On today’s show: We’ll take a look at the country’s complex legal system. Then, Tom Wolfe stops by to discuss The Bonfire of the Vanities, the latest selection for the Leonard Lopate Show Book Club. Our latest Globavores segment looks at pumpkins and squash. And the gurus of how-to, Al and Larry Ubell, take your calls on home repair.
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Morning Edition is your perfect morning companion: gentle, but straightforward, explaining the vagaries of international diplomacy, reporting weather and even recommending the best film in town.
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President Obama held a news conference yesterday for the first time in eight months. Hear analysis of what he said. Plus: anthropologist, activist and author David Graeber discusses Occupy Wall Street’s Rolling Jubilee campaign to abolish debt; and Sam Sifton of the New York Times on how to cook the Thanksgiving meal.
On today’s show: We’ll look at the complicated issues that arise when once-endangered species like wolves return to populated areas. Filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick discuss their new Showtime documentary series, and companion book: The Untold History of The United States. Christopher Bonanos tells the history of the Polaroid! Plus, we’ll examine the future of the New York waterfront post Sandy.
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Reporters scour the globe for the most direct and compelling information, from the spread of AIDS in India to the inexplicable fluctuations of the Brazilian economy.
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Reporters scour the globe for the most direct and compelling information, from the spread of AIDS in India to the inexplicable fluctuations of the Brazilian economy.
Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.
Today on Soundcheck: We conclude our series about the groundbreaking 1972 children's record Free To Be... You And Me by talking with composers Stephen Lawrence and Carol Hart about writing the iconic songs on the album. Then former New York Giants defensive tackle and actor Rosey Grier discusses singing one of the memorable tunes, "It's All Right To Cry."
Then get to know the musician and composer Rafiq Bhatia in our latest Blind Date.
Q is an energetic daily arts, culture and entertainment magazine that takes you on a smart and surprising ride, interviewing personalities and tackling the cultural issues that matter. Hosted by Jian Ghomeshi, with his trademark wit and spontaneity, Q covers pop culture and high arts alike with forays into the most provocative and compelling cultural trends.
For this New Sounds, hear a hypnotic work of vocal layers from the electronic duo Matmos, “Just Waves,” from their Ganzfeld EP, a concept record based on their own telepathic experiments. Throughout the progression of the work, these ebbing and flowing voices -Matmos (M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel) together with three other singers: Dan Deacon, Angel Deradoorian (Dirty Projectors), and Clodagh Simonds (Fovea Hex)- speak-sing the transcripts of the psychic session material in pitched clusters, until the sensations described in the experiment are shaped back into one single phrase about the “triangle at the top.”