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Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010 – Noon-1:00pm The Really Big Questions: How do we face our own mortality?
Most of us just don’t want to believe death will happen to us, even though death is a fact of life, an absolute and unavoidable certainty. When it does arrive, it often comes as a shock, as if unexpected. A growing body of evidence suggests that the fear of death influences how we vote, shop, and even how we judge our mothers. Does the fear of death shape how we live? NPR’s Lynn Neary poses these questions to leading researchers in an engaging conversation about how we handle life and death.
The Really Big Questions is a 4-part series that considers the intersection of empirical science and the humanities and what that conversation can or cannot tell us about who we are and what we value. TRBQ is produced by SoundVision. Major funding comes from the National Science Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010 – 11:00am-Noon Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, with Wynton Marsalis
This week, in honor of the New Orleans Saints’ Superbowl victory, Mardi Gras & Black History Month, we feature Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans, with Wynton Marsalis. Veteran radio producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this entertaining, informative hour, recorded in the French Quarter of New Orleans and featuring jazz great Wynton Marsalas, jazz author and historian Donald Newlove, WNYC Radio talk show host Leonard Lopate, members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and others, on the origins of jazz, and the life and music and legendary trumpeter, Louis Armstrong. Also featured is the music of Armstrong throughout his long career, and rare recordings, including rare audio from a 1957 CBS TV documentary, with Edward R. Murrow.
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Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 – Midnight-1:00am In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement
From the East Room of the White House, this one-hour special features highlights from a concert hosted by President and Mrs. Obama in honor of Black History Month. The concert is to include performances by Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Seal, Smokey Robinson and the Blind Boys of Alabama, with a complete talent line-up announced in the coming weeks.
"In Performance at the White House" has been produced by WETA and aired on PBS since 1978.
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Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010 – Noon-1:00pm The Really Big Questions: What is consciousness?
Do you ever wonder what your dog is thinking? Or what is going on in your cat’s head while you scratch its chin and it purrs. And what could those birds be thinking when they swoop in front of the car you are driving? In this second one-hour feature, host Lynn Neary explores with a group of leading thinkers the latest theories of consciousness, focusing on what animal minds can tell us about human minds.
The Really Big Questions is a 4-part series that considers the intersection of empirical science and the humanities and what that conversation can or cannot tell us about who we are and what we value. TRBQ is produced by SoundVision. Major funding comes from the National Science Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010 – 11:00am-Noon Who Is This Man? A State of the Re:Union Black History Month Special
MLK Jr.’s “I have a Dream” speech has become the shorthand of the Civil Rights Movement-- but we might never have heard it, if it were not for another man, who’s largely been forgotten by history: Bayard Rustin. In this program, host/producer, Al Letson explores the life and legacy of Mr. Rustin, a black, gay, Quaker who brought Gandhian non-violent protest to the Civil Rights movement in America.
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