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The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, April 10, 2007
  • This monument at Yad Vashem is a kind of fence made of twisted bodies, screaming soundlessly to the heavens
    This monument at Yad Vashem is a kind of fence made of twisted bodies, screaming soundlessly to the heavens

    Defying Denial

    Holocaust Remembrance Day is coming up in a year when Holocaust denial is in vogue in a government that just joined the nuclear club. Meet Mordecai Paldiel, a director of Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Memorial. Also, Italian journalist Carlo Bonini who first discovered that some claims of an Iraqi nuclear program were based on forgeries; and Brooklynite Okwui Okpokwasili at P.S. 122’s Best of the Boroughs Festival.

    Watch Brian's video picks here.

News Radar

Brian talks with listeners about what they think are the day's most important stories.

Everyone Has Their Dollar Amount

Andrew Edgecliffe -Johnson, media editor for the Financial Times, on the controversy over the sale of the stories of the captured British sailors.

The Italian Connection

Carlo Bonini, journalist for La Repubblica in Italy and author of Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror, describes Italy's role in the flawed intelligence that helped justify the war in Iraq.

Defying Denial

Mordecai Paldiel, director of the Department for the Righteous at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Israeli Holocaust Memorial, talks about Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 15th and his book, The Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust (Collins, 2007).

The Righteous Among the Nations is available for purchase at Amazon.com

Listener Call-In

Brian asks for listener comments on Mayor Bloomberg's education proposals.

Live Coverage

Rutgers Women's Basketball Coach C. Vivian Stringer speaks about Don Imus' comment at a press conference.

B.O.B.: Brooklyn

Okwui Okpokwasili, actress and creator of "Pent-up: a Revenge Dance," a modern multi-character folktale, represents Brooklyn in P.S.122's Best of the Boroughs (B.O.B.) Festival.

This week's other B.O.B. representatives on The Brian Lehrer Show:
Monday - Sara Valentine
Wednesday - Edith I. Freni
Thursday - Nia Love
Friday - Kwikstep

Step Three: The Wiki

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Digesting Politics

A weekly podcast with Brian Lehrer and Andrea Bernstein

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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.