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Show from June 15, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Music therapist and lay cantor Lisa Sokolov visits,followed by a chat with bassist Dmitri Kolesnik. From June 8, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Jon Jeter visits to talk about the worldwide effect of globalization. Then we talk with Austin-based jazz singer Kat Edmonson. From June 1, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Writer Mike Edison author of "I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World" From May 25, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Steve Massa, film historian and writer and Ben Model, film historian and accompanist, two of the organizers of the Museum of Modern Art's Cruel and Unusual (film) Comedy: Social Commentary in the American Slapstick Film. Bruce Bennett cohosts. From May 18, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Show from May 11, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Duck Hunting with Dick. From May 4, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Artist/cartoonist R. Sikoryak and musician Dave Soldier. From April 27, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Show from April 20, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Jazz violinist Christian Howes on his unusual road to jazz and his latest CD, Heartfelt. Then, author Rachel Shteil talks about the great Gypsy Rose Lee. From April 13, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Art and architecture historian Kirsten Hoving and jazz pianist Antonio Ciacca. From April 6, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Duck Hunting with Dick. From March 30, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Show from March 23, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

David Rothkopf, author of "Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making, and tenor saxophonist David Sanchez. From March 16, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Week 2 of the 2009 WFMU Marathon with co-host Bruce Bennett. From March 9, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Week 1 of the 2009 WFMU Marathon with co-host Tim and Ken Smith with a Duck Hunting update. From March 2, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Pianist Jason Moran. From February 23, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Musician Marc Johnson, then our film correspondent Bruce Bennett. From February 16, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Pianist/arranger/composer/singer Elain Elias returns to the program. Then , legendary drummer Jimmy Cobb visits... From February 9, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Mulgrew Miller. From February 2, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

First, drummer/dynamo Francisco Mela, then filmmaker Emily Hubley is back! From January 26, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Duck Hunting with Dick - special AMF edition! From January 19, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Show from January 12, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Filmmaker John Walter visits to talk about his new film, Theater of War. Then, jazz (and radio!) legend Marian McPartland. From January 5, 2009. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

New York-based pianist Roy Meriwether. From December 29, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Carl Hart, Associate Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Columbia University, and Director of the Methamphetamine Research Laboratory at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. From December 22, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Sarah Murray, author of Moveable Feasts, Then, Grammy Award-winning clarinetist/saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera. From December 15, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Author and critic Judith Thurman, then Vince Giordano, leader of the band The Nighthawks and collector of early era jazz. From December 8, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Jazz critic Ben Ratliff, author of "The Jazz Ear: Conversations over Music" From December 1, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Paul Motian, one of the most influential modern drummers , then our special film correspondent Bruce Bennett. From November 24, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Filmmaker Les Blank. From November 17, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Teacher, writer, editor Peter Ferry, then a visit from a living legend, jazz pianist Hank Jones. From November 10, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Duck Hunting with Dick. Politics. Of course! With cohost Ken Smith. From November 3, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Legendary singer, songwriter Leslie Gore, then special film correspondent Bruce Bennett. From October 27, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Guest Amanda Petrusich, author of "It Still Moves", who hit the road and visited many of the iconic sites of America's musical heritage. From October 20, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Duck Hunting with Dick. From October 13, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Author Jen Lin-Liu, then , the Speakeasy's special film correspondent Bruce Bennett. From October 6, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Kent Jones on the 46th Annual New York Film Festival. From September 29, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Jazz Double - Stevie Holland and Francisco Mela. From September 22, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Our regular film expert and reviewer for the NY Sun, Bruce Bennett, then singer Patricia Barber talks about Cole Porter and more. From September 15, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Maverick filmmaker Robert Downey, Sr. plus jazz guitarist/singer John Pizzarelli. From September 8, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Duck Hunting with Dick! From September 1, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Pianist Kenny Barron, then Drummer Chico Hamilton. From August 25, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Ammon Shea author of "Reading the OED" From August 18, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Essayist and former American Scholar Editor Anne Fadiman. Then singer Maureen McGovern. From August 11, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Julie Salamon on red tape, healthcare, and her new book, Hospital. Then Speakeasy regular Bruce Bennett gives the film update. From August 4, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Dominic Streatfield, author of Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control and then, pianist/composer Cedar Walton. From July 28, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Author Jim Holt talks about his latest, Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes. Then, Jazz singer extraordinaire Carrie Jackson visits. From July 21, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

