We start with voices on Capitol Hill, and end with music and conversation about prayer, featuring novelist Mary Gordon, singer/songwriters Maggie and Suzzy Roche, and ethicist Peter Singer. In between, we hear from one of the first female cops to patrol the streets of New York City, and from a community of Ivory Coast immigrants who have found both peace and conflict in West Philadelphia. And we drop in on record stores throughout Manhattan, where purveyors of great music talk about what’s playing.
Testimony
Walking the Beat
In 1972, Detective Lucille Burrascano was among the first fifteen women police officers to patrol the streets of New York City. She and host Dean Olsher go back to her beat, the 77th Precinct in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to talk about what it was like to be a uniformed pioneer ...
Heard in a Record Store
Casa Latina: Sonora Ponceñas "Back to the Road"
This Side of the Ivory Coast
Many immigrants from the Ivory Coast have made their home in West Philadelphia. Writer and political analyst Siddhartha Mitter visited recently, to offer this portrait of a new immigrant community. Produced by Michael Kavanagh and Emily Botein.
Singers and Writers
Prayer
If a stranger approaches you on the street and asks you if you pray, chances are, that person has an agenda for your soul. Yet, as Dean Olsher discovers when he tries asking the question (minus the agenda), people are remarkably open to answering. Here’s a random sample, from the ...
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