With Good Reason

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With Good Reason is an eclectic blend of engaging features and interviews exploring the worlds of literature, science, the arts, politics, history, and business.  Each week the latest in research as well as the curious and whimsical provide the grist for these lively shows. 

All episodes of this award-winning show are free on PRX.  For more information visit withgoodreasonradio.org or contact Elliot Majerczyk (434-924-3855) emajer@virginia.edu or Kelley Libby (434-924-6895) kll6r@virginia.edu.


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Flory Jagoda
From: With Good Reason
Series: Folklife FieldNotes
Caption: Flory Jagoda (right) teaches Ladino songs., Credit: Morgan Miller
"Don't open your mouth. Just sit and play. Keep on playing."

  • Added: Oct 02, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
Same Song, Same Chair: Fifty Years Later
From: With Good Reason
Series: Folklife FieldNotes
Caption: Spencer Moore, Credit: Jon Lohman
A masterful songster recorded by two folklorists, fifty years apart.

Bought by WTIP and WAMU


  • Added: Sep 16, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Women at War
From: With Good Reason
Caption: On Their Own, Credit: Joyce Hoffman
Covering a beat, or a family: two different perspectives on women at war

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Sep 10, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Learning Barge
From: With Good Reason
Caption: The Learning Barge, Credit: Phoebe Crisman, UVa
The world’s first floating wetlands classroom comes to the aid of one of the country's most polluted waterways.

Bought by WFIU and KVSC


  • Added: Aug 24, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
Whitman at War
From: With Good Reason
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On a trip to see his brother, Walt Whitman was so struck by the violence of the Civil War that he stayed to help heal wounded soldiers. He hoped hi...

Bought by KSJD and WRPI


  • Added: Jul 13, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
Furious Flower
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Clifton on the cover of 'Wild Blessings'
Poet Lucille Clifton is widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, and spirituality.

Bought by WRNC-LP, KVSC, and CKMO


  • Added: Jul 13, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
Civil War Reconciliation
From: With Good Reason
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For better or worse, this show is not about an end to all those re-enactments. It is a tale of post-war reconciliation between Union and Confederates.

Bought by KWIT, KRUA, and WFIU


  • Added: Jul 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
Ten Cents a Dance
From: With Good Reason
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During and despite the Great Depression, the entertainment industry was working overtime. Listen to some of the gems and the stories behind them.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KFAI, and WRPI


  • Added: Jul 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
Every Move You Make
From: With Good Reason
Caption: The Four Rings, Credit: Limsonline.org
Each day most of us wave to a friend or gesture in a meeting with colleagues. Dance professor Karen Studd sees patterns and language in all of the...

Bought by WFIU and CKMO


  • Added: Jun 01, 2009
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 2
To Test or Not to Test
From: With Good Reason
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If you could have your DNA screened for your risk for disease, would you do it?

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
The Wright Brothers' Sister
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Orville, Katharine and Wilbur Wright, Credit: Library of Congress
Why you've never heard of the Wright Brothers' sister, Katharine.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Brain Painting and Music of the Mind
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Still from brainwave animation, Credit: Paras Kaul
You know what it's like to have a song stuck in your head. But what if your brain was constantly making music of its own without your knowledge?

Bought by KFAI, WFIU, and WVPE


  • Added: Mar 25, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Entrepreneurs: Born, not Made
From: With Good Reason
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For today's business realities, two interviews questioning the assumptions behind what we think makes a successful entrepreneur and a great ad camp...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
No Longer in Black and White
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Harry Belafonte, Credit: Library of Congress
In the new Obama era, is the term "African-American cinema" relevant anymore?

  • Added: Feb 25, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
The Art of Marriage
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Scene IV - Tongue, The Tale of a Wedded Life, Credit: by Cassius M. Collidge, 1877
Of course, forgive and forget? Right?

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Call Me "Mister"
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason news features
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The need for male African-American elementary teachers remains pressing.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WUFT


  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 2
What if the South had won the Civil War?
From: With Good Reason
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Noel Hendrickson considers questions about what might have been if the past had happened differently.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:39
A Refugee in America
From: With Good Reason
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After 9-11, the number of refugees who could come into this country was cut back drastically. Slowly those numbers are rebounding. Nancy King has ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC, and KWCW


  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Children Seen and Heard
From: With Good Reason
Caption: The Atcheson children, Washington, DC, Credit: Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) Courtesy: Library of Congress
Elementary school teachers may want to encourage a noisier classroom this fall. Adam Winsler’s recent research shows that 5-year-olds perform bette...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:43
"I do solemnly swear..."
From: With Good Reason
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A Presidential Historian plays clips from Inauguration speeches and tells us what to listen for in Obama's address. And Political Scientists reflec...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2009
  • Length: 29:00

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Andrew Wyndham
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