All Things Considered

Monday through Friday, 3pm - 7pm; Saturday and Sunday, 4pm - 5pm

Melissa Block, Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish

Since its debut in 1971, All Things Considered has delivered in-depth reporting and transformed the way listeners understand current events and view the world. Every weekday afternoon, hosts Robert Siegel, Melissa Block, and Audie Cornish bring listeners breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special - sometimes quirky - features. WNIJ airs a one-hour edition of the program at 4pm on Saturday and Sunday.

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Toy Companies Debut Bald Dolls For Cancer

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A lineup of the bald Bratz and Moxie Girlz dolls that are scheduled to hit store shelves this summer.

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This image of a bald Barbie was created for Jane Bingham's "Beautiful and Bald Barbie" campaign on Facebook. She successfully lobbied Mattel to create a bald version of its iconic doll.

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MGA Entertainment plans to release bald Bratz and Moxie Girlz dolls in stores this summer.

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Jane Bingham with her daughter, Belleliana. She started a "Beautiful and Bald Barbie" campaign on Facebook after her battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

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Barbie is best known for her curvy figure and long blond hair — but Mattel plans to produce a doll that's a dramatic departure from that classic image.

This Barbie will be bald.

Mattel decided to make the doll after a campaign by Jane Bingham, a survivor of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Philadelphia. She started a Facebook group with her friend called "Beautiful and Bald Barbie." She tells Audie Cornish, host of All Things Considered, that they wanted the toymaker to create a doll for kids who have cancer or have lost their hair for medical reasons.

1:03 pm

Fri April 6, 2012

100 Years Later, The Titanic Lives On In Letters

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The ill-fated Titanic rests at Harland and Wolff's shipyard, Belfast, in February 1912.

By Rachel Syme

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When I hear the word "Titanic," I picture a tuxedoed Leonardo DiCaprio, waiting at the bottom of a gilded staircase while the voice of Celine Dion swells in my mind. It's all Edwardian glitz and glamour, decadence and passionate love, the kind best enjoyed in a dark theater with plenty of popcorn. And then I quickly remember that the ship sinks, and that Titanic is more than just an epic film from my youth. On April 15, a century will have passed since the ship plummeted into the icy Atlantic, and it is the tragedy we should remember, not just the mythology surrounding it.

4:20 pm

Thu April 5, 2012

'Something Bigger And Louder': The Legacy Of Jim Marshall And His Amp

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Lemmy Kilmister immortalized the Marshall amp in the Motorhead song, "Dr. Rock": "Chin up, shoulders back / You've got a body like a Marshall stack."

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When Jimi Hendrix first walked into Jim Marshall's store, Marshall reportedly recalled thinking, "Bloody hell, here's another American guitarist wanting something for nothing."

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Dinosaur Jr.'s J. Mascis practically encases himself in Marshall stacks.

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Only Marshall amps can handle the "modulistic terror" of Kerry King's divebombing guitar solos for Slayer.

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"These go to eleven."

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Guitarist Matt Pike of Bay Area metal band High on Fire (pictured here in a performance with Sleep at 2010's All Tomorrows Parties Music Festival) uses Marshall amps to crush skulls.

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The long-running American psych-rock band Bardo Pond depends on Marshall amps to make a thick, noisy swirl of controlled chaos.

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Somehow everything is right in the world knowing that such a powerful hip-hop force like Public Enemy uses Marshall amps.

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Deerhunter isn't the first band you think of when it comes to Marshall, but take the band's sometimes antogonisticly loud live show into consideration, and it all makes sense.

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Lemmy Kilmister immortalized the Marshall amp in the Motorhead song, "Dr. Rock": "Chin up, shoulders back / You've got a body like a Marshall stack."

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Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 9:53 am

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2:45 pm

Thu April 5, 2012

Kerry Washington On Bringing Washington 'Scandal' To TV

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Kerry Washington plays Olivia Pope on ABC's new drama, Scandal.

By Linda Holmes

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Kerry Washington knows that her new drama, Scandal, will inevitably be compared to another drama about D.C.: The West Wing. Scandal tells Audie Cornish on today's All Things Considered that it even has Josh Malina, a West Wing cast member, for a little of what she calls "secret D.C. credibility."

2:45 pm

Wed April 4, 2012

Fred Savage: A Child Star Makes Good, With Less Than Wholesome Comedies

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The face you may remember: Fred Savage cuddles up with a puppy on The Wonder Years, in a photo from December 1989.

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Director Fred Savage arrives at the 64th Annual Directors Guild Of America Awards on January 28, 2012 in Hollywood, California.

By Neda Ulaby

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Former Child Star Fatigue. Many of us have suffered it, given the drug problems, the meltdowns, the awful nude photos.

But then there's Fred Savage, who starred in the ABC show The Wonder Years from 1988 through 1993. Now he's a successful, slightly offbeat 35-five-year-old television producer and director. He works on wicked, slightly warped comedies including Party Down, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia and as of today, Best Friends Forever. His first network sitcom premieres tonight on NBC.

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2:00 pm

Fri April 6, 2012