Producer Ben Calhoun investigates a daily mystery—a daily musical mystery. (15 minutes)
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Track Three: The End of the Road
Producer Chana Joffe-Walt really loves the slideshows that schools display at end-of-the-year parent assemblies.
Track Four: What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
A lot of music discovery happens when we are kids.
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)
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Act One: Chief Lewis Adds It Up
The police chief in Muskegon conducts his own personal investigation into Officer Anderson’s interactions with Black people on the job.
Act One: Dead Ringer
A while ago, a farmer walked through a pork processing plant in Oklahoma with a friend who managed it.
Act Three: Louisiana
Ben Calhoun talks to a man in ICE detention in Louisiana about how he and people around him are following the election.