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

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How similar are African-American accents? For one commenter, not as close as we’d suggested

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 09:12
  • Purchases: 1
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The area’s so flat that every bunny hill seems a candidate. But, no, really — where is it?

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:53
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Pregnancy tests? Pigeon poo? What Chicago aldermen really do One frustrated Chicagoan wondered what her alderman’s responsible for

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 11:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Chi-town manufacturing hasn’t disappeared, you just have to know where to look for it.

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption:  2013 Team Finals stage at the Cadillac Palace Theater, Credit: (TimeOut/Jeff Kroll)
Over the past 13 years, Louder than a Bomb, Chicago’s youth poetry competition, has grown from humble roots in the basement of a Division Street th...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Natalie Richardson, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Natalie Richardson, 17, is a senior at Oak Park and River Forest High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the third time this ye...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Malcolm London, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Malcolm London, 19, participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the third time this year. One of Chicago's most remarkable writers, Malcolm masterf...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Walter Payton College Prep Poetry Team, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
"Found Letters to My Granddaughter" is a team piece performed by the poetry team of Walter Payton College Prep: junior Kamaria Woods, 17, senior Ma...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Hannah Srajer, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Hannah Srajer, 18, is a senior at Oak Park and River Forest High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the second time this year. ...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mia Harris, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Mia Harris, 17, is a junior at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the second time this ye...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 1