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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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WBEZ's Clever Apes 
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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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Worldview 
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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

We Are Poets by Oak Park and River Forest High School Poetry Team
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: The poets of Oak Park and River Forest High School, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
"We Are Poets" is a team piece that explores different parts of a march. Poets march in protest of a law passed in 2023 forbidding free speech. Per...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:54
Black Wars by Savia Gordon
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Savia Gordon, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Savia Gordon, 18, is a senior at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the fourth time this ...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
Heavenly Sin by Destiny McClendon
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Destiny McClendon, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Destiny McClendon, 17, is a senior at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time t...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:50
Sex Sells by Brooks College Prep's Lyrikally Xplicit
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Brooks College Prep's Lyrikally Xplicit, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Sex Sells is a team piece about the objectifying stereotypes of women, performed by the poets of Lyrikally Xplicit from Gwendolyn Brooks College Pr...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:57
You Keep Going Back to Him by Antwon Funches
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Antwon Funches, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Antwon Funches, 15, is a freshman at Simeon Career Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year. His piece "You...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:47
The Outfit by Mariah Starks
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Mariah Starks, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Mariah Starks, 15, is a freshman at Simeon Career Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year. Her piece, "The...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:17
The Pursuit of Happiness by Writers Never Die of Simeon Career Academy
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Writers Never Die, Simeon Career Academy, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
"The Pursuit of Happiness" is a team piece about addiction performed by the poets of Writers Never Die from Simeon Career Academy: sophomore Deandr...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:01
Filmspotting Ep 400, June 8, 2012: Top 5 Things We Learned from the Movies
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
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Filmspotting celebrates its 400th episode in front of a live studio audience at Lincoln Hall in Chicago. Adam and Josh are joined by special guest...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 08, 2012
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 1
Clever Apes: Nature and human nature
From: WBEZ
Series: WBEZ's Clever Apes
Caption: Megan Bang helped incorporate systems-level thinking into the design of an early education classroom., Credit: (WBEZ/Gabriel Spitzer)
We go back to one of the first lessons kids learn about science, and what it says about how human minds develop. As children discover the natural w...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, PRX Remix, KUT, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 5
Dear First Grade Teacher by AJ Tran
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Poet AJ Tran
Poet AJ Tran, 18, is a senior at Northside College Prep. This is the second year she has represented her school at Louder Than a Bomb, which advan...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1

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Staff of WBEZ

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Mike Gilmore (Admin)
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Shawn Allee
Editor, Community Bureaus (Interim)
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Shannon Heffernan
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Heidi Goldfein (Admin)
Production Director and Interim Program Director
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Jason Marck
Director/Producer
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Shawn Allee
Individual Producer
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Joe DeCeault
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Susie An
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Michael Puente
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Tony Arnold
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Chip Mitchell
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Brendan Banaszak
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Collin Ashmead-Bobbitt
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J Kyle White-Sullivan (Admin)
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Dave Dennis (Admin)
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Erin Kahoa (Admin)
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Stephen Wright (Admin)
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Dave Miska (Admin)