This Week On Metro Connection: Dec. 4, 2015
We'll hear the tumultuous and almost otherworldly tale of the effort to create a memorial to Clara Barton, founder of the American Red...
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Each week, WAMU 88.5's Metro Connection reaches across D.C., Maryland and Virginia to gather the sounds and stories that capture the current events, culture and personalities driving the Was...
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20 of 174 episodesThis Week On Metro Connection: Nov. 27, 2015 (rebroadcast)
This Thanksgiving week, we're digging into the Metro Connection archives, and presenting some of our favorite stories about food, famil...
This Week On Metro Connection: Nov. 20, 2015
We'll meet a lifelong Montgomery County resident who grew up in segregated and unequal county schools, and went on to become a top-notc...
This Week On Metro Connection: Nov. 13, 2015
We'll find out why a tiny sliver of land honoring a pop star-turned politico is getting a new lease on life. We'll go inside Fresh...
This Week On Metro Connection: Nov. 6, 2015
We'll visit a Capitol Hill rowhouse that once was home to an influential lesbian separatist collective, The Furies. And we'll meet...
This Week On Metro Connection: Oct. 30, 2015
We'll hear from Willard Scott, who co-hosted the wildly popular show, "The Joy Boys," with the late Ed Walker. We'll visit an unus...
This Week On Metro Connection: Oct. 23, 2015
This week we're bringing you a compilation of some of our best stories from 2015, plus a story about The Big Broadcast host Ed Walker,...
This Week On Metro Connection: Oct. 16, 2015
We'll hear why the former head of DDOT thinks Metro should be run like a bike-sharing system, and we'll ask whether anti-Metro ang...
This Week On Metro Connection: Oct. 9, 2015
We go poking around Metro stations with a botanist, and find out why the Kennedy Center is teaming up with the U.S. Botanic Garden. We also...
This Week On Metro Connection: Oct. 2, 2015
We'll find out why D.C. is selling off some of its public housing -- in the midst of an affordable housing crisis. We'll hear from...
This Week On Metro Connection: September 25, 2015
As D.C. recovers from pope-mania, we'll hear how Washingtonians welcomed the pontiff this week, from taking selfies with cardboard cuto...
This Week On Metro Connection: Sept. 11, 2015
With the oldest of the baby boomers turning 70 next year, we'll hear from Washingtonians launching new careers in their 50s and 60s......
This Week On Metro Connection: Sept. 4, 2015
With Labor Day weekend here, we'll hear about a new program dedicated to helping returning citizens get jobs: by teaching them to launc...
This Week On Metro Connection: Aug. 28, 2015
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, we'll hear from a couple who packed up and left D.C. in 2006 to start a new life in New Orleans, hel...
This Week On Metro Connection: Aug. 14, 2015 (rebroadcast)
We're paying homage to the earth with a show about reducing, reusing, and recycling in the D.C. region.
This Week On Metro Connection: Aug. 7, 2015 (rebroadcast)
We'll meet Washingtonians with a singular devotion to work, and a passionate dedication to play, as we bring you tales of duty and dedi...
This Week On Metro Connection: July 31, 2015
We'll examine the past, present and future or one of D.C.'s most scenic spots, Hains Point, as well as other stories from around t...
This Week On Metro Connection: July 24, 2015
How should we remember Maryland's Confederate history? What would you pay to get from D.C. to Baltimore in 15 minutes? What secrets lie...
This Week On Metro Connection: July 17, 2015
We'll dive in to a new summer series on the history and changing demographics of D.C.'s free public pools. Plus, we'll find o...
Metro Connection: July 10, 2015
Three months before the Baltimore police trial in the death of Freddie Gray, we'll take a walking tour of the city and see how it'...