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This week: The Barnstable Sheriff is changing operations at the County jail. The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce has a suggestion for making the new Cape bridges a lot cheaper: how about a couple of low, causeway-style bridges — and let the big boats worry about themselves? And a new health care tower hits a construction milestone in Hyannis.

Talking turtles with Sy Montgomery

This week on Arts and Ideas: Stories of encounters with the animal kingdom on the Moth Radio Hour, helping people transition out of prison, and the co-founder of the band Steely Dan on what makes a good song.

Polio and the evolution of modern rehabilitation medicine.

In the early 1970s a radical idea took shape: tearing down Boston’s elevated downtown highway, and rebuilding it underground. But making it happen will require a grand bargain between two competing tunnel projects, and between bitter enemies.

Over the Seawall tells of "fixes" that do more harm than good.

The Point books show topic this month is Pets.

The unsettling history Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States.

The true story of a Nantucket whaling family in the 1800's.

Tune in Sunday night for Arts and Ideas: A look at what we eat and why, how effective Truth and Reconciliation Commissions are, and jazz music from the 1950s to now.