Producer Jane Feltes speaks with Adam Vickers, one of the owners of Vickers Music in the town of Douglas. (6 minutes)
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Act One: How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall?
Producer Ben Calhoun investigates a daily mystery—a daily musical mystery. (15 minutes)
Act Two: Music of the Night after Night after Night
The musicians in the orchestra for Phantom of the Opera tell reporter Jay Caspian Kang about what it’s like to play the exact same music every single night—for decades—and how they’ve learned to make their peace with it. (22 minutes)
Act Two: Daddy Lessons
Parents try to shape who we are in their own image. Producer Neil Drumming spoke to Adam Mansbach, who tried to make his daughter fall in love with hip-hop.
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Act Two: Great Adventures
We asked for your stories about amusement parks.
Act Three: Mission: Impossible
Producer Jane Feltes spends a day with two young Mormons, on mission to possibly the least receptive environment they could find...the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Act One: Wall Street: Money Never Weeps
Ira with Planet Money economics correspondent Adam Davidson on why—even after everything President Obama has done to save Wall Street, actions which have led to record profits and bonuses—Wall Street seems ungrateful.