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The Leonard Lopate Show

Friday, November 28, 2003
  • Insect
    Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice To All Creation

    It’s a Bug’s Life

    Dr. Sheri Fink tells the story of a group of medical personnel isolated in an embattled Bosnian town during the war. Author Ayelet Waldman shares her novel Daughter’s Keeper. And evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson describes the sex lives of creatures from the sagebrush cricket to the green spoon worm.

Dr. Sheri Fink

In her book War Hospital, Dr. Sheri Fink describes how medical personnel treated patients without running water, heat, electricity or even anesthesia in an isolated Bosnian town.

  • Music: Cobb Soundtrack composer Elliot Goldenthal
  • Ayelet Waldman

    Ayelet Waldman attacks the war on drugs in her recent novel Daughter’s Keeper.

    Olivia Judson

    Evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson’s book on bug sex is called Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice To All Creation.

    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?