On today’s show: We’ll take a look at the country’s complex legal system. Then, Tom Wolfe stops by to discuss The Bonfire of the Vanities, the latest selection for the Leonard Lopate Show Book Club. Our latest Globavores segment looks at pumpkins and squash. And the gurus of how-to, Al and Larry Ubell, take your calls on home repair.
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President Obama held a news conference yesterday for the first time in eight months. Hear analysis of what he said. Plus: anthropologist, activist and author David Graeber discusses Occupy Wall Street’s Rolling Jubilee campaign to abolish debt; and Sam Sifton of the New York Times on how to cook the Thanksgiving meal.
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Today on Soundcheck: We conclude our series about the groundbreaking 1972 children's record Free To Be... You And Me by talking with composers Stephen Lawrence and Carol Hart about writing the iconic songs on the album. Then former New York Giants defensive tackle and actor Rosey Grier discusses singing one of the memorable tunes, "It's All Right To Cry."
Then get to know the musician and composer Rafiq Bhatia in our latest Blind Date.
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For this New Sounds, hear a hypnotic work of vocal layers from the electronic duo Matmos, “Just Waves,” from their Ganzfeld EP, a concept record based on their own telepathic experiments. Throughout the progression of the work, these ebbing and flowing voices -Matmos (M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel) together with three other singers: Dan Deacon, Angel Deradoorian (Dirty Projectors), and Clodagh Simonds (Fovea Hex)- speak-sing the transcripts of the psychic session material in pitched clusters, until the sensations described in the experiment are shaped back into one single phrase about the “triangle at the top.”
