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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!

WUSF, 89.7 has a decades-long tradition of bringing you the best in jazz all night, every night. Our knowledgeable and personable hosts -- Bob Seymour, Jeff Franklin and Matthew Wengerd -- present the jazz classics along with the best new releases every hour, all night long. We hope you’ll check out our playlist here on the WUSF website, and appreciate your joining us as often as you can for America’s music – jazz – in the late night and early morning hours.

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!

Jazz at Lincoln Center presents concerts that can be heard nowhere else. From the Allen Room, Rose Hall, and the Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center, all created specifically for jazz, and from Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, this Peabody Award-winning program brings us thematic programs with the world’s great performers. A number of times each year, these programs feature the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, led by the Center’s Artistic Director, Wynton Marsalis.

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.

JazzSet is the jazz lover’s eyes and ears 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, to capture the finest performers as they make magic happen. From intimate jazz clubs to the biggest festivals, JazzSet is there, every week of the year.

Now celebrating her 30th Anniversary season, Marian McPartland continues to bring us a fascinating hour of conversation and improvisation each week. Over the years, Piano Jazz has presented visits with more than 500 guests. It’s a program no one but Marian, with her engaging personality, sparkling talent, and deep roots in jazz, could bring us.

For 20 years, the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and their guests have brought Classic Jazz and Swing to public radio listeners throughout the country. Each of these concerts from San Antonio’s Riverwalk spotlights a particular artist, style, or locale, with a mix of exciting performance and behind the scenes story-telling that makes the music come alive.

 

International

Afghan president inauguration / Ireland's football pain / Semenya keeps gold / Liver drug denied / CJD secrets from PNG villages / Yes Minster.
Farayi Mungazi and Matthew Kenyon present the full draw for the 2010 African Nations Cup in Angola.
This is rapidly becoming one of the biggest sports stories in years. Where to start? In the last few minutes Thierry Henry has said, “Of course the fairest solution would be to replay the game but it is not in my control”. Not everyone, including his President, agrees. And this, lest we forget, this man is a [...]
Nigeria is struggling to overcome its reputation for corruption, crime and poverty. The BBC's Henry Bonsu reports from the nation's largest city, Lagos, where some positive changes are being felt. But are they enough, and will Nigeria's rebranding effort work?
Enric Sifa began living on the streets of Rwanda at the age of nine, after losing most of his family in the 1994 genocide. Right before Enric's mother died, she urged him to keep on singing. To date, Enric has written more than 60 songs, and has appeared on Rwandan television and radio. He's also toured the U.S. three times with his band, Hindurwa. Enric talks to host Peggy Wehmeyer from his home in Portland, Oregon. Music for this show ...
 

Culture

Tanking Tuna / Threatened Albatross / Stimulating Foreign Economies / Green Long March / Obama in China / Evolution of the Azores / A Place Called Home
This week on Only A Game, we celebrate a half century of mask making and some of the goalies who have benefitted from that craft. Also, generations of women come together on the hardwood, and a history of the Spartak Moscow soccer team.
The first two stories are by Yiddish writers who rebelled against the traditional description of much of modern Yiddish literature—realistic, sentimental, and nostalgic elegies of the European shtetl and passions of the immigrant-filled Lower East Side. Moishe Nadir was a Greenwich Village bohemian and modernist, though "My First Love," read by John Shea, is a fairly realistic picture of lovelorn youth in a small Russian village. Sholem Asch was considered scandalous for writing a novel about Jesus. This less radical tale, "A Quiet Garden Spot," reflects on the erosion of memory and affection in one family. The reader is Laura Esterman. In the third story, "Job's Jobs," Amy Bender uses a biblical reference to frame her tale of an artist's vexing struggles. The reader is Anjelica Huston.
Neuroscientist Adele Diamond is helping to bring unfolding knowledge about the brain into classrooms and educational systems, and in the process she's challenging fundamental modern notions about education and life. Activities like reflection and play, music and sports, it turns out, not only nourish the many aspects of human spirit and personality, but also hone our minds.
This Week's Radio Show: 749 Vitamin D Update Outrage Over Mammogram Mix-Up Crucial Drug Data Are Missing from Label Women Shocked by New Mammogram Guidelines Many Drugs May Interact with Plavix Acetaminophen May Increase Risk of Asthma Niacin Bests Zetia New Pill May Restore Female Sex Drive
(Repeat Episode) We talk to Paul Roberts author of "The End of Food," about global food prices. Jane and Michael Stern are at Famous Fourth Street Delicatessen in Philadelphia, PA, and Shirley Corriher brings us some practical baking advice as we head into high baking season.
A controversial former Afghan warlord Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, now a member of the Afghan parliament, has narrowly escaped an assassination attempt which killed at least five of his bodyguards, police say. Earlier at least 16 people were killed in a suicide attack in Farah province in the south-west on the country. (AFP/Getty photo shows survivor of that attack). We'll get an update from Afghanistan later in the show. (Audio available after 5PM Eastern) BBC coverage On The World: Karzai sworn in amid tight securityOn The World: Poverty in Afghanistan
Jim Sheeler wrote about Marine Casualty Notification Officer Major Steve Beck, the last person a Marine's family wants to see at their door. John McCary reads an e-mail he sent his family in 2004 about the brutal nature of the insurgency. Kyle Haussmann-Stokes struggled alone with his PTSD, but eventually got help and made a film about his experience. Brigadier General Loree Sutton is the military's top-ranking psychiatrist and Director of the Pentagon's Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury. Colby Buzzell is a blogger and writer who has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and struggles with addiction.
 

