On today’s show: More from the Republican National Convention from Baratunde Thurston. We’ll also speak with the Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart about the presidential race so far. Director Roger Rees and Celia Keenan-Bolger talk about the “Peter and the Starcatcher.” Elgin James talks about his journey from foster care to filmmaking and writing and directing the film “Little Birds.” Plus, Jonathan Kozol discusses a group of inner-city children he has followed for 25 years.
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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.
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BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 42 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.
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Choose Your WordsNow that the GOP convention has wrapped up, we look back on the week in Tampa with Cokie Roberts of ABC News and NPR and linguist John McWhorter. WNYC’s Beth Fertig and Yasmeen Khan t...Go to program: The Brian Lehrer Show
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Today's Takeaway | August 31, 2012
Mitt Romney takes his turn on stage and accepts the Republican nomination for president | Monitoring the rhetoric at the RNC: What did the Republican convention leave out? | Paralympics 101: A beginner's guide to goalball | Who wants to live forever? Not as many as you may think | The art of branding in politics, and the humanizing of Mitt Romney | What happens when we leave Afghanistan | The history of the definition of "rape" | Explaining the fantasy football phenomenon.
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Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.
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Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world. Capturing the headlines, issues and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin. Tell Me More marks Martin's first role in hosting a daily program. She views it as an opportunity to focus on the stories, experiences, ideas and people important in contemporary life but often not heard.
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#3373: New Releases, August 2012
Fresh from the shrinkwrap, the internet, and live burial on John Schaefer's desk, it's this month's new releases! However we might have tracked these down, we can assure you that these are the pick of the piles, things that might live up to the blog/media hype, and the newest, weirdest, most appealing music you might hear all month.
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