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Around Noon

Most Recent Program:
Our Lady of the Freedoms and Some of Her Friends
Friday, July 3
Around Noon will not be heard today as ideastream shares the Fourth of July special: Our Lady of the Freedoms and Some of Her Friends Narrated by Charles Kuralt, this program celebrates America’s Independence Day with reflections on our uniqueness as a melting pot, the significance of why we have scattered certain place names across the country, and the phenomenon of the Statue Of Liberty.

About Around Noon

Dee Perry

Around Noon, ideastream’s weekday radio magazine, celebrates the visual and performing arts, explores cultural trends, and examines current events through an artistic lens. The show hosts a lively mix of regional, national, and international guests, and often invites listeners to interact with those guests in lively, thought-provoking discussions. Dee Perry hosts. Above: Dee with Apollo and the Five Muses at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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Production of Around Noon on 90.3 WCPN is made possible by grants from:
The Cleveland Foundation
The George Gund Foundation
Kulas Foundation
The S. Livingston Mather Charitable Trust, Glenmede Trust Company, Trustee

United Black Fund
United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland, Inc.

Thank you to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College for the use of their Steinway Piano on Around Noon/Applause.

Audio Archive

This Week on Around Noon
Fortitude: A Radio Drama

Taking inspiration from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, acclaimed American author Kurt Vonnegut deals with issues of life and death in his darkly comic play Fortitude.

>> Listen to the play

Ohio Arts Council

The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

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