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Albert Murray, the prophetic ‘Omni American,’ Rests in Peace 20 Aug 2013 | 08:26 am
Al Murray, in a New York Times portrait from 1998. Not the least of it is that stunning tweed jacket, made by Mr. Murray’s (and Ralph Ellison’s, and Miles Davis’) tailor in Cambridge, Massachusetts, C...
Gerald Shea’s Song Without Words 17 Jul 2013 | 05:01 am
Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Gerald Shea (48 min, 43 meg) I wondered whether music might not be the unique example of what might have been — if the invention of language, the formation...
Qais Akbar Omar: What We Owe the Afghans 2 Jul 2013 | 04:37 am
Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Qais Akbar Omar (35 min, 30 meg) Qais Akbar Omar’s view of the Bamyan plain in Central Afghanistan, from one of the caves behind the ancient Buddha statute...
Jeff Sachs on JFK’s last year: Between Doom and Miracle 25 Jun 2013 | 06:54 pm
Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Jeff Sachs (48 min, 39 meg) For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We...
Mark Blyth (9) : On the Dead End of Austerity 18 Jun 2013 | 05:55 pm
Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Mark Blyth (28 min, 26 meg) The Great Gatsby is out as a film again. Go see it! Think about it. Basically you have this tiny elite. How many yachts can the...
JFK & his Papa: David Nasaw’s light on The Patriarch 5 Jun 2013 | 12:13 am
Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with David Nasaw, biographer of The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy (48 min, 40 meg) We recorded this conversation with ...
Iyer Dyer & Doty is not a Law Firm 24 May 2013 | 11:46 pm
Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Geoff Dyer, Mark Doty and Pico Iyer at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2013(38 min, 30 meg) This one won’t be on the final exam, but in the spring clearance...
William Dalrymple: Lessons Too Late on Afghanistan 13 May 2013 | 12:46 am
Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with William Dalrymple (20 min, 19 meg) The British Indian Army at Gandamak — surrounded, outnumbered and slaughtered in Afghanistan, 1842. For President Obama...
Where’s the Hodges – Carney Monument in Boston? 2 May 2013 | 07:24 pm
Please join the musical flashbacks and live radio gab on WGBH today: Thursday, May 2 at 1 p.m. on Boston Public Radio with Jim Braude and Margery Egan. Questions for listeners might start with: Did an...
Marathon Moral: End the Drone War 29 Apr 2013 | 08:25 pm
Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Jim Braude and Margery Egan on Boston Public Radio, WGBH, April 25, 2013. (19 min, 17 meg) Graves of some of the 12 children killed this month by a CIA air...