The team of vocalist CAPATHIA JENKINS and songwriter/performer LOUIS ROSEN visit to talk about their acclaimed new PS CLASSICS CD, "One Ounce of Truth: The Nikki Giovanni Songs. From July 14, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Critic, author, and the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Associate Director of Programming Kent Jones. From July 7, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Duck Hunting with Dick: The latest on all the political news, with cohost Ken Smith! From June 30, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Art critic Arthur C. Danto and legendary jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. From June 23, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Filmmaker Guy Maddin and legendary jazz alto saxophonist/composer Lee Konitz. From June 16, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Film night with Bruce Bennet and Jed Rapfogel. From June 9, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Filmmaker Phil Leirness visits to talk about his latest, Karl Rove, I Love You , a documentary-style look at the unique relationship between Bush's "brain" and character actor Dan Butler. From June 2, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Author Brian Hayes and jazz pianist Lafayette Harris, Jr. From May 26, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Frequent cohost and film critic Bruce Bennett gives an update on what's worth - and not worth - seeing in the theaters then jazz singer Shea Breaux Wells. From May 19, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Neurologist and neuroscientist Marco Iacoboni and Jazz pianist Don Friedman. From May 12, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Poet August Kleinzahler whose new book, Sleeping It Off in RapidCity: Poems, New and Selected, has just been released; then Producer Yusef Ghandhi visits to talk about Miles from India, which recreates Miles Davis tunes fused with an Indian sensibility. From May 5, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Kevin Phillips talks about his latest book, Bad Money, and Lily Koppel talks about her book, The Red Leather Diary. From April 28, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr., former Dean of the The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the author of The Powers to Lead. And then, Arthur Penn, director of many seminal films, including Bonnie and Clyde & Little Big Man. From April 21, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Singer in the vocalese tradition Giacomo Gates visits. His new CD/DVD, Luminosity, has just been released and he'll be performing at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola this Tuesday and Wednesday,April 15 & 16. From April 14, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Duck Hunting with Dick! The latest political shenanigans discussed with co-host Ken Smith. From April 7, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Comix artist Glenn Head returns to talk about Hotwire 2, his most recent compilation the works of many artists like Mary Fleener, Doug Allen, R. Sikoryak, and others. From March 31, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Filmmaker Emily Hubley returns to talk about her new film, The Toe Tactic Plus hear of Bruce Bennett's exploits as a victim of a White House aide's plagairism. From March 24, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Legendary pianist and radio personality Marian McPartland visits on the week of her 90th birthday! Then, Jesse Sheidlower, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and author of The F-Word. From March 17, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Steve Kuhn, performing with his trio at Birdland 3/12 - 3/15, and then John McCallum & Googie Withers, stars of the classic Brit-Noir It Always Rains on Sunday. From March 10, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

2008 WFMU Marathon with co-host Robin Edgerton. From March 3, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

2008 Marathon with Co-host Rich. From February 25, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Steven Lankenau, Director of Programming at the Brooklyn Philharmonic, talks about their Music Off the Walls concerts and other programs. From February 18, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Singer Judy Collins, then, Alex Boese, creator and curator of The Museum of Hoaxes alks about his book Elephants on Acid and Other Bizarre Experiments. From February 11, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Duck Hunting with Dick, with co-host Ken Smith. Prepare for "super" Tuesday with jaded political banter. From February 4, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Film critic and Film Society of Lincoln Center programmer Kent Jones and author, critic, and Library of America's Editor in Chief Geoffrey O'Brien return to The Speakeasy with their picks for favorite and worst films of 2007. From January 28, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Pianist Eliane Elias discusses her new CD "Something for You, a tribute to Bill Evans". Then, artist/author Maira Kalman talks about her latest book, The Principles of Uncertainty. From January 21, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Clarinetist Bob DeAngelis talks about his Bennie Goodman tribute concert at Carnegie Hall on January 16th to be performed with his 50-piece big band. Then, Margaret Krug talks about art history, techniques, and more. From January 14, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Otto Preminger biographer Foster Hirsch and actor Keir Dullea visit the Speakeasy to talk about this maverick fimmaker. Dullea starred in Preminger's Bunny Lake Is Missing, and Hirsh's book is OTTO PREMINGER: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING. From January 7, 2008. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Artist Chuck Close, the subject of the new film by Marion Cajori which features not only Close but also his friends and colleagues. And Edwin Frank, the Editorial Director of NYRB Classic. From December 24, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Onion editor, Chris Karwowski returns to the show to talk about Our Dumb World: The Atlas Of The Planet Earth. From December 17, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Kent Jones talks about his documentary, Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows , then Michael Feinstein discusses his life in music working with Ira Gershwin, and more. From December 10, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Film critic at the New York Sun and frequent visitor to the Speakeasy Bruce Bennett is back to talk movies. From December 3, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Jim Dunbar, one of the producers of the soundtrack for Todd Haynes' fictional Bob Dylan bio film "I'm not There," (as well as many other films) stops by. From November 26, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Singer Stacey Kent talks about her new CD, Breakfast on the Morning Tram. From November 19, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Paul L. Mills, poet, performance artist, rock journalist, and civil rights lawyers whose new book is "The Poetry Dollars". From November 12, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

