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#1598: The Path To Free College | The Best Of Our Knowledge

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#1598: The Path To Free College | The Best Of Our Knowledge
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College is expensive. Really expensive. I suspect you did not need me to tell you this. And it is a problem as more jobs are demanding a college degree. So what if college was free? There’s a growing movement in the U.S. that thinks it should be. That’s what Michelle Miller-Adams writes about in her new book called “The Path to Free College – In Pursuit of Access, Equity, and Prosperity.”

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#1659: Female Healthcare Heroes | 51%

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#1659: Female Healthcare Heroes | 51%
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On today’s 51%, I visit a psychiatric ward in Cleveland to learn how one nurse reaches her patients with tea parties. And we’ll hear from one physician assistant who is trying to educate other healthcare professionals about racial and gender equity.

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#2119: New York State Conservative Party Chair Gerard Kassar | The Capitol Connection

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#2119: New York State Conservative Party Chair Gerard Kassar | The Capitol Connection
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 This week, WAMC’s Dr. Alan Chartock speaks with New York State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar.

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Folk Icon Pete Seeger | WAMC’s In Conversation With

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Folk Icon Pete Seeger | WAMC's In Conversation With
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This week, in celebration of what would have been folk music icon Pete Seeger’s 102nd birthday we present an encore broadcast. WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Pete Seeger in Pete Seeger: A Life Hour 2.

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#1711: Flynn Berry “Northern Spy” | The Book Show

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#1711: Flynn Berry "Northern Spy" | The Book Show
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This week, we speak with Edgar Award-winning author Flynn Berry. Berry discusses her latest, Northern Spy, a thriller about the contemporary IRA, and two sisters who find themselves caught in the middle of the re-escalating sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland.

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Blue Sky Kingdom | Bruce Kirkby

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Blue Sky Kingdom | Bruce Kirkby
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Traversing Iceland by foot, Mongolia by horseback, Arabia by camel and the Blue Nile Gorge by raft; Bruce Kirby’s journeys span 80 countries around the world. In his new book “Blue Sky Kingdom,” we follow Kirkby and his family as they hop on a freighter and make a remarkable three-month journey from Canada to the Himalayas. […]

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