Pri: Fair Game With Faith Salie

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Fair Game from PRI with Faith Salie is a new satirical news and entertainment program distributed nationally on Public Radio. Hosted by Faith Salie, possibly the only Rhodes Scholar doing comedy today, Fair Game covers the important stories of the day and uses insightful humor to tease out what it all means. The show also features newsmaker and celebrity interviews, live music, and regular appearances by the country's best comedians. Think of it as a variety show for the highest common denominat (Author: Public Radio International)
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Recent episodes from Pri: Fair Game With Faith Salie

  • Kate Mcalpine Writes Large Hadron Collider Rap
    Published: Sep 12, 08
    Some people learn science from books, and physics from looking at traces of tiny particles ... or, for the general public, you can just hook up your iPod. Kate McAlpine penned the 'Large Hadron Rap' months ago, and it's gotten 1.6 million views since hitting Youtube. McAlpine talks physics with the Takeaway from Geneva, Switzerland.
     
  • Personality Traits And Musical Preferences
    Published: Sep 11, 08
    A recent study suggests that the kind of music we prefer may have less to do with taste (or lack thereof) and more to do with our personalities. For example, being a fan of opera could indicate that you are a gentle soul, with high self esteem and a creative bent. Other genres have other implications, as Adrian North has researched.
     
  • Global Hit - Fairuz
    Published: Sep 10, 08
    Many listeners wrote in after last week's conversation with singer Angelique Kidjo about music on her iPod. One song stood out for listeners as a memory from their past, but it had a different title. The World's Marco Werman tries to crack the case.
     
  • The Magnetic Fields
    Published: Sep 9, 08
    Stephin Merritt from The Magnetic Fields plays songs from the band's new album, Distortion, and talks to Faith about his music.
     
  • Mao The Poet
    Published: Sep 8, 08
    Mao Zedong believed in the radical transformation of every aspect of Chinese life.
     
  • ''the Girl From Foreign''
    Published: Sep 5, 08
    Anchor Marco Werman speaks to Sadia Shepard about her new memoir,
     
  • Design For The Real World: Rock Band T-shirt
    Published: Sep 4, 08
    Today rock band T-shirts are sold at major retailers, to kids who weren't alive when classic rock was born. But when music writer Johan Kugelberg was growing up in Sweden, wearing the Sex Pistols or Ramones on your chest was its own act of rebellion. Produced by Andrea Silenzi.
     
  • Global Hit
    Published: Sep 3, 08
    Host Marco Werman asks world music superstar Angelique Kidjo,
     
  • Pause, Play, Record
    Published: Sep 2, 08
    It's become a kind of sport for music-lovers to mourn yet another almost-obsolete technology. For Jocelyn Gonzales it's the cassette tape. Her old mix tapes can't be recreated in a playlist on iTunes -– they're a special medium unto themselves.
     
  • A.j. Rossmiller
    Published: Aug 29, 08
    Former Pentagon intelligence analyst A.J. Rossmiller talks about how office politics, disorganization and political meddling has undermined U.S. intelligence capabilities in the Iraq war.
     
  • Blake Mycoskie
    Published: Aug 28, 08
    Social entrepreneur Blake Mycoskie, a one-time contestant on the hit TV show The Amazing Race, talks to Faith about his new company TOMS Shoes and his attempt to put shoes on the feet of poor children.
     
  • Former U.s. Senator Bill Bradley
    Published: Aug 27, 08
    He's a former Olympian, Rhodes Scholar, New York Knicks' star player, three-term Democratic Senator from New Jersey, and presidential candidate. His new book, The New American Story, gives an unflinching look at everything that's wrong with American politics and how we can start to make things better.
     
  • Actor And Writer Eric Bogosian
    Published: Aug 26, 08
    Eric Bogosian is best known for writing and starring in the play and movie Talk Radio. Now, twenty years later, the play has been revived on Broadway.
     
  • Jacob Weisberg
    Published: Aug 25, 08
    Faith talks to Slate editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg about his new book The Tragedy of Bush, which offers a fresh psychological analysis of the President.
     
  • Blind Boys Of Alabama
    Published: Aug 23, 08
    They got their start at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in 1939. Sixty-nine years later, the band remains a gospel music institution. For their latest album, Down in New Orleans, the Blind Boys went to Louisiana for a new take on some classic spirituals. Blind Boys perform live in the studio and one of the group's original members, Jimmy