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Florida Matters is a weekly television and radio program for Floridians.

The program tackles tough issues, highlights little-known stories from our part of the world and provides a greater perspective of what it means to live in the Sunshine State. Leveraging all our platforms: Web, radio and television, Florida Matters covers the important challenges facing our community and our state. Join us each week as we journey across the state to explore the issues important to Floridians. Along the way, we'll stop to seek out some of the fascinating untold Florida Stories that may be happening right in your backyard. Support for Florida Matters is provide by The Mosaic Company.

University Beat is a radio and television program that focuses on research from the University of South Florida and how it benefits the Tampa Bay area, Florida, and the world around us.

Each week, reporter Mark Schreiner looks at the latest USF efforts in medicine, engineering, education, arts and sciences and explores other programs that reach out to both students and the community.

Florida Stories is a WUSF 89.7 segment featuring the personal memories of Floridians.

Each week, Florida Stories presents unique and compelling stories told by the people who lived them. These are stories of hope and inspiration, fear and triumph, laughter and tears - personal and intimate conversations with people just like you. Presenters shared their experiences with StoryCorps, the national oral history project co-sponsored by NPR and the Library of Congress.

 

WUSF Music

WUSF 89.7 is dedicated to providing you some of the most beautiful music in the world. Our knowledgeable and friendly hosts help create the perfect radio companion for lovers of good music. You can count on wonderful music, interesting information about the music, musicians and composers, as well being kept up-to-date on what's happening in in the music and cultural community throughout the west coast of Florida!

WUSF 89.7 is dedicated to providing you with some of the most beautiful music in the world. Our knowledgeable and friendly hosts help create the perfect radio companions for lovers of good music. You can count on wonderful music, interesting information about the music, musicians and composers, as well being kept up-to-date on what's happening in the music and cultural community throughout the west coast of Florida!

Looking for a great way to unwind in the evening? WUSF 89.7 has inspiring classical music to fill your evenings with, every weeknight from 7:00 until 10:00 PM, and Sunday night from 9:00 until 11:00 PM with classical music host Coleen Cook. She’s a good evening radio companion who brings you wonderful music, and interesting background information about the composers who wrote it. She also helps you stay up-to-date with NPR News each hour and information on what's happening in the music and cultural community throughout the west coast of Florida!

Host Bob Seymour brings you great jazz music that you will not find anywhere else on the radio dial. Saturday nights at 10:00 PM, you are invited to take a journey into jazz!

To enrich the artistic substance and perpetuate the democratic spirit of America's music. From down home and elegant concert performances by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra... to entertaining educational programs that bring the sound and feeling of jazz into the lives of thousands of kids and grownups... to innovative collaborative programs with artists in diverse idioms: we offer top quality musicianship and universal friendship.

Each night this week, we’ll hear some of the music of pianist Hank Jones. The eldest of a gifted musical family (his brothers were Thad and Elvin Jones) Hank will celebrate his 90th birthday this Thursday. Tune in for NEA Jazz Master Hank Jones, along with lots of other great sounds, every night with Bob Seymour.

Listen to great jazz music Monday-Thursday, from 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM, with WUSF 89.7's Jazz Director, Bob Seymour.

JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater is the jazz lover's ears and eyes on the world of live music. The Grammy and Tony Award winning vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater takes listeners to stages coast to coast and beyond for sets from the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, Carnegie Hall, festivals from Monterey to Montreal to Marciac in France. JazzSet also drops in to nightclubs, campuses and neighborhoods here in the United States for quality live jazz performances.

JazzSet brings you CD quality recordings of up-to-date sets from the artists whose CD's are being played on NPR stations across the country, including WUSF 89.7. Recent performers include the Count Basie Orchestra, Jazz Journalists Association Musician of the Year Dave Holland, Regina Carter and Kenny Barron at Monterey, poet and pianist Patricia Barber, Cuban piano great Chucho Valdes, Jon Faddis and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, Grammy nominee Karrin Allyson, the Wynton Marsalis Septet, the New Orleans/klezmer/Ellington blend of Ted Nash and Odeon.

JazzSet has received three distinguished awards: the New York Festivals Gold Medal (1997) and New York AIR Award (in both 1998 and 1999).

