5 segments
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Much Ado About an ID? 33 min
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Green Streets 16 min
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Seeking Refuge 20 min
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Artist as Activist 11 min
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Gas Tax Holiday 16 min
The Supreme Court just upheld Indiana’s voter ID law. Will verified voting curb voter fraud, or will it discourage voter participation? Also: a look at Sustainable Streets, the city’s new strategic transportation plan, and writer/philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy on Darfur and the role of the artist in political advocacy.
What have you heard?
Tomorrow the Brian Lehrer Show observes the conclusion of National Poetry Month with a poet-in-residence-in-studio who’ll riff on what he hears on the air. Here’s how you can join in: email us a short poem about something you’ve heard discussed on the show in the last month, or so. Start each poem with the words “I heard” and email it to brianlehrershow@wnyc.org. Include your contact information as we might ask you to read it on air during tomorrow’s show.
What have you heard?
Tomorrow the Brian Lehrer Show observes the conclusion of National Poetry Month with a poet-in-residence-in-studio who’ll riff on what he hears on the air. Here’s how you can join in: email us a short poem about something you’ve heard discussed on the show in the last month, or so. Start each poem with the words “I heard” and email it to brianlehrershow@wnyc.org. Include your contact information as we might ask you to read it on air during tomorrow’s show.