A visit from Simone Dinnerstein, concert pianist and daughter of painter Simon Dinnerstein, who's new self-produced recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations hit the Billboard Classical charts at #1. From November 5, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Professor of civil engineering & author Henry Petroski on his latest book, "The Toothpick: Technology and Culture." plus Singer Marilyn Maye visits to talk about her tribute to Johnny Carson (she was on the Tonight Show 70+ times). From October 29, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Jazz pianist Jason Moran on the multi-media performance "IN MY MIND: Monk at Town Hall 1959" and Rodolphe Marconi, the director of "Lagerfeld Confidential", a profile of Karl Lagerfeld. From October 22, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Author Luc Sante talks about his work from 1990-2005, and his new collection of pieces from that time, Kill All Your Darlings. From October 15, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Daniel J. Levitin, record producer, musician, professor (McGill University), psycholgist, and author of This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession. From October 8, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff returns to the program to talk about his new book, Coltrane:The Story of a Sound. From October 1, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Kent Jones, editor-at-large of Film Comment magazine, and member of the Selection Committee for the NY Film Festival,on this year's NY Film Festival and his new book, Physical Evidence: Selected Film Criticism. From September 24, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Bruce Bennett joins Dorian and guests Craig Zobel and Pat Healy, director and star of the film Great World of Sound. From September 17, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Husband & wife performers/songwriting/production team Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, whose songs include "Aint No Mountain High Enough" & "You're All I Need To Get By". Then Garth Risk Hallberg, author of A Field Guide to the North American Family. From September 10, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Cultural and fashion writer Dana Thomas on the luxury goods market and how it lost its luster, as chronicled in her book, Deluxe. Then Richard Pena of the Film Society of Lincoln Center returns to talk about the upcoming LatinBeat film festival. From September 3, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright (The Looming Tower) visits again to talk about Al Quaeda and more. Then, Ken Smith discusses new developments, including our Rove-less and Gonzales-free future. From August 27, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Charles D'Ambrosio, author most recently of the short story collection The Dead Fish Museum (a Pen/Fulkner finalist) as well as The Point and a collection of essays Orphans, visits the program to talk about his work. From August 20, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

U of Chicago Prof in the Dept of Ecology & Evolution Jerry Coyne gives an update of evolution and anti-evolution in the political sphere and trumpeter Avishai Cohen visits to talk about his latest CD, "After the Big Rain". From August 13, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Frequent cohost and New York Sun film critic Bruce Bennett visits to talk about the cinematic scene. From August 6, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Orrin Keepnews, the legendary music producer who helped build the reputations of such giants as Thelonius Monk and Bill Evans spends an hour discussing his life and career. From July 30, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Victoria Gotti, wife of John Gotti Senior, talks about her art and life. Then, singer Annie Ross,of Lambert Hendricks and Ross. She is performing at the Metropolitan Room in midtown Manhattan every Tuesday night. From July 23, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Novelist Douglas A. Martin discusses his work, including Outline of my Lover. From July 16, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Innovative trumpeter and vocalist Matt Shulman visits to talk about his music and the unique system he developed. From July 9, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Lincoln Center Film Society Programmer/ film scholar Kent Jones returns to discuss the Cannes Film Festival, the 30 Years of Kino International festival up at the Walter Reade Theater, and the late director Edward yang and his legacy. From July 2, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Legendary jazz bassist Ron Carter and violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. From June 25, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Singer Mary Wilson of the Supremes and Jack Beatty, senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly and news analyst for NPR's On Point public affairs and news program. From June 18, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Let's Get Lost... Bruce Weber and Jeff Preiss, the director and Director of Photography of this epic documetary on the self destructive genius that was jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, visit. From June 11, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Duck Hunting with Dick - o-host Ken Smith joins Dorian to talk about what's been going on in the world of politics and, well, politics. From June 4, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Former Republican party strategist Kevin Phillips discusses his latest book, American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury. Then, Alternadad Neal Pollack visits. From May 28, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Jazz pianist supreme Bill Charlap. From May 21, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Dori Hadar, who discovered a trove of hand-rendered album covers with cardboard records inside, along with homemade cardboard 45's and 8-tracks, all by "Mingering Mike." Then Dennis Geronimus, author of Piero di Cosimo, Visions Beautiful and Strange. From May 14, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Bruce Bennett cohosts another film fact & fun-filled hour as the Speakeasy celebrates screen legend Lee Marvin. Marvin's widow, Pamela Feeley Marvin, is a special guest. From May 7, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Vocalist Jessica Molaskey and jazz guitarist/vocalist John Pizzarelli have the most sophisticated husband and wife musical act around. They visit The Speakeasy this week. From April 30, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Author Jonathan Lethem discusses his newest novel, You Don't Love Me Yet. Then, philanthrpist and ambassador Swanee Hunt talk about her work and her book, Half-Life of a Zealot. From April 23, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Psychologist (and rock violinist) Katie Gentile talks about Creating Bodies: Eating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival, in which she analyzes a lifelong diary of a woman with bulimia. From April 16, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

