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July 4, 2009
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Living On Earth®


Steve Curwood hosts NPR's weekly environmental news and information program, offering features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues.



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Car Talk®

NPR's hilarious, fast-paced call-in program with Boston brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi takes the fear out of car repair and finds the fun in engine failure.

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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!®



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Whad 'Ya Know?® Radio Hour

Michael Feldman and his zany crew brew a weekly concoction of comedy quizzes, quirky interviews, unusual news, jazz interludes, and more.

What’s On Now?

Living On Earth®


Steve Curwood hosts NPR's weekly environmental news and information program, offering features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues.



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Living On Earth
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Classical Music with Gillian Martin



Later Today On WKSU's News Channel

8:00
Weekend Edition®



10:00
Car Talk®

NPR's hilarious, fast-paced call-in program with Boston brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi takes the fear out of car repair and finds the fun in engine failure.

11:00
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!®



12:00
Whad 'Ya Know?® Radio Hour

Michael Feldman and his zany crew brew a weekly concoction of comedy quizzes, quirky interviews, unusual news, jazz interludes, and more.

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Classical Music
With Gillian Martin

7:13
George Gershwin: Piano Concerto (Dallas Symphony Orchestra)


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Eric Whitacre: i thank You God for most this amazing day (Brigham Young University Singers)


7:55
Herbert L. Clarke: Carnival of Venice (American Serenade Band)


8:01
Leroy Anderson: Belle of the Ball (Catherine Wilson, piano)


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Victor Herbert: American Fantasia (St Louis Symphony)



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An increasingly frayed line

For many in Ohio, healthcare comes with a job. But when they're too sick to work, that healthcare gets too pricey or disappears altogether.

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M.L. Schultze
The Akron Beacon Journal's year-long exploration of pressure on the middle class turned this week to healthcare, in part through the story of the Gurbis family. Christine and her mother Mary Kay Gurbis joined WKSU's M.L. Schultze to talk further of the emotional and financial pressures that come with serious illness in America ...

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