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Listening Back To A 2009 Conversation With Director Jonathan Demme

2:22pm April 28, 2017

The Oscar-winning filmmaker, who died Wednesday, directed The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Married to the Mob and Stop Making Sense. We'll hear a clip of his 2009 conversation with Dave Davies.

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Tom Hanks stars in The Circle as a tech CEO who is part Steve Jobs and part Mark Zuckerberg.

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In 'The Circle', What We Give Up When We Share Ourselves

2:12pm April 28, 2017

by Laura Sydell

The film, based on the book by Dave Eggers, presents a dystopian view of where Silicon Valley is taking the world and captures the tech industry's failure to acknowledge the downside of its creations.

Portrait of Barbare Jorjadze in the Georgian National Library's reading room named after her.

19th Century Princess And Cookbook Author Was Also Georgia's First Feminist

1:38pm April 28, 2017

by Giorgi Lomsadze

Princess Barbare Jorjadze is renowned for her cookbook. But she spent most of her life writing letters, poems and essays, to fight for a greater public role for Georgian women.

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Whose Side Was She On? 'American Heiress' Revisits Patty Hearst's Kidnapping

1:36pm April 28, 2017

Legal expert Jeffrey Toobin says Hearst, who was abducted in 1974 and declared allegiance to her captors, "responded rationally to the circumstances." Originally broadcast Aug. 3, 2016.

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Film Adaptation Of 'The Circle' Is Part Satire, Part Moralistic Melodrama

1:29pm April 28, 2017

by David Edelstein

Emma Watson and Tom Hanks star in the remake of Dave Eggers' novel about a giant social media company. Critic David Edelstein says he found much of the acting overheated and the ending confusing.

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Click-Bait And Switch

11:43am April 28, 2017

To get more people interested in history, we've written clickbait-style headlines for important historical events. Contestants ring in to guess the event — but what happens after that will SHOCK you.

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Daylight Saving Time Travel

11:43am April 28, 2017

Fun fact! Phoenix, Arizona does not recognize Daylight Saving Time! So we wrote an audio quiz with clips from famous works involving time travel.

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Penn Jillette on Ask Me Another in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Penn Jillette: Fool Us Once

11:43am April 28, 2017

Ask Me Another rises from the ashes in Phoenix, AZ with Penn Jillette! He pulls back the curtain on his distaste for magic, his strictly working relationship with Teller, and his love of being fooled.

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Rinse, Pete, Repeat

11:43am April 28, 2017

We invented alternate definitions for words that start with "re." If we said, "I GIVE UP trying to WRITE MY NAME at the bottom of this letter," you would say, "Re-sign" or "resign."

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Things With Wings

11:43am April 28, 2017

Inspired by the 1980s band from Phoenix, Arizona, we rewrote the Mr. Mister hit song "Broken Wings" to be about things...with wings.

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