WOMEN IN SCIENCE NIGHT. First, physicist Janna Levin (whose research areas include black holes, the finite universe and theories of everything) then, mathematician Cathleen Morawetz, Professor Emerita of Mathematical Sciences at NYU. From April 9, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Film distributer and historian Eric Spilker joins Bruce Bennett and Dorian as they discuss B musicals . The Film Forum in Manhattan will be featuring some of these in a program entitles, appropriately, B Musicals, which will run from March 30 -April 19. From April 2, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Michael Jacobs visits to discuss his feature documentary debut, Audience of One in which a San Francisco Pentecostal minister, having received a vision from God, leads his small flock to make a sci-fi biblical epic titled "Gravity: The Shadow of Joseph." From March 26, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Legendary jazz pianist Steve Kuhn returns to discuss his career, his trio with Al Foster and Ron Carter, and their new CD, Live at Birdland. Then, a repeat of Joseph Epstein on Friendship, in honor of all the friends of WFMU who pledged this year. From March 19, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Week Two of the 2007 Marathon With Marathon co-host Bruce Bennett. From March 12, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Buzz Poole visits to talk about his investigations of facial sightings in taco shells, toast, rocks, and other unlikely places. He is the author of author of Madonna of the Toast. From February 26, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Singer songwriter Bobby Hebb, who was catapulted into fame in 1966 with his hit song and album, "Sunny" and Adam Kern (Harvard University Dept Japanese Literature) talks about the history of manga. From February 19, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Primatologist Frans de Waal. He will discuss his new book "Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved" From February 12, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Editors and Writers of The Onion, America's Finest News Source. From February 5, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Bob Stein of The Institute for the Future of the Book. From January 29, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Critics Kent Jones and Geoffrey O'Brien join Dorian for the Best of 2006 film roundup. From January 22, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Biologist Richard Dawkins returns to The Speakeasy, this time to talk about The God Delusion. From January 15, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Novelist and memoirist Paula Fox, plus documentary filmmaker Ellen Bruno. From January 8, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Gaylord and Dorian give the airwaves over to the NPRI Radio Network's star on-air talent, Shoshanna Shaldhoury and Art Ott, for a unique and sophisticated hour of discussion on topics of concern to listeners like you. From January 1, 2007. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Artist Walton Ford, whose paintings of the not-always -so natural world are currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum, visits the program. From December 25, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Sabine Rewald, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Jacques and Natasha Gelman Curator in the Department of 19th-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art .She is the curator of the Met's current exhinition GLITTER AND DOOM: German Portraits from the 1920's. From December 18, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

The Chicago Reader's film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum talks about Jacques Tati's classic film Playtime and also his time working with Tati, then director Marie Nyrerod on her film Bergman Island, a documentary on filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. From December 11, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Anne Elizabeth Moore from Punk Planet and Series Editor of Best American Comics 2006. From December 4, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Author Carl Hiaasen talks bout his latest novel, Nature Girl. Then Harry Shearer and Bob Balaban, two of the cast memeber of the new film For Your Consideration, talk about their craft and the experiences of being in Christopher Guest's films. From November 27, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

