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Friday, March 12, 2010 at 11:00 am

AfroReggae’s music takes on the drug lords in the streets of Rio. We’ll hear the battle.

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Friday, January 15, 2010 at 11:00 am

We talk with Pakistani rock star Salman Ahmad about his “rock ‘n roll jihad” against extremism.

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Monday, December 21, 2009 at 11:00 am

Call her country, call her rock, Lucinda Williams made her name singing about heartache. Now she’s found love. We check in with her, and her Grammy-nominated album, “Little Honey.”

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 11:00 am

“Say Hey (I Love You)” is an Internet sensation, and has shot up the charts. We talk with breakout musician Michael Franti about hip-hop, reggae, and his progressive politics.

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Monday, December 7, 2009 at 11:00 am

A high-drama detective story behind the Cello Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 3:44 pm

Our show today about the life and times of Thelonious Monk had us peering into the jazz world to look for the children of the “George Washington of be-bop.” Who are Monk’s musical and spiritual heirs?

 
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 11:00 am

Thelonious Monk. Jazz giant. American hipster. A new biography takes us into his life and enigmatic music.

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Friday, October 16, 2009 at 11:00 am

Hip-hop legend and Wu Tang Clan founder The RZA on life lessons and the “Tao of Wu.”

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Chita Rivera, during an interview in New York, on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. (AP)
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 11:00 am

We’ll talk with Broadway legend — of “West Side Story,” “Chicago,” and “Bye Bye Birdie” fame — Chita Rivera.

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Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 11:00 am

“The Beatles: Rock Band” is the video game event of the season. We’ll ask its creator how it changes the way we experience music.

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Friday, August 21, 2009 at 11:00 am

We are the world, in the street. An LA team takes its microphones and cameras to musicians worldwide to make a new documentary and CD.

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Friday, July 3, 2009 at 11:00 am

Tunes from old Appalachia with a new bluegrass twist. The hit folk band “Crooked Still” plays for us in our studio.

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Friday, June 5, 2009 at 11:00 am

We talk with classical guitar virtuoso Eliot Fisk, about the guitar as bridge between cultures. Plus: video of Fisk performing an encore in our studio.

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Monday, May 25, 2009 at 11:00 am

We’ll look back on Leonard Bernstein, who took the helm of the New York Philharmonic 50 years ago, and changed American music.

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A Rolling Stone
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 11:00 am

Bob Dylan talked at length with historian Douglas Brinkley for Rolling Stone. We talk with Brinkley about Dylan and America now.

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Friday, May 1, 2009 at 11:00 am

A new documentary captures jazz now, from the living icons of modern jazz to those pushing the music in new directions.

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Monday, April 27, 2009 at 11:00 am

Novelist Arthur Phillips on music, muses, mixtapes and his new novel, “The Song Is You.”

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Friday, March 27, 2009 at 11:00 am

We talk with the Blind Boys of Alabama about their new album, and making music, “Down in New Orleans.”

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Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 11:00 am

We hear from underground artist Jon Nelson, who uses musical mashups to tap into our media-age dreams.

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Friday, January 30, 2009 at 11:00 am

The craze for karaoke. Equalizer or embarrassment? One devotee tells the uninitiated what they’re missing.

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Recent Shows
America’s Anger Problem?
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Are Americans angrier than ever, or does it just seem that way? We’ll look at our hot-under-the-collar country.

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War-Gaming Iran
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Think tanks in Washington are playing out the scenarios of an Israeli attack on Iran. We’ll look at the tough results they’ve found.

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On Point Blog
IED’s in Afghanistan: Hard Numbers

The Department of Defense provided On Point with some statistics about IED attacks in Afghanistan, where there has been an increase in the use of such weapons over the past 14 months. It’s striking to see the spike in numbers — from 2,677 IED incidents in 2007 to 8,159 last year.

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Christopher Hill: U.S. Troop Withdrawal ‘On Schedule’

U.S. Ambassaor to Iraq Christopher Hill spoke with On Point live from Baghdad today as early voting gets underway, part of the run-up to Sunday’s elections. “So far so good,” Hill said, despite scattered violence. Hill said that the plan to withdraw U.S. combat troops by Sept. 1, and to leave only a residual advisory force of 50,000 or fewer, remains “very much on schedule.” Observers worry that a spike in violence could derail that timeline.

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The Supreme Court’s Radio Silence

For radio listeners, a key element of our conversation about the Supreme Court gun-rights case was conspicuously absent: the audio recording of the oral arguments. Here’s why.

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