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Topics and Guests for 2008
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| 2008-29 (7/20/08) |
"Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America" (Originally Aired 1/6/08) |
Eric Jay Dolan author of Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America |
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| 2008-28 (7/13/08) |
Ten Points to End City Violence (Originally Aired 12/2/07) |
Reverend Jeff Brown, Founder of The
Boston Ten Points Coalition |
The Art of Cooking For Couples (Originally Aired 1/20/08) |
Sean Leonard, Director of Recreational Programs at the Cambridge School for Culinary Arts and Jamie Nickerson, Instructor at the Cambridge School for Culinary Arts. |
| 2008-27 (7/6/08) |
"They Take Our Jobs: And 20 Other Myths About Immigration" (Originally Aired 10/14/07) |
Aviva Chomsky, Professor of History and coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State College and author of They Take Our Jobs: and 20 other myths about immigration. |
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| 2008-26 (6/29/08) |
Honey and Fire |
Rev. Gloria White Hammond MD, anti-slavery activist, reverend
and pediatrician. |
Youthful Scientists Are Making an Impact |
Maia ten Brink and Caroline Cotto, winners of the Falmouth
Academy Science Fair. |
| 2008-25 (6/22/08) |
Blues in Our Blood |
Connie Fredericks, Co-author of the exhibit "Blues in Our
Blood," Director of the Carole D. Fredericks Foundation, and sister to
Carole Fredericks and Taj Mahal and Guy McLain, Director of the
Connecticut Valley HIstorical Museum |
Films About Native Americans |
Alanis Obomsawin, Filmmaker |
| 2008-24 (6/15/08) |
The Life and Time of Hubie Jones |
Hubie Jones is an activist and elder statesman of Boston and a Dean Emeritus of the Boston University School of Social Work. |
The Economic Impact of Cranberries on the Commonwealth |
Jeffrey LeFleur is the Director of the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers Association |
| 2008-23 (6/8/08) |
The Big Read in Massachusetts |
Dave Kipen, National Endowment of the Arts' Director of Literature and program director of The Big Read. |
Proust and The Squid: The Reading Brain |
Maryanne Wolf Ph.D., Author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain |
| 2008-22 (6/1/08) |
Environmentalists and Environmentalism in the 21st Century |
John Kerry, Co-author of This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision of the Future and United States Senator for Massachusetts |
Recollections of Jazz in Boston |
Phil Wilson, Professor of Brass at Berklee College of Music
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| 2008-21 (5/25/08) |
The Remaining Gap Regarding Women's Earnings |
Evelyn Murphy, President of the WAGE Project and author of Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men and What to Do About It |
2 Million Minutes: Are American Schools Running Behind? |
Robert Compton, Executive Producer of the film 2 Million Minutes
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| 2008-20 (5/18/08) |
The Disease of Depression |
Charles Welch, Director of Electroconvulsive Therapy at Massachusetts General Hospital |
What It Takes to Make a Great Arts Festival |
Linda and Geoffrey Post, Founders of the Paradise City Arts Festival
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| 2008-19 (5/11/08) |
White Privilege: How Full is Your Knapsack |
Peggy McIntosh PhD, Associate Director of the Stone Center for Women at Wellesley College |
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| 2008-18 (5/4/08) |
Come On, People! |
Alvin Poussaint, Co-author of Come On, People! |
The Labor Market and Our Economic Crisis |
Paul Harrington, Assistant Director of the Center for LAbor Market Studies at Northeastern University
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| 2008-17 (4/27/08) |
Liz Walker's Journey Through Broadcasting |
Liz Walker, Journalist, documentarian, and Human rights activist |
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| 2008-16 (4/20/08) |
Debunking Hollywood's Myths on Handwriting Analysis |
Eileen Page, Graphoanalyst and member of the President's Advisory Council for the International Graphoanalysis Society |
Youth Leading Youth in the Hyde Square Task Force |
Jesus Gerena, Director of Community Development and Organizing, and Ashley Cotton, Community Organizer and overseer of Community Development Artists at the Hyde Square Task Force
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| 2008-15 (4/6/08) |
Lowell Film Festival: An Avenue for Young Filmmakers |
Stacie Hargis, Organizer for the Lowell Film Festival and Filmmaker, Maureen McNamara |
Where's Your Money? Ask Where's George |
Hank Eskin, Founder of www.wheresgeorge.com
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| 2008-14 (4/6/08) |
50 Years of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra |
Federico Cortese, Music Director of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and Christoph Worm, BYSO Member |
Winter Water Pollution |
Paula Jewell, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bay Estuary Association
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| 2008-13 (3/30/08) |
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee |
Charles Shields, Author Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee |
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| 2008-12 (3/23/08) |
The League of Women Voters: Past, Present, and Future
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Diane Jeffery, President of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters
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Angell Animal Medical Center: Inside the Animal ER |
Dr. Nick Trout, Surgeon at Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston and Author of Tell Me Where It Hurts.