It's John Ford night as Bruce Bennett, Kent Jones, Amy Taubin, and actor Dobe Carey (SEARCHERS, etc). From November 20, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik visits to talk about his chronicles of New York City since he returned in 2000, which are compiled in his new book Through the Children's Gate. From November 13, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Lee Silver visits the program to talk about chimera, biotechnology, clong, and more. (See playlist for full description.) From November 6, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Joseph LeDoux of New York University's Center for the Neuroscience of Fear and Anxiety visits to program to talk about fear and the biological mechanisms of emotional memory. From October 30, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Jerry Coyne on Intelligent Design and comic artist/curator Ivan Brunetti, creator of Schizo, talks about the art of graphic fiction and comics. (See playlist for full description.) From October 23, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

Artist Richard Eagan, who will be part of the Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour talks about art, honey, karaoke, and much more. From October 16, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Noted cultural critic Greil Marcus: "If you're looking to see the future of America you're better off looking to today's artists than the politicians". All this is in his latest book, The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice. From October 9, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Ken Smith and Dorian bring you Duck Hunting with Dick with special guest: Sidney Blumenthal - journalist, assistant, and senior advisor to President Bill Clinton, and author of How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime. From October 2, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Just in time for the opening of the New York Film Festival (Sept. 29 - Oct. 15), critic Kent Jones of the programming committee revisits our airwaves to talk about this year's festival offerings and more in the world of film. From September 25, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt joins Dorian and cohost Bruce Bennett to talk about her new film, "Old Joy" which is opening at the Film Forum in Manhattan on Sept 20. From September 18, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

What better way to celebrate New York than to speak with author Ian Frazier, who visits the studio for a full hour. His latest book, Gone to New York: Adventures in the City, is now out in paperback. From September 11, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

What is the nature of friendship? Author Joseph Epstein explores this question.In fact, his latest book addresses the subject- Friendship: An Expose. From September 4, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

New Yorker staff writer & fellow at the Center for Law & Security at NYU Lawrence Wright on the events that led to the attacks on the World Trade Center and about Al-Qaeda. His book is The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. From August 28, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Food, wine and travel writer Jinx Morgan, co-author of 1965 book, Saucepans & the Single Girl and Jason Bitner, creator and editor of Found Magazine. From August 21, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Ken Smith returns for a little Duck Hunting with Dick! From August 14, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Robert Marbury of MART (Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists) talks about rogue taxidermy and Michael Crewdson, who with Margaret Mittelbach wrote Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger returns with tales of the wild. From August 7, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Todd Pruzan, who has edited and put together the works of travelogue-ist and xenophobe Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer and Summer book pics with Carol Lipnik! From July 31, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

More film talk with writer/filmmaker/musican and all0around entertaining guy Bruce Bennett. From July 24, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

From April 3, 2006: Peter Whybrow, author of "American Mania: When Too Much Is Not Enough." From July 17, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Executive Director of the Arms Control Association Daryl G. Kimball visits and Ken Smith cohosts another installment of Duck Hunting with Dick. From July 10, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Paul R. Pillar of Georgetown University who was a longtime National Intelligence Officer for the Central intelligence Agency and star chef Daniel Boulud ob his new television show, AFTER HOURS WITH DANIEL. From July 3, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Film critic Kent Jones , who has workes as an archivist for Martin Scorsese's Cappa Productions), programmer (for the Film Society of Lincoln Center) and critic and editor at large for Film Comment. From June 26, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Author Phillip Lopate, talking about "American Movie Critics: From the Silents Until Now". Also, the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Richard Pena visits again. From June 19, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Bruce Bennett returns to talk film. Dorian and Bruce are joined by a special guest, filmmaker James Spooner (Afro-Punk), who is co-curator of the Afro-Punk weekend at BAM June 30 - July 4 . From June 12, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Renowned comix artist Glenn Head visits the studios to talk about his latest project, HOTWIRE Comix and Capers, which he edited and features works by artists Tony Millionaire, Carol Swain, Danny Hellman, and many others. From June 5, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Artist, animator, commercial director and carpenter Mac Premo visits to talk about his work and the 2006 Atlantic Avenue Artwalk (Saturday & Sunday, June 3 & 4) From May 29, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Kate T. Williamson, the author of "A Year in Japan" stops by the Speakeasy with Dorian. From May 22, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Author John Haskell visits the studios to talk about his latest book, American Purgatorio. From May 15, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Duck Hunting with Dick, with Ken Smith and guest Gen. Wm. Odom. From May 8, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Food critic and Gourmet magazine editor Ruth Reichl about her latest book, Garlic and Sapphires. And Duke University Professor of Enginaeering and author Henry Petroski on Success Through Failure, the Paradox of Design. From May 1, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Producer, director, writer, and founder of the American Film Institute George Stevens, Jr. and foreign policy advisor Charles A. Stevenson talks about the unique challenges of the office of Secretary of Defense and the people who have served in the office. From April 24, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

