APM: Weekend America Enhanced Podcast
By American Public Media
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Podcast Description
American Public Media's Weekend America is a two-hour public radio program that tells stories from around the whole country this weekend. Hosts Bill Radke in Los Angeles and Desiree Cooper in St. Paul, Minnesota, invite listeners to a lively, memorable conversation about the issues of the week, the arts, and public affairs. The Weekend America podcast contains each week's full program. It's updated every Saturday.
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1 |
Hour 1: Conversations with America: Concluding the Conversation|Coming to America | -- | 1/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2 |
Hour 2: Spending the Stimulus Money|Foreclosure Double Punch | -- | 1/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3 |
Hour 1: Presidential Transparency|Race and Forgiveness | -- | 1/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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4 |
Hour 2: This Weekend in 1968: Miss America|Good News, Bad News, No News: Executive Transparency, Printed Blogs, and Hotel Cutba | -- | 1/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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5 |
Hour 1: Food for the Inaugural Ball|Illegal Soldiers | -- | 1/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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6 |
Hour 2: Tuskegee Airmen|Presidents of the United States of America | -- | 1/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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7 |
Hour 1: Senate Do-Over|Fronteras Unlimited | -- | 1/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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8 |
Hour 2: Saving Iraqi Interpreters|Living Room Diplomacy | -- | 1/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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9 |
Hour 1: The Cassandras|Dilbert's 2009 Forecast | -- | 1/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10 |
Hour 2: Hunger In the New Year|Changing the Emergency Room | -- | 1/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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11 |
Hour 1: Gated Into Foreclosure|Donation Day | -- | 12/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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12 |
Hour 2: Honoring Cold War Veterans|The Economy at the End of the Year | -- | 12/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 12 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Ear Fun
Weekend America is not the deepest thing on public radio (i.e. this is NOT All Things Considered or This American Life and certainly not Democracy Now!) but it is well-produced, well-hosted, well-reported, and well-edited. If your choice is a couple of hours of CNN (or any quantity of Fox News) or MTV or VH1, Weekend America will have a far more positive effect on your brain cell count. And you won't be depressed by it (even though reality these days should be depressing...)
Great Weekend Listening, America!
Both great hosts and show. Interesting, in-depth stories that provide a better understanding of news and people today. A great complement to the week's news and a smart way to gain some perspective. I'm glad to hear Bill Radke back on the radio/Itunes since his very intelligent and witty show, Rewind, ended. Weekend America displays similar excellence, albeit with a more serious format.
Off-the-beaten-path stories
There are so many high-quality shows on pubic radio that it's often easy to overlook the great ones. Weekend America hits stories at a unique angle, often exposing the humor of a "hard news" piece or the hidden depth of what seems at first like fluff. The rountable discussion in each episode is a must-hear summary of the weeks events.
- Free
- Category: Society & Culture
- Language: English
- © Copyright 2012 American Public Media
