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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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Music
2:42 pm
Sun July 29, 2012

Olympic Mashups Make The Mood In London

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Spectators at the 2012 Olympic Games in London are likely to hear one of DJ Earworm's pop pairings that span genres and generations.
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Jordan Roseman, aka DJ Earworm, had about a month to create nine Olympic-themed mashups.
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Originally published on Sun July 29, 2012 5:12 pm

You might not be able to hear it on television, but in the Olympic stadiums and arenas of London over the next weeks, games-watchers will be treated to some exclusive new tracks from world-renown mashup artist Jordan Roseman, better known as DJ Earworm.

"Out of the blue, there was an email," Roseman tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz. "They wanted these mixes."

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Religion
3:53 pm
Sat July 28, 2012

U.S. Still Religious, But Trust In Institutions Wanes

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The cross on the steeple of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Henryville, Ind. A recent Gallup poll says only 44 percent of Americans have "great confidence" in organized religion.
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Originally published on Sat July 28, 2012 6:05 pm

Something is happening when it comes to religion in America.

Though more Americans go to church or believe in God than their counterparts in virtually every other Western country, fewer Americans now trust religious institutions. A recent Gallup poll showed that just 44 percent of Americans have a great deal of confidence in "the church or organized religion."

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Music
3:12 pm
Sat July 28, 2012

Across Latin America, Making Cumbia Modern

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Uruguayan musician and producer Juan Campodónico records as Campo.
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Originally published on Sun July 29, 2012 8:21 am

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The Torch
2:13 pm
Sat July 28, 2012

Making The Olympics Sound Right, From A 'Swoosh' To A 'Splash'

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Inspired by the movie Robin Hood, Olympic sound man Dennis Baxter places microphones along the path to the target to capture the sound of arrows in flight.
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Romanian Olympic gymnastics champion Nadia Comaneci celebrates a perfect score during the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.
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Originally published on Sat July 28, 2012 6:05 pm

The Olympic Games are officially under way, and we're watching sports many of us glimpse only every four years: gymnastics; track; judo. But we're willing to bet that the sports' sounds are just as memorable: the clanking of foils, the tick-tock of table tennis, the robotic "Take your mark!" before swimmers launch.

Those unique sounds are part of the Olympic experience. And it's one man's job to make sure we hear them clearly: Dennis Baxter, the official sound engineer for the Olympics. He's been at it since 1996.

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Movies I've Seen A Million Times
2:12 pm
Sat July 28, 2012

The Movie Kasi Lemmons Has 'Seen A Million Times'

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Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova in Once.
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Writer-director Kasi Lemmons poses with her Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture award for Talk to Me at the 39th NAACP Image Awards.
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Originally published on Sat July 28, 2012 6:05 pm

The weekends on All Things Considered series Movies I've Seen A Million Times features filmmakers, actors, writers and directors talking about the movies that they never get tired of watching.

For writer-director Kasi Lemmons, whose credits include Eve's Bayou, The Caveman's Valentine and Talk to Me, the movie she could watch a million times is John Carney's musical Once. "I was so taken by the filmmaking," Lemmons says.

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