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Bobby Thompson\'s \'Shot Hear Round the World\'

As we gear up for the baseball season to begin, WNYC Archivist Andy Lanset has sent us some fun clips from great moments in baseball history ...

Everyone's paying attention to Avatar and Up, but all this week at the Brian Lehrer Show we're highlighting some of the documentaries up for a 2010 Oscar. They may not get the hype, but they still deserve to be seen. Hear the BL Show segments and watch the trailers below.

It's a snow day, it's cold outside, and it's time to listen to some good winter music. We want your ideas for your favorite snow or winter songs - tracks that are good for curling up inside or trudging through the slush. We've created a mix on our 8tracks ...

Connecticut's state flag

The 2010 Senatorial race in Connecticut to replace Chris Dodd's seat is one we'll be watching closely. Already we've interviewed all four major candidates. Listen here and judge for yourself.

+ Democratic Candidates

Attorney ...

Yesterday, February 3rd, our Senior Producer Megan Ryan gave birth to a baby girl - Measie Ryan Strauss! We couldn't find that many songs about Maesies (or Maisies, or Mayzies, or Maisys), at least any good ones.

The Theme to The Cartoon Maisy Mouse

from Pierre Bedat

Rufus Griscom, the founder of Babble.com, has been the weekly guest for the month of January. Each week we delved into one of the parenting taboos highlighted on the taboo-smashing ...

President Obama is set to deliver his first State of the Union address on Wednesday. What's your state of the union? What do you want him to say? Submit your speech and, using the tools at MixedInk, collaborate with others to edit the final draft, borrow passages you like, and ...

Obama and European leaders after Copenhagen Summit. Credit: The White House on flickr.

The day after the November 2008 Presidential Election, we ...

On The Brian Lehrer Show we've been looking back at the 2000s, which some are calling one of the worst decades ever. But there's also plenty of silver linings, and BL Show producer Jody Avirgan makes his case for why Bruce Springsteen is the most encouraging story of ...

from shellys on flickr

While Ammon Shea and Mike Agnes join Brian to talk about picking the word of the year, see how many of these words-of-the-decade you can use in a (still intelligible) sentence. ...

Some of the BL Show's favorite songs about grandmothers, in honor of our segment on grandma's wisdom.

Listen to Lyle Lovett's "Hello Grandma" on Rhapsody

Bill Withers: Grandma's Hands

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from joelanman on flickr

On the show we've been doing semi-regular reviews of the 2000s, segments looking back at the last decade. During the segments, we've also played montages of some notable clips from throughout the decade. ...

Note: The chat is over, but you can read it by pressing "replay" below. Thanks to all for participating.

7pm Tuesday: During the final Mayoral debate between Mike Bloomberg and Bill Thompson on Tuesday, October 27th, join Brian Lehrer and Andrea Bernstein for a live chat. You can watch ...

Here are the 32 controversial words that will be at the center of the hearings:

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

And here, from ...

All this month, we are looking at the unspoken rules of etiquette that, if followed, would make commuting in NYC pleasant - or at least more bearable.

Last week New York subway riders spoke out about what drives them crazy about traveling underground. Over 200 comments were posted on ...

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Next month, we'll be doing a program on generic drugs, and we want your input. Most generic drugs seem to work just like their name brand counterparts, but with a ...

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Paul Twomey, president and CEO of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), spoke with Brian Lehrer at the Aspen Ideas Festival in July, about their recent decision to offer more top-level domain names.

Here's a visual representation of the responses we got when we asked listeners to provide one word of wisdom to college graduates. Click on the image below to view the larger version of the cloud.

To celebrate National Poetry Month, we asked for poetry submissions from listeners about their favorite Brian Lehrer segments. Each poet was instructed to begin their verse with the words, "I heard." On Wednesday, we arranged for some of our favorites to be read on-air. Alas, when we called poet ...

On Wednesday we were thrilled to have spoken word artist Roland Legiardi-Laura join us in the studio (hour one, hour two) to help mark National Poetry Month. Each hour, Roland composed and read poems based on the other segments on our show. By popular demand, here are the ...