WCBE Presents Vitamin String Quartet & Girl Named Tom Live From Studio A Tues. Oct. 20, 2026 @ 2PM!
Research on past recessions suggests downturns can accelerate automation. That raises the specter of a double whammy for workers.
Local
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WCBE Presents Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet Live From Studio A Mon. Oct. 12, 2026 @ 1PM!
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Sarah Biddick joins the show to chat about her love of music and latest material. She performs a song live and takes part in Foley's Fast Five.
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Centering Ohio and Columbus as testing grounds, this CMC forum explores how American communities can move from reflection to renewal—and what responsibility today’s leaders and citizens have to future generations of Americans.
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Anthony Hopkins needed a copy of The Girl from Petrovka to prepare for a movie role, but none of the major London bookstores he tried had one. Then, while waiting for a train at Leicester Square Underground station, he spotted the exact novel sitting abandoned on a seat. Months earlier, author George Feifer had lost one very particular copy of that book somewhere else in London, and when the two men finally compared notes, an already improbable coincidence became almost impossible. We tell the full story in this episode of The Internet Says it's True.
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This CMC forum explores what it means to finally place women’s courage, leadership, and fight for equality at the center of Ohio’s public memory.
National
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Forty miles separate the Israeli beach of Jaffa from the beach in Gaza City, but they are worlds apart. NPR's Frank Langfitt and Anas Baba report a tale of two beaches.
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We journey with a hiker as he records the sounds of 2,600 miles of wilderness on the Pacific Crest Trail.
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Human-caused fires, exacerbated by El Nino, have burned forests across Indonesia for months. Smoke from those fires has also reached cities like Singapore and Kuala Lumpur causing major air pollution.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with William Taylor, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, about President Trump's recent moves to support Russia and how that compares to past administrations.
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Nigeria is the latest country to report an Ebola case as the outbreak spreads across the region. Kenya confirmed its first case earlier this month and has since recorded nine infections.
Health, Science, Technology, Environment
The warnings surfaced in a trove of unreported court records. "I have been fighting about fixing this for months with people who didn't think the harms are severe enough," wrote one executive.
Arts & Life
Defense Secretary Hegseth's announcement of a livestreamed execution elicited reactions of disgust and condemnation from some faith leaders and politicians. But within his church, it's not an outlier.
The WCBE Podcast Experience
Centering Ohio and Columbus as testing grounds, this CMC forum explores how American communities can move from reflection to renewal—and what responsibility today’s leaders and citizens have to future generations of Americans.
Listen to Protecting What Matters on Saturdays at 8:30am on 90.5 WCBE, or online on WCBE's Podcast Experience
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