Friday Morning Politics; A Visit from RadioLab; Geo-Quiz: Queens; #AskTheMayor; Time for Poetry

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 15, 2021
Coming up on today's show:
  • Ayesha Rascoe, White House correspondent for NPR, brings the latest national political news.
  • Dennis Walcott, CEO and president of the Queens Public library system, quizzes the listeners on how well they know Queens.
  • Jad Abumrad, founder and co-host of WNYC's Radiolab, discusses new episodes from the Radiolab team and how the podcast has changed over time.
  • New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
  • Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, former Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019, author of Such Color: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf, 2021) and editor of The Best American Poetry 2021 (Scribner, 2021), shares some of the best recent poetry (including her own) to end the show.

Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.

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