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Hosted by award-winning journalist Tom Ashbrook, On Point is broadcast for two hours daily across the country on NPR. The show's lively conversation covers everything from breaking news to ancient poetry, and features writers, politicians, journalists, artists, scientists and ordinary citizens from around the world.
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Recent items from the WBUR On Point podcastJun 19, 2013 - Sir Ken Robinson, who gave the most watched TED Talk ever, tells us how to find what really makes us tick, and get the most out of life and work.
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Jun 19, 2013 - As the Senate debate over immigration heats up, we go to South Texas, the new front line in the battle over illegal border crossings.
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Jun 18, 2013 - In the days of the Space Race, they became overnight celebrities as their husbands shot for the Moon. The Astronaut Wives Club.
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Jun 18, 2013 - Are lab grown blood vessels, hearts and lungs the answer to the nation's organ donor shortage? We'll look at the brave new science.
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Jun 17, 2013 - China's rapid growth and its profound effect on the environment.
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Jun 17, 2013 - Washington's new pledge to Syria: More military aid to the rebels. We'll ask what aid and what it may mean.
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Jun 14, 2013 - Kevin Kwan's new novel out of Singapore sends up a new world of wealth exploding in the East.
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Jun 14, 2013 - NSA leaks and Edward Snowden. Immigration moves. Colorado on fire. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
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Jun 13, 2013 - The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik joins us on the seedy, wacky face of Sunshine State crime fiction.
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Jun 13, 2013 - We'll talk about privacy and liberty in the age of the Internet and big surveillance with big web thinker Jaron Lanier.
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Jun 12, 2013 - Conservative National Review editor Rich Lowry on the Republican Party, from Abe Lincoln's time to today's Tea Party tensions.
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