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The Leonard Lopate Show

Tuesday, June 12, 2007
  • Marina Litvinenko presents the book titled "Meutre d'un dissident" she wrote with Alex Goldfrab. (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images)
    Marina Litvinenko presents the book titled Meutre d'un dissident she wrote with Alex Goldfrab. (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images)

    Inside Controversy

    Last November, former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko was fatally poisoned in London. On today’s show, his widow and his friend Alex Goldfarb give their inside account of the international murder mystery. Then, a former male prostitute talks about how his relationship with the Reverend Ted Haggard brought down the former President of the National Association of Evangelicals. Plus, we explore the food writings of literary greats like Melville and Hawthorne. And Ruth Reichl and Alice Waters talk about Slow Food.

Death of a Dissident

Former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko was fatally poisoned in London last November. In Death of a Dissident, Mr. Litvinenko’s widow, Marina Litvineko, and his friend Alex Goldfarb reveal what they know about the international murder mystery.

Death of a Dissident is available for purchase at amazon.com

On the Media's Brooke Gladstone reports from Russia

A Former Prostitute and a Former Pastor

Mike Jones, a former male prostitute, talks about why he revealed his sexual relationship with the Reverend Ted Haggard (former President of the National Association of Evangelicals) in November 2006.

I Had to Say Something is available for purchase at amazon.com

Events: Mike Jones will be speaking and signing books
Wednesday, June 13 at 7 pm
Chelsea Barnes & Noble
675 Avenue of the Americas, at 22nd Street

American Food Writing

Molly O’Neill tells us about collecting the food writing of some of America’s literary greats—like Nathanial Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and H.L. Mencken—for a new anthology.

American Food Writing is available for purchase at amazon.com

Apples at a farm stand

Slow Food Debates

Gourmet Editor-in-Chief Ruth Reichl and Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse and Vice President of Slow Food International, explore the debate about how food should be produced and distributed in the US.

Slow Food Nation: Articles and Resources
"Alice Waters On Slow Food Nation," The Daily Green
Slow Food USA
"Slow Food Fight," by Tom Philpott on Grist.org
New Amsterdam Public Market, New York City

Is Slow Food an elite movement?Weigh in.

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.

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?