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| 2008-11 (3/16/08) |
Addressing the causes of hunger and poverty worldwide |
Anna Lappe, Founder, Small Planet Fund |
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| 2008-10 (3/9/08) |
Dealing With Language Discrimination |
Lee Valentine, Language Rights Policy Director, Massachusetts English Plus Coalition
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Text 4 Deaf |
Kerry Thompson, Spokesperson for Text4Deaf
Tracy Wemett, Text4Deaf Publicist. Please click here for transcript.
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| 2008-09 (3/2/08) |
Keeping the Promise: 2007 Massachusetts Child Care Voucher Study |
Valora Washington, Principle Investigator of Keeping the Promise: 2007 Massachusetts Child Care Voucher Study, and Director of the Schott Fellowship at Cambridge College and Lesley University s Center for Children, Families and Public Policy.
Mary Reed, Founder, President and CEO of Tartt s Day Care Centers Inc. and President of the Bessie Tartt Wilson Children s Foundation
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A Guide to the Childcare System in Massachusetts |
Lisa Breagy, Program Director of Community Care for Kids
Pam Kuechler, Program Director of PACE Child Care Works
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| 2008-08 (2/24/08) |
The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret
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Seth Shulman, author of The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret
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Seeing With a Different Eye |
Kathy, Curator of the traveling art exhibit, Seeing With a Different Eye, Asperger's Association of New England.
Sharleene Hurst, Artist featured in Seeing With a Different Eye.
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| 2008-7 (2/17/08) |
Architecture of the Absurd: How "Genius" Disfigured a Practical Art |
Dr. John Silber, Former President and Chancellor of Boston University and author of Architecture of the Absurd: How "Genius" Disfigured a Practical Art. |
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| 2008-06 (2/10/08) |
The Struggle for Urban Orchards |
Christine James, Executive Director of Earth Works and Ben Crouch, Urban Forestry Program Director of Earth Works.
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The Nursing Shortage in Massachusetts |
Nancy Hoffart, Chairperson for the Massachusetts Association of Colleges of Nursing, Dean and Professor, School of Nursing at Northeastern University.
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| 2008-05 (2/3/08) |
Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival |
Connie Chin, General Manager of the Ted Shawn Theater home to the Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival in Beckett Massachusetts.
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A Literary Map of Massachusetts |
Sharon Shaloo, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Center for the Book.
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| 2008-04 (1/27/08) |
Domestic Violence in the Immigrant Communities (Originally aired 10/21/07) |
Jamie Ramola, Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence and Carmelle Bonhometre, Domestic Violence Program, Association of Haitian Women.
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Healthcare for Artists: Keeping a Pulse on the Artist Community (Originally aired 10/21/07) |
Kathy Bitetti, Executive Director of the Artists Foundation and is also the director of the Lillian Immigrant Gallery at Emmanuel College
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| 2008-03 (1/20/08) |
The Art of Cooking For Couples |
Sean Leonard, Director of Recreational Programs at the Cambridge School for Culinary Arts and Jamie Nickerson, Instructor at the Cambridge School for Culinary Arts.
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Osteoporosis |
Dr. Rami Rustum, Director of the Pain Management Center at Lawrence General Hospital
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| 2008-02 (1/13/08) |
Stepping Up Health |
Kathy Cunningham, Senior Program Manager of the Boston Steps Program at the Boston Public Health Commission
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Carbon Monoxide: The Invisible Danger |
Colleen Longfellow, Education Coordinator of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Regional Center for Poison Control and Prevention.
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| 2008-1 (1/6/08) |
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America |
Eric Jay Dolan author of Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America |
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