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
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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: Tilda Swinton in Jim Jarmusch's 'Only Lovers Left Alive'
Filmspotting comes in peace, even if its Top 5 list does not. Your hosts consider their favorite cinematic Things From Space (That Came To Destroy ...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2014
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: First-time actor Gary Poulter in David Gordon Green's 'Joe'
Filmspotting has been making radio for almost 10 years as amateurs, so Adam and Josh should have an insight or two on the folks who make their Top ...

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Mia Goth, star of 'Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1'
Michael and Josh try and avoid embarrassing flashbacks to their adolescence when they get into this week’s Top 5: Sex-Obsessed Characters, inspired...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Russell Crowe in scene from Darren Aronofsky’s 'Noah'
Hope you’ve got your sea legs for this week’s show as Josh and Michael Phillips count down their Top 5 Movie Boats, a list inspired by the first fa...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Ralph Fiennes in 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'; Bill Murray in 'Rushmore'
Wes Anderson takes such care with each frame that it would be easy to choose five favorite moments from any one of his films. But Josh and Michael ...

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Artwork for Michel's album. Photo features Muhammad Ali and Michel.
On this week's The State We're In from WBEZ: Muhammad Ali and Me. The story of how Muhammad Ali tried to make one man into a rock and roll supersta...

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 25:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: the later actor, Harold Ramis
"Caddyshack," "Stripes," "Ghostbusters"… as an actor, a writer and a director, Harold Ramis left an indelible mark on the last three decades of mov...

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  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: The Oscars are coming!
Oscar expert, and senior editor at New York Magazine's Vulture, Kyle Buchanan joins Filmspotting's Adam and Josh to offer up the inside scoop on th...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Ala'a Basatneh, activist
Ala'a Basatneh was once a mall-loving “average Arab-American teenager.” When the Syrian Civil War started, she became #ChicagoGirl, the center of a...

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  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 25:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: FEMEN leader, Inna Shevchenko
Jonathan speaks with Inna Shevchenko, a leader of the radical feminist protest organization FEMEN, whose manifestations have garnered her equal mea...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 25:58