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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.

 

News & Views

Concern grows over rising U.S. debt; News Corp may shun Google for Bing; Does Wal-Mart really save you money?; Extreme weather takes its toll in U.K.; Economics of the rise and fall of pinball; Living a less wasteful life in Hollywood; Data may improve minority health care
The historic health care overhaul plan proposed by Congressional Democrats makes its way to the Senate for a test vote tonight. The sweeping legislation sets the stage for a showdown between Republicans and a fragmented Democratic majority. Sixty votes are required to advance the bill toward full debate. Host Scott Simon speaks with Sen. Dick Durbin, the majority whip of the Senate.
Host Liane Hansen shares listener responses to last week's show, including thoughts on the discussion of racial and ethnic tensions in Hawaii.
 

Entertainment

A cautionary tale about the time Irene Bunsen decided to break from the traditional holiday menu.
Bad news comes in three's for two callers: Rick, who's had three differentials burst into flames while driving, and Jonathan, who's seen three sparkplugs jump out of his engine. Also, is an open invitation to a car thief the best deterrent, a road-trip turns into a real blowout, and Ray delivers a mea culpa on the now infamous football Puzzler.
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 about the powerful combination of chickens, faith and God in our not-quite-annual, all new for 2008, Poultry Slam. (Special note to chicken enthusiasts: the show's name is a pun on Chicago's Poetry Slam.)
Jason will play a game called: "Turns out, Mr. President, the Chinese DO have a phrase for it, but you wouldn't have wanted to say it." Three questions about idioms that Obama might find useful on his next trip to Asia.
 

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