wnyc.org / 93.9fm / am 820

On Demand

Program Schedule

Topics

The Leonard Lopate Show / March 28, 2006

The Leonard Lopate Show

Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Previous Episode | Next Episode
  • Alexander McCall Smith
    Alexander McCall Smith (Chris Watt)

    Under Cover

    On today’s show, we’ll ask how the uninsured can get health insurance. Then, Alexander McCall Smith describes his internationally best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. And we’ll hear about one man’s adventures living in Casablanca for a year. Plus, a women’s rights activist on her work in Kabul after the fall of the Taliban.

How to Get Health Insurance

There are 150 uninsured people for every physician in America. We’ll ask Jim Brown, of The Actors’ Fund of America’s Health Insurance Resource Center, and attorney Robert M. Hayes, of the Medicare Rights Center, about what kind of help is available for the uninsured. And we’ll take your calls on how to get health insurance if you need it.

»AHIRC's New York website
»Medicare Rights Center's website

More resources:
»The Commonwealth Fund
»Working Today
»New York City Free Clinic
»Healthy New York
»Health Pass, help for small business owners
»More info about Woodhull hospital's Artists Access bartering program
»Atlantis, a more affordable HMO

Blue Shoes and Happiness

Alexander McCall Smith, author of the internationally best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, shares Blue Shoes and Happiness, the latest installment in the adventures of the Botswana detective Precious Ramotswe.

Events: Alexander McCall Smith will be participating in
“On Being a Serial Novelist: An Evening with Alexander McCall Smith”
Wednesday, April 19 at 8 pm
The Cooper Union, The Great Hall
7 East 7th Street, at 3rd Avenue
Tickets are $25 and proceeds support WNYC
For tickets, call 212-279-4200 or visit ticketcentral.com
For more information, visit the Events page at wnyc.org

A Year in Casablanca

Tahir Shah explains what happened when he finally fulfilled his lifelong fantasy of living in Casablanca for a year in The Caliph’s House.

Kabul in Winter

Women’s rights activist Ann Jones shares her firsthand account of working in Kabul after the fall of the Taliban in Kabul in Winter.

Events: Ann Jones will be reading and signing books
Tuesday, March 28 at 7 pm
Barnes & Noble at Astor Place

Tom Daschle on Fixing America’s Health Care System

The Leonard Lopate Show

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.

Rahm Emanuel

Big Plans for America

The Leonard Lopate Show

Democratic Congressman Rahm Emanuel from Illinois has agreed to be Chief of Staff under President-Elect Barack Obama. You can hear him on the Lopate Show in 2006 discussing his thoughts on what the Democratic party needed to do in order to succeed.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama, Circa 2004

The Leonard Lopate Show

As the Democratic Convention is underway in Denver, listen to 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.

Joe Biden

Sen. Joe Biden on the Lopate Show

The Leonard Lopate Show

Sen. Obama has chosen Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware to be his running mate. To find out more about his personal and political life, listen to Leonard’s Aug. 2007 interview with Sen. Biden. At the time, the Senator from Delaware was still a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Guest Picks

The Leonard Lopate Show

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?

  1. Radiolab: Choice (11/14/2008)
  2. The Brian Lehrer Show: The Hybrid Economy (11/18/2008)
  3. The Brian Lehrer Show: Agriculture Warrior (11/17/2008)
  4. The Brian Lehrer Show: Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble (11/19/2008)
  5. The Brian Lehrer Show: Pay To Play Nice (11/14/2008)
  6. The Leonard Lopate Show: Checks and Balances (11/14/2008)
  7. Radiolab: Sperm (11/21/2008)