This episode of Conversations with David Lewis is a flashback to an older conversation with the recently departed – Stephen J. Cannell. Cannell was the Emmy award-winning writer and producer of such television classics like The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Silk Stalkings, amongst more than 40 other shows. He also was a prolific fiction writer […]
Thanks in part to urban music giants like Jermaine Dupri, Ludacris and Outkast, Atlanta has become synonymous with hip-hop. To help us understand Atlanta’s place in the hip-hop world, David welcomes into the studio hip-hop producer and rapper Daddy-O. Daddy-O was a founding member of the pioneering Brooklyn hip-hop group Stetsasonic in the early 80s. […]
David speaks with psychologist turned author Noam Shpancer. His first novel, which has been receiving widespread rave reviews, is called The Good Psychologist. Aside from writing his novel, Shpancer is a professor of psychology at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio and is a practicing clinician in Columbus, Ohio specializing in the treatment of anxiety disorders. […]
David speaks with journalist James Bamford about his book Shadow Factory. Bamford has spent decades covering and investigating the National Security Agency (aka the NSA) – the largest but least known of America’s intelligence branches. This book, his third about the agency, deals specifically with NSA’s transformation following the September 11th attacks and its troubling, […]
A new documentary film premiered this past week called The Tillman Story about the death and military cover-up of Pat Tillman who left a successful career as an NFL star to volunteer for the army after 9-11. For today’s Conversations with David Lewis, David speaks with Mary Tillman, Pat Tillman’s mother, and one of the […]
With the recent prominent arrests of two of Mexico’s most wanted drug kingpins – Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel and a rival known as “La Barbie” – it’s time to return to for an update on Mexico’s still escalating drug war with professor George Grayson of William & Mary’s and an expert on narco-violence in Mexico. Since […]
Ethan Bronner, Bureau Chief for The New York Times in Jerusalem, talks about the tangible lack of optimism felt by both governments in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Bronner discusses the multitude of groups and opinions on the matter, the role of U.S. relations, and the negotiation strengths and weaknesses of the respective governments. Original Air […]
Shalia Dewan, National Correspondent for The New York Times based in Atlanta, discusses the Civil Rights cold cases that are resurfacing today. While many such cases have been successfully prosecuted and Attorney General Gonzales declared the government’s taking on the prosecuting effort, the real story lies in the lack of progress and resolution that still […]
The best-selling author talks about his latest legal thriller. As with all his books, Patterson explores huge social issues. Previous subjects at the heart of Patterson’s books have included abortion, the death penalty, gun control, the Middle-East conflict, the battle for oil and wealth in Nigeria and the Presidential election process in the US. In […]
David Ensor, Director of Communications and Diplomacy for the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, discusses life in the embassy, his role in forwarding the Afghan economy, and his take on the cultural phenomena taking place there. Ensor talks about becoming a bureaucrat, Afghanistan’s need for sports television, and how a former journalist responds to Wiki […]