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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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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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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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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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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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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

8:06
Johann Fasch: Concerto (English Chamber Orchestra)


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



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Classical Music with Ward Jacobson



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Classical Music with Ward Jacobson



6:00
Classical Music with Gillian Martin



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Classical Music with Mindy Ratner



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The Songs of Insects

Calls from a huge variety of crickets and katydids define the sound of summer.

WKSU's Jeff St. Clair reports
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Jeff St. Clair
They're seldom seen but you can't miss them.

Late summer evenings are alive with the chirps, trills, and clicks of singing insects. The familiar field cricket is just one member of the large family of insects known as orthoptera. Their love songs are symbolic of a peaceful night, and although they may lull some people to sleep, one area naturalist is up late combing his backyard for the insect orchestra.

Joe Keiper is our guide, he's the curator of invertebrate zoology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

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