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WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show: Episodes

Internationally recognized chef and owner of New York's famed Le Bernardin restaurant, Eric Ripert, discusses his first TV series "Avec Eric," on PBS. It takes viewers beyond just how to cook, and instead delves into <em>why</em> we cook. "Avec Eric" premiers on Sunday, September 6th, at 4:30 pm, on ...
Po Bronson argues that when it comes to raising children, we've mistaken good intentions for good ideas. <em>Nurtureshock: New Thinking about Children,</em> written with Ashley Merryman, describes why that many of modern society's methods for nurturing children aren’t working.
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Amy Heller, president and co-founder of Milestone Film & Video, David Fenkel, partner/co-founder of Oscilloscope Laboratories, and Emily Russo, co-founder and co-president of Zeitgeist Films, discuss the future of indie film distribution and offer some strategies for survival in the current economic ...
In our latest Underappreciated segment, UCLA English professor Christopher Looby discusses Robert Montgomery Bird’s novel, <em>Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself</em> about an unrepentant deadbeat discovers the ability to project his souls into dying men’s bodies, a form of antebellum identity theft.<div ...
Henry Kaufman, economist and former Solomon Brothers President, explains what got us into our current financial debacle, what the consequences of it will be, and how to put our economy back on track. In <em>The Road to Financial Reformation: Warnings, Consequences, Reforms</em> he talks about why we ...
Iconic filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, known as the "godfather of independent film and modern black cinema," directed and stars in his new film <strong>"Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchy Footed Mutha,"</strong> which is based on his own graphic novel of the same name. He tells a comic tale of adventure ...
Hirokazu Kore-Eda, one of Japan's most accomplished directors, discusses his latest film, <strong>"Still Walking,"</strong> a moving drama about how death has affected members of a family. "Still Walking" opens Friday, August 28, at <a href="http://www.angelikafilmcenter.com/angelika_index.asp?hID=1" ...
Bryan Walsh, who wrote the cover story for the August 31st issue of <em>Time</em> magazine, <a href="http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1917458,00.html" target="_blank">"Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food,"</a> tells us about the high cost of cheap food. Somewhere in Iowa, a ...
On today’s edition of <a href=" ">Please Explain,</a> we’re looking at instinct, intuition, gut feelings, those unconscious reactions that guide so much of our decision making. We’re joined by Timothy Wilson, Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, and author of ...
When Michael Rosen’s seven-year-old son Ripton decided to join a pick-up game of baseball with some older kids in the park and ended up inviting them into his family's life. In his book <em>What Else But Home</em>, Rosen tells how, over time, five of the boys—all black and Hispanic, from the impoverished ...
Earlier this month, Britain imposed direct rule on the Caribbean islands of Turks & Caicos. On this week’s first <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/underreported/" target="_blank">Underreported,</a> Mark Wilson, a correspondent for <em>The Economist,</em> explains what led to the unusual decision ...
President Omar Bongo of Gabon died this past June after four decades in office. Elections in the tiny African nation are slated for August 30th, but the vote is already mired in controversy. For our second <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/underreported/" target="_blank">Underreported,</a> we’ll ...
Award-winning director Ondi Timoner and Josh Harris discuss the new documentary <a href="http://www.weliveinpublicthemovie.com/" target="_blank">"We Live in Public."</a> It tells the story of the effect the Web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of Harris, called "the greatest Internet ...
Tom Folsom tells the complete story of the rise and fall of the Gallo brothers—Crazy Joe, Kid Blast, and Larry Gallo—three reckless young gangsters who revolted against New York City's Mafia. His book <em>The Mad Ones: Crazy Joe Gallo and the Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld,</em> chronicles ...
Director Whit Stillman talks about his film <strong>"The Last Days of Disco,"</strong> starring Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale, now being issued on DVD as part of the Criterion Collection. The film is showing Thursday, August 27th, at 7:30 pm at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade ...
Stefan Fatsis, who has covered sports for the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> and National Public Radio, talks about his time training as a place kicker with the Denver Broncos. He recounts his experience to become not an NFL player but a credible kicker in his book <em>A Few Seconds of Panic: A Sportswriter ...
So far this year, there have been 12 major plane crashes, according to airsafe.com, and there have been a number of small plane accidents in the New York area. We’ll take a look at the safety of air travel, air traffic control problems, and what the FAA is doing to make flying safer. We're joined by ...
Award-winning journalist and senior fellow at Media Matters for America Eric Boehlert introduces the new generation of political muckrakers who took the 2008 presidential campaign-and old guard media-by storm. In <em>Bloggers on the Bus</em>, Boehlert examines the American left's grand reawakening on ...
Robert Cohen describes his latest novel, <em>Amateur Barbarians,</em> about two middle-aged men whose paths intersect and diverge, taking them from New York City to New England to East Africa.
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Christoph Waltz, who stars in Quentin Tarantino's <strong> "Inglourious Basterds,"</strong> tells us about playing such a glorious villain.<div class="feedflare">
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