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Word maven Patricia T. (You Send Me) O’Conner talks to listeners about the trials and tribulations of speaking English well. Broadway veteran Arthur (Gypsy and West Side Story) Laurents looks back on his life in the theater as an author, a playwright, and a director. Then Robert Simonson discusses his new book On Broadway Men Still Wear Hats, a look into the lives of people off-stage who help keep Broadway alive. And Lee Stringer shares his new collection of autobiographical stories, Sleepaway School.
Patricia T. O'Conner
Word maven Patricia T. (You Send Me) O’Conner on the trials and tribulations of speaking English well.
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Arthur Laurents
Arthur Laurents on Selected Plays, an anthology of seven of his most respected works.
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Music: Original cast recording, West Side Story - "Prologue"
Original cast recording featuring Ethel Merman, Gypsy - "Everything's Coming Up Roses" and "If Momma Was Married"
Robert Simonson
Robert Simonson on his new book, On Broadway Men Still Wear Hats: Unusual Lives Led on the Edges of Broadway.
» Read an excerpt of On Broadway Men Still Wear Hats in the Reading Room
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Music: Sweet Sixteenths: A Ragtime Concert, William Albright, piano: “Slippery Elm Rag” / “Ragtime Nightingale”
Lee Stringer
Author Lee Stringer shares his memoir, Sleepaway School, about his days at a school for at-risk children.
» Read an excerpt of Sleepaway School in the Reading room
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Events: Lee Stringer will be speaking on
Wednesday, July 21 at 7pm at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park, 20th St. between Park Ave South and Irving Place
Music: Soundtrack to Avalon, music by Randy Newman: "Jules & Michael"
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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.
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