NYU Professor of American Studies Andrew Ross discusses corporate flight and the lessons of free trade as explained in his latest book, Fast Boat to China: Lessons from Shanghai. And April is Poetry Month, Lawyer/poet Lawrence Joseph helps celebrate. From April 17, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Artist Tricia McLaughlin talks about her latest body of work, Aquatecture, and historian of science and technology Bettyann Kevles of talks about her latest book, Almost Heaven: The Story of Women in Space. From April 10, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Peter Whybrow, author of "American Mania: When Too Much Is Not Enough," and wiretap/surveilance/countermeasure expert Martin Kaiser, author of "Odyssey of an Eavesdropper." From April 3, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

The return of author and historian of technology Edward Tenner, this time tp talk about Google, science education, and the erging plagiosphere.Then photographer Simen Johan dioscusses his latest work, Until the Kingdom Comes. From March 27, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Bruce Bennett returns to talk about the last of the indepents, Don Siegel, director of the original Ivasionof the Bosy Snatchers, Dirty Harry, Charlei Varrick, and many other notable films. Plus other film talk! From March 20, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Author of the novel The Seas, Samantha Hunt, visits the studios to talk writing, music, and mermaids. From March 13, 2006. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Noam Chomsky, the MIT Professor of linguistics and philisophy and political writer talks about the post 9-11 world and his book,'Imperial Ambitions'. Also appearing will be New Yorker Editor David Remnick. From December 12, 2005. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Author Salman Rushdie whose latest novel is "Shalimar the Clown". Afterwards, the amazing Charles Burns talks about Black Holes. From November 14, 2005. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Indie film kingmaker John Pierson and filmmaker Steve James (Stevie, Hoop Dreams) visit the show to talk about James' latest film, Reel Paradise. From August 15, 2005. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Library of America Editor Geoffrey O'Brien visits the studios to talk about his book "Sonta for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears." From May 30, 2005. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Kevin Guilfoile, authoer of the cloning thriller Cast of Shadows and Geoffrey O'Brien talks about the classic samurai film "The Sword of Doom," which was just released on DVD. From March 28, 2005. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Duck Hunting with Dick. Ken Smith and Dorian discuss the latest congressional and Bushian hijinks, the IMAX scandal, and more! Special visit by Dr. Richard Lutz, the Rutgers oceanographer who was the Science Director on VOLCANOES. From March 21, 2005. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Psychiatrist Peter Whybrow talks about his book "American Mania: When More is Not Enough". Also, Oliver Hirschbiegel, director of "Downfall", an Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film which documents Hitler's final days in the bunker. From February 28, 2005. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey on his newest book, the nonfiction "Wrong About Japan : A Father's Journey with His Son." Plus: Who the Hell's In It? Filmmaker/author Peter Bogdanovich talks about his favorite actors and actresses. From February 21, 2005. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Dolores Hayden, prof of architecture and American Studies at Yale, on the phemonenon of urban sprawl & Sarah Greenough, curator & head of the Dept of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, on their exhibition of the photography of Andre Kertesz. From February 14, 2005. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

David Thompson: The author and film critic returns to The Speakeasy to talk about The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood. From February 7, 2005. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Ken Smith returns for the roundup on Condi's confirmation, Cheney's reemergence, the Coronation, and other things political on Duck Hunting with Dick. From January 31, 2005. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Jason Moran, called "the most provacative thinker in modern jazz," (Rolling Stone) visits the Speakeasy to talk about the piano, jazz, and his sixth and latest album, Same Mother. From January 24, 2005. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Former Green Room regular John Dowling, Gund Professor of Neuroscience and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University, returns to talk about The Great Brain Debate: Nature or Nurture? From January 10, 2005. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Dorian and Gaylord's annual holiday hijinks. From December 27, 2004. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Richard Dawkins talks about creationism, the state of science, and his book, "The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution." And Michael Hirsh, author of "At War With Ourselves:Why America Is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better World." From December 20, 2004. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author Susan Orlean visits The Speakeasy to talk about "My Kind of Place - Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere." From December 13, 2004. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Michael Scheuer, one of the Central Intelligence Agency's foremost experts on Osama bin Laden and the (formerly anonymous) author of "Imperial Hubris." From December 6, 2004. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Ken Smith on his new book, "Junk English 2" From November 29, 2004. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Jazz critic and author of "Weather Bird" Gary Giddins and former Marine HN Andrew Schmidt, who was abused and harrassed during his time in the military, discusses a horrible situation which is more widespread than the high-profile Tailhook incident. From November 22, 2004. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Catherine O'Hara discusses her work on SCTV and on the films "A Mighty Wind", "Best in Show", etc. Filmmaker Mike Leigh discusses his latest, "Vera Drake". From November 15, 2004. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

