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The Leonard Lopate Show

Thursday, April 07, 2005
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  • Silent Waters ( First Run Features)
    "Silent Waters" (First Run Features)

    Strength of Character

    Ruth Reichl, editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine and a regular guest on the show, relates some of her undercover adventures as a food critic. Then, Shane White tells us about his work to recapture the sounds of slavery from history. James Atlas discusses some strategies for surviving the ups and downs of middle age. And Sabiha Sumar and Mallika Dutt tell us about filmmaking and women’s rights in Pakistan.

Dressing for Dinner

In Garlic and Sapphires, Ruth Reichl reveals her secret life as an undercover food critic. She tells us about donning elaborate disguises and going to restaurants in character, all in order to protect her anonymity and avoid special treatment.

Music: Swingtime!, The Canadian Brass: "Blue Rondo a la Turk" / "I Found Love"

The Sounds of Slavery

In the book and cd project The Sounds of Slavery, Shane White uses historical materials to give voice to the audio universe of slavery. By recreating these sounds, he demonstrates how they helped define the American soundscape.

» Read an excerpt of The Sounds of Slavery in the Reading Room

Music: Sounds of Slavery, Tracks 1 and 14

Life in the Middle Ages

James Atlas is best known for the biographies he wrote about novelist Saul Bellow and poet Delmore Schwartz, as well as for the ones he edited for the Penguin Lives series. Now he turns his attention to himself with My Life in the Middle Ages--a look at how to navigate the challenges of transitioning through mid-life.

Events:
James Atlas will be speaking on:
Thursday, April 7th at 8:15 pm
"Reflections at Mid-Life: Now What?" with James Atlas, Daphne Merkin, Kathryn Harrison and Ed Zwick.
Moderated by Roger Rosenblatt.
92nd Street Y

And on:
Wednesday, April 13th at 7:30 pm
Barnes and Noble, Upper West Side
Broadway and 82nd Street

Music: Soundtrack to The Ice Storm, music by Mychael Danna: "Finale"

Focusing on Change

Independent filmmaker Sabiha Sumar and Mallika Dutt from Breakthrough discuss women’s rights and filmmaking in Pakistan. Ms. Sumar's film "Silent Waters" looks at fundamentalism and Islamic nationalism in Pakistan in 1979, and is screening at the 3rd Annual South Asian Human Rights Film Festival.

» View pictures from the film
» More on the 3rd Annual South Asian Human Rights Film Festival
» More on Sabiha Sumar

Events:
Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters)
Friday, April 8, 6:30 p.m
Venue : Asia Society New York
725 Park Avenue at 70th Street
(director will be there for discussion)

Music: Soundtrack to Heat and Dust, music by Richard Robbins: "Qawali at the Shrine of Baba Firdaus"

Tom Daschle on Fixing America’s Health Care System

The Leonard Lopate Show

Former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle has accepted President-Elect Barack Obama’s offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. You can hear Tom Daschle talk about his prescriptions for fixing American’s health care crisis on the Leonard Lopate Show in March 2008.

Rahm Emanuel

Big Plans for America

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Democratic Congressman Rahm Emanuel from Illinois has agreed to be Chief of Staff under President-Elect Barack Obama. You can hear him on the Lopate Show in 2006 discussing his thoughts on what the Democratic party needed to do in order to succeed.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama, Circa 2004

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As the Democratic Convention is underway in Denver, listen to Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.

Joe Biden

Sen. Joe Biden on the Lopate Show

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Sen. Obama has chosen Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware to be his running mate. To find out more about his personal and political life, listen to Leonard’s Aug. 2007 interview with Sen. Biden. At the time, the Senator from Delaware was still a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Guest Picks

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Find out surprising facts about some recent guests on the Leonard Lopate Show. Check out our Guest Picks section! Did you know that football star Herschel Walker loves Judge Judy, Laurie Anderson is a big fan of agility training for dogs, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi likes Johnny Depp?

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