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Meriam Ibrahim, 27, says she was raised an Orthodox Christian after being born to a Muslim father. A court ordered her release Monday, throwing out a death sentence.

(Airs 09/09/21 @ 1 p.m.) An encore interview - WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with the late, Award- Winning Director and Producer Arthur Penn. Dr.…

If the pandemic has taught us anything at all it’s this: it’s really hard to look good in a mask. Doesn’t matter how attractive you are, if half your face…

A teacher and a student have died and three other people are seriously wounded in southern Sweden, after a masked man armed with a sword or knife attacked a school. The man was killed by police.

Many suspects in the New Year's eve attacks in Cologne, Germany, are asylum seekers. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with NPR's Soraya Nelson about how the attacks are stirring the migrant crisis debate.

(Airs 03/03/22 @ 1p.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Ukraine/Russia Expert James Brooke, a veteran journalist and foreign affairs columnist who has worked for Voice of America, Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Berkshire Eagle, and more.

The unforgiving plains of Australia in the 1820s are the backdrop for this novel, which spans a night of conversation between two Irish-born immigrants: a condemned highwayman and the officer who will oversee his hanging. Alan Cheuse has this review. (STATIONS: The Conversations at Curlow Creek by David Malouf is published by Pantheon.)

A new mask for singers has been developed and tested by the San Francisco Opera in collaboration with medics and researchers. The company is testing it in rehearsals for its first post-pandemic show.

Watch the producer extraordinaire sit down for a rare, in-depth interview with Jason King, host of NPR Music's R&B channel "I"ll Take You There."

A midlevel New York court has upheld the state Health Department's 2013 requirement that medical personnel get vaccinations or wear masks during flu…