David speaks with journalist turned author Mark Feldstein about his new book,Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture. The book describes the feud and antagonism between President Nixon and investigative journalist Mark Feldstein. Original Air Date: 04-26-2011 [audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/CWDL-Mark_Feldstein_Posoning_the_Press.mp3.mp3]
David speaks with Harry Shearer about his new documentary film about Hurricane Katrina called, The Big Uneasy. Shearer, a longtime resident of New Orleans’ French Quarter, is best known for his versatile voice. He does the voices for many of the Simpsons best known characters including Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Otto, Reverend Lovejoy, […]
David speaks with author Bill Shore about his new book The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men: Inspiration, Vision, and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria. Original Air Date: 04-20-2011 [audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/CWDL-Bill_Shore_on_Malaria.mp3]
David speaks with Geraldine Brooks about her work, The People of the Book. In this work Brooks, a former New York Times columnist, creates a fictional narrative around the true life drama of a mysterious missing Hebrew Haggadah pilfered from Sarajevo. The Haggadah is the prayer book used by Jews on Passover to tell the […]
David speaks with NY Times foreign correspondent Ellen Barry about the recent Kazakhstan elections, which took place on April 3. Ellen explains how these elections were only interesting because most citizens of Kazakhstan are certainly on board with their current President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Nazarbayev was elected with 95% of the vote for his 3rd term […]
David speaks with author Peter Bergen about his latest book The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and al-Qaeda. This is Bergen’s third book after Holy War Ink and The Osama I Know. The Longest War examines the history of The United States’ war on terrorism from all sides. Peter Bergen was the first […]
David speaks with singer Syl Johnson who for decades had one of the most prolific but still unheralded careers in Soul and R&B. Though never a household name in the 1960s and 70s, his music captured new audience in the 90s and early 2000s with the help of hip-hop artists like Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy […]
David speaks with David Weisberg, the Executive Director for Friends of the Arava Institute. The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies (AIES) is the premier environmental education and research program in the Middle East, preparing future Arab and Jewish leaders to cooperatively solve the region’s environmental challenges. With a student body comprised of Jordanians, Palestinians, Israelis, […]
David speaks with New York Times war correspondent David Rohde who was kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan for 7 months. He has written a book along with his wife Krisen Mulvihill about the experience called A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides. Original Air Date: 03-24-2011 [audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/CWDL-David_Rohde__Kristen_Mulvihill_A_Rope_and_a_Prayer.mp3]
David speaks with journalist Cristine Russell about the challenges facing Japan as they face a possible nuclear meltdown in the wake of the disastrous earthquake and tsunami that hit the country and more importantly three of the country’s nuclear reactors. Russell, a senior fellow in the environment and natural resource program at the Belfer Center […]