For AM-1690 in Atlanta, David’s assignment is to simply interview anyone he wants about anything.
Newsweek columnist Johnathan Alter speaks with David Lewis about his newest book The Promise: President Obama Year One. The book follows the first year of Obama’s presidency and what he did and didn’t accomplish. The book includes interviews with all the members of Obama’s administration and cabinet.
Original Air Date: 06-17-2010
[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/CWDL-Johnathan-Alter-Obama-Year-1-mixdown.mp3]Following on the heals of the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta and the all-consuming controversy of Tiger Woods, David will be speaking to author Steve Eubanks about another golf scandal – this from nearly 80 years ago, also involving the best player in the game, and it occurred right here in Atlanta. The book is called, To Win and Die in Dixie: The Birth of the Modern Golf Swing and the Mysterious Death of Its Creator.
Original Air Date: 06-16-2010
[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/CWDL-Steve-Eubanks-To-Win-and-Die-in-Dixie-mixdown.mp3]Acclaimed and best-selling author Sue Miller talks about her latest novel, The Lake Shore Limited. Miller’s previous books include The Senator’s Wife, Lost in the Forest, The World Below, and While I Was Gone.
Original Air Date: 06-11-2010
[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/CWDL-Sue-Miller-Lake-Shore-Limited.mp3]Jeff Stein is the Washington Post’s blogger on matters of intelligence. His blog, SpyTalk, tracks insider news from the intelligence services. One of his most recent entries, however, attracted much wider attention from across the web. CIA unit’s wacky idea: depict Saddam as gay. David speaks with Stein about this and other strange initiatives contemplated by the CIA.
Original Air Date: 06-4-2010
[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/CWDL-Jeff_Stein_SpyTalk.mp3]David speaks with Mary Tillman, mother of the former NFL star Pat Tillman who died while serving in Afghanistan. Pat was an NFL running back who left football to join the army after 9-11. He was killed in Afghanistan from friendly fire. But his parents were told that he was killed by the enemy. This misinformation became the subject of much controversy. Mary Tillman has recently written a book about her experience titled Boots on the Ground By Dusk.
Original Air Date: 06-1-2010
Part 1 [audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Mary-Tillman-Pat-Tillman-1-mixdown.mp3]
Part 2 [http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Mary-Tillman-Pat-Tillman-2-mixdown.mp3]
Howard Hart is the most-decorated spy in CIA history. Following the firing last week of Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence (essentially the highest position in intelligence meant to oversee and coordinate between all the different intelligence gathering agencies), Hart speaks to the implications on the CIA and the larger intelligence community.
Original Air Date: 06-1-2010
[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/CWDL-Howard_Hart_Intelligence_Follies.mp3]David speaks with Wilbert Rideau about his book In the Place of Justice. In 1961 Wilbert Rideau committed a murder in pre-civil rights Louisiana. Sentenced to death by an all-white jury, Rideau managed to survive but spent 44 years in prison. He became a reader then a writer then an award-winning journalist behind bars. His story is one of rehabilitation, redemption and struggle against legal and social forces seemingly too huge to move.
Original Air Date: 05-26-2010
Part 1 [audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/CWDL-Wilbert_Rideau_In_the_Place_of_Justice_Part_1.mp3]
Part 2 [http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/CWDL-Wilbert_Rideau_In_the_Place_of_Justice_Part_2.mp3]
David speaks with blogger and food critic Ed Levine. Levine’s blog, Seriouseats.com – which he co-founded and now edits – just won two James Beard Foundation Awards for Best Food Blog and Best Video Webcast. The James Beard Foundation awards are the most highly respected awards in the field of all things food and culinary excellence.
Original Air Date: 05-25-2010
[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/CWDL-Ed-Levine-SeriousEats-James-Beardly-Awards-mixdown.mp3]David speaks with Doug Shipman, the executive Director of the forthcoming Center for Civil and Human Rights which be located on Centennial Park alongside the aquarium and the Coke museum. David talks with Shipman about the genesis of the project, its current status, and what role the center wants to play in Atlanta as well as globally.
Original Air Date: 05-24-2010
[audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/CWDL-Doug-Shipman-Ctr-for-Civil-and-Human-Rights-mixdown.mp3]Legendary boxing corner man Angelo Dundee has written a book about his remarkable career that began in seedy boxing gym and led him to train multiple world champions and wander the globe. Dundee helped train Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman, amongst many others. His memoir is called, My View from the Corner.
Original Air Date: 05-18-2010
Part 1 [audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/CWDL-Angelo_Dundee_My_View_from_the_Corner_Part_1.mp3]
Part 2 [audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/CWDL-Angelo_Dundee_My_View_from_the_Corner_Part_2.mp3]
Part 3 [audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/CWDL-Angelo_Dundee_My_View_from_the_Corner_Part_3.mp3]