Guest host Mike Pesca fills in for Leonard Lopate. We'll look at the state of the FAA and whether air traffic controllers are doing enough to keep the skies safe. Then sportswriter Stefan Fatsis talks about training to be a placekicker in the NFL. Director Whit Stillman talks about the DVD reissue of his 1998 film "The Last Days of Disco." Plus, a look at how blogging has changed the political—and media—landscape.
The State of Air Travel
So far this year, there have been 12 major plane crashes, according to airsafe.com, and there have been a number of small plane accidents in the New York area. We’ll take a look at the safety of air travel, air traffic control problems, and what the FAA is doing to ...
A Few Seconds of Panic
Stefan Fatsis, who has covered sports for the Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio, talks about his time training as a place kicker with the Denver Broncos. He recounts his experience to become not an NFL player but a credible kicker in his book A Few Seconds of ...
The Last Days of Disco on DVD
Director Whit Stillman talks about his film "The Last Days of Disco," starring Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale, now being issued on DVD as part of the Criterion Collection. The film is showing Thursday, August 27th, at 7:30 pm at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater.
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Bloggers on the Bus
Award-winning journalist and senior fellow at Media Matters for America Eric Boehlert introduces the new generation of political muckrakers who took the 2008 presidential campaign-and old guard media-by storm. In Bloggers on the Bus, Boehlert examines the American left's grand reawakening on the World Wide Web.
Dominick Dunne
Dominick Dunne was a famous novelist and Hollywood producer. But he may be best remembered for covering trials of the rich and famous – from Claus von Bulow to O. J. Simpson. He died just recently at the age of 83. But you can still hear his interview with Leonard from November 23, 2001, when he was discussing crimes, trials, and punishments.
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