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Capital Public ’s has been heard live, daily interview on our air for many years program informs and will now be moving and entertains with to 1 pm Monday through Friday. Fresh Air with Terry compelling, timely Gross, the Peabody Award-winning weekday and civil conversation. Using sound journalistic magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of principles, Insight illuminates the big ideas and public radio’s most popular programs. Though Fresh issues confronting our communities, and reflects the Air has been categorized as a “talk show,” it hardly arts and culture of our region. Host Beth Ruyak has fits the mold. Its 1994 Peabody Award citation authentic, memorable conversations that show our credits Fresh Air with “probing questions, revelatory region’s diverse voices and heart. interviews and unusual insights.” And a variety of top publications count among the Insight is produced by Capital Public Radio. country’s leading interviewers. The show gives More information may be found at interviews as much time as needed and www.capradio.org/insight complements them with comments from well-known critics and commentators. Monday – Friday Fresh Air will be broadcast Monday – Friday at its 10 am new time of 1 pm. Fresh Air is produced by WHYY in and broadcast nationally by NPR. Here! Now! In the More information may be found at moment! Paddling www.capradio.org/freshair in the middle of a fast moving stream of and information. Here & Now is Public Radio’s daily news magazine, bringing Friday 11 am you the news that breaks after and before . Science Friday is a weekly science talk A gifted journalist, is a superb show that we have interviewer and versatile host who can go deep on broadcast for many years and is unchanged in its the Syria crisis and then pivot to heartfelt, probing time slot. If you haven’t heard it yet, give it a listen human interviews. She’s a Peabody Award-winning and see what you think! documentary filmmaker, and has been at the helm of Here & Now for a decade. Co-host Jeremy Each week, Science Friday focuses on science Hobson joins Here & Now from his role hosting the topics that are in the news and brings an educated, Marketplace Morning Report. Adept at taking balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues complex news and making it comprehensible and at hand. Panels of expert guests join Science engaging for listeners, Jeremy will be an equal Friday’s host, , a veteran science journalist, partner with Robin Young, bringing his trademark to discuss science - and to take questions from candor and energy to the program. listeners during the call-in portion of the program.

Here & Now is a co-production between NPR and Science Friday will be broadcast every Friday at 11 WBUR. More information may be found at am. More information may be found at www.capradio.org/hearandnow www.capradio.org/sciencefriday Monday 12 pm Wednesday 12 pm

An idea is the one gift that is an you can hang onto even after innovative, Peabody you’ve given it away. The Award-winning public TED Radio Hour, hosted by radio sensation about , is a journey through wonder, discovery fascinating ideas: astonishing and big ideas. Co-hosted by veteran science inventions, fresh approaches reporter and McArthur “Genius” to old problems, new ways to think and create. Jad Abumrad, the show tackles topics as diverse as Based on “talks” given by riveting speakers on the why people see different colors in the same place, world-renowned TED stage, each show is centered what machines can reveal about humanity, and why on a common theme such as the source of people get stressed out in a supermarket line. happiness, crowd-sourcing innovation, power shifts, or inexplicable connections – and injects RADIOLAB has been broadcast regularly on Friday soundscapes and conversation that bring these since 2012. We hope you will enjoy its new time ideas to life. slot at noon each Wednesday. RADIOLAB is a production of WYNC. More information may be TED Radio Hour is a co-production of NPR and found at www.capradio.org/radiolab TED. The TED Radio Hour will be broadcast every Monday at noon. More information may be found Thursday 12 pm at www.capradio.org/tedradiohour If you’ve never heard This Tuesday 12 pm American Life, it’s difficult to describe. So usually, they just Food has become a national say what it’s not. It’s not a news obsession and with it a show or a talk show or a call-in multitude of flashy programs, show. They tell stories that are like magazines, books and movies for radio. There are funny blogs – ranging from pure moments, emotional moments, entertainment to moments where the people in the celebrity showcases. Yet they aren’t much help to story say interesting, surprising the everyday cook. things about it all. It is a documentary show for people who normally hate documentaries. “A public Nobody makes cooking and food more fun and radio show for people who don’t necessarily care for accessible than Christopher Kimball, host of public radio.” America’s Test Kitchen Radio. This program is filled with clear, practical information, without the started in 1995 in Chicago and in gourmet fuss. The hour is all about insights, tips, the years since, has won many awards including the and techniques that illuminate the truth about real Peabody, and the duPont-Columbia. Ira Glass, the home cooking. Chris will introduce you to an host of the show, was named best radio host in the eclectic collection of test cooks and food experts country by Time Magazine and received the highest from the Test Kitchen and people who have unique individual honor in public broadcasting, the Edward and useful perspectives with rich stories to tell R. Murrow Award. The American Journalism Review about cooking and food. declared that the show is at “the vanguard of a journalistic revolution.” America’s Test Kitchen Radio will be broadcast every Tuesday at noon. More information may be found This American Life is broadcast every Saturday at at www.capradio.org/americastestkitchen noon and 6 pm, and is re-broadcast Thursday at noon. It is a production of Chicago Public Radio and is distributed by PRI. More information may be found at www.capradio.org/thisamericanlife

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