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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
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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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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.