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News & Views

How health reform may affect a family; Plastic surgeons face tax in health bill; Issues persist in FAA's flight system; Bitter fight developing over sugar beets; Auditor general looks to ban swaps; Mexico eyes next export: Wind energy
Tess Vigeland offers some closing advice to parents about helping their kids understand personal finances.
Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.
Blue M&M's may cure paralysis! That’s just one claim made recently in a health segment on network TV. For more than three years, HealthNewsReview.org editor Gary Schwitzer has been methodically reviewing TV health news claims for accuracy and responsibility. But no more; he’s found the vast majority of TV consumer health reports
In Smallpox: The Death of a Disease, Dr. D.A. Henderson recounts the history of the deadly virus, from the development of the first vaccine in the late 18th century to his involvement in the successful global eradication campaign in the 1960s and 70s.
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Sesame Street, Elmo, Kevin Clash, Gary Knell, David Alan Grier, Joseph Cao, Deroy Murdock,
Democrats finally have a healthcare reform bill they want to get to the Senate floor before next week's Thanksgiving vacation. Republicans will use all available parliamentary maneuvers to prevent that from happening. We hear how the bill compares to the House version and assess its chances.  Also, Afghan President Karzai's inauguration, and a judge says the disaster following Hurricane Katrina was man made.  Will the federal government be on the hook for billions in damages?
On Nov. 14, Hafez Nazeri will headline at Carnegie Hall. The young Iranian musician has been attracting attention for "Sounds of Peace," an East-meets-West program inspired by a progressive political vision. Or is it?
There's something a little tawdry about tables and cases filled with old jewelry purses, watches, duck decoys and golf clubs, even if they once belonged to a wealthy crook. The man who orchestrated the greatest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history is behind bars with a 150-year prison term, and now many of his belongings also have new homes.
 

Entertainment

A cautionary tale about the time Irene Bunsen decided to break from the traditional holiday menu.
How big a focus group do you need to consign a car to Dorksville? Is the fact that Mom drives one all the evidence you need? Also, will a facelift rekindle a Volvo owner's passion, is a Summer in Palm Springs hot enough to melt tires, and on Stump the Chumps, was Champagne's rattle really caused by a loose heat shield?
Studio 360 puts evolution to the test. 2009 is Darwin's bicentennial, and this week marks 150 years since "On the Origin of Species" was published. Darwin's descendent, Ruth Padel, writes poems about her famous relative. Spencer Wells gathers DNA around the world to determine where we came from. An amateur paleontologist finds a way to believe in both God and the fossil record. Plus the world premiere of a short science fiction story by Lydia Millet, imagining the downside of messing too much with genes.
Stories of people starting over, sometimes because they want to, other times because they have to.
Singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright comes from a musical family, so we're asking him to play a game called: "They had style, they had rhythm, they had perfect teeth." Three questions about the Osmonds.
This week on Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?... Michael goes rogue with All the News that Isn't... author Michael Chabon learns how to be a man... it's an Aerosmith audition for our hotline... and two -- count 'em, TWO! -- rounds of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz. From Wisconsin Public Radio and PRI, Public Radio International.
Fanfarlo's spiky brand of rock feels both fresh and familiar. In addition to the usual lineup of drums, bass and guitars, the group employs an array of instruments ranging from keyboards and mandolin to horns. The result is a sound that's ambitious yet emotionally engaging.
 
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