WRVO's Public Radio Presents

WRVO's Public Radio Presents is made up of documentaries, debates, and sound-rich reporting from some of the best known public radio producers. Join WRVO for programming that is truly good company, every Sunday afternoon at 2. Public Radio Presents regularly features episodes from America Abroad Media, American Radioworks, Radio Lab, and The Moth. You will also hear timely specials as the year continues. Use this page to find out what is coming up this week and weeks to follow. We also want to hear from you! Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the suggestion box.

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This week on Public Radio Presents: Radiolab: Oops - It's what you say when your carefully laid plans hop the tracks. In this episode, Radiolab dives headlong into stories of unintended consequences-from a psychologist whose zeal to safeguard national security may have created a terrorist, to a toxic lake that, against all odds, gave birth to life. Listen this week on Public Radio Presents, Sunday at 2pm on WRVO.

Features Recently Heard on WRVO

Radio Lab - Choice Having an abundance of choices is the hallmark of freedom, but does it make you happy? Just because we have more choices doesn't mean we're better at choosing. We scan rows upon rows upon rows of brilliantly colored, sensuously textured fruits in an upscale market seeking the peak of gustatory delight. We jostle through the sensory overload of the ding! ding! ding! place your bets.blip clang!clang! of an Atlantic City casino calibrated to overwhelm and overpower our cool, calm logic, and then escape into the quiet mind of a perfectly rational man on our journey to understand how emotion and logic interact to guide us through a million decisions a day. We turn up the volume on the voices in our heads and try to make sense of the babble. Forget free will, some important decisions could come down to a steaming cup of coffee. Radiolab is produced by WNYC. You can hear it again at their website....

Regular Contributors to Public Radio Presents

America Abroad Media America Abroad examines key issues in international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. It features archival material and original analysis, and provides the historical context essential to understanding pressing international issues. America Abroad will air approximately once per month. American Radioworks American Radioworks (ARW) provide in-depth reporting on public affairs, social and cultural subjects and the 20th-century experience. ARW will air approximately once per month IQ2US Intelligence Squared U.S. brings Oxford-style debating to America -- one motion, one moderator, three panelists for the motion, and three against. With informed and provocative panelists and strong moderators taking on the hot-button issues of the day, Intelligence Squared will enlighten, entertain, inform and inflame. Radio Lab from WNYC Radio Lab is an experiential investigation that explores themes and ideas through a patchwork of people, sounds, and stories. Radio Lab will air approximately twice per month.