Podcasts
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• Recorded Jan 24, 2008 Explicit Content(This recording contains explicit content.) Irish author Roddy Doyle writes fiction rooted in the working-class experience. He is the author of novels including The Commitments and the Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha . With his… more
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• Recorded Jan 22, 2008After six years scouring the Canadian Arctic with several colleagues, native Philadelphian, paleontologist, and professor of anatomy Neil Shubin discovered a 375-million-year-old fossil representing a “missing link” between ancient sea creatures… more
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Renowned psychologist Carol Gilligan is the author of In a Different Voice -“the little book that started a revolution” (Harvard University Press)-which criticized Lawrence Kohlberg’s research on children’s moral development and laid the… more
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• Recorded Jan 16, 2008The last member of Edward R. Murrow's CBS team still fully active in the media, veteran reporter Daniel Schorr is NPR’s senior news analyst and a legend in journalism. Over the course of a career spanning six decades and 12 presidential… more
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Michael Pollan’s recent bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. In his new book, In Defense of Food, Pollan offers well-considered answers to questions about… more
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• Recorded Dec 13, 2007Rodger Kamenetz is the author of the international bestseller The Jew in the Lotus , as well as several books of poetry and a critically acclaimed memoir, Terra Infirma. His new book explores the realms of word and image, psychology and… more
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• Recorded Dec 11, 2007Begun with The Prodigy and continued in The Cubist Rebel, John Richardson’s lavishly illustrated biography, A Life of Picasso, provides groundbreaking insight into the artist’s life and work, as drawn from conversations with the artist,… more
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Since leaving the Royal Shakespeare Company, Ruth Rosen has established an international reputation for her highly individualized literary portraits. Rosen's Man Without A Mask incorporates William Blake's poems, letters, and prose writings to… more
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• Recorded Dec 4, 2007Native Philadelphian and bestselling author, Teri Woods began selling hand-made copies of her first novel on the street and out of the trunk of her car. She started her own publishing company and successfully made True to the Game available to… more
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• Recorded Dec 1, 2007 Explicit Content( This recording contains explicit content. ) Author of the New York Times bestsellers The Nasty Bits and Kitchen Confidential , culinary bad boy Anthony Bourdain is the host of the Travel Channel’s No Reservations and chef-at-large of Les Halles… more
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• Recorded Nov 27, 2007The forthcoming PBS series The Jewish Americans is a comprehensive look at the trials and accomplishments of the Jewish-American community from the mid-17th century to the present day. Beth S. Wenger, the Katz Family Chair in American Jewish… more
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A pioneer in the world of genomic research, J. Craig Venter is one of the most controversial figures in science today. He joined the National Institutes of Health in 1984, where he introduced novel techniques for rapid gene discovery. He left in… more
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In conversation with author, journalist, and editor Larry Platt After 20 years of managing and 57 years with one franchise, Tommy Lasorda still suits up in Dodger Blue every day. The embodiment of the American dream, Lasorda went from a scrawny,… more
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The work of internationally acclaimed and bestselling Israeli novelist, Meir Shalev, has been translated into more than 20 languages. He is the recipient of many awards, including the 2006 Brenner Prize-the highest Israeli literary… more
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• Recorded Nov 13, 2007Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers and the National Book Award for American Sphinx, Joseph Ellis is the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. In American Creation, Ellis argues that part of what made the… more
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( This recording contains explicit content. ) Shalom Auslander’s stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker and Esquire , and his essays on This American Life have prompted more email than any contributor since David Sedaris. Auslander is… more
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Adrian Tomine has acquired a cult-like following with his critically acclaimed comic book series Optic Nerve . His distinctive illustrations have graced the covers of the New Yorker , Rolling Stone , and Time, and his stories have appeared in the… more
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The New York Times has called Oliver Sacks "the poet laureate of medicine" and he is renowned for a style that blends literary and scientific erudition and curiosity to draw the reader into the mysteries of the mind and brain. In Musicophilia ,… more
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Carl Bernstein received a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 alongside Bob Woodward for his Washington Post coverage of the Watergate scandal, which later became the basis of their bestselling book All the President's Men. Bernstein's new book, A Woman In… more
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• Recorded Oct 30, 2007A.J. Jacobs is the editor at large of Esquire and author of The Know-It-All, the bestselling account of reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica, which the Philadelphia Inquirer called, “one of the most entertaining and informative book reports… more
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