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The Leonard Lopate Show

Thursday, November 20, 2003
  • Pim Fortuyn
    Pim Fortuyn

    The Life and Times of Pim Fortuyn

    Insect expert Thomas Eisner describes bug behavior you’ve probably never heard of: female moths holding their mates for ransom, beetles ejecting boiling-got defensive sprays, and caterpillars disguising themselves as flowers by attaching petals to their bodies. Then Professor James Kennedy talks about the 2002 murder of Dutch populist politician Pim Fortuyn. Robert Hughes on his new book about the Spanish artist Goya. And a discussion on the financial success of the Pequot Indian tribe.

Thomas Eisner

It’s shocking what bugs can do! In For Love of Insects, biologist Thomas Eisner talks about the secret lives of insects.

  • Events: Thursday, November 20th, The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University presents BUGGY LOVE. An evening celebrating the works of Thomas Eisner featuring Thomas Eisner, Oliver Sacks, Natalie Angier, Diane Ackerman and May Berenbaum
    8-10 PM
    The Angel Orensanz Foundation
    172 Norfolk St., just south of Houston St.
    $5 at door/ NO RESERVATIONS
  • Music: Sirens Soundtrack composer Rachel Portman
  • James Kennedy on Pim Fortuyn

    As part of our station-wide Old Amsterdam/New Amsterdam series, Professor James Kennedy from Amsterdam’s Free University talks about the life and death of Pim Fortuyn, the openly gay, right-wing Dutch populist politician. He was the leading candidate to become the next prime minister before his assassination in 2002.
    Old Amsterdam, New AmsterdamFind out more about Pim Fortuym in Old Amsterdam/New Amsterdam

  • Music: Orkest de Volharding 1972-1992 Trajekten “Cees Van Zeeland” Jan Van Vlijmen Schonberg Quartet “Andante”
  • Robert Hughes

    Art critic and author Robert Hughes has written a comprehensive new book about the life and art of Francisco de Goya. Hughes says that Goya "invented…the illusion of being there when dreadful things happen."

  • Music:The de Falla Trio Music For Three Guitars: Albeniz, Boyce, Soler, deFalla, Corea Padre Antonio Soler Quintet No. 4 in A Minor
  • Brett Fromson

    In Hitting the Jackpot, Brett Fromson details the 1992 opening of Foxwoods, Connecticut’s first casino, and its effect on the Pequot tribe’s financial health.

  • Music: Talk Radio Soundtrack Stewart Copeland
  • Bill Richardson on Diplomacy

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    New Mexico governor Bill Richardson will be joining Obama’s cabinet as Commerce Secretary. You can hear him talk about his experience in foreign policy and diplomacy on the Lopate Show in April 2007.

    Plaxico Burress on the Lopate Show

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    NY Giants star Plaxico Burress is in the headlines this week for his self-inflicted gunshot wound. You can hear him on the Leonard Lopate Show in July 2008 talk about his life on and off the football field, and what it was like to win the 2007 Super Bowl.

    Tom Daschle on Fixing America’s Health Care System

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    Former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle has accepted President-Elect Barack Obama’s offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. You can hear Tom Daschle talk about his prescriptions for fixing American’s health care crisis on the Leonard Lopate Show in March 2008.

    Barack Obama, Circa 2004

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    Listen to President-Elect Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.

    Guest Picks

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    Find out surprising facts about some recent guests on the Leonard Lopate Show. Check out our Guest Picks section! Did you know that football star Herschel Walker loves Judge Judy, Laurie Anderson is a big fan of agility training for dogs, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi likes Johnny Depp?