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Arts and Ideas on CAI
Sunday evening from 7 to 11
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Join station founder Jay Allison for an eclectic mix of topics Sunday evenings 7 to 11pm.

Many programs on Arts & Ideas come from the Public Radio Exchange, a project of Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole. If you heard something on Arts & Ideas, chances are you can find it on the PRX.

Produced by Viki Merrick fromAtlantic Public Media

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  • This week on Arts and Ideas: A violent debate over textbooks in 1974, scientists who say heat waves should be named and a band that’s brought fans to Americana music for five decades.
  • Tune in Sunday night for Arts and Ideas: A new Moth Radio Hour, an adaptation of the classic horror novel Dracula and surprising stories on PRX Remix.
  • This week on Arts and Ideas: How remote working has transformed millions of people’s lives in the last three years, going inside Folsom Prison for Johnny Cash's historic 1968 concert, and classical music compositions for video games.
  • This week on Arts and Ideas: Authors in conversation, highlights from this year’s nominations for the Latin Grammys and the history of recognizing trauma experienced by soldiers in war.
  • This week on Arts and Ideas: True stories on the Moth Radio Hour, Unions are needed to stop income inequality… Yes or no, that’s the debate this week, and Appalachian ballads getting a feminist refresh.
  • This week on Arts and Ideas: The sophisticated spyware that may have led to the death of journalist Jamal Kashoggi, contemporary classical music from Mexico for Hispanic Heritage Month, and A conversation with public intellectual Noam Chomsky.
  • This week on Arts and Ideas: The United States needs a third political party — yes or no is the debate, the family behind one of New Mexico’s longest-running traditional bands, and when seeing isn’t believing.
  • This week on Arts and Ideas: A brand new Moth Radio Hour produced by us right here in Woods Hole, remembering Robbie Robertson who was lead song-writer for rock-group The Band and the people who’s backyard became a test-site for America’s atomic bomb.
  • This week on Arts and Ideas: Your immune system’s little helpers, the woman who found and saved an American author’s lost novel and a college class about how to live a good life.
  • This week on Arts and Ideas: Aerial antics, magic tricks, and unwelcome rescue missions on the Moth Radio Hour, inside the final days of Toys-R-Us, and an interview with John Oates, of “Hall & Oates” fame.