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View the full archive of KERA's The Talk Show Excavating London's 16th-Century Playhouses [2009-11-05 13:00:00] Were the lives lived offstage in the time of Shakespeare as intriguing as the legendary characters in his plays? This hour we'll discover life inside London's famous 16th-century playhouses with Julian Bowsher, Senior Archaeologist at the Museum of London. He's in town for the Boshell Family Lecture Series at the Dallas Museum of Art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty [2009-11-05 12:00:00] Why do hunger and famine persist and do we possess the knowledge and resources to feed the planet's poor? We'll talk to Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent Roger Thurow, co-author of "Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty" (Public Affairs, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Women's Health Care Today [2009-11-04 12:00:00] What is the current state of women's healthcare in America? We'll spend this hour with Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former Surgeon General of the United States. She is in town to deliver the Louise B. Raggio Endowed Lecture at SMU. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The (Almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy [2009-11-04 13:00:00] Do you know how to savor a perfect peach or decode the wine list at an upscale restaurant? Have you eaten street food in a strange new city and lived to tell the tale? We'll talk this hour with Pim Techamuanvivit, author of "The Foodie Handbook: The (Almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy" (Chronicle, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's the Right Thing to Do? [2009-11-03 12:00:00] How should we as individuals handle today's most controversial issues? We'll spend this hour with Harvard Professor of Government and political philosopher Michael J. Sandel, author of the new book "Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Last Days of Wasp Splendor [2009-11-03 13:00:00] What was it like to be born into a family of declining prominence and fading glamour? We'll talk this hour with New Yorker writer Tad Friend, whose new memoir is "Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor" (Little, Brown & Company, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Untold Story of Jewish Spies in Nazi Germany [2009-11-02 12:00:00] If you had barely escaped the Nazis during World War II, could anything make you go back? We'll talk with Patrick K. O'Donnell, military historian and author of the new book, "They Dared Return: The Untold Story of Jewish Spies behind the Lines in Nazi Germany" (De Capo, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Conversation with Tom Schieffer [2009-11-02 13:00:00] What makes a candidate want to be the next governor of Texas? We'll talk this hour with the former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Tom Schieffer, about state politics and his gubernatorial candidacy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Language & Usage, Part One [2009-10-29 12:00:00] Have you ever been guilty of abusing the English language? Find out in this two-hour special with language and grammar expert Bryan Garner, author of "A Dictionary of Modern American Usage" (3rd Edition. Oxford, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Language & Usage, Part Two [2009-10-29 13:00:00] Have you ever been guilty of abusing the English language? Find out in this two-hour special with language and grammar expert Bryan Garner, author of "A Dictionary of Modern American Usage" (3rd Edition. Oxford, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teenage Dating Today [2009-10-28 12:00:00] How is teenage dating different today than when you were in high school? We'll spend this hour with Sujata Dand, producer of the new documentary "Boyfriends," premiering tonight on KERA, channel 13. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Secrets About the World's Musical Masters [2009-10-28 13:00:00] Who knew that Bach composed music in prison, or that Wagner had a thing for women's underwear? We'll talk this hour with Elizabeth Lunday, author of the new book "Secret Lives of Great Composers: What Your Teachers Never Told You About the World's Musical Masters" (Quirk Books, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Americans Really Want [2009-10-27 12:00:00] How do your personal hopes, dreams and fears compare with those of the majority of Americans? We'll spend this hour with polling expert and political pundit Frank Luntz, whose new book is "What Americans Really Want...Really" (Hyperion, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Diary of the Great Depression [2009-10-27 13:00:00] What can we learn from a journal written in the aftermath of the 1929 stock market crash? We'll talk this hour with James Ledbetter, co-editor of the new book "The Great Depression: A Diary" (Public Affairs, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feminism & Islam [2009-10-26 12:00:00] How will Islamic law adapt to the feminist movement in Muslim nations? We'll talk with Professor Qudsia Mirza about the public's misconceptions over Islam and women's rights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best of Think [2009-10-26 13:00:00] In a Best of Think program, we'll talk with Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, CNN Host and author of "The Post-American World" (Norton & Co, 2008). Then in the second half of the hour we'll talk with Lee Woodruff, life and family contributor for ABC's Good Morning America and author of book "Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress" (Random House, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Genocide and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity [2009-10-22 12:00:00] Why does genocide happen and what will it take to stop it? We'll explore these questions and more this hour with Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of "Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity" (Public Affairs, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Hero's Search for What Really Matters [2009-10-22 13:00:00] What do we learn about ourselves in moments of crisis? We'll talk this hour with Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger who heroically landed a disabled passenger jet on the Hudson River last January. His new book is "Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters" (William Morrow, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine [2009-10-21 12:00:00] How did regular old food become American food? We'll spend this hour with culinary historian and author Andrew F. Smith, whose new book is "Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine" (Columbia, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Amazing Journey of American Women [2009-10-21 13:00:00] How have the roles of women changed in the last fifty years? We'll talk this hour with New York Times columnist Gail Collins. Her new history of the feminist movement is "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present" (Little, Brown & Company 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website