With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

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Half hour episodes of With Good Reason.


587 Pieces

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Time is Brain (Half Hour Version)
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Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Stroke doctors all know the phrase, “Time is brain.” There's a game changer in stroke treatment that's helping some patients achieve a dramatic rec...

Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WKCC, WEZU, KVSC and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
Uptalk on Jeopardy (Half Hour Version)
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Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Uptalk is that rising, questioning tone some people use when ending a statement. And women aren't the only ones who do it—so finds a study of conte...

Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WKCC, KRDP and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Ghost in the MP3 (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The 1987 pop song “Tom’s Diner” by Suzanne Vega, considered the “mother of the MP3,” was the test track used by German scientists to perfect this n...

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
The Disappearing Lake (Half Hour)
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Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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There’s an iconic scene in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing in which a dance instructor practices a lift with his young student in a beautiful lake at s...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Ferdinand the Cultural Icon (Half hour)
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Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The beloved children’s book The Story of Ferdinand, about a bull who would rather smell flowers than fight matadors, is among the most widely read ...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2015
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 10
Summer Melt and Z Degree (Half Hour)
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Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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An innovative program that prepares thousands of Latino high school students for college is underway at one of the largest community colleges in th...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Conversations with Julian Bond (Half Hour)
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Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The late Julian Bond conducted 51 extensive interviews with prominent black leaders in America. Phyllis Leffler who led the project with Bond, has ...

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  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Nominating the President (half hour)
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It’s easy to imagine that front-runner Donald Trump could emerge with the GOP nomination in 2016. But that’s unlikely, according to Marty Cohen co...

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
The Giants Who Ruled Over the Dinosaurs
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Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Before dinosaurs ruled the Earth, there were some enormous relatives that ruled over them. Sterling Nesbitt talks about these giants of the past an...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, KKRN, KENW, and WLIW


  • Added: Oct 23, 2015
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 5
BFFs, Girlfriends, and Besties (Half Hour Version)
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Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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As the British Empire expanded, the fabric of society depended upon women’s friendships. One letter from a “BFF” back home could save a colonist fr...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
Battlefields, Boeings, and Basketball Courts (half hour)
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Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The war in Vietnam touched many different lives, in many different ways. This special Veteran's Day episode of With Good Reason shares memories of ...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 16
Jobless and Hopeless
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Even years after the end of the Great Recession, thousands who lost their jobs are still unemployed. Victor Tan Chen in his book, Cut Loose: Jobles...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
My Life as a Wild Turkey (half hour)
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Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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All about turkeys: how a naturalist became a wild turkey mother, a pilot gives a play by play of the moves of the wild turkey in flight. And more...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 30
Tis the Season (half)
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Christmas music from jazz, to blues, to classical to world music, all introduced by artists, musicians, and writers.

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 17
Christmas Music and Memories (half)
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From a Charlie Brown Christmas to Donny Hathaway and carols from the 15th century, author Inman Majors, musician Hermine Pinson, and Rob Vaughn sh...

Bought by KTOO, WBEZ, RadioStPete Florida, KRCU Public Radio, WJCT and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 15
Reading the Founding Fathers' Mail (half hour)
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Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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More than 30 people who spent the last three years immersed in thousands of letters written by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and ...

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
Health in the Heart and Mind (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Sudden death in young people is rare,but through early detection of inherited heart conditions, better precautions can be taken. And more...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2015
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 7
Papayas in December (half hour)
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Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Small farms can now grow raspberries, blackberries, ginger, or even tropical fruits like papayas in December without the need of expensive greenhou...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, KVSC, KKRN, and WLIW


  • Added: Dec 11, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
Here We Come A Caroling (half hour)
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Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A music therapist talks why holiday music feels right this year. Plus: a music video by an all female a-cappela group deals with the social pressur...

Bought by WJCT, KRZA, KRDP, WXDU, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Where Did You Come From? (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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An in interview with the band, David Wax Museum, also a live in studio performance. Also: An interview with the authors of "Balancing the Big Stuff...

Bought by WJCT, WXDU, KRDP, and WLIW


  • Added: Dec 21, 2015
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4

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