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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0 Pieces

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: Jodie Foster in 1991's 'Silence of the Lambs'
Based on Thomas Harris's grisly 1988 bestseller, Jonathan Demme's "The Silence of the Lambs" was, on its February 1991 release, an immediate critic...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KSRQ, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: 'Judas and the Black Messiah' / 'The Letter' (40s Noir #1)
The new Fred Hampton biopic "Judas and the Black Messiah" gives as much time to the FBI informant (Lakeith Stanfield) who infiltrates Hampton’s Bla...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSRQ, WMUU-LP, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: All the President's Men (1976) / Malcolm & Marie
It doesn’t take the investigative powers of a Woodward or Bernstein to pick up on the giddiness that Adam and Josh bring to their review of "All th...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSRQ, KCPW Salt Lake City, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: WBEZ's 'Making Beyoncé'
Beyoncé Knowles-Carter is a media mogul. A philanthropist. A feminist hero. But before the Grammys, the platinum records and Destiny’s Child, ther...

Bought by KUHF, WCMU Michigan, KOSU, KERA, WXPN and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 29
Caption: Bill Skarsgård in 'It Chapter Two'
Adam and Josh left 2017's blockbuster "It" at least mildly curious for more, but is the new film's nearly three-hour running time and the addition ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, KCPW Salt Lake City, WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Jason Statham, Idris Elba, and Dwayne Johnson in 'Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw' (2019)
The Fast & Furious franchise has come a long, long way since its street-racing origins, and its latest entry, "Hobbs & Shaw" (from "John Wick" co-d...

Bought by WRIR, GCR (Global Community Radio), WMUU-LP, KSRQ, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Aug 02, 2019
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Al Pacino star in Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood'
Adam and Josh sift through the rogues' gallery of memorable QT creations for their Top 10 Tarantino Characters and discuss the director's latest, t...

Bought by KSRQ, WRIR, GCR (Global Community Radio), WMUU-LP, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Jul 26, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Florence Pugh in 'Midsommar'
Guest critics Tasha Robinson (The Next Picture Show, The Verge) and Angelica Jade Bastién (Vulture) join Josh for a lively debate over of Ari Aster...

Bought by WRIR, KSRQ, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Robert De Niro in 'Goodfellas' (1990)
Whether used ironically or to provide insight -- or just to make characters look really, really cool -- classic rock has been memorably employed by...

Bought by KSRQ, GCR (Global Community Radio), KCPW Salt Lake City, WMUU-LP, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 12, 2019
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Samuel L. Jackson in Quentin Tarantino's classic film, 'Pulp Fiction'
Back in 2012, Josh was only a couple months into his role as new co-host, when Adam suggested the Best of '94 Top 5. The reconsideration of "Pulp F...

Bought by WRIR, KSRQ, GCR (Global Community Radio), KCPW Salt Lake City, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 05, 2019
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5