WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show
WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show
Leonard Lopate brings a diverse collection of great thinkers and talkers together for smart, unpredictable conversations about arts and culture, politics, science, food, and everyday living. This daily program from WNYC, New York public radio is more like eavesdropping on a great dinner ...
Young Farmers (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 04 December 2009)
Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture’s annual Young Farmers Conference is December 3-4. Fred Kirschenmann, Stone Barns Center’s Board President and Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, discusses his advocacy ...
Please Explain: Epigenetics (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 04 December 2009)
The new science of epigenetics is changing our understanding of heredity, identity, and disease. On today’s edition of Please Explain, we’ll find out how environmental factors can change the way our genes function, and how the epigenome—which can ...
Cleaving (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 04 December 2009)
Julie Powell talks about learning the art of butchering and traveling from Argentina to Ukraine to Japan to learn about meat. Her new memoir is Cleaving: A Memoir of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession.
Event: Julie Powell will be reading and signing ...
Nightingale (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 04 December 2009)
Actress Lynn Redgrave stars in a play she wrote herself, inspired by the life of her maternal grandmother, a woman she barely knew. "Nightingale" is playing through December 13 at New York City Center, Stage 1, 131 West 55th Street.
Underreported: The Prosecution of a Right Wing Radio Host Turned FBI Informant (The Leonard Lopate ...
For years Hal Turner hosted a right-wing internet radio show from northern New Jersey that catered to white supremacists and neo-Nazis. For most of that time Turner also received thousands of dollars from the FBI for acting as an informant who spied on ...
If We Can Put a Man on the Moon (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 03 December 2009)
William Eggers and John O'Leary discusses how we can renew our trust in our government and renew its legacy of competence. In If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government, they remind American people who might be frustrated with ...
If We Can Put a Man on the Moon (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 03 December 2009)
William Eggers and John O'Leary discusses how we can renew our trust in our government and renew its legacy of competence. In If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government, they remind American people who might be frustrated with ...
Don’t Touch Me (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 03 December 2009)
Comedian and host of "Deal or No Deal" Howie Mandel describes his ongoing struggle to overcome Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and ADHD, and how has it shaped his life and career. His book Here’s the Deal: Don’t Touch Me is a frank, funny account of ...
Don’t Touch Me (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 03 December 2009)
Comedian and host of "Deal or No Deal" Howie Mandel describes his ongoing struggle to overcome Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and ADHD, and how has it shaped his life and career. His book Here’s the Deal: Don’t Touch Me is a frank, funny account of ...
Underreported: Swine Flu and Ukraine's Presidential Election (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, ...
Ukraine will hold its presidential election in January, but in recent weeks swine flu has threatened to delay the vote. On this week’s first Underreported: Julia Ioffe of Foreign Policy explains how fears about swine flu have been politicized and why ...
Underreported: Swine Flu and Ukraine's Presidential Election (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, ...
Ukraine will hold its presidential election in January, but in recent weeks swine flu has threatened to delay the vote. On this week’s first Underreported: Julia Ioffe of Foreign Policy explains how fears about swine flu have been politicized and why ...
The Late Christopher Bean (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 03 December 2009)
Director Jenn Thompson and actress Mary Bacon discuss the "The Late Christopher Bean," a comedy rarely seen in New York since its Broadway premiere in 1932. It tells the story of a country doctor who learns that the paintings a poor former tenant gave ...
The Late Christopher Bean (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 03 December 2009)
Director Jenn Thompson and actress Mary Bacon discuss the "The Late Christopher Bean," a comedy rarely seen in New York since its Broadway premiere in 1932. It tells the story of a country doctor who learns that the paintings a poor former tenant gave ...
Snitching (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 02 December 2009)
Alexandra Natapoff, Professor of Law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, argues that the consequences of snitching—police and prosecutors offering deals to criminal offenders in exchange for information—aren’t always positive. Her book Snitching: ...
Antarctica (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 02 December 2009)
Award-winning photographer Michael Poliza talks about venturing to the polar regions with his camera. His book Antarctic: A Tribute to Life in the Polar Regions captures images of these frozen paradises threatened by global warming.
FDR's Shadow (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 02 December 2009)
In 1921, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had just lost an election as vice president, was left paralyzed from the waist down by polio, and his marriage was on the rocks. Julie Fenster describes how his friend and advisor, Louis Howe, was instrumental in ...
Stones Into Schools (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 02 December 2009)
Picking up where his bestseller Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, Greg Mortenson recounts his efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after the 2005 earthquake; and the ways he has built ...
U Is for Undertow (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 01 December 2009)
Sue Grafton talks about her twenty-first thriller about her sharp-tongued heroine Kinsey Millhone. U Is for Undertow, tells the story of Michael Sutton, a twenty-seven-year-old college dropout who asks for Kinsey’s help to uncover a kidnapping and ...
Thank Heaven (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 01 December 2009)
Leslie Caron made her film debut with Gene Kelly in the classic MGM musical "An American in Paris," created one of the most enduring roles in American musicals as "Gigi," danced with Fred Astaire in "Daddy Long Legs," and starred with Cary Grant in ...