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Join host Jim Blum in discovering the best from the world of folk music, featuring the work of legends and others devoted to acoustic sounds.

What’s On Now?

This American Life®


Contemporary life in America and the world is documented and described as host Ira Glass presents a weekly collection of innovative radio stories linked by a central theme.



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This American Life
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Classical Music with Mindy Ratner



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A Prairie Home Companion®
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Joaquin Turina: Fantastic Dances (London Philharmonic)


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Girolamo Frescobaldi: Toccata (Camerata Salzburg)


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Franz Schubert: Symphony #8 "Unfinished" (Dresden State Orchestra)



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Endangered gorillas face problems in captivity, too
Cleveland zoo heads national research on heart disease in western lowland gorillas
Monday, November 26, 2007

Gorillas in the wild are now on the critically endangered list. And keepers increasingly are concerned about their conditions in zoos. As much as a third of the deaths of captive western lowland gorillas have been linked to heart disease. That's why the Cleveland Zoo has launched the national Gorilla Health Project -- overseen by the tandem of the head of the gorillas species survival plan and a veterinary epidemiologist. WKSU's M.L. Schultze has the story ...

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