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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: 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...

Bought by WMNF


  • 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
Caption: Anna Broinowski, filmmaker
Australian filmmaker Anna Broinowski wanted to stop an oil company from fracking in the park near her house. When her message fell short, she decid...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 25:59
Caption: 'The Lego Movie'
Filmspotting is headed to Tune-Town with reviews of "The Lego Movie," and "The Wind Rises." The latter is the latest, and reportedly last film from...

Bought by Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, WOUB, WRIR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Philip Seymour Hoffman in scene from 'Capote'
"Be honest and unmerciful. Good advice for a budding rock critic." Also a fine description of the actor who spoke those lines. Filmspotting devotes...

Bought by Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, WOUB, WRIR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Veerle Baetens from 'The Broken Circle Breakdown'
Belgium: we have long loved you for your beer; we had no idea you were so into tattoos and bluegrass music. Or so Adam and Josh learned from watchi...

Bought by Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, WOUB, WRIR, KCPW Salt Lake City, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Leo vs. JLaw, the 'Wolf' vs. 'Hustle'
Adam and Josh do a bit of looking behind -- and a bit of looking ahead this week. First, a showdown of sorts of two newly-minted Best Picture nomin...

Bought by Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, WOUB, WRIR, KSRQ, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Filmspotting's live 2013 'Wrap Party'
With Filmspotting's best films of the year safely in the books - and, per tradition, etched in stone - Josh and Adam take a final look at the year ...

Bought by WOUB, WRIR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KSRQ, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: "Tough times in Shepherds Bush, London" / www.rexfordmusic.net
In this first episode of The State We're In podcast/radio show reboot (now from WBEZ), host Jonathan Groubert speaks with a man who know a thing or...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 25:58
Caption: Harrison Ford in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
The box office champ of 1981 -- and for many that year’s best loved film -- was Steven Spielberg’s "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Back in the fall of 2...

Bought by WOUB, WRIR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6