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Battery Park (Fred Froehlich)Redesigning Lower Manhattan
Lower Manhattan is in flux. Downtown Alliance president Carl Weisbrod talks with Martin Pederson, editor of urban design magazine Metropolis, about the future of the neighborhoods hit hardest by 9/11. Then a discussion with Alexandra Fuller, who's African by birth but not by blood. She traveled through Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique with a veteran of the Rhodesian Wars in an attempt to come to terms with years of civil war in Africa. And two former POWs in the Vietnam War, Fred Cherry and Porter Halyburton, describe how they helped each other survive brutal torture at the hands of the North Vietnamese.
Martin Pederson and Carl Weisbrod
Lower Manhattan is in flux. Downtown Alliance president Carl Weisbrod talks with Martin Pederson, editor of urban design magazine Metropolis, about the future of the neighborhoods hit hardest by 9/11.
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Music: Alloy Orchestra Lonesome “Weekend” and “Only A Worker”
Alexandra Fuller
Alexandra Fuller, whose parents owned a fish farm in Zambia, is the author of a recent memoir called Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier. ("Scribbling" is Afrikaans slang for "killing.")
Events: Alexander Fuller will be reading and signing books at Barnes and Noble, 4 Astor Place, Monday May 17th at
7:30 pm
Music: Forward Kwenda Svikiro: Meditations From An Mbira Master
"Gonamombe Rerume" and "Cipembere Nhimutimu"
Fred Cherry, Porter Halyburton and James Hirsch
Wartime torture has been in the news a lot lately. Two former POWs are here to talk about their experiences as torture victims. Fred Cherry, a black Air Force fighter pilot, was held by the North Vietnamese in a jail cell with Porter Halyburton, a white Navy jet navigator from the South, and the two men helped each other survive the ordeal. They’re here along with James Hirsch, a former Wall Street Journal and New York Times reporter who’s written an account of their friendship called Two Souls Indivisible.
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A number of this year’s National Book Award winners have appeared on The Leonard Lopate Show. Click here to see the list!
Tributes: Jeanne-Claude
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Jeanne-Claude created environmental works of art with her husband and fellow-conspirator/collaborator Christo. Together, they wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin, the Pont-Neuf in Paris, and created The Gates, with billowy orange drapes, in Central Park. Jeanne-Claude just died at the age of 74. You can hear Leonard Lopate’s last interview with them both, from July 19, 1999.
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Please Explain: Eco-Labels
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Our 3-ingredient Challenge wins a James Beard Award
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On May 3, the Lopate Show won its third James Beard Award for our 3-ingredient challenge. In August, we asked our listeners to call in and name 3 ingredients and then challenged New York chef and 3-ingredient expert Rozanne Gold to whip up a recipe! You can listen to the 3-ingredient challenge and get some inspiration for simple, delicious, and unexpected dishes.
