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  • Airs Saturdays, July 5 - 26, 2014 from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. on KPBS TV
  • Indie Britsh Actor Scores A Hit In 'Dom Heningway'
  • San Diegans to Honor Fallen Navy SEAL with Run (Video)
  • Prince Harry Takes Break from Training to Party in San Diego
  • Irish cookbook author Rachel Allen shares a recipe for Molly Malone chowder, a soup inspired by the Irish folk song about a doomed fishmonger.
  • Pub-goers in London cheer Queen Elizabeth II's announcement that Parliament will soon consider allowing pubs to stay open 24 hours. Currently, pubs must close at 11 p.m. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with London pub manager Charlotte Renick. (This story was corrected on air on Nov. 14, 2002: "It's Thursday, the day we read from your letters, and we start with a correction to yesterday's program. I said that Britain's pubs have closed early, ever since World War II. Our thanks to Charles Day in Bozeman, Montana, Marc James Small in Roanoke, Virginia and Peg Willingham in Arlington, Virginia. All pointed out that closing the pubs early was a World War I innovation, part of the Defence of the Realm Act. Mr. Day notes that the law was "affectionately known to the British' by its acronym 'DORA.' The logic of the pub closings was, he writes, 'to keep factory production levels high. Factory workers, particularly the ammunition factory workers, would be home from the pubs at a reasonable hour so that they would show up well rested on the factory floor the next morning.'"
  • The 2004 Major League Baseball playoffs will always be remembered for an astonishing Red Sox comeback and a bloody sock worn by pitcher Curt Schilling.
  • A new poll of African-Americans found one bit of data that raised some eyebrows: Single black men were much more interested in long-term relationships than single black women.
  • The numbers go like this: Very few single black women -- just a quarter of those surveyed -- said they were looking for long-term relationships, or LTRs. But on the flip side, nearly 43 percent of single black men said they're looking for a long-term partner.
  • Nigel Godrich is often called the sixth member of Radiohead — he's been the envelope-pushing producer behind the band's albums since 1997. Ultraísta is his new experimental trio, formed with an old ally and a new recruit.
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