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The Brian Lehrer Show

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
  • Storycorps
    Storycorps

    Another Story

    The StoryCorps project captures the nation’s history through individual stories. Hear excerpts from StoryCorps Griot, a new initiative gathering the stories of African Americans. Plus: New York's new budget agreement; the People's Hall of Fame; following up on the NYPD surveillance; and why is DirecTV upsetting out-of-town fans of Major League Baseball -- like Senator John Kerry?

What They Watched

Bob Hennelly, WNYC Reporter discusses the scope of the NYPD surveillance activities.

Baseball Confidential

Rich Thomaselli, reporter for Advertising Age magazine, tells us about the negotiations between Major League Baseball and DirecTV which would give DirecTV exclusive rights to air all baseball games.

Another Story

Dave Isay, public radio producer and founder of the StoryCorps oral history project, talks about their new project gathering the life stories of African American families across the country; along with Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture, which is collaborating on the project.

Deal Makers

Tom Duane, state senator (D-29th district-Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen, Upper West Side, Union Square, Stuyvesant) and E.J. McMahon, senior fellow for Tax and Budgetary Studies, at the Manhattan Institute, look at the budget deal struck in Albany.

Sub Prime Time

Juan Gonzalez, Daily News columnist and Mark Winston Griffith , Co-Director of NEDAP, Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, on the impact in New York of default on sub prime mortgages.

People's Hall of Fame

Peter Sokolow, legendary klezmer pianist, will talk about how he feels about being inducted into City Lore's People's Hall of Fame.


Listen to the other Hall of Fame inductees we’ve interviewed this week:
Pete Benfaremo, the Lemon Ice King of Corona
Renee “Juice” Flowers
Nobuko Narita
Carrie Raiford

Uncommon Indicators

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The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.

Just Launched! The Uncommon Economic Indicators Video Contest. All the details here!

The Rocky Road Ahead

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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.

Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.

Tweet If You Use Twitter

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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.

What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!

Don't Say That, Literally

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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")

What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!

From Denmark with Love

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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.

Squatting, Then and Now

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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.

Video Picks

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