The Daily Show's correspondent Ed Helms joins Dorian & Ken to discuss democracy inaction and America (The Book). Also appearing, Peter Davis, director of the Academy Award winning film "Hearts and Minds." From October 25, 2004. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Mark Crispin Miller, author of "Cruel and Unusual" joins Dorian and co-host Ken Smith. From October 18, 2004. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Three-time Academy Award-winning editor/sound editor Walter Murch, who worked on such films as Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, and the newly re-released THX 1138. From September 13, 2004. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

The return of Paul Krugman of the New York Times OpEd pages. And Ken Smith. From August 30, 2004. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Congressman Jim McDermott (D- Washington) joins Dorian and co-host Ken Smith for a Duck Hunting with Dick extravaganza. From August 23, 2004. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Author Peter Cowie on his book "Revolution: The Explosion of World Cinema in the Sixties." From July 26, 2004. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Kim Hendrickson of The Criterion Collection on Pier Paolo Pasolini's classic film MAMMA ROMA and others. From June 28, 2004. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Fresh from completing a specially commissioned mural at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, artist Alexis Rockman visits the show. From April 26, 2004. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Legendary chef Daniel Boulud, owner of the restaurants Daniel, Cafe Boulud, and DB, and author of many cookbooks as well as "Letters to a Young Chef", talks about his life and work. Plus Bay area photographer Michael Light on his latest book, "100 Suns" From December 22, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Military historian John Keegan discusses Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda. Photographer Simen Yohan, whose new pictorial narrative series "Breeding Ground" is showing in Manhattan. From November 10, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Photographer Mary Ellen Mark on her book TWINS, published by Aperture Press, on view at Kennedy Boesky Photographs until Nov. 8. Jeff Nagel, twin of Steve Nagel, on the yearly Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, and being in Mary Ellen Mark's project. From October 27, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Artist James Rosenquist, whose work can be seen in a retospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. From October 20, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Engineer and author Henry Petroski on design & his latest book, "Small Things Considered: Why Design. From October 13, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia talks about the work in his exhibition & book, "A Storybook Life". From September 29, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Malcolm Daniel, Curator of photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, talks about the Met's new show on French daguerrotypes, and NEW YORKER film critic Anthony Lane on the movies and his book, "Nobody'd Perfect". From September 22, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Dr. Edward Teller from 1999. From September 15, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Otto Penzler, editor of "Best American Crime Writing" and Joseph Epstein, author of a new collection of short stories, "Fabulous Small Jews", as well as the nonfiction "Snobbery". From September 8, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Peter Galison, Harvard University Professor of Physics and History of Science talks about his latest book, "Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps", which details the real world background which influenced the theory of relativity. From September 1, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Comic artist Peter Kuper ( www.peterkuper.com ) talks about his latest book, a graphic novel adaptation of Kafka' METAMORPHOSIS (Crown), and also about World War 3 Illustrated, a political comix magazine he co-founded, and more. From August 25, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Phortographer Jeff Meremelstein talks about the art of street photography and his new book, "No Title Here" (powerHouse Books). From August 18, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Magician and debunker extrordinaire James Randi visits The Speakeasy via tele(phone)kinesis to talk about the latest in paranormal claims. From August 11, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Steven Heller, Art Director of the New York Times Book Review and author of over 70 books on graphic design, talks about his newest , MERZ TO EMIGRE AND BEYOND: Avant-Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century (Phaidon Press). From July 28, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Editor of The Nation, Victor Navasky visits to discuss the Hollywood blacklist and his book, "Naming Names." From July 21, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Joe Garden and others from The Onion (www.theonion.com) will be live in the studio to shock and awe. From July 14, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Show from July 7, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Scholar/author Edward Tenner on the past and future of body technology and his new book, "Our Own Devices." From June 30, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Susan J. Napier, professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at the U of Texas at Austin, discusses the art and culture of Anime. Mel Stuart, director of WATTSTAX, WILLIE WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY and others. From June 16, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Peter Howe, photojournalist, NYTimes Magazine picture editor, Life magazine Director of Photography, and VP of photography and creative service at Corbis talks about combat photography and the personalities involved, and his book, "Shooting Under Fire". From June 9, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Diane Ravitch talks about textbook censorship and her new book, "The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn". From June 2, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Author Richard Ford on his latest, A Multitude of Sins". From May 26, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Photographer Jonathan Torgovnik talks about Bollywood, photojournalism, India, and his book, Bollywood Dreams. From May 19, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Robert Lanham, author of "The Hipster Handbook" and filmmaker Guy Maddin (Dracula:Pages from a Virgin's Diary). From May 12, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Sir Martin Rees, UK Astronomer Royal on his latest book "Our Final Hour"; and Jay Cantor, author of "Great Neck" From May 5, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Show from April 28, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Show from April 21, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Edward Rothstein, the New York Times Cultural Critic at Large and author of Visions of Utopia. From April 14, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Legendary for his advertising and political campaigns, and provocative Esquire covers of the 60's, George Lois talks about his work and his new book, $ellebrity. From April 7, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

