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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

EU unknowns take top jobs / Flooding in Cumbria / Nepal food shortages / Killing for fat in Peru .
World Business News examines why it is that Japan's love hotels are still proving popular with customers, despite the recession.
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?
In Azerbaijan, guests are welcomed at any time of day and always offered the best food, seating, or sleeping quarters. Carla Seidl remembers that hospitality well. She spent 27 months in Azerbaijan as a Peace Corps volunteer and brings us this Aid Worker Diary. Music for this show ...
 

Culture

Carbon Saturated Ocean / Coastal Carbon Sink / Art of Synthetic Biology / Slow City / Big City, Big Impact / Harnessing the Severn / The Language of Landscape / Wild Turkey
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.
Download audio file (112009full.mp3) Download MP3 Today on The World What if the US loses in Afghanistan? Also, a visit to one of many rural town in Mexico caught in the crossfire of that country's drug war; And how India's power companies are battling widespread electricity theft.
Cartoonist Lynda Barry believes that everyone is an artist and has stories to tell. James Othmer describes life in that center of American creativity, the advertising agency. Pattie Boyd was the woman who inspired three of the most famous rock songs of all time. Geoffrey Colvin says great performance is within the grasp of anyone who's willing to put in the right kind of practice.
 

WUSF 89.7 News

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News & Views

New asset bubbles may be growing; Bill would allow Congress to audit Fed; Change in cancer-screening guidelines; Weekly Wrap: Trouble in housing?; Beckham's era in L.A. may pay off; U.S. green biz seen as risky investment; Thrift stores find a place in retail space; Small talk: Rich cow, waffles, marijuana
Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch talks with Tess Vigeland about bailing out a friend who has defaulted on her mortgage, with help from L.A.'s entertainment industry.
Obama in China. Healthcare crunch time in the Senate. And the mammogram controversy rages on. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
Social scientists have long suspected that the internet contributes to our growing isolation. But Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, set out to test that assumption. He says they found that Americans aren't as isolated as we thought and that being active on the internet might actually help prevent social isolation.
The stars of The Big Bang Theory are two fictional Caltech physicists, but the physics problems they study are real. Bill Prady, the program's co-creator and executive producer, talks about including real-world science in the script, from dark matter to magnetic monopoles.
Hunger in America * Ag. Secretary Tom Vilsack * LA Food Bank's Michael Flood * Ethicist Jonathon Walton * Rep. Steny Hoyer * NAACP's Hilary Shelton * Comedian Paul Mooney * Singer Amerie
The Fort Hood shootings have raised disturbing questions about Islamic radicalism in the US military. What about Evangelical Christianity? Does it pose its own kind of dangers, especially with US troops on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan?  Also, the first EU president, and Oprah Winfrey calls it quits ? at the same time she plans for the future.
Last weekend, NPR Music gave its followers two days to write and produce a song: any kind, any length, any genre. More than 150 submissions poured in, including one from composer Brad Mossman. Here, he speaks with Scott Simon.
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.
At times, Carlile's most recent album, Give Up the Ghost, explores a surprising amount of raw, stripped-down territory. At others, she uses heavy layers of rich harmonies, awash in piano, guitar and strings.
 
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