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November 2003

What We Talk About When We Talk About Food
Show #413

Friday, November 28, 2003

From the grocery check-out line to the midnight refrigerator raid, this is your life - in food. Along the way, we stop in on a chef at work in the kitchen of a fancy restaurant, and a man making soup at home under the influence of two long-deceased grandmothers. Also, a David Ives play about saying just the right thing when dining out.

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Harmonics

Friday, November 21, 2003

We bend notes, explore lower frequencies, and examine one part of the city where people of different class backgrounds have no choice but to get along. Also, the story of a kidnapping that ends relatively harmoniously. And an all-night visit with Haitian immigrants in New York who unite with spirits from the other side.

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Subversion

Friday, November 14, 2003

Find out how a state penitentiary, a post-Halloween pumpkin, and a children’s wind-up toy are all put to surprising and unusual uses. Also, Jonathan Katz as host of a talk show that’s not really a talk show, and Jonathan Ames performing excerpts from Eric Bogosian’s “Notes from Underground.”

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Big Ideas

Friday, November 07, 2003

We delve into the big questions – like how one slave exporting country attempts to forge relations with Africans in the diaspora; how a Vietnam vet has navigated life after war; and how anyone makes sense of the concept of infinity. On the lighter side, superhuman efforts in book reading and writing.