Turntable: This global music connoisseur’s playlist will take you on a journey
Marco Werman, co-host of The World, takes us across the globe, from Cameroon to Egypt and back to the United States.
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I didn't know I needed the new Billy Joel documentary
NPR critic Linda Holmes has been a Billy Joel fan since the '80s. HBO's new two-part documentary still taught her something new about his life — and provided a chance to consider the role of his music in her own.
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'A Vaccine is Like a Memory' teaches children about the history of vaccines
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“20 Days in Mariupol” captures violence and destruction in the earliest days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. -
Andrew Ridker explores a Jewish family’s unraveling in his Brookline-set novel ‘Hope’
Written during the pandemic, Ridker tells a story of a more optimistic time in America.
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