photographer David Levinthal joins Dorian live in the studio. From March 31, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Steve James, the director of the highly acclaimed HOOP DREAMS discusses his new film, "STEVIE" Also, Director Kevin McMahon, whose feature-length documentary MCLUHAN's WAKE will air on the Sundance Channel. From March 24, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Multimedia artist Matthew Barney, whose Cremaster Cycle films and works are being exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in a giant retrospective, talks about his work and influences. From March 17, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy, author of Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption. From February 24, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Geoff Dyer author of "Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It" From February 17, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Writer Richard Price. From February 10, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

"The Tenacity of the Cochroach" author Stephen Thompson of The Onion's AV Club and filmmaker Frederick Wiseman on his latest, "the Last Letter". From February 3, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Guest Dr Richard L. Garwin. From January 27, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Reairing of interview with Lawrence K Altman, author of "Who Goes First? The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine" From January 20, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Physicist Charles Falco on working with artist David Hockney and film director George Romero. From January 13, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Photographer Gregory Crewdson on his recently published book "Twilight" From January 6, 2003. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Film critic David Thompson. From December 30, 2002. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Special FUN holiday edition of the Speakeasy with filmmaker Bill Morrison and Gretchen Warden, director of the Mutter Museum. From December 23, 2002. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Former Marine, Pentagon and Rand Corp analyst, and the person responsible for releasing the Pentagon Papers DANIEL ELLSBERG talks about politics, Iraq, and his new book, "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers". From December 16, 2002. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

CHRISTA LANG FULLER and JEROME RUDES talk about filmmaker Samuel Fuller, and DANIEL JONAH GOLDHAGEN on his new book, "A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair". From December 9, 2002. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Historian of technology Jonathan Spira discussing the history and future of technology, including photography and info imaging. From December 2, 2002. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!. See the playlist.

New York Times Jazz Critic Ben Ratliff. From November 25, 2002. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Glenn Kenny: a contributer to the book "A Galaxy Not So Far Away: Writers and Artists on Twenty-Five Years of Star Wars." Costumes NOT neccesary. From November 18, 2002. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

KATHLEEN CLEAVER, Black Panther Party 1967 to 1971, talks about her times with the Panthers and the new book of photos from these times "Black Panther 1968", published recently by the Greybull Press. From November 11, 2002. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Underground comics star Kim Deitch, discussing his new book "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams." From November 4, 2002. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

The writers of THE ONION drop by the studio for some laughs and talk about The Onion Ad Nauseum (seriously). From October 28, 2002. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Francine Prose author of "The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women &the Artists They Inspired"; Directors Kirby & Amy Ziering Kofman on their new film, "Derrida"; plus David Malin, scientific advisor on the book "Heaven and Earth" From October 21, 2002. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

William Grimes, author of "Straight Up or On the Rocks: The Story of the American Cocktail" From October 14, 2002. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Jonathan Safran Foer, author of "Everything Is Illuminated". From October 7, 2002. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Shabana Azmi: Indian actress, activist, and member of Parliament. From September 30, 2002. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Photographer Bruce Davidson. From September 23, 2002. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.

Author Ted Conover author of "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" From September 16, 2002. Listen to the whole show:  Pop-up player!.