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, Melissa Gerr, and Sam Bermas-Dawes. Theme music created by Jon Ehrens. Logo designed by Louis Umerlik.
Latest Episodes
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Before the Baltimore City Council quizzes acting police commissioner Richard Worley about what he’d do if they confirm him to be commissioner, we ask a community advocate and The Baltimore Banner’s criminal-justice investigative reporter what the key questions are. -
As ambitious goals are set for the end of the fossil fuel economy, can Maryland reach zero greenhouse gas emissions with the help of the winds?
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We’ll go On the Record with state delegate C.T. Wilson and Lisae Jordan, of the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault. On October 1st, victims of child sexual abuse will be able to sue their abusers, no matter how long ago the abuse occurred.
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We Pass the Mic! Teacher unions fight for gains like better pay and more resources. Now, Baltimore Teachers Union President Diamonté Brown asks: How would Baltimore improve if they bargained for things like better housing and healthcare -- that benefit everyone inside and outside the classroom?
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We go On the Record with the organizer and one of the featured visual artists of the new Indigenous Art Gallery at Center Stage -- a collaboration with the Baltimore American Indian Center. What debt does the exhibit space acknowledge?
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Here’s a Stoop Story from artist and Lumbee tribe member Ashley Minner Jones about growing up among her tight knit family.
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We go On the Record with a beloved local coffee shop that closed unexpectedly. Its workers did not give up and now Common Ground Bakery Cafe is reopening as a co-op. Other local businesses have adopted worker-ownership, so how do co-ops work?
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We’ll go On the Record with Fort McHenry’s new assistant superintendent. Who were the African-American soldiers and sailors who held off British invaders in 1814? Plus, a novel way to trade ideas on oral history and historic preservation.
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We go On the Record with psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison. Her books about mental illness, including her own, have won acclaim. Her newest work, Fires in the Dark, traces the tangled roots of psychotherapy … and what makes a good healer.
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We’ll go On the Record with two high schoolers becoming leaders in the Youth Climate Institute, where they delve into climate science, biodiversity and climate justice … and with two of the managers of the Howard County Conservancy who are behind the youth institute.
