WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show: Episodes
<p>Following the dramatic election of the pope, announced with a puff of white smoke from the Vatican, our word maven <a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Patricia+T.+O%27Conner">Patricia T. O'Conner</a> talks about the history of communicating through smoke signals. She’ll also answer questions ...
<p><em>New Yorker</em> staff writer <a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=George+Packer+">George Packer </a>reflects on the Iraq War, ten years after the US-led invasion. He’s the author of <em><span class="book"><a title="buy this book at Amazon" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374530556/wnyc-20">The ...
<p>Curator <a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Nathaniel+Silver">Nathaniel Silver</a> discusses the exhibition “<a href="http://www.frick.org/exhibitions/piero" target="_blank">Piero della Francesca in America</a>,” at The Frick Collection through May 19.<em> </em>Piero della Francesca was a ...
<p>International energy expert <a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Daniel+Yergin">Daniel Yergin</a> looks at the oil industry in Iraq ten years after the U.S.-led invasion. He is the author of <em><span class="book"><a title="buy this book at Amazon" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0143121944/wnyc-20">The ...
<p>Prizewinning biographer <a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Blake+Bailey">Blake Bailey</a> talks about his new biography of Charles Jackson, the author of <em>The Lost Weekend</em>, the story of five disastrous days in the life of alcoholic Don Birnam, which was published in 1944 and was very ...
<p>Legendary illustrators <a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Drew+Friedman">Drew Friedman</a>, <a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Al+Jaffee">Al Jaffee</a>, and <a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Arnold+Roth">Arnold Roth</a> discuss the life and work of Harvey Kurtzman, the cartoonist, ...
<p><a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Brooke+Gladstone">Brooke Gladstone</a> of WNYC’s <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/Brooke%20Gladstone" target="_blank">On The Media</a> discusses how the American press corps handled the lead up to the Iraq War and the subsequent turns and scandals in the conflict.</p><img ...
<p>Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist <a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Dale+Maharidge">Dale Maharidge</a> discusses his quest to find surviving members of his father’s WWII Marine Company and uncover their experience fighting in the Pacific. In <span class="book"><a title="buy this book at Amazon" ...
<p>German soprano <a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Diana+Damrau">Diana Damrau</a> talks about taking on the challenges of the lead role in "<a href="http://www.metoperafamily.org/opera/la-traviata-verdi-tickets.aspx" target="_blank">La Traviata</a>"—opposite Plácido Domingo—at the Metropolitan ...
<p><em>New York</em><em> Magazine</em> columnist <a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Frank+Rich">Frank Rich</a> discusses the lead up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and how consensus for the war was built in Congress and the public square.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wnyc_lopate/~4/FL4KMbonpf4" ...
<p>Food writer and editor <a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Amanda+Hesser">Amanda Hesser</a> talks about home cooking and adapting recipes. Each week for 52 weeks she and Merrill Stubbs ran recipe contests on their website, <a href="http://www.food52.com" target="_blank">Food52.com</a>, and the ...
<p><a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Sascha+Anderson">Sascha Anderson</a>, Director of Education at Murray’s Cheese, and <a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Gianaclis+Caldwell">Gianaclis Caldwell</a>, cheesemaker at Pholia Farm and author of <span class="book"><a title="buy this book at Amazon" ...
<p><a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Clodagh+McKenna">Clodagh McKenna</a> gives advice about what to eat and when to eat it, and shares tips for preserving the harvest. Her book <span class="book"><a title="buy this book at Amazon" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1906868867/wnyc-20"><em>Clodagh’s ...
<p><em>Food & Wine</em> editor-in-chief <a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Dana+Cowin">Dana Cowin</a> discusses <a href="http://www.foodandwine.com/slideshows/the-plate-project-provocateurs" target="_blank">The Plate Project</a>—she mailed paper plates to designers, chefs, artists and other ...
<p>Since 2007, nearly 500 banks of failed, but rather than sue those banks for losses and malfeasance, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has opted for settlements that often go unreported. <em>LA Times</em> reporter <a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Scott+Reckard">Scott Reckard</a> talks ...
<p>Fortune reporter <a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Scott+Cendrowski">Scott Cendrowski</a> looks at the secretive $170 billion Guggenheim empire. The operation, based in New York and Chicago, has been turning up frequently in Los Angeles—behind the Dodgers deal, the purchase of Dick Clark ...
<p><a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Benjamin+Stein">Benjamin Stein</a> and <a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Brian+Zumhagen">Brian Zumhagen</a> discuss <span class="book"><a title="buy this book at Amazon" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1934824658/wnyc-20"><em>The ...
<p><a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=David+Henry+Hwang">David Henry Hwang</a> talks about “<a href="http://www.signaturetheatre.org/tickets/production.aspx?pid=2354" target="_blank">The Dance and the Railroad</a>,” presented by Signature Theatre Company. On a California mountaintop in 1867 ...
<p><a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=Jeffrey+Toobin">Jeffrey Toobin</a> discusses his article “<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/03/11/130311fa_fact_toobin" target="_blank">The Heavyweight,</a>” about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s lasting influence. “The Heavyweight” ...
<p>New York University President <a class="guestlink" href="/people/r/?n=John+Sexton">John Sexton</a> talks about how baseball can be used to illustrate the elements of a spiritual life--the subject of his popular course at NYU. In his new book <em><span class="book"><a title="buy this book at Amazon" ...