With Good Reason

Schedule
88.5-1
Monday
12:30 am
88.3
Monday
12:30 am
88.5-3
Sunday
7:00 pm

With Good Reason is an eclectic blend of timely features and interviews designed to appeal to general audiences. One listener calls this conversational half-hour program "the best way to make a long drive fly by." Another says "Shows like With Good Reason are why we support public radio." Each week scholars explore the worlds of literature, science, the arts, politics, history, and business--connecting their research to what's happening now. From the controversies over slave reparations and global warming, to the unique worlds of comic books and wine-making, With Good Reason presents timely, extended coverage of issues that challenge how we view ourselves and the world.

Featured guests have included Julian Bond on race in America, James Trefil on the expanding universe, Nikki Giovanni on space travel as a metaphor for the Middle Passage, Alan Cheuse on literary critics and society, Mike Seeger on American folk music, James Farmer on the Civil Rights movement, Aniko Bodroghkozy on sixties television, and Henry Wiencek on George Washington and slavery.

Founded in 1992, With Good Reason is produced for the Virginia Higher Education Broadcasting Consortium by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and is broadcast in partnership with public radio stations in Virginia and Washington, D.C.

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Arts & Culture

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Composing Game Soundtracks That Move 'Faster Than Light'

Sound designer Ben Prunty integrates audio into some of the most popular independent video games. He figures out how to make sounds that match the feel of the game and build tension at the perfect moments in action-packed adventures.

Food

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School Pulls All-Beef Burgers From Menu, Citing Complaints

Students in a Virginia school system are now eating hamburgers with additives in them, after officials heeded their complaints about the appearance and taste of all-beef burgers it had been serving. The burgers that are now being served include a reported 26 ingredients.

Politics

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Boehner And Cruz, And Lew Too: Voices On The Shutdown

With a government shutdown nearing its second week, there were no signs of a new deal in Washington Sunday. But several leaders are speaking out about the impasse, even as they look ahead to the next battle: an Oct. 17 deadline to raise the U.S. debt ceiling.

Technology

NPR

Composing Game Soundtracks That Move 'Faster Than Light'

Sound designer Ben Prunty integrates audio into some of the most popular independent video games. He figures out how to make sounds that match the feel of the game and build tension at the perfect moments in action-packed adventures.