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Information about what's really going on at Guantanamo has been very hard to come by. An Afghani-American woman who volunteered as a translator for detainees describes her time there…and reveals what they told her. Don Felder of the Eagles breaks the band’s years of public silence. Jess Winfield on his debut novel about sex, drugs and Shakespeare. Plus, on Underreported: an update on Sudan.
A Guantanamo Diary
Behind-the-scenes information about Guantanamo is very hard to come by. Mahvish Rukhsana Khan, an American lawyer of Afghani descent, went to Guantanamo as a volunteer translator for detainees; she joins us to reveal what the detainees told her. Her new book is My Guantanamo Diary.
Don Felder on Life in the Eagles
The album “Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971–1975” is the bestselling album of all time in the United States. Now Don Felder of the Eagles has broken the band’s long public silence in a new memoir, Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001).
Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare
Jess Winfield, a founding member of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, has written a debut novel about sex, drugs, and Shakespeare. It’s called My Name is Will.
Events: Jess Winfield will be speaking and signing books
Thursday, July 17 at 7 pm
Barnes & Noble Upper West Side
2289 Broadway (at 82nd Street)
Jess Winfield, in conjunction with Brooklyn's Freebird Books will attempt to set the “World’s Record for Most Shakespeare Plays Performed Solo in Brooklyn in a Single Day”
Saturday, July 19 at 2 pm
Meet at Manhattan’s Pier 11 for the free Ikea water taxi to Brooklyn or at Rocky Sullivan’s bar at 34 Van Dyke Street (and Dwight Street), Red Hook
Underreported: Sudan Update
Georgette Gagnon, Africa program director for Human Rights Watch, gives us an update on the latest from Khartoum. We’ll talk about the ongoing proxy war between Chad and Sudan, and the recent ICC request for a warrant of arrest for Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir on charges of ten counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
Listen to a 2006 Backstory segment on the life of Omar al-Bashir
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Earlier this week, Pres. Obama announced that he plans to nominate geneticist Dr. Francis Collins to lead the National Institutes of Health. You can listen to Leonard’s 2006 conversation with Dr. Collins about how he reconciles his personal faith with his professional scientific knowledge.
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Congress is getting ready to a vote on whether to make tobacco subject to FDA regulation. You can listen to a segment we did in May about the bill and what it would mean for the cigarette companies.
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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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