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View the full archive of KERA's The Talk Show Education&the State of America's Students [2009-11-19 12:00:00] Have past attempts at education reform made a difference in learning? And how can things be improved for the immediate future? We'll discuss the state of America's students with Margaret Spellings, former U.S. Secretary of Education. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twilight of the American Newspaper [2009-11-19 13:00:00] Are newspapers destined to become a relic of history? This hour we'll talk with Richard Rodriguez, whose article "Final Edition: Twilight of the American Newspaper" appears in this month's edition of Harper's Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three Decades of Wall Street Greed [2009-11-18 12:00:00] Why did the banking system almost collapse last year? And who was responsible? We'll spend this hour with Charles Gasparino, author of the new book "The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System" (Harper Business, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Outsourcing of American Power [2009-11-18 13:00:00] Have private corporations taken over the U.S. government? We'll talk this hour with Allison Stanger, author of "One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy" (Yale University Press, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Assassination of JFK [2009-11-17 12:00:00] Can you remember the assassination of President Kennedy? Or does your knowledge of that tragic moment come from a history textbook rather than news reports or firsthand accounts? We'll spend this hour with Tom Jennings, executive producer of the new documentary "The Lost JFK Tapes," and Gary Mack, curator of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, where the film will have its premiere tomorrow night before airing nationally on the National Geographic Channel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Search for America's Christmas Present [2009-11-17 13:00:00] Is Frisco, Texas, the capitol of over-the-top Christmas excess? We'll talk this hour with Washington Post pop culture writer Hank Stuever, author of the new book, "Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website India's Harvest of Water [2009-11-16 12:00:00] Is an ambitious new water system in India a viable alternative to monsoon season for the nation's farmers? We'll talk with Sara Corbett, whose article "A Harvest of Water" appears in this month's issue of National Geographic Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Life and Legacy of Archimedes [2009-11-16 13:00:00] How much do you know about the man who leaped from his bathtub exclaiming "Eureka!" on discovering a scientific principle that, today, allows a balloon to fly? We'll talk this hour with biographer Alan Hirshfeld, whose new book is "Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes" (Walker & Company, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fall of the Soviet Empire [2009-11-12 12:00:00] How did the collapse of the USSR's European empire happen so quickly and peacefully in the waning months of the 80s? We'll talk to Victor Sebestyen, author of "Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire" (Pantheon, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Law Enforcement View of Terrorism [2009-11-12 13:00:00] What challenges do security experts face when an individual terrorist can pose as much threat as a powerful rogue nation? This hour we'll discuss the law enforcement view of terrorism with Oliver "Buck" Revell, President of Revell Group International and former Associate Deputy Director of the FBI. He's in town to speak at the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Battles That Saved South Korea From Extinction [2009-11-11 12:00:00] Why is the Korean War often overlooked in the canon of American military history? We'll spend this hour with Bill Sloan, author of the new book "The Darkest Summer: Pusan and Inchon 1950: The Battles That Saved South Korea - and the Marines - From Extinction" (Simon & Schuster, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Influence of Abigail Adams [2009-11-11 13:00:00] As wife of the nation's second president and mother of the sixth, Abigail Adams influenced the founding days of the United States, but who was she really? We'll talk this hour with Woody Holton, author of "Abigail Adams" (Free Press, 2009), a new biography on America's second First Lady. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shoah as Turning Point [2009-11-10 12:00:00] How does the Holocaust continue to affect us today? We'll spend this hour with Elliott Dlin, executive director of the Dallas Holocaust Museum, and Rick Halperin, director of SMU's Human Rights Education Program. They are part of a series of events on "Holocaust Legacies: Shoah as Turning Point" this fall at SMU. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Inside Story of Barack Obama's Historic Victory [2009-11-09 12:00:00] How did a grassroots political movement forever change the way that presidential campaigns are run? We'll talk with David Plouffe, political strategist and author of the new book, "The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory" (Viking, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thoughts on Teacherhood [2009-11-09 13:00:00] What can we learn from children not yet old enough to graduate elementary school? We'll talk this hour with award-winning teacher Phillip Done, whose new book is "Close Encounters of the Third-Grade Kind" (Center Street, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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