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Going back to Lead Belly. The blues legend is back. His influences, as big as ever.
Prima ballerina Wendy Whelan is with us. One of the country’s most famous ballerinas looks at dance as she approaches 50.
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Oscars this weekend. “Birdman,” “Boyhood,” “American Sniper”? We’ll talk who should win, and why.
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YouTube turns ten. We’ll look at how it has changed music, culture, and the media.
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Feminist punk-rockers, the band Sleater-Kinney, is with us. Reunited. Hotter than ever.
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So we know what Germany was listening to in the 19th Century. But what about the 21st Century? Answers within.
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We’ll explore Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, or Winter Journey – the late great, strange song cycle with tenor Ian Bostridge. Plus: a fresh look at contemporary German pop music.
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The Grateful Dead, reuniting. We look at the long strange trip of one of the most successful bands in history.
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The new movie “Selma,” out this weekend. Its depiction, and your reaction, to civil rights on the march, from Selma to Montgomery.
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We’ve got the soundtrack to your 2015 right here, and, well…if music is any indicator, it should be a pretty good year.
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A US-Israel rift. A win for net neutrality. “American Sniper” verdict. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
Going back to Lead Belly. The blues legend is back. His influences, as big as ever.
More Americans are turning away from religion. We’ll look at how to live a moral life without it.
New breakthroughs on peanut allergies – treatment and prevention. And a question: are we too clean for our own good? Plus: did giant gerbils from Asia really bring the bubonic plague to Europe?
Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland present their views on the ongoing Congressional budget fight over Department of Homeland Security funding. (Spoiler: They do not agree on a resolution of the crisis).
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We explain what happened with the old podcast feed this week and last, share some other Oscar categories and reminisce about the golden days of Double Rainbows and Honey Badgers who just don’t care.
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Want the inside scoop on who will win big on Sunday’s 87th Academy Awards? (Look elsewhere, sorry). But we’ve got great shows on some of the year’s best movies, all right here.
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