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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.

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Just in time for National Poetry Month, Chicago Public Media (WBEZ-Chicago) presents the latest series of studio recordings featuring finalists from the 2012 Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetry Festival and Competition.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Mar 27, 2012
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25 Pieces

Just in time for National Poetry Month, Chicago Public Media (WBEZ-Chicago) presents the latest series of studio recordings featuring finalists from the 2013 Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetry Festival and Competition, including the heart-wrenching "Found Letters to My Granddaughter" and the viral successes "Thick" and "Ray" - all under 3 minutes!

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Apr 12, 2013
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From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White talks with Obama’s key advisors, mentors, rivals, and the former President himself.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: May 23, 2018
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Nerdette is a safe space for nerding out about all the things you're watching, reading, listening to and encountering in real life. Hosts Tricia Bobeda and Greta Johnsen talk to people about their obsessions: from science to science fiction, great lady nerds of history to Beyoncé.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Jun 06, 2017
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A new series investigating mental illness in youth.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Oct 28, 2011
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A sound-rich, experimental comedy program from WBEZ-FM Chicago Public Radio

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Sep 18, 2005
Caption: Studio 312 host Jimmy Carrane
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Studio 312 is an offbeat celebrity interview segment hosted by Chicago comedian and radio personality, Jimmy Carrane. Carrane's quirky interview style is humorous and informative. His comedic approach delivers a satircal take on the serious or hard-ball interview. Think: Stephen Colbert-meets-Jiminy Glick. Carrane asks the questions that everyone else is too polite to ask, often with hilarious consequences. His quirky style, and half-insider half-clueless persona, allows his guests to reveal a side of themselves you wouldn’t normally hear. Previous interviews include Conan O’Brien, Frangela, Cindy Crawford, Tommy Chong, Harold Ramis and Dr. Laura Berman, to name a few. Studio 312 is a co-creation between Jimmy Carrane and WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio. The segment airs regularly on WBEZ's award-winning morning magazine program, Eight Forty-Eight.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Sep 04, 2009
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Host Jonathan Groubert and WBEZ have teamed up to bring back the revered program, The State We're In. In Season 1 of this reboot, you'll hear astonishing true and personal stories from all over the globe. The sonically beautiful, and narratively gripping "talkumentary" program brings you guests who will amaze you, break your heart or leave you laughing -- sometimes, all at once.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Jan 13, 2014
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EMBARGOED FOR AIR UNTIL JANUARY 16, 2017 AUDIO AVAILABLE FOR STATIONS TO AUDITION "The View from Room 205" is a one-hour documentary that takes an unflinching look at the intersection of poverty and education in this country. It tells the story of a fourth grade classroom at William Penn Elementary, a public school in one of the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, North Lawndale on Chicago’s West Side. The documentary weaves together human stories in the school, from the children to their teacher to the principal, and pulls back to explain the big picture. It looks at poverty’s hold on school achievement and explores the unintended consequences of a core belief driving school reform today – that poverty is no excuse for low achievement.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Jan 10, 2017
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Content produced and presented by Vocalo for WBEZ.

  • From: WBEZ
  • Updated: Oct 14, 2014

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Inspired by M Night Shyamalan's "Old," Adam and Josh take a trip to the shore for their Top 5 Beach Scenes. As a place of transition – between land...

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: A Clockwork Orange (at 50) / As Tears Go By (Wong Kar Wai #1)
With its provocative mix of giddy, nihilistic violence, social satire, and formal audaciousness, "A Clockwork Orange" has been a cinephile rite of ...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'Black Widow' / 'No Sudden Move' / 'Summer of Soul' / 'Zola'
Marvel's "Black Widow" returns the MCU to theaters for the first time since 2019, but despite the more than capable cast and some provocative ideas...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Harrison Ford in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
Back in September 2012, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was back in theaters for a limited IMAX run on the heels of its 30th anniversary. Adam and Josh t...

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'Fast & Furious 9' / Top 5 Fast & Furious Moments
For one of their patented “still processing” reviews, Adam and Josh go from screening to studio to discuss F9. But all Adam has is questions, namel...

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 7 From ’76 Awards / Pixar’s 'Luca'
While Pixar’s latest -- "Luca" -- brazenly evokes the settings and stories of earlier animated classics like Disney’s “Little Mermaid,” Pixar’s own...

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  • Added: Jun 18, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: 'In The Heights' / 'Car Wash' (7 From ’76)
When reviews started trickling in for "In the Heights" earlier this year, anticipation for the already much-hyped adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda'...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'Undine' / 'Harlan County U.S.A. '(7 From ’76)
Director Christian Petzold (“Phoenix,” “Transit”) returns with "Undine," a romance haunted by German history and politics -- and loosely inspired b...

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'A Quiet Place Part II' / Top 5 Quiet Scenes
Back in 2018, John Krasinksi’s “A Quiet Place” was a novelty: the rare box office hit that didn’t belong to an existing franchise or property. Fast...

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  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Summer Movie Preview
Yes, this summer promises pleasures like the return of the MCU, a new Lin-Manuel Miranda musical, and Dev Patel in David Lowery’s “The Green Knight...

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  • Added: May 21, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5