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The Brian Lehrer Show

Friday, June 11, 2004
  • While You Were Sleeping…

    The UN recently put out a list of the top 10 underreported stories. It includes bad news, like the growing number of AIDS orphans in Africa and overfishing in our seas, but also some good news, like development of civil society in Tajikistan.

Arts Downtown

Etta Sanders reporter and contributor at the community newspaper Tribeca Trib discusses community reaction to the Freedom Center and Robin Pogrebin Cultural Reporter for the New York Times on the final selections for the cultural center on the formal World Trade Center site

Arts Downtown

Tom Bernstein Co-Founder and President of Chelsea Piers, and Originator of idea for Freedom Center with filmmaker Peter W. Kunhardt on his work planning the Freedom Center at the World Trade Center site

Rhyming Pundit

Calvin Trillin New Yorker staff writer, Nation Magazine "deadline poet" and author, Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme (Random House, 2004) on his new collection of political poems

While You Were Sleepin

Shashi Tharoor Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information at the United Nations gives the update on the world's top ten underreported news stories

Labor's Losses

Rob Hugh-Jones senior reporter in The World's London bureau

Deadline

Katey Chevigny Co-Producer/Co-Director of Deadline, a documentary to be screened this weekend (works with Big Mouth Productions)on her documentary about former Illinois Governor George Ryan giving clemency to all death row inmates on his departure and Larry Marshall Professor at Northwestern University and Director of the Center on Wrongful Conviction discusses the documentary "The Deadline"

Step One: The Brainstorm

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This fall, The Brian Lehrer Show will air our presidential election series “30 Issues In 30 Days.” With your help, we can produce great election coverage!

Digesting Politics

A weekly podcast with Brian Lehrer and Andrea Bernstein

New Episode Posted 9/1
Eavesdrop on Andrea Bernstein and Brian Lehrer, two of the most political savvy minds around, as they eat lunch and break down the week’s political activities.

Slideluck Potshow

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Check out our contribution to the recent Slideluck Potshow, an event where folks share their love of food and photos!

ICANN, You Can…

Web Exclusive

Paul Twomey, president and CEO of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), on their recent decision to offer more top-level domain names.

Mixed Up

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We discuss the implications of our mixed-race future and how Barack Obama's candidacy has changed the discussion about mixed-race identity.