WBEZ 91.5 Chicago

thinkTank programming features dramatic works with a focus on provoking timely conversation about a social, political or economic issue in which Chicago citizens have a stake.

thinkTank programming features dramatic works with a focus on provoking timely conversation about a social, political or economic issue in which Chicago citizens have a stake.

T.C. Boyle, one of the most acclaimed American writers of today, reads from and discusses his new collection of stories, Wild Child: and Other Stories. The fourteen stories gathered here display both Boyle's astonishing range and his imaginative storytelling.

Justice Albie Sachs is the first Richard & Ann Silver Pozen Visiting Professor in Human Rights at the University of Chicago.

In Bomb Power, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills reveals how the atomic bomb transformed the United States down to its deepest constitutional roots.

Many Cameroonian women have expectations that life in Europe will be better than in their home country. This film explores their persistence in obtaining the necessary papers to remain in countries to which they immigrate, often by securing a European partner through the internet.

The Raven Foundation lifts off with Artistic Director David Catlin (Lookingglass Alice) in this World Premiere Lookingglass Original.