WBEZ

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WBEZ 91.5 offers over 560,000 listeners each week a wide variety of programs from news and public affairs to music and arts.  Chicago Public Media produces such distinctive and innovative programming as This American Life, Eight Forty-Eight, Sound Opinions, Worldview and Vocalo.org. WBEZ is the only Chicago area member station of NPR®, producers of Morning Edition® and All Things Considered®. We also broadcast programming distributed by Public Radio International and American Public Media as well as from many other national and international program sources.

Series

Caption: www.wbez.org/cleverapes
30 Pieces

WBEZ’s science experiment, “Clever Apes” is a nano-sized show with a cosmic scope. It tells the stories of the rich scientific community of the Chicago area, its quirky characters and the fascinating, often mind-bending questions they’re out to answer. But it is not so Chicago-centric that it won't work for your town.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Apr 05, 2012
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From Nobel Peace Prize winners to Nicaraguan sweatshop workers, Worldview highlights a range of voices that go beyond the headlines.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Apr 21, 2011

Latest Pieces

Caption: Top 5 Movies For Graduates
For their "Top 5 Movies for Graduates," Adam and Josh choose tales of hardship, uncertainty, letting go, and finding fulfillment from Hayao Miyazak...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: 'Top Gun: Maverick' / 'Steamboat Bill, Jr.' (Buster Keaton)
Scrubbed of nostalgia, 1986's "Top Gun" is, let's be honest, a big slab of '80s cheese. But there's that star-making turn by Tom Cruise; some flash...

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  • Added: May 27, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Alex Gardland's 'Men'
Do you have to understand a movie to love it? And if so, how much do you have to understand a movie to love it? This, more or less, is what constit...

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  • Added: May 20, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Summer Movie Preview
With new films from Jordan Peele, Alex Garland, and Claire Denis, not to mention the latest from Marvel, Pixar, and the long-awaited return of Tom ...

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  • Added: May 13, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Spider-Man (2002)
Back in 2002, the superhero genre was still finding its feet. Tim Burton's "Batman" had been huge in '89, but the franchise it spawned had fizzled ...

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  • Added: May 06, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: 'The Northman' (Robert Eggers) / 'Sherlock, Jr.' (Buster Keaton)
With an obsessive attention to historical detail and a fascination with lore, language, and ritual, there is no mistaking "The Northman" for the wo...

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Top 5 Nicolas Cage Performances / 'Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent'
For over four decades, Nicolas Cage has remained a distinctive and unpredictable screen presence, navigating a career that has gone from memorable ...

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'
The directing duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (“Swiss Army Man”) take a maximalist approach to filmmaking that suits the dizzying plotting of ...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Interview with filmmaker Kogonada ('After Yang,' 'Columbus')
With his first two films, 2017's “Columbus” and the new "After Yang," director Kogonada has established a meditative style of filmmaking that rewar...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Apollo 10 1/2 / Top 5 Linklater Scenes
Among Richard Linklater’s gifts is his ability to find the transcendent in the ordinary. A young man and woman meeting on a train. A last day of sc...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7