Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast

Format: 2013-05-18

The Annapolis Film Festival launches this week.  We talk with one of the organizers, and a Maryland based cinematographer, who filmed the documentary HIGH GROUND, about veterans climbing the Himalayas.

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Ten years ago on this day, the United States invaded Iraq, marking the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Former Army Captain Randy Thompson tells us what he learned in combat.

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Many Iraq war veterans have brought home physical and psychological burdens from their time of service. One approach to addressing and healing those wounds to the body and/or psyche is by providing veterans with service dogs. To talk about this, Sheilah speaks with Lt. Col. Jeffery Camp, the executive director of “Paws for Purple Hearts.”  

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Storyteller Jon Spelman is taking to the stage of the Creative Alliance to talk about his battle with prostate cancer. He joins Tom Hall to talk about how having the disease changed his thinking. The new show is called The Prostate Dialogues and Talkes of the Tellywacker.

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Lawmakers in Annapolis are considering several bills that would ban the use of synthetic marijuana, or spice.  But it's not hard for drugmakers to change the makeup of the drug to get around such ban.  We learn more from a toxicologistand a reporter.

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Nathan Sterner gets the latest in the region's tech news from Technically Baltimore reporter Andrew Zaleski.

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Maryland Morning theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews the musical "The Last 5 Years" at the Spotlighters Theatre. 

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Netflix can't replace a show midseason the way the networks can. All of their eggs are in the House of Cards basket. Is it a good bet? Tom Hall asks Roger Casey, pop culture analyst and president of McDaniel College.

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In this week's episode of "The Lines Between Us," we share some of the listener comments and stories we have received over the past few months. From these "Your Stories" and responses, we learn how you see the lines.

 

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