Podcasts
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• Recorded Oct 27, 2009Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner spent more than two years on the New York Times Best Sellers list and sold more than 4 million copies worldwide. The book offered surprising insights into hot-button issues like cheating,… more
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• Recorded Oct 27, 2009One of the godfathers of modern black cinema and theater, Melvin Van Peebles directed the legendary film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song , won multiple Drama Desk Awards for his Broadway musical A in't Supposed to Die a Natural Death , and has… more
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The Glass Castle , Jeannette Walls's memoir of growing up in an impoverished and nomadic family, is one of the bestselling memoirs of all time. Half Broke Horses --the novelized prequel to The Glass Castle --recounts the story of the author's… more
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• Recorded Oct 22, 2009Evolutionary biologist and unapologetic atheist Richard Dawkins taught for many years at Oxford University as the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science. The Economist called his international bestseller, The God… more
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• Recorded Oct 20, 2009A distinguished Iranian-American intellectual, Haleh Esfandiari is the founding Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Middle East Program. Falsely imprisoned for four months in Iran under the belief that she knew of a U.S. plot for "regime… more
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Douglas Adams' comic space odyssey, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , began as a BBC radio series in the 1970s and evolved into a wildly successful series of novels. Now, 30 years after the publication of the first Hitchhiker novel comes And… more
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• Recorded Oct 15, 2009Sponsored by the Regional Foundation Center, with support from our Advisory Council. There are four potential points of connection between you and your target audience. When you build your campaign around these four points, your time and money… more
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• Recorded Oct 15, 2009Steve Poses is the founding chef of Frög (named Best Restaurant of the past 25 years by Philadelphia magazine in 1998) and The Commissary. Born of the two, Poses's Frog Commissary Catering has catered more than 15,000 events in the Philadelphia… more
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An international authority and researcher on mood disorders, Kay Redfield Jamison has unique insight into the world of mental illness. In 1995, as Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, she shocked her colleagues by going public… more
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Max Cleland is a decorated Vietnam veteran who, after returning from his tour of duty and recovering from his extensive injuries at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, became Georgia's youngest Secretary of State, head of the Veterans… more
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A war correspondent during the Vietnam War, Neil Sheehan won a Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for breaking the story of the Pentagon Papers in the New York Times and won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for A Bright Shining Lie, his… more
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A powerful voice for ecumenical understanding, Karen Armstrong is the author of many acclaimed books on religious affairs, including A History of God and The Battle for God . Recipient of the 2008 TED Prize, she has participated in the World… more
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• Recorded Sep 29, 2009 Explicit Content(This recording contains explicit content.) Richard Russo's novels are distinguished by their true-to-life depictions of declining small towns in the United States. His novel Empire Falls won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, and his other works,… more
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(This recording contains explicit content.) "Pick it up if you dare; put it down if you can," wrote Time magazine about James Ellroy's novel The Cold Six Thousand , a New York Times Notable Book and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Known… more
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• Recorded Sep 24, 2009A physician and the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean served six terms as Governor of Vermont, during which time the state expanded its universal healthcare program for children and pregnant women, balanced its… more
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Ralph Nader is one of our country's greatest champions of consumer safety and rights--he is responsible for major federal consumer protection laws such as the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Freedom of Information Act. He was also… more
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Lorrie Moore "writes with such psychological precision, such sharp, unsentimental knowledge of her characters' hopes and fears" that her stories possess "a heartfelt understanding of the precariousness of everyday life," wrote Michiko Kakutani in… more
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( This recording contains explicit content. ) One of the world's foremost insult comics, Jeffrey Ross is "a one-man verbal assault unit" according to MTV. He has roasted Hugh Hefner, Donald Trump, and Pamela Anderson with such blistering ferocity… more
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Meelya Gordon Memorial Lecture Series Editor of the New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus is the author of the National Book Award finalist Whittaker Chambers, a biography of the man whose accusations sparked the post-war crusade against… more
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David Allen Sibley, author of the popular Sibley Guide to Birds , began watching and drawing birds as a child and is now widely celebrated for his artistic avian renderings and concise, elegant guides. "A triumph of logic and concision," The… more
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