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July 3, 2009
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American Routes


A weekly excursion into this country's rich and diverse musical styles and traditions, American Routes also introduces the audience to the music makers with interviews and profiles of featured artists. The program is produced in New Orleans and hosted by Nick Spitzer.


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BBC World Service
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Classical Music with Bob Christiansen


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9:00
Folk Music with Jim Blum
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.


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12:00
Folk Music with Jim Blum


1:00
Classical Music with Ward Jacobson


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Classical Music with Ward Jacobson


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BBC World Service


For over 70 years, BBC World Service has been the globe's most comprehensive source for news. When news breaks — anywhere, anytime — BBC is there.


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American Routes
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Classical Music with Bob Christiansen


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12:00
BBC World Service
For over 70 years, BBC World Service has been the globe's most comprehensive source for news. When news breaks — anywhere, anytime — BBC is there.

5:00
BBC World Service
For over 70 years, BBC World Service has been the globe's most comprehensive source for news. When news breaks — anywhere, anytime — BBC is there.

6:00
Hearing Voices
Hearing Voices from NPR is new weekly hour series of The Best of Public Radio: a sixty-minute stream of "driveway moments" all connected by a weekly theme. We listen to broadcasts and podcasts; we dig through audio archives; and we scour the web to find the best stories, sound-portraits, slam poets, docs, radio dramas, features, and found-sound.

7:00
Living On Earth®
Steve Curwood hosts NPR's weekly environmental news and information program, offering features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues.

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Classical Music
With Bob Christiansen

8:14
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (New York Chamber Symphony)

8:46
Michael Praetorius: Spanish Pavan (Arabesque 6514)

8:49
Johann Wagenaar: Vienna 3/4 Time - Waltz Cycle (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra)

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American Routes
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1:00
Classical Music with Ward Jacobson


5:00
Classical Music with Ward Jacobson


6:00
Classical Music with Gillian Martin


12:00
Classical Music with Mindy Ratner
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Thursday, September 4, 2008

Human genome project five years later yielding medical breakthroughs

WKSU's Karen Schaefer reports
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The former director of the human genome project says in the last two years, there's been a revolution in the medical applications of genetic research. Dr. Francis Collins was in Cleveland today to accept the first Inamori prize for ethics from Case Western Reserve University. He says one of those breakthroughs will be published tomorrow - a new cancer genome atlas.

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To hear an interview WKSU reporter Karen Schaefer did with Dr. Collins on the past, present and future of genetics research, click on the second audio link




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