On today’s show: Scott Cleland explains why he thinks you can’t trust Google. Jazz pianist Jason Moran talks about his tribute concert to Fats Waller. David Goldman gives an account of his long struggle to bring his abducted son home. Underreported looks at medical societies and their financial ties to drug and medical device makers. Plus, an update on the protests and crackdown in Yemen.
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The legendary swimmer Diana Nyad talks about being honored with the 2011 Streb Action Maverick Award. Filmmaker Annie Sundberg and the subject of the documentary “Burma Soldier,” Myo Myint Cho, talk about Burma’s abusive totalitarian system. Peter Ford talks about the volatile life, relationships, and career of his father, the renowned actor Glenn Ford. Plus, our latest Please Explain segment is all about generic drugs!
Over the years, 19 Bryant Avenue in Roslyn, New York was a funeral home, a courthouse, a bowling alley. But in the 1970s, it was Long Island’s premiere music hall. Today, we revisit our Vanished Venues series, with a look back at the rock club, My Father’s Place. Plus: Cellist Mike Block joins us with other musicians from GALA NYC, a new Brooklyn concert series, to perform live.
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Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world. Capturing the headlines, issues and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin. Tell Me More marks Martin's first role in hosting a daily program. She views it as an opportunity to focus on the stories, experiences, ideas and people important in contemporary life but often not heard.
Over the years, 19 Bryant Avenue in Roslyn, New York was a funeral home, a courthouse, a bowling alley. But in the 1970s, it was Long Island’s premiere music hall. Today, we revisit our Vanished Venues series, with a look back at the rock club, My Father’s Place. Plus: Cellist Mike Block joins us with other musicians from GALA NYC, a new Brooklyn concert series, to perform live.
For this New Sounds program, we’ll listen to music inspired by birdsong, whether it’s by composers who are birders, or naturalists. Some of these sounds are electronically processed, and some are recreated acoustically. We’ll listen to Alaska-based John Luther Adams’ recording “Songbirdsongs,” where an ocarina imitates the birdsong, along with music from Tasmanian Ron Nagorcka played on digeridoo and with samples from the cockatiel family. Plus music from producer Chris Hughes, his “Slow Motion Blackbird,” and music from Maria Schneider as well.
