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Saturday mornings are made for Weekend Edition Saturday. The program wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning  Scott Simon.

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Deceptive Cadence
4:17 am
Sat November 3, 2012

Storm Scores: Finding Poignant Reminders In Water-Damaged Music

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A window-screen view toward conductor Marin Alsop's studio, badly damaged during the hurricane.
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Originally published on Mon November 12, 2012 9:18 am

This past week has been filled with some truly tragic stories of loss and devastation in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. There are also a few stories of near misses and disasters averted. Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, fortunately has one of the latter.

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Music News
1:03 am
Sat November 3, 2012

Radio Tanzania: A Disappearing History On Tape

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Radio Tanzania archivist Bruno Nanguka stands with just a few of the 15,000 reel-to-reel tapes stored in the station's archives.
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Radio Tanzania was the country's only station from its birth in 1951 until the mid-1990s; its tape archives hold poetry, drama and speeches in addition to music.
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"During the '60s, '70s and '80s, Tanzania had one of the most lively musical scenes in East Africa," Corey says. The music of that era is now referred to as zilipendwa — literally, "the ones that were loved."
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As Tanzania's one-party system collapsed in the 1980s, the state media monopoly ended. Radio Tanzania became just another signal on the dial, which it remains today.
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Radio Tanzania archivist Bruno Nanguka stands with just a few of the 15,000 reel-to-reel tapes stored in the station's archives.
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Rebecca Corey, a 25-year-old music lover from Athens, Ga., fell in love with Tanzania when she was 18 and visited the country to volunteer at an orphanage. Today, she leads the effort to save the Radio Tanzania tapes.
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Rebecca Corey, project director for the Tanzania Heritage Project, and archivist Bruno Nanguka are working to save Radio Tanzania's reel-to-reel tapes.
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Originally published on Sat November 3, 2012 6:10 pm

At the archives of Radio Tanzania, more than 15,000 reel-to-reel tapes are stacked in floor-to-ceiling shelves. Each band, musician and recording date is painstakingly notated. The tapes reside inside three musty rooms of the Tanzania Broadcasting Corp., which occupies the old brick-and-concrete BBC building in Dar es Salaam.

Radio Tanzania was the country's only station from its birth in 1951 until the mid-1990s, when competing stations came on the air and state-controlled radio became irrelevant.

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World
10:18 am
Sat October 27, 2012

Reporter's Notebook: Celebrating In Pakistan

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

Muslims around the world are celebrating the holy festival of Eid this weekend. That includes almost all of the people of Pakistan. NPR's Philip Reeves is in that country, and sent us this postcard.

(SOUNDBITE OF TRAFFIC NOISES)

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Presidential Race
10:18 am
Sat October 27, 2012

Tax Reform: Then And Now

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

In an election year marked by heated partisan exchanges and personal attacks, President Obama and Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, agree on something: tax reform.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: When it comes to our tax code, Governor Romney and I both agree that our corporate tax rate is too high. So I want to lower it, particularly for manufacturing...

MITT ROMNEY: The secondary then, taxation, we agree, we've got to bring the tax rates down, and I do, both for corporations and for individuals.

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Middle East
10:18 am
Sat October 27, 2012

Variety Of Weapons Increases In Syrian Conflict

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST:

In the months leading up to the cease-fire, combatants on both sides have escalated the scale of weaponry used in the conflict. The war in Syria is notoriously difficult to cover, making it very hard to know exactly what weapons are being used. Eliot Higgins runs the Brown-Moses blog, which is often cited as an authoritative source on the weapons used in the Syrian conflict. We've reached him in the United Kingdom. Mr. Higgins, thanks so much for being with us.

ELIOT HIGGINS: That's no problem.

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