Lennon, waves as she speaks at a press conference after receiving the Oskar Kokoschka art price for her artistic and political commitment in Vienna, Austria, on Friday, March 2, 2012. (AP)

Conceptual artist, author, peace activist — Yoko Ono is with us. We’ll look at her life.

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Garth Knox (Dániel Vass / ECM Records)

We’ll hear a thousand years of rich, deep music and history. The history of the viola.

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Thursday, April 26, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Raphael Saadiq sings during the 2010 Essence Music Festival at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Friday, July 2, 2010. (AP)

We time travel to the past and future with master Raphael Saadiq, global music tastemaker.

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Thursday, April 19, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Kat Edmonson (Todd Wolfson)

Young jazz vocalist Kat Edmonson, with a voice all her own and a new album “Way Down Low.”

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Thursday, April 5, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Singer Lyle Lovett's new album is "Release Me." (AP)

Grammy-winning Texas singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett on his latest album and the Lyle Lovett way.

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Tuesday, April 3, 2012 | 11:00 AM
This undated file photo shows folk singer Woody Guthrie playing his guitar and singing. (AP)

Folk legend Woody Guthrie at 100 and his timeless song, “This Land is Your Land.”

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Thursday, March 29, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Earl Scruggs, a pioneering banjo player and bluegrass icon, died Wednesday. (AP)

We’ll look at the life and music of bluegrass pioneer and banjo great Earl Scruggs.

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May 22, 2013
Apple CEO Tim Cook is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, prior to testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent subcommittee on Investigations hearing. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Apple in the hot seat. Lawmakers say the company dodged billions in taxes on overseas profits. We’ll look at the world of off shore tax escapes.

May 22, 2013
A woman carries her child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)

After Oklahoma’s giant twister, does Tornado Alley need to change the way it builds and lives in the age of superstorms?

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May 21, 2013
Henry Ford sits at the tiller of his first automobile, the Quadricycle, in front of the John Wanamaker salesroom on Broadway between 49th and 50th Streets in New York City in 1904. (AP)

The controversial and brilliant Henry Ford and the world he invented.

 
May 21, 2013
Detail from the book jacket of "The Unwinding: An Inner History Of The New America" by George Packer. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

New Yorker writer George Packer’s inside history of the great unwinding of America’s 20th century way of life and where we stand now.

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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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