THIS WEEK ON WDIY

Sunday, 10-11 am, Tom Druckenmiller marks the upcoming start of Baseball season with 'Play Ball 2019.' Hear some classic and contemporary songs about the national pastime.
Sunday, 5-7 pm, Steve Aaronson and Rosalie Viscomi celebrate Women's History Month with the voices of June Christy, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and more.
Thursday at 11 pm, Bill Fox will continue the Special Focus on AeTopus. The Featured CD at Midnight will be "Tempula" on 12 Ton Productions plus new music from d'Voxx on DiN.

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Previewing Spring 2019 Events in the Finding H.D. Project on LV Arts Salon

Hosts Kate Scuffle and George Miller look at upcoming events in the Finding H.D. project, a year-long series of events celebrating Bethlehem-born feminist, modernist poet, memoirist and novelist, Hilda Doolittle.

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Mike Riess

Photos: WDIY's 24th Anniversary Party

WDIY hosted our annual celebration at the Ice House in Bethlehem on Saturday, March 2, 2019. Lehigh Valley band The Large Flowerheads performed live, paying tribute to the music of the 1960's.

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NPR Headlines

An Algerian government plane believed to be returning the nation's president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, home from Switzerland has landed at Boufarik military airport, southwest of the capital Algiers, as demonstrators have turned out to protest his quest for a fifth term in office.

Bouteflika has been receiving medical treatment in Switzerland since February 24. Protests began two days earlier, demanding that the 82-year-old leader not seek re-election next month.

In the midst of a presidential budget proposal destined to generate controversy for its expected drastic spending cuts, White House senior adviser and first daughter Ivanka Trump wants to have a conversation about increasing the availability and affordability of child care.

NPR has learned that the 2020 White House budget set to be released Monday will call for increased spending on child care and propose an initiative to address shortages.

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Given that approximately half of humanity menstruates at some point in their lives, Aida Salazar says it's a real testament to the patriarchy that women feel shame or embarrassment about their periods.

Salazar wanted better for her daughter's generation, so she wrote The Moon Within, a coming of age novel written in verse. The story centers around Celi Rivera, an 11-year-old girl growing up in Oakland, who is mortified that her mother wants to celebrate her first period with a moon ceremony.

The Packhorse pub sits in the tiny village of South Stoke in the west of England amid rolling hills dotted with sheep. For more than a century and a half, it played a crucial role in the village and marked milestones in the lives of local families.

Gerard Coles, who was born half a mile from the pub and now brews cider nearby, started coming to the Packhorse when he was 15 and underage, sometimes with his school teacher for lunch.

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Don't Touch That Dial

In honor of the new exhibition of the same name at the National Museum of Industrial History, WDIY presents fascinating dives into radio's most important milestones.

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