wnyc.org / 93.9fm / am 820

On Demand

Program Schedule

Topics


The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Previous Episode | Next Episode
  • Tom Kean, Jr.
    Tom Kean, Jr.

    These Guns for Hire

    There’s one week to go before Election Day and we’ll keep interviewing the major candidates. Up next, Republican Thomas Kean, Jr. makes his case to be New Jersey’s next U.S. Senator. Also, NPR’s Margot Adler with a new edition of her book about modern-day pagans in America, Drawing Down the Moon and 30 Issues in 30 Days #27: Should the Military be Privatized?

Garden State Race

Tom Kean Jr. , New Jersey State Senator and Republican candidate for U.S Senate
- discusses why he would make a better senator than Robert Menendez

Garden State Variety

Kathy Barrett-Carter, editorial writer at the Newark Star-Ledger
-offers analysus of the Kean/Menendez Senate race in New Jersey

The Newark Star-Ledger

Wicca-nery

Margot Adler, NPR' s New York bureau chief, Wiccan and author, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers and Other Pagans in America (Penguin, 2006 revised & updated)
- offers a Halloween update of her history of neo-pagans in America

30 Issues in 30 Days: Should the Military be Privatized?

Doug Brooks, president of the International Peace Operations Association (an association of private security contractors)
and
Robert Young Pelton, author, Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror (Crown, 2006)
- debate the use of private security firms by the U.S. military

Less Aging With Fewer Calories

Dr. Richard Weindruch, gerontologist at the University of Wisconsin, director of the Rhesus Monkey Study
-talks about the research on the rhesus monkeys that suggests a calorie restrictive diet prevents the effects of aging.

Article in the New York Times

30 days 30 issues

Step One: The Brainstorm

The Brian Lehrer Show

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!

WNYC's Brian Lehrer and Andrea Bernstein talk politics at lunch time.

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.

(<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/obsessivephotography/499593648/" target="_blank">obsessivephotography</a>/flickr)

Slideluck Potshow

The Brian Lehrer Show

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.

multiracial mixed race

Mixed Up

The Brian Lehrer Show

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

  1. The Brian Lehrer Show: Live from the Republican National Convention: Day 5 (09/05/2008)
  2. The Brian Lehrer Show: Live from the Republican National Convention: Day 4 (09/04/2008)
  3. The Brian Lehrer Show: Live from the Republican National Convention: Day 2 (09/02/2008)
  4. The Leonard Lopate Show: Young'Uns (09/03/2008)
  5. The Brian Lehrer Show: Live from the Republican National Convention: Day 3 (09/03/2008)
  6. The Leonard Lopate Show: Big Storm (09/04/2008)
  7. The Leonard Lopate Show: Jazz Can Change Your Life (09/02/2008)