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Show 10: Origins

2006-12-08T12:00:00.000-05:00

End-of-the-year celebrations can inspire both looking back to one's origins and looking forward to the beginnings of a new year. (Photo courtesy Martin Cannings)

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In this show, we took a trip to downtown Boston to visit a birthplace of modern democracy, got to the root of a crime through clues gathered by a forensic scientist, and looked at the beginnings of the Ukrainian Orthodox Christmas celebration.

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Show 9: Taking the Plunge

2006-12-01T12:00:00.000-05:00

Underwater hockey players vie for the puck. (Photo courtesy Trudi Ersvaer © 1994 - 2005)

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In this show, we flew with folks from Trapeze School New York and swam with some athletes who play an unusual aquatic sport.

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Show 8: Banging On Things

2006-11-17T12:00:00.000-05:00

Christine Southworth and Evan Ziporyn play the Balinese Gamelan.

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In this show, we met with Evan Ziporyn, an MIT music professor who plays the Balinese Gamelan, we heard the bang of the gavel during last week's Constitutional Convention at the State House, and we spoke with Glen Samuel, a musician and teacher who performs on the steel pan in the US Virgin Islands.

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Show 7: Dylan

2006-11-10T12:00:00.000-05:00

Bob Dylan in a performance at St. Lawrence University in New York on November 26, 1963 (from the 1964 yearbook of St. Lawrence University)

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As part of a special WTBU Radio 8-hour tribute to Bob Dylan, Via Three interviewed some fans of the famous American singer-songwriter. We spoke with BU professor Christopher Ricks, some musicians at the Guitar Center, and a Dylan impersonator.

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Show 6: Citizen

2006-11-03T12:00:00.000-05:00

Please exercise your citizenship by voting this November 7th.

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In light of the next week's elections, this show looked at citizenship. Who gets to be a citizen? How do people contribute to society? And, how important is it to participate in a community? We visited the Greater Boston Food Bank (www.gbfb.org), where volunteers were showing their good citizenship by donating their time to help the hungry. We witnessed a ceremony for people who were gaining their American citizenship. And, we had two guests who discussed the efforts of their organizations to raise support for important causes. Melanie Takefman talked to us about the New Israel Fund (www.nif.org), and Hila Lipnick told us about a Jewish youth service group called Telem (www.telemyouth.org).

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Show 5: Halloween

2006-10-27T12:00:00.000-04:00

Two-year-old Jerry Zhu admired fellow jack-o'-lanterns at a pumpkin carving festival.

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In anticipation of the upcoming holiday, this show was about Halloween. We heard from a local group of ghost hunters, a record-breaking crew of pumkin carvers, and Taylor's adventure with an invasion of costumed characters.

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Show 4: Space

2006-10-20T12:00:00.000-04:00

Seismologist Cliff Frohlich spoke about moonquakes.

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This show was about space. We talked about personal space, outer space, and how dancers use space in their art.

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Show 3: Luck

2006-10-13T12:00:00.000-04:00

BU alum and author Travis Roy talked about luck. (Photo by Tim Morse courtesy of the Travis Roy Foundation)

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This show was about Friday the 13th. What does that mean? Do you feel lucky? Superstitious? Does luck even exist? In this show, we found out what a philosophy professor had to say about moral luck, we took a trip to a glazier who gave us the breakdown on how broken mirrors affect luck, and our guest this week was BU alum Travis Roy, who gave us another view on luck.

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Show 2: Challenges

2006-10-06T12:00:00.000-04:00

Cynthia Maloney talked about the challenges of being a doula.

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In this show, we discussed challenges: in sports, in politics and in giving birth. We headed out on the race course with some athletes in a triathlon, we checked in on the Senate race between Dianne Wilkerson and Sonia Chang-Diaz, and we had a guest with us who discussed her work as a doula, helping women through childbirth.

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Show 1: Weddings

2006-09-29T12:00:00.000-04:00

BU graduate student Liz Savage talked about green weddings. (Photo by Eric Bland)

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In this show, we talked about couples who approach weddings with a mind for the ecological, we took you through the making of a wedding cake, and we had a look at the small wedding industry, with a profile of a place in Niagara Falls that is a Bed and Breakfast and wedding chapel.

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Welcome

2006-09-22T12:00:00.000-04:00

Welcome to Via Three: The Third Degree on Science, Politics, and Culture, a Boston University student radio production.

To listen to our show please tune in to WTBU Radio 89.3fm | 640am on Friday mornings from 11:30 to 12:00. Listen to streaming audio or download archived shows at http://www.wtburadio.org/.

Via Three is produced by Leslie Friday, Taylor Maurand, and Molly Wetterschneider.

Opening and closing music: Nothin' Man Blues and The Way We Begin by Kathy Reynolds - podsafeaudio.com