WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show
Leonard Lopate brings a diverse collection of great thinkers and talkers together for smart, unpredictable conversations. This daily program from WNYC, New York Public Radio is more like eavesdropping on a great dinner conversation than your usual talk radio show. Includes MP3 Podcast enclosure.
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Why Architecture Matters (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 17 November 2009)
Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Paul Goldberger, who writes for The New Yorker, discusses the world of architecture. In Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture, he looks at skyscrapers, museums, airports, monuments, suburban shopping malls, and white-brick apartment houses …
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Clean Energy, Common Sense (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 16 November 2009)
Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, discusses her book Clean Energy, Common Sense: An American Call to Action on Global Climate Change, which challenges Americans to embrace clean and sustainable energy. Find out more about the book here. Event: Frances Beinecke …
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The Original of Laura (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 16 November 2009)
Vladimir Nabokov’s biographer Brian Boyd and graphic designer Chip Kidd, describe turning Nabokov’s 138 hand-written index cards for his last, unfinished novel into book form. That book, The Original of Laura, has now been published, 30 years after it was written. Event: Brian Boyd and Chipp Ki …
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 16 November 2009)
Rebecca Miller talks about adapting her novel The Private Lives of Pippa Lee for the screen. The film, which she also directed, stars Robin Wright Penn, Alan Arkin, Blake Lively, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, and Julianne Moore, among others. It tells the story of Pippa Lee, who is only fifty when her …
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¡OBÁMANOS! (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 16 November 2009)
Political analyst for The New Yorker Hendrik Hertzberg gives an account of the events that culminated in the victory of Barack Obama in last year’s presidential election. His book ¡OBÁMANOS! The Rise of a New Political Era, is adapted from his articles in The New Yorker’s "The Talk of the Town" sec …
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How Markets Fail (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 13 November 2009)
John Cassidy explains that behind the headlines about job losses, bank bailouts, and corporate greed lies a little-known story of bad ideas. How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities, looks at what happens when markets don’t work—when they lead to stock market bubbles, extreme inequality, r …
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Murder in the Name of Honor (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 13 November 2009)
Journalist and human rights activist Jordanian Rana Husseini talks about honor killings. Her book Murder in the Name of Honor investigates honor crimes against women and the cultures that support and condone them around the world.
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The Southern Italian Table (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 13 November 2009)
Arthur Schwartz, author of five award-winning cookbooks, talks about his latest: The Southern Italian Table. It includes 130 recipes that celebrate local ingredients and simple flavor combinations found in authentic Southern Italian cuisine.
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Please Explain: Eco-Labels (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 13 November 2009)
Your broccoli, shampoo, and air conditioner might bear labels declaring them to be organic, cruelty-free, or energy efficient, but what do those labels mean and are they true? On today’s edition of Please Explain, Dr. Urvashi Rangan, Project Director for Consumer Reports' GreenerChoices.org and Cons …
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Philippe de Montebello (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 12 November 2009)
Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Fiske Kimball Professor in the History of Culture and Museums, Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, discusses his years as director of the Metropolitan and the cultural importance of museums. He is speaking at …
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The Tyranny of E-mail (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 12 November 2009)
The average corporate worker receives upwards of two hundred e-mails per day. It’s predicted that by 2011, there will be 3.2 billion e-mail users. John Freeman, one of America's preeminent literary critics and editor of Granta, talks about the nature of correspondence through the ages and looks at t …
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Blame (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 12 November 2009)
Michelle Huneven discusses her novel Blame, a story of guilt and love, family and shame, sobriety and addiction, and life’s moral ambiguities.
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Underreported: India's Maoist Insurgency (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 12 November 2009)
A group of Maoist rebels—also known as the Naxalite insurgency—has taken a violent foothold in 20 of India’s provinces. The group has burned schools, killed more than 900 security officers, and, in at least one province, detonated more than 1,000 improvised explosive devices over the past five years …
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Backstory: Terrible (and Real) Ideas from the Cold War (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 12 Novem …
The Cold War may have ended 20 years ago, but the constant threat of nuclear annihilation and the unlimited scientific potential of the atom led to some truly "out there" thinking, and we’re not just talking about Edward Teller’s idea to detonate an atomic bomb on the moon. The Kennedy Administratio …
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William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 12 November 2009)
Sarah and Emily Kunstler were on the Leonard Lopate Show on June 15 to talk about their unconventional and personal portrait of prominent civil rights lawyer, "William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe." The film opens at Cinema Village Friday, November 13. Listen to that interview here.
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Andre Agassi (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 11 November 2009)
Tennis great Andre Agassi discusses his life on and off the court. During his 20-year career, he won eight Grand Slam singles championships and is the only man to win a career "Golden Slam"—all four Grand Slam singles titles plus the Olympic gold medal. His new memoir, Open, gives a personal account …
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The Museum of Innocence (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 11 November 2009)
Orhan Pamuk talks about his latest novel, The Museum of Innocence, his first since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. It tells the story of a man who collects objects that hold memories of a lost love, and is a sweeping tale of Turkey’s conflicted identity—tradition versus Western modern …
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What Would Susie Say (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 11 November 2009)
Comedienne Susie Essman talks about her journey from struggling stand-up comic to her role as Susie Greene on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, playing one of the funniest women on television. Her book, What Would Susie Say: Bullsh*t Wisdom About Love, Life and Comedy takes us behind the scenes of a life …
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Defend the Realm (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 11 November 2009)
Christopher Andrew, United Kingdom intelligence historian takes a look at the history of the UK’s MI5, one of the world's biggest intelligence organizations He was hand picked by the agency, and had unprecedented access to MI5's files, to write Defend the Realm: An authorized history of MI5, a look …
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Man of Constant Sorrow (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 10 November 2009)
Ralph Stanley looks back on his long career as the patriarch of old-time mountain music. In Man of Constant Sorrow, he tells the story of how music now popular around the world was created by two brothers from a dying southern mountain culture.
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