Forum Network
Free online lectures: Explore a world of ideas
WCPN
The WCPN Forum Network is presented as part of a partnership with PBS and NPR, with generous funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting The Forum Network service provides an online, on-demand archive of lectures given by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy-makers and community leaders. These discussion events are hosted by cultural and educational organizations in Ohio as well as communities across the nation. The Forum Network online lecture library currently includes over 2500 video and audio files, produced by WCPN and other participating public broadcast stations throughout the Country. Through the Forum Network, audiences in Ohio and across the world can now listen and watch these lecture events online. We encourage audiences to check out our featured, new, and popular lectures. Explore lectures by Topics, Series, Partners, and Speakers. To provide viewers with more information, lectures are further augmented with speaker biographies, related lectures and books, captions and transcripts, and downloadable audio. About WCPN Public Broadcasting The roots of 90.3 WCPN extend back to 1938 when the Cleveland Board of Education launched WBOE, the first licensed educational, non-commercial radio station in the United States. In 2001, WCPN merged with WVIZ/PBS to form idea streams a multiple-media organization with a mission ìto strengthen our communities by providing distinctive, thought-provoking programs and services that enlighten, inspire, education and entertain. With that kind of mandate, 90.3 WCPN (a.k.a Northeast Ohio’s NPR news station; The Sound of Ideas and The All Day Brain Food) sees itself as a community catalyst, as well as a source of valuable news, information and music programming, acquired from NPR, BBC, CBC, PRI and others. The station maintains a 24 hour-a-day schedule of local and national public radio programs, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace, Weekend America, Talk of the Nation, The Diane Rehm Show and its own award-winning 90.3@ 9, Around Noon, JazzTracks, and Jazz from the Northcoast. The station has been the recipient of hundreds of awards including frequent citations as the best news operation in Ohio (radio, large market) by the Society of Professional Journalists. It was also recently described by The Plain Dealer as Cleveland’s prestige radio station.