For years, jazz pianist Marian McPartland and her guests have teamed up for an hour of weekly jazz sessions. Whether it's solos, collaboration, reminiscences, or straight talk about influences and style, no two Piano Jazz sessions are ever the same. More than 500 exciting, talented, jazz professionals (newcomers and all-time favorites) have joined Marian over the years. In fact, Piano Jazz has been hailed as the "definitive" place to hear the greats of jazz.

Riverwalk Jazz is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to present, promote and preserve Classic Jazz through national and international radio broadcasts, live music performances and jazz education for young people. Riverwalk Jazz educates audiences around the world to the value and excitement of the American art form—Classic Jazz.

Sunday Baroque allows you an opportunity each week to explore Baroque and early music (written before 1750). Composers such as Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel were the cornerstones of this era, with masterpieces including the Water Music, Royal Fireworks Music, and the Brandenburg Concertos.

Sunday Baroque celebrates the current wealth of recorded repertoire available, with great performances by yesterday's and today's best performers.

SymphonyCast is a two-hour weekly program featuring a full-length concert by a national or international symphony orchestra. Concerts are drawn from Europe's leading ensembles, along with U.S. orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra and The Cleveland Orchestra.

 

International

Brown defends Afghan mission / Texas massacre / Sesame Street is 40
BBC journalist Ben Sutherland has travelled along the BR-319 route. See some of the sights and sounds from his journey.
The one billion plus Catholics in the world would presumably say “yes”-  but what about the rest of the world?     Is the Catholic Church a force for good?  That was the motion for an Intelligence Squared debate , held recently in London, which will be broadcast on BBC World News this coming weekend. Arguing in favour of the [...]
The BBC's Louise Hidalgo provides background on events leading up to the 2008 financial markets crash.
Six days a week, Susanna Asamoah sells snapper and mackerel at the Ketejia market in Ghana, one of the busiest in all of Africa. Despite having to raise her prices, she's managed to retain her customers. Anna Boiko-Weyrauch has the latest installment of our street vendor series. Music for this show ...
 

Culture

God’s Green Earth / Climate Bill Numbers / Downeast Conservation / Chemicals and Cholesterol / Squatting the Berlin Wall
This week on Only A Game, will the Duke Blue Devils finally earn respectability? Hint: we're not talking about their basketball teams. Also, remembering Sheboygan's one and only NBA season 50 years ago, and ESPN columnist Bill Simmons joins me to geek out on basketball stats. And oh yeah, New York celebrates the Yankees' 27th World Series title.
This program features powerful narratives drawn from Homer's Iliad and the "Inferno" section of Dante Aleghieri's Divine Comedy. First, Stephen Lang reads "The Death of Hector," followed by Phylicia Rashad's rendering of Cantos IV and V of the "Inferno," in which the poet/guide Virgil leads Dante through the outer circles of Hell, and introduces him to the tragic lovers Paolo and Francesca. The third story is derived from Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Paul West's "Captain Ahab, A Novel by the White Whale," is a short but compelling meditation in the voice of the great whale, voiced by Diane Venora.
Karen Armstrong speaks about her progression from a disillusioned and damaged young nun into, in her words, a "freelance monotheist." She's a formidable thinker and scholar, but as a theologian she calls herself an amateur -- noting that the Latin root of the word "amateur" means a love of one's subject. Seven years in a strict religious order nearly snuffed out her ability to think about faith at all. Here, we hear the story behind Armstrong's developing ideas about God.
When an official with the American Cancer Society suggested recently that we expect too much from some screening tests, such as those for breast or prostate cancer, he got a lot of pushback. We get more insight on the utility...
This week it's a show of American iconoclasts starting with winemaker Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon Vineyard. His latest book is Been Doon So Long, A Randall Grahm Vinthology. And we meet the true originator of the no-knead bread technique, Jim Lehey of New York City's famed Sullivan Street Bakery. His book is My Bread, The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method.
Download audio file (110609full.mp3) Download MP3 Today on The World: A look at military mental health caregivers in the wake of the Fort Hood shootings; A hotel in Berlin today offers the creature comforts of a 1970s Eastern Bloc guesthouse; and mixing it up with British songwriter Gemma Ray.
Lavinia Greenlaw explains how music helped her as she grew up. Ralph Stanley talks about his family, his music and his concern with death. Nick Hornby reveals his knowledge of obsessive music fan-dom in his new book, "Juliet, Naked." Geraint Watkins is a rock and roll pianist and accordionist who's doing his best work as he nears sixty.
 

