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  • Follow filmmaker Julie Forrest Wyman as she searches for her place in the little people community.
  • New babies, midwives and challenges as Nonnatus house gears up for 1967.
  • Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of the beloved Motown group the Four Tops that was known for such hits as “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and “Standing in the Shadows of Love,” has died at age 88.
  • Ukraine's top judge has been arrested after allegedly receiving nearly $3 million in bribes for favorable rulings, the latest crackdown on endemic graft as Ukraine seeks to join the European Union.
  • A data analyst listened to decades of Billboard's top tunes and discovered that a once-ubiquitous compositional tool, the key change, has all but disappeared from modern hits.
  • …This week on Homespun, we’ll sample new music from Tim O’Brien, plus Alan Bibey & Grasstowne. We’ll also hear a couple Carter Family covers and we’ll…
  • Pianist Bruce Adolphe offers a new puzzle for classical music fans. He rewrites a popular melody in the style of a classical composer and challenges listeners to identify both. This week's contestant is Debra Karplus of Champaign, Ill.
  • After seeing one too many advertisements about Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder, couch potato and commentator Mike Fisch daydreams about how chemicals can enhance his life, making him "better stronger, faster."
  • Also: Some airlines say they've won an exemption from the U.S. laptop ban; Ukraine says it foils a second cyber attack; and an Italian farmer carves Putin's face into a field ahead of the G20 summit.
  • Also: The U.S. blames North Korea for a massive ransomware attack last May; and Britain's new aircraft carrier, the HMS Queen Elizabeth, has sprung a leak.
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