On The Record
Weekdays, 9:30 to 10:00 am
Catch On the Record, hosted by Sheilah Kast, weekdays from 9:30 to 10:00 am, following NPR’s Morning Edition. We’ll discuss the issues that affect your life and bring you thoughtful and lively conversations with the people who shape those issues -- business people, public officials, scholars, artists, authors, and journalists who can take us inside the story. If you want to share a comment, question, or an idea for an interview you’d like to hear, email us at [email protected]
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Produced by Maureen Harvie and Melissa Gerr. Theme music created by Jon Ehrens. Logo designed by Louis Umerlik.
Latest Episodes
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Documentarian Stanley Nelson on two Maryland icons of freedom, Harriet Tubman and Frederick DouglassAward-winning documentarian Stanley Nelson trains his sights on two Maryland icons of freedom--Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass--to produce films for MPT. We learn about the visions that Tubman saw as Divine navigation … and see Douglass repeatedly reinventing himself. -
Stoop storytelling is a fan favorite, so during our fund drive we’re offering a double scoop of Stoop! One is about an unconventional path to motherhood … and the other is from a newly ordained priest … faced with some shortcomings in her seminary education.
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We’ll go On the Record with musician Stephen Philip Harvey. Even with three teaching gigs, Harvey found time to write a new album, extolling superheroes he’d watched on Saturday morning cartoons. How did he translate brooding heroes and villains into jazz?
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We’ll go On the Record with a neuropsychologist and the mother of a child with autism. How can genetic testing aid treatment of the disorder? How does a large DNA database of people with autism and their families open insight into its complexities?
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What’s being done to address the US nursing shortage? The approach the University of Maryland Medical System is piloting gives students many more hours of hands-on training by instructors who are on-the-job nurses, eager to teach. How is it working?
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Even as people worry whether a recession is coming, the job market is tight: more employers looking for workers than workers looking for jobs. Some employers are taking a fresh look at what value a worker with a disability would bring to their business.
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A Stoop story about a doctor’s daughter charting her own path.
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We’ll go On the Record with a leader of the Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools. Deadly gun violence marred the start of the school year in Baltimore. Annette Anderson tells how building positive relationships with trusted adults can prevent violence.
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The unmistakable sound of a dirt-bike engine also conjures a picture in many people’s minds,] … a stereotype. Brittany Young is transforming that image. She engages young people in STEM subjects as they ride, repair and design dirt bikes. She tells us how!
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Democrat Brooke Lierman is campaigning for comptroller, hoping to apply what she’s learned as a legislator and lawyer to the job of ‘state chief financial officer.’ She has ideas about gun violence, recreational marijuana, the State Center, the cost of college, and more.
