Anne Gadd joins the show to chat about her acting roles, including this weekend's Next to Normal performances at the Willis Theater in Delaware, Ohio. We also hear the new single from her music project, Imber Solis.
The coalition behind nationwide anti-Trump protests is shifting its strategies this weekend to focus on voter turnout. Organizers say Saturday's events are a nonpartisan effort to get people to the polls.
Local
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Sarah Biddick joins the show to chat about her love of music and latest material. She performs a song live and takes part in Foley's Fast Five.
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Centering Ohio and Columbus as testing grounds, this CMC forum explores how American communities can move from reflection to renewal—and what responsibility today’s leaders and citizens have to future generations of Americans.
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Anthony Hopkins needed a copy of The Girl from Petrovka to prepare for a movie role, but none of the major London bookstores he tried had one. Then, while waiting for a train at Leicester Square Underground station, he spotted the exact novel sitting abandoned on a seat. Months earlier, author George Feifer had lost one very particular copy of that book somewhere else in London, and when the two men finally compared notes, an already improbable coincidence became almost impossible. We tell the full story in this episode of The Internet Says it's True.
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This CMC forum explores what it means to finally place women’s courage, leadership, and fight for equality at the center of Ohio’s public memory.
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In this episode of Innovating Leadership Co-Creating Our Future, Jonathan Reams reveals how signal blindness, false alignment, cognitive overload, and assumptions corrupt decision quality, and why organizations cannot decide better than their leaders understand.
National
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NPR's Joel Rose talks with Oregon Governor Tina Kotek about the shooting at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon.
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Hundreds of protests took place in cities across France. Most of them were peaceful but some turned chaotic and violent.
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Iowa Public Radio's Natalie Krebs reports on how Iowa - a state that reliably votes Republican for president - has some competitive races for Republicans in November, which could help determine the balance of power in Congress.
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NPR's Joel Rose talks with James B. Story, former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, about the state of the State Department in the wake of the Kimberly Guilfoyle scandal.
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NPR's Joel Rose and Rachel Treisman met at East Potomac Golf Links, a golf course that President Trump has ambitions to transform, to discuss the president's widening stamp on D.C. landmarks.
Health, Science, Technology, Environment
Prices can get sticky. That helps explain why recessions hurt so much — and what policymakers can do about them.
Arts & Life
Defense Secretary Hegseth's announcement of a livestreamed execution elicited reactions of disgust and condemnation from some faith leaders and politicians. But within his church, it's not an outlier.
The WCBE Podcast Experience
Centering Ohio and Columbus as testing grounds, this CMC forum explores how American communities can move from reflection to renewal—and what responsibility today’s leaders and citizens have to future generations of Americans.
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