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Malachy McCourt as Madame Bella Cohen (Mercedes McAndrew)The Fourth Column
Television industry insiders predicted there would never be a fourth network competing in the ranks of CBS, NBC, and ABC. The FOX Network proved them wrong: it’s now often referred to as one of "the Big Four." Then, investigative journalists Debbie Bookchin and Jim Schumacher talk about charges that certain rare cancers popping up today may have been caused by polio vaccines back in the 1950s and 1960s. We take a look at some hidden treasure in Russia – meticulously carved amber panels, stolen by the Nazis in 1941 during the siege of Leningrad. No one has seen them since. And Frank McCourt, Marian Seldes, and Isaiah Sheffer celebrate the literary legacy of James Joyce.
Daniel Kimmel
Daniel Kimmel’s account of the rise of the FOX Network is The Fourth Network: How FOX Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television.
» Read an excerpt of The Fourth Network in the Reading Room
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Music: Instrumentals 6/8/04: #1/16 (“Salpica” by Mambotur/”Tomorrow” by Amp)
Debbie Bookchin and James Schumacher
According to Debbie Bookchin and James Schumacher, nearly every dose of polio vaccine produced from 1954 to 1963 was contaminated with a cancer-causing monkey virus. (Monkey kidneys were used to develop the vaccine.) Bookchin and Schumacher’s new book is The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed .
» Read an excerpt of The Virus and the Vaccine in the Reading Room
Music: Instrumentals 6/8/04: #12 (“Coffee Talk/ Wild Drums” by DJ Krush)
Instrumentals 7/8/03: # 9 (“Pole Tricks” by Japancakes)
Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy
The missing amber panels, originally presented to Peter the Great in 1717, were extremely important to the Soviets as Cold War propaganda. Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy’s new book about the panels is called The Amber Room: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure.
» Go here to see pictures of the amber panels
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Events: Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy will be giving a talk on Tuesday, June 15 at Sotheby’s (1334 York Avenue at 72nd Street) at 6:30pm. For tickets, please call 212-894-1111
Music: Chamber Music of the Russian Imperial Court (18th Century), The Moscow Ancient Music Ensemble;
#1/3 (“Sonata for Violin and Basso Continuo: I. Largo/ III. Adagio and Andandte”)
Frank McCourt, Marian Seldes, and Isaiah Sheffer
June 16th is Bloomsday, the 100th anniversary of the day on which James Joyce's novel, Ulysses, takes place. (It’s called Bloomsday in honor of Leopold Bloom, the novel's protagonist.) Isaiah Sheffer, Frank McCourt, and Marian Seldes are reading excerpts from Ulysses aloud in this year’s Bloomsday on Broadway celebration in New York’s Symphony Space.
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Music: Music From the Works of James Joyce, Kevin McDermott (tenor) and Ralph Richey (pianist):
#6 (“Love’s Old Sweet Song)
#10 (“My Girl’s a Yorkshire Girl)
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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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Your broccoli, shampoo, and air conditioner might bear labels declaring them to be organic, cruelty-free, or energy efficient, but what do those labels mean and are they true? Dr. Urvashi Rangan, Project Director for Consumer Reports' GreenerChoices.org and Consumers Union’s Senior Scientist for Policy Initiatives, and Dara O'Rourke, founder and CEO of GoodGuide.com, took a look at what eco-labels indicate, how standards are set, and what they mean for consumers and manufacturers around the world.
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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.
