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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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Around the Nation
2:00 pm
Sat April 7, 2012

A New Turn In Calif. 'Shaken Baby' Case

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Weekends on All Things Considered guest host Laura Sullivan speaks with NPR reporter Joseph Shapiro about the sentence of Shirley Ree Smith's "shaken baby" case. California Gov. Jerry Brown has commuted Smith's sentence. Despite her claims of innocence, Smith was convicted in December 1997, and has been free since 2006 awaiting the results of her appeals.

World
2:00 pm
Sat April 7, 2012

For India, An Unclear Visit From Pakistan's President

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By Elliot Hannon

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is scheduled to make a one-day visit to India on Sunday, April 8. It's the first visit by a Pakistani president since 2005. However Zardari's trip is being described as a personal visit in an attempt to keep expectations low and to allow both sides room to avoid confronting difficult issues, such as Indian demands that Pakistan do more to fight terrorism. Elliot Hannon reports from New Delhi.

Movie Reviews
3:42 pm
Fri April 6, 2012

To Be Or Not To Be (The Pope) Is The Question

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Group Therapy: Director Nanni Moretti (left) plays an agnostic psychiatrist summoned to the Vatican to counsel the pope — but he's advised not to ask about sensitive topics.
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Heavy Lies The Head That Wears The Mitre: Michel Piccoli plays Melville, a cardinal unexpectedly elected pope who falls into an existential crisis before he can make his first papal address.
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Originally published on Fri April 6, 2012 6:01 pm

When the College of Cardinals gathers in the Vatican to choose a new church leader — formally the Bishop of Rome — it announces its selection with the Latin phrase "Habemus papam" ("We have a pope").

But suppose that, when a cardinal steps out onto a balcony in St. Peter's Square to utter those fateful words, the gentle soul in white sitting behind him, out of sight of the crowd, develops stage fright.

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Music Interviews
3:23 pm
Fri April 6, 2012

Gotye: 'Less Of A Musician, More Of A Tinkerer'

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Australian pop singer Wouter "Wally" De Backer is better known as Gotye.
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Originally published on Wed April 11, 2012 9:47 am

The Australian artist Gotye has been big in his home country for several years, but this winter, one particular song started an avalanche. "Somebody That I Used to Know," from the album Making Mirrors, has been a massive hit everywhere it's landed: the U.K., Germany, South Africa, Israel and now here in the U.S. It even inspired a YouTube cover that's become a runaway hit all its own.

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Pop Culture
2:00 pm
Fri April 6, 2012

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.

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