WUSF 89.7 News

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Brian Albritton, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida
TAMPA (2009-11-05) Thirty people in the Tampa area were charged Tuesday with mortgage...
Coming Soon to Tampa?
TAMPA (2009-11-05) A move to place a one-cent sales tax to create a mass transit system...
 

News & Views

Job losses keep going and going . . .; Every penny counts in online retail wars; Would Russian bonds be worth the risk?; Need work? Trying making your own.; The Weekly Wrap; Oprah deciding about show on her OWN; Tracks hope jockeys can whip up fans; Small Talk: News you haven't heard
Curtis Larson and his daughter Erin Anderson look back at the way he let the kids in the family take responsibility for their own money, even if they made mistakes.
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Oscar-winning duo behind the hit film "Once," on their creative partnership and new album, "Strict Joy."
While there were only a handful of U.S. unmanned aerial drones in 2003, there are now some 7,000 that the military relies on for many of its objectives in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But P.W. Singer, author of Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century explains that these robots are hardly risk-free and have a profound impact both at home and abroad.
The U.S. Department of Energy is offering $10 million to the first individual or company to develop an energy-efficient LED replacement for the standard 60-watt incandescent bulb. DOE lighting program manager James Brodrick discusses the L Prize, and what makes a better bulb.
Urban Revitalization * New Orleans * Project Home Again * Eve Abrams * Will Bradshaw * Alan Mallach
Two of the biggest issues faced by soldiers and combat veterans are stress and mental health. At Walter Reed Hospital, doctors have enlisted psychiatric service dogs to help treat soldiers suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. What role does man's best friend play in healing? What can be done to catch signs of an impending breakdown before it's too late? Guest host Sara Terry gets an update on yesterday's shootings at Fort Hood, looks at the role stress might have played and learns about the evolving role of psychiatric service dogs.
A hip New York chef makes food inspired by his love for fresh, simple ingredients and classic Asian dishes. David Chang has four restaurants in his Momofuku empire and has just published a cookbook.
Murray Fisher had a dream: Take the 600 miles of New York City's coastline and all the water surrounding it, and start a maritime high school that would teach inner-city kids about their watery world. His school, the New York Harbor School, is housed in the heart of Brooklyn. But soon, it will move to Governors Island, a tree-covered jewel 800 yards off the coast of Manhattan.
 

Entertainment

There's a big pile of pumpkins in front of Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery...
How many thousands of dollars does it take to make the new owner of a classic Jaguar cry, "Uncle!" ? Also, Winterizing 101 for a relocated Professor and her Jetta, a couple debate the best way to escape a "Stinky" on the road, and will Jamie in Nashville still love her Toyota more than her husband when she finds out why it won't go? Also, a new Puzzler from the Perfect Words series, and lots moe.
Studio 360 waits for David Hockney. The artist returns to the English countryside where he grew up, to paint some of the most vivid landscapes of his career. In the documentary "Waiting for David Hockney" outsider artist Billy Pappas hopes his idol, Hockney, will come to see a single drawing Pappas has been working on for eight years. And we'll meet the struggling single moms of Troy, NY through the eyes of a poet and a photographer.
Stories of cheating, cheaters and the cheated. Writer James Braly with a story about temptation, Dani Shapiro on being the mistress, and more.
Our panelists predict what the big surprise will be in the next stimulus program report.
This week on Whad'Ya Know?, we land in East Lansing, Michigan for a close-up of ALL THE MICHIGAN NEWS THAT ISN'T. Also, bird expert, Pamela Rasmussen doesn't eat crow when talking about the birds of South Asia. Then scientist Brad Sherrill raps about rare isotope research, Joe Bristol serves up some deep-fried chicken gizzards, and the music of Flatfoot. Throw in the quiz and you get the the idea that this is a Spartan, not a spartan, program.
The four friends in Phoenix started out playing Hank Williams and Prince covers in area bars, but eventually landed a slot as a backing band for Air. Nearly a decade later, Phoenix has propelled itself into international renown. Its latest album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, blends catchy pop songwriting with a heavier rock sound.
 

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