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The Big Broadcast: January 22, 2012

January 22, 2012
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  • 07:00 p.m. Johnny Dollar
    04/09/61 #735 The Captain's Table Matter (Multi-Sponsored) (CBS) (23:22)
  • 07:30 p.m. Dragnet
    01/12/50 #033 Big Man Pt. 01 (NBC) (27:12)
  • 08:00 p.m. Gunsmoke
    04/18/53 #052 Bum's Rush (Sus.) (CBS) (29:42)
  • 08:30 p.m. Father Knows Best
    09/14/50 The Family Car is Stolen (Maxwell House) (NBC) (29:24)
  • 09:00 p.m. Nick Carter
    08/02/43 The Echo of Death (Sus.) (MBS) (29:32)
  • 09:30 p.m. Frontier Gentlemen
    03/23/48 #08 The Actress (Sus.) (CBS) (24:30)
  • 10:00 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
    12/02/40 #284 Knute Rockne w/Pat O'Brien and Fay Wray (Lux) (CBS) (59:26)

Arts & Culture

NPR

Decades Later And Across An Ocean, A Novel Gets Its Due

John Williams' Stoner sold just 2,000 copies when it was originally published in 1965. It's now acknowledged as a classic work, is a best-seller across Europe and the No. 1 novel in the Netherlands.

Food

NPR

Giant Renaissance Food People Descend Upon New York

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a 16th-century artist who liked to play with his food, transforming it into the building blocks of many of his fantastical portraits. Artist Philip Haas has taken those portraits out of museums, reinterpreting them as colossal statues that interact with the natural environment.

Politics

NPR

Political Takeaways: Headaches For The White House

Controversies dominated this past week's political headlines, leaving the Obama White House on the defensive, trying to contain any lasting damage. Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Mara Liasson.

Technology

NPR

Young Kenyans Build Mobile Apps For Local Use

College students and recent graduates crammed the top floor of a tech hub in Nairobi for a competition built around the theme "Solutions for the Next Billion Mobile Users." Africa has more than 600 million mobile phone users (approximately 11 percent of the global total) – and the number is growing.

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