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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Healing With Music
From: With Good Reason
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For teenagers dealing with substance abuse issues, talking about what they’re feeling can be a challenge. So one music therapist uses rock and heav...

Bought by KWMR-FM


  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
A picture of American consumerism
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason news features
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With the March announcement that Best Buy is closing 50 large stores around the country, the dominance of big box retail has been called into quest...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
Is This Place Great or What
From: With Good Reason
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A photographic study of American consumerism, from the blank stares of shoppers to the mountains of stuff in front of them.

Bought by KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
After the Blacklist
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason news features
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In the early years of the Cold War, a number of Hollywood directors and writers were blacklisted from the motion picture industry. One author says ...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
The Censorship of Dorian Gray
From: With Good Reason
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A new edition restores Oscar Wilde's famous novel to its original form.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
Opera in the Coalfields
From: With Good Reason
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From jazz in the city to opera in Appalachia.

  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
I've Got Rhythm—Does Cancer?
From: With Good Reason
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About 12 percent of women develop breast cancer. But years of studies have shown that for female flight attendants, nurses, factory workers, and ot...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
My Saints Alive
From: With Good Reason
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A man whose wife died of breast cancer manages to find love again. But then he learns the woman who will be his second wife is diagnosed with breas...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
An answer to the American education crisis
From: With Good Reason
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A psychologist and education specialist is finishing up a major study that looks at how teenage brains respond to mental exercises. His findings su...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Mental Calisthenics for Teenagers
From: With Good Reason
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Until recently, most researchers believed the brain stopped developing cognitive ability after a certain age. But a new study suggests otherwise.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Dickens turns 200
From: With Good Reason
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Charles Dickens turns 200 this year, and two new films based on his books are in the works. But one scholar says there’s more to Dickens than his m...

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 02:27
King of Clubs
From: With Good Reason
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In the “Great Golf Marathon of 1938,” an eccentric Chicago stockbroker attracted international attention by wagering he could play 33 rounds of gol...

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
The legacy of Harry Crews
From: With Good Reason
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Southern Gothic writer Harry Crews died in March of this year. Although many people have never heard of him, Crews’ stories about outcasts inspired...

  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
Butterfly in the Typewriter
From: With Good Reason
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The stories behind two giants of Southern Gothic literature.

Bought by KWMR-FM


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Saint Death
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason news features
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For the past ten years, drug cartels in Mexico have been worshiping a sort of grim repress, a robed skeleton lady known as Santa Muerte, or Saint D...

Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 2
The Rise of Santa Muerte
From: With Good Reason
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Over the past decade, Mexican drug traffickers trying to get their products to the U.S. have had a spiritual “protector.” Her name is Santa Muerte—...

  • Added: May 14, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Dead Zones
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason news features
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A renowned marine biologist is studying a silent killer in oceans and bays. Allison Quantz has the story.

  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:39
Dead Zones and Fly-Fishing
From: With Good Reason
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You can’t see them on the surface. But at the bottom of some of the world’s largest bodies of water are areas called dead zones where fish and othe...

Bought by KWMR-FM


  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Young Women Leaders Program
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason news features
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Middle school girls have a lot to deal with. One psychologist says that a way to help them is by pairing the preteen girls with college-aged mentor...

Bought by KZYX and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 2
Women and Leadership
From: With Good Reason
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From preteen girls to college women to female faculty at the highest ranks of academia—a show about how women are learning to become leaders throug...

Bought by KGNU and WAMC


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2

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