Programs
Chicago Amplified
Created by Chicago Public Radio in 2006, Chicago Amplified is a web-based audio archive of the most exciting and informative public programming happening throughout the Chicago region.
The project strives to increase access to ongoing public discourse and encourage us all to join it. Audio files are available for streaming or download.
Here are just a few of the events you can listen to from Chicago Amplified:
- One Book, One Chicago Author Yiyun Li in Conversation with Achy Obejas
- Jonah Lehrer discusses his new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works
- Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China in the 21st Century
- Beyond the Dream: What It Takes to Get Published
- Portraits of an American Dream: The Female in Contemporary Fiction
- Bonnie Jo Campbell, nationally acclaimed author of Once Upon a River, discusses her work with Donna Seaman, senior editor of Booklist
- Bonnie Jo Campbell, the nationally acclaimed author of Once Upon a River, in conversation with Don DeGrazia, a fiction writing professor at Columbia College Chicago
- Sara Paretsky discusses her work and its significance to Chicago with the Chicago Tribune’s Rick Kogan
- Artist and writer Lowell Thompson discusses his new book, African Americans in Chicago
- Nathan Englander discusses his latest story collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Take this opportunity to explore new topics and share others’ experiences through educational events facilitated by some of the world’s foremost scholars, authors, artists, policymakers and community leaders.