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5:00 am – 10:00 amWeekend Edition SundayWeekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein. Every week listeners tune in to hear a unique blend of news and features with Peabody Award-winning host Lulu Garcia-Navarro, and the regularly scheduled puzzle segment with Puzzlemaster Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times.see more
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Weekend Edition Sunday
Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein. Every week listeners tune in to hear a unique blend of news and features with Peabody Award-winning host Lulu Garcia-Navarro, and the regularly scheduled puzzle segment with Puzzlemaster Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times.
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Weekend Edition Sunday
Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein. Every week listeners tune in to hear a unique blend of news and features with Peabody Award-winning host Lulu Garcia-Navarro, and the regularly scheduled puzzle segment with Puzzlemaster Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times.
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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is NPR's weekly hour-long quiz program. Each week on the radio you can test your knowledge against some of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world while figuring out what's real news and what's made up. On the Web, you can play along too.
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11:00 am – 12:00 pm
The Moth Radio Hour
Regrets, I've Had a Few
Stories of hindsight being 20/20: a lie goes too far, a haircut veers off course, dreams are lost to time and one bold move with no regrets attached. Hosted by Moth Executive Producer Sarah Austin Jenness.
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12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Caste System
The journalist and historian Isabel Wilkerson talks with David Remnick about how America’s racial hierarchy should be thought of as a caste system, not unlike the one that once dominated in India. Plus, Jonathan Blitzer talks with the filmmakers behind Netflix’s new docuseries “Immigration Nation.” And we’ll meet some of the volunteers and the former inmates who make up the Rikers Debate Project.
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1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
City Arts and Lectures
‘The Buddhist on Death Row’
In “The Buddhist on Death Row,” David Sheff explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters, a renowned Buddhist thinker and inmate on death row at San Quentin State Prison. With uncanny clarity, Sheff describes Masters’ gradual transformation from a man consumed by violence to one who has helped those around him find meaning and peace in their lives.
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2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
On The Media
Lessons From Poland
As we approach November’s contentious presidential election, what lessons can we learn from divided societies abroad? On the Media travels to Poland, where conspiracy, xenophobia and the rise of illiberalism have the country in an existential fight for its future.
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