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The Rainbow Minute (8:59, 12:29, 4:29)

Today:  "Madonna Takes a Stand" – read by Mike Hinerman

 

 

Studio 360 (9:00)

Today:   

   – Tea Party hip hop

   – Pee Wee Herman returns… this time to Broadway

   – Low budget movies taking Hollywood by storm

   – This week’s installment of the American Icons series:  The House of Mirth

 

 

Hidden Histories (9:01)

 Today:  Jean Donovan, American lay missionary who was murdered in El Salvador for practicing Liberation Theology.

 

 

The State We’re In (10:00)

Today:  "Freeing the Press"

   – A Darfuri journalist reporting from Holland

   – How China uses lunch to control Journalists

   – A Columbian Journalist defies death threats to report on the drug war

   – A Palestinian father who donated his son's organs to Isreali children

   – Two dads who take in children nobody else wants

 

 

Wordy Birds (12:00)

 

 

Sound Opinions (1:00)

Today:  Hosts Jim and Greg have once again scoured the dark underbelly of rock and roll to find the creepiest songs for the season. Plus they hear what tunes give the heebie jeebies to listeners from across the country.

Later in the show Jim and Greg give a Buy It, Burn It, Trash It rating to the new album by Scottish pop band Belle and Sebastian.

 

 

Talk of the Nation, Science Friday (2:00)

Today:

Hour 1

– An answer to the Chupacabra legend?

– Amber gives a glimpse of Ancient India

– Everything you ever wanted to know about eels

Hour 2

– Lungs, taste and asthma

– The Thousand Genomes Project

– Cholera’s causes and treatments

 

 

The Progressive Radio Show (4:30)

Today:  Jordan Flaherty, author of "Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six."