For AM-1690 in Atlanta, David’s assignment is to simply interview anyone he wants about anything.
David speaks with Sally Bethea, the founding director of Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. The Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper’s goal is to restore and maintain the river, its tributaries and its watershed.
Original Air Date: 05-19-2011
[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/CWDL-Sally_Bethea_Upper_Chatahoochee_RiverKeeper.mp3]David speaks with Greg Lindsay about his latest book Aerotropolis. In its most extreme sense, aerotropolis is the concept of building major cities around a major airport. Lindsay describes how major Chinese cities have done this, and how it has brought millions of jobs to the cities that have implemented this successfully.
Original Air Date: 05-12-2011
[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/CWDL-Greg_Lindsay_Aerotropolis.mp3]David speaks with Carole Markin, aka Jane Doe, about her lawsuit against the popular dating website Match.com. Markin claims that after meeting a match on the website, she was brutally sexually assaulted. After many months of only revealing herself as “Jane Doe,” Markin revealed her true identity to the world in a desperate plea to tighten the background checks on members of Match.com.
Original Air Date: 05-10-2011
[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/CWDL-Carole_Markin_Jane_Doe.mp3]David speaks with Rye Barcott about his new book It Happened on the Way to War. This book serves as Barcott’s very personal memoir into a life that found him balancing his humanitarian work in foreign countries with being a soldier serving in Iraq. Rye Barcott is a former Marine Corps captain and cofounder of Carolina for Kibera, an acclaimed non-governmental organization that uses a unique model of participatory development to break cycles of violence and develop leaders in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.
Original Air Date: 04-28-2011
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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, etc. The Big Uneasy centers on, and in many ways faults, the actions and inaction of the Army Corps of Engineers.
Original Air Date: 04-26-2011
[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/CWDL-Harry_Shearer_The_Big_Uneasy.mp3]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 story of the Israelites exodus from Egypt.
Original Air Date: 04-19-2011
[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/CWDL-Geraldine_Brooks_People_of_the_Books.mp3]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 in office.
Original Air Date: 04-18-2011
[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/CWDL-Ellen_Barry-Kazakhstan.mp3]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 American to interview Osama Bin-Laden in 1997 and serves as terrorism expert for CNN.
Original Air Date: 04-1-2011
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