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The Leonard Lopate Show / April 28, 2006

The Leonard Lopate Show

Friday, April 28, 2006
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  • East Meets West

    Julianna Margulies, Ali MacGraw, and Jeremy Sisto, the stars of the Broadway production of Festen, start off today’s show. Then, we’ll talk to the first North American to hold political office in Japan. Plus, Upamanyu Chatterjee on his best-selling novel, English, August, which is being published for the first time in America. And this week’s Please Explain is all about meditation.

Festen on Broadway

We'll talk to Julianna Margulies, Ali MacGraw, and Jeremy Sisto--the stars of the Broadway production of Festen, which has come to New York after a critically-acclaimed run in London.

Letters

We get a lot of mail from our listeners. Every month Leonard talks to a couple of the listeners who have us their thoughts about the show. Today, we look back at our segment about deciding to have children and our Please Explain on dogs. Send your emails to lopateshow@wnyc.org!

A Brooklynite in Japan

Brooklyn native Anthony Bianchi, the first North American ever elected to public office in Japan, tells us about serving on the Inuyama City Council.

English, August

Upamanyu Chatterjee discusses the American release of his best-selling Indian novel, English, August.

Events: Upamanyu Chatterjee will be participating in a reading as part of the PEN World Voices Festival
Saturday, April 29 at 4 pm
192 Books
192 10th Avenue at West 21st Street
Tickets are free and are first come, first served.
For more information, please visit penfestival.org

Upamanyu Chatterjee will be reading
Saturday, April 29 at 7 pm
Community Bookstore in Park Slope
143 7th Avenue between Carroll Street and Garfield Place

Poetry Off the Shelf: A.F. Moritz

In honor of National Poetry Month, we're airing a poem by A.F. Moritz called "Busman's Honeymoon." It's read by Ken Marks.

This piece is part of the Poetry Off the Shelf series, produced by the »Poetry Foundation. The Poetry Foundation is also delivering daily »poetry podcasts, produced by Curtis Fox, during the month of April.

Please Explain: Meditation

This week’s Please Explain is all about meditation. We'll talk to Dr. Christopher Moore, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Studies and a Principal Investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and Alan Wallace, the President and founder of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, about the ways people meditate and the effects it has on the brain and body.

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.

Rahm Emanuel

Big Plans for America

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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