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Eastern Standard Preview for April 28, 2022

WEKU | By Tom Martin

Published April 25, 2022 at 5:45 AM EDT

On the next Eastern Standard: The proposal to switch to permanent Daylight Savings Time, passed by the Senate, is hung up in the House. UK biologist Bruce O’Hara, who studies circadian rhythms, discusses how DST impacts physical health | McClatchy Washington political correspondent David Catanese on partisan redistricting in Kentucky and elsewhere | A conversation with the curator of a digital archive of 1930s recordings of Eastern Kentucky folk artists | How “devised theater” differs from improv | Details of the forthcoming Rural Assembly Everywhere

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Tom Martin hosts Eastern Standard, a weekly radio magazine of interviews and stories about interesting people, places, and things happening in the Commonwealth.

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