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Go with the Flow (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 20 November 2009)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT

First, we look into the safety of our nation’s water supply with New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg. Then, Werner Herzog discusses his latest film “Bad Lieutenant.” Pulitzer Prize-winner Rita Dove, former U.S. Poet Laureate, talks about her new book-length poem. Plus, out latest Please Explain is all about strokes.

New Stu (Radiolab: Friday, 02 October 2009)

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:00 GMT

Stu Rasmussen, of Silverton, Oregon, is an avid metalworker, woodworker, and electrician - and in 2008 became our country's first transgendered mayor. News of his election swept the country, but what was it like at home?

WNYC - Speaking of Faith

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:57 GMT

Please Explain: Strokes (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 20 November 2009)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:44 GMT

On today’s Please Explain, we take a close look at strokes—the causes, effects, and therapeutic and medical advances that help people recover. We're joined by Dr. Randolph S. Marshall, chief of the Division of Stroke, Columbia University Medical Center, and Dr. Jay P. Mohr, Daniel Sciarra Professor of Clinical Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center.

WNYC - Studio 360

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:57 GMT

Mumps Outbreak in Brooklyn

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:02 GMT

57 children in Borough Park, Brooklyn have the mumps, a childhood disease that’s widely been eliminated. Three-fourths of those children have been vaccinated, but the vaccine is considered 90 perce....

Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc recipe for Iceburg Lettuce Slices

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:48 GMT

Thomas Keller, chef and owner of Per Se, stopped by The Leonard Lopate Show on November 23 to discuss simple recipes anyone can make at home. Click here to listen to the conversation. ....

The Jazz Loft Project

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:53 GMT

Explore The Jazz Loft Project Radio Series Jazz in the Flower District: Photographer W. Eugene Smith moved into a loft at 821 Sixth Avenue, in the heart of New York’s Flower District,....

Let It Bleed (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 19 November 2009)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:34 GMT

Author and photographer Ethan Russell tells about his experience as one of only sixteen people--including the band itself--who made up the 1969 Rolling Stones tour, which ended with a stabbing death at Altamont, bringing the idealistic 1960s to a close. His book Let It Bleed: The Rolling Stones, Altamont, and the End of the Sixties includes interviews with the band and crew and more than 220 photographs.

An exhibition of photographs from Let It Bleed are on view through December 31 at Morrison Hotel Galleries 313 Bowery Street. More information here.

WNYC - The Splendid Table

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:57 GMT

The Test of Time (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 19 May 2009)

Tue, 19 May 2009 05:00 GMT

We celebrate the 50th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright's groundbreaking design for the New York home of the Guggenheim Museum with Thomas Krens and David van der Leer. Then, landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson tells us what Manhattan looked like before European settlers arrived here. And film historians Steve Massa and Ben Model discuss a new series of silent-era slapstick comedies at the Museum of Modern Art. Plus, Elizabeth Edwards.

New Nice (Radiolab: Friday, 02 October 2009)

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:00 GMT

Brian Hare tells us the story of Dmitri Belyaev, a geneticist and clandestine Darwinian who lived in Stalinist Russia and studied the domestication of the silver fox. Through generations of selectively breeding a captive population, Belyaev noticed not only increased docility, but also unexpected physical changes. Why did these gentler foxes necessarily look different than their wild ancestors? Tecumseh Fitch has a hypothesis, something about trailblazing cells and embryonic development. And Richard Wrangham takes it a step further, suggesting us humans may have domesticated ourselves.

New Normal? (Radiolab: Friday, 02 October 2009)

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:00 GMT

How do you tell the difference between a sea change and a ripple in the water? Is a peacenik baboon, a man in a dress, or a cuddly fox a sign of things to come? Or just a flukey outlier from the norm? Is there ever really even a norm? In this hour we examine three stories that reframe our sense of normalcy.

Bloomberg, Thompson in Final Debate

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:42 GMT

Mayor Mike Bloomberg and his Democratic opponent Comptroller Bill Thompson faced off in their second and final debate last night. WNYC's Bob Hennelly was there and has this report. REPORTER: The en....

The Jazz Loft

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:11 GMT

In 1957, photographer W. Eugene Smith moved into a loft at 821 Sixth Avenue. It became a hangout for artists, writers and especially jazz musicians, who rehearsed and jammed there. By the time Smith....

New Stu (Radiolab: Friday, 02 October 2009)

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:00 GMT

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (Soundcheck: Tuesday, 28 December 2004)

Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:03 GMT

What is it about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony that makes it such a mainstay of big, celebratory occasions? On New Year’s Eve, the New York Philharmonic will revive a time-honored tradition of performing the work. Today, conductor and commentator Robert Kapilow joins guest host Anthony DeCurtis to investigate its enduring significance.

Highest Duty (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 15 October 2009)

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:17 GMT

Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the pilot who landed a failing US Airways jet on the Hudson River, saving the lives of all of the passengers and crew aboard, discusses that remarkable emergency landing and what made it possible. In Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters, he describes the life experiences that have helped make him who he is today.

Why Architecture Matters (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 17 November 2009)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:27 GMT

Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Paul Goldberger, who writes for The New Yorker, discusses the world of architecture. In Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture, he looks at skyscrapers, museums, airports, monuments, suburban shopping malls, and white-brick apartment houses. His book Why Architecture Matters looks at how architecture affects us emotionally and intellectually.

Events: Paul Goldberger will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, November 17, at 6:30 pm
The Tenement Museum
108 Orchard Street

He’ll also be speaking and signing books
Monday, November 23, at 6:30 pm
The Skyscraper Museum
39 Battery Place

New Normal? (Radiolab: Friday, 02 October 2009)

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:00 GMT

WNYC - About Podcasting @ WNYC

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:57 GMT

Adventures in London and the Wild West (Selected Shorts: Sunday, 22 November 2009)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT

“North by Northwest isn’t a film about what happens to Cary Grant, it’s about what happens to his suit. The suit has the adventures, a gorgeous New York suite threading its way through America.”—Todd McEwen, “Cary Grant’s Suit.”
An émigré wanders through London, looking for home, and Cary Grant’s suit travels America, pursued by villains, in “North by Northwest.”

Acid Test (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 19 November 2009)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT

Sigourney Weaver and Lisa Suatoni, senior scientist in the Natural Resources Defense Council’s oceans program, discuss the documentary "Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification." The film, produced by the NRDC, is narrated by and includes commentary by Sigourney Weaver and looks at how carbon dioxide pollution is making ocean water more acidic, threatening marine life and the entire ocean food web. "Acid Test," airs on Planet Green November 21 and November 25.

WNYC - Jonathan Schwartz - The Sunday Show

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:57 GMT

WNYC - Events - A Prairie Home Companion—Live at The Town Hall

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:57 GMT