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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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Europe
4:02 pm
Sun April 22, 2012

France's Sarkozy Faces Election Runoff

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Originally published on Sun April 22, 2012 9:23 pm

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GUY RAZ, HOST:

It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz.

President Nicolas Sarkozy and socialist rival Francois Hollande were the top vote-getters in the first round of the French presidential election today. They'll head to a runoff on May 6. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley in Paris sent us this report.

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Author Interviews
1:21 pm
Sun April 22, 2012

India: A Country In The Midst Of Change

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Akash Kapur has written for such publications as The Atlantic, The Economist and The New Yorker. He also penned the "Letter from India" column for the International Herald Tribune.
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Originally published on Sun April 22, 2012 9:23 pm

Akash Kapur is the son of an Indian father and an American mother. In 2003, after working professionally in New York City for more than a decade, he decided to return to India. As he writes in his book, India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India, he arrived in a place he hardly recognized.

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Music Lists
6:21 pm
Sat April 21, 2012

What's Hot On The Billboard Latin Charts

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Brazilian superstar Michel Teló is burning up Billboard's Latin Songs chart with "Ai Se Eu Te Pego."
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Originally published on Sun April 22, 2012 9:23 pm

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Pop Culture
4:00 pm
Sat April 21, 2012

Pop Culture's 40-Year Itch

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Writer Adam Gopnik describes the idea of his latest piece in the New Yorker: that the prime source of nostalgia in popular culture is usually the period 40 years beforehand.

Strange News
2:36 pm
Fri April 20, 2012

Strange Time To Be A Governor

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Originally published on Fri April 20, 2012 5:06 pm

If the rule of threes holds, it's a strange time to be a U.S. governor. From bears in bird feeders to snoozing to Springsteen, Melissa Block recounts a trio of oddball things governors from Vermont, North Dakota and New Jersey have had to deal with in the last week or so.

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