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Interviews for Public Radio
October 05, 2009
Shakespeare's Opposites: The Admiral's Company 1594-1625
Interview with Andrew Gurr, Literary Scholar and Co-Director of the Renaissance Texts Research Centre, Reding University
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Thursday October 01, 2009
Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
Interview with Russell Shorto, Director of the John Adams Institute, Amsterdam; Contributing Writer at the New York Times
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September 28, 2009
The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive
Interview with John Graham-Cumming, Founder of Electric Cloud, and author of a unique travel book.
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September 25, 2009
Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-LongSearch to Discover Its Secrets
Interview with author Jo Merchant on her book describing an ancient Greek "computer."
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September 19, 2007
Why Size Matters: From Bacteria To Blue Whales
Interview with John Tyler Bonner, Developmental Biologist and the George M. Moffett Professor Emeritus at Princeton University
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September 14, 2007
The Frodo Franchise: The Lord Of The Rings And Modern Hollywood
Interview with Kristin Thompson , Film Theorist, Writer and Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin
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September 13, 2007
Doomsday Men: The Real Dr. Strangelove And The Dream Of The Superweapon
Interview with Peter D. Smith, Writer, on his book of the making of the atomic bomb/p>
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September 12, 2007
15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved The American Century
Interview with Stanley Weintraub, Professor Emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and Biographer
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January 29, 2007
Convergence Culture: Where old and new media collide
Interview Henry Jenkins, Professor of Humanities and the Founder and Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT
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September 28, 2006
The New Television Season (2006)
Interview with David Bianculli, TV Critic for The New York Daily News and Contributor to Fresh Air
Listen or download (43:16)
September 27, 2006
Spying on the bomb: American nuclear intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea
Interview with Jeffrey T. Richelson, Writer and a Senior Fellow at the National Security Archive and a Leading Authority on U.S. intelligence agencies
Listen or download (43:18)
September 26, 2006
The Shakespeare Wars: Chasing scholars, public fiascoes, palace coups
Interview with Ron Rosenbaum, Journalist writing for The New York Times Magazine, The New York Observer, and Esquire
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September 25, 2006
The Box: How the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger
Interview with Marc Levinson, Economist, Formerly Finance and Economics Editor of The Economist, Journalist, and Editorial Director of the Journal Commerce
Listen or download (44:30)
September 22, 2006
Why most things fail: Evolution, extinction and ecology
Interview with Paul Ormerod, Theoretical Economist, Founding Director of the Henley Centre for Forecasting, and one of the Founding Directors of Volterra Consulting
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September 20, 2006
The Last Imaginary Place: A human history of the arctic world
Interview with Robert McGhee, Curator of Arctic Archeology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization
Listen or download (43:53)
September 19, 2006
Orson Welles: Volumes 1 & 2, The Road to Xanadu and Hello Americans
Interview with Simon Callow, Writer, Director and Actor
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September 15, 2003
Mirror Mirror: A history of the human love affair with reflection
Interview with Mark Pendergrast, Independent Scholar and Writer
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September 17, 2003
Envisioning science: The design and craft of the science image
Interview with photographer Felice Frankel, research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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September 25, 2001
The Reactor and the Whale: A Search For Limits in an Age of High Technology
Interview with Langdon Winner
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September 24, 2001
The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
Interview with Samuel Florman
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September 16, 2000
The Comfort of Home
Interview with Merritt Ierley
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