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Tuesday, December 4, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Percy's rescue at Lexington, 1775. (Amos Doolittle)

American Revolution. Historian Kevin Phillips looks at American politics then and now from 1775.

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Dolly Parton speaks at The 22nd Annual Glaad Media Awards on Sunday April 10, 2011, at at The Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles, Calif. (AP)

Superstar Dolly Parton joins us to talk music and where she’s found meaning in life.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Davy Rothbart (wikipedia)

“This American Life” contributor Davy Rothbart on life and love on the road, and his latest collection, “My Heart Is An Idiot.”

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Tuesday, November 20, 2012 | 11:00 AM
This publicity film image released by Focus Features shows Keira Knightley in a scene from "Anna Karenina." While “Pride & Prejudice” and “Atonement” were fresh, lively takes for an age that finds costume drama stuffy, director Joe Wright planned a wild and possibly off-putting ride on “Anna Karenina,” confining most of the action to a dilapidated theater where the actors would perform in a stylized cinematic ballet without the usual grand sweep of period-drama locations. (AP)

Anna Karenina on the big screen. We’ll open Tolstoy’s classic novel of, passion, love and despair.

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Tuesday, November 13, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Thomas Jefferson, by Rembrandt Peale (1805)

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham on lessons from the politics of Thomas Jefferson. What we can learn now.

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Tuesday, November 6, 2012 | 11:00 AM
A black-and-white reproduction of a painting showing Norsemen in a ship. The list of illustrations on page vii gives this one the title Norsemen Landing in Iceland'. (Wikicommons)

Mythic storytelling out of Iceland, and the song of the Vikings.

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Monday, November 5, 2012 | 11:00 AM
A poster for the upcoming movie Sharknado. (The Asylum)

The New Yorker’s David Denby on the future life – or death – of the movies.

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Thursday, November 1, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Perfectionism -- self portrait. (Roni Rosen/Flickr)

Living with perfectionism, and the science of never being satisfied.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012 | 11:00 AM
In this photo made Thursday, August 2, 2012, Maggy Mulhern, left, and Katharine Mead, prepare a lobster bake for dinner on the shore of a small island in Penobscot Bay Maine. (AP)

From sea floor to still life to roll. The lobster in science, myth, art, and on the plate.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Author John Grisham. (AP)

Best-selling author John Grisham joins us with his latest legal thriller, “The Racketeer.”

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May 20, 2013
In this Friday, July 20, 2012 photo, workers are pictured on a drilling rig near Calumet, Okla. Oklahoma is one of several states, including North and South Dakota, that has enjoyed a boom in the energy sector driven in large part by new and improved drilling techniques such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, which cracks open fissures in rock formations to retrieve oil and gas. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)

North America as the new fossil fuel powerhouse. We’ll look at the blessing, the curse and how it may reshape geopolitics and energy politics.

May 20, 2013
Senate subcommittee on Personnel Chair Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., right, greets members of the third panel before the subcommittee's hearing on sexual assault in the military. (AP)

Solving the U.S. military’s sex abuse problem. We look at the chain of command issue and what needs to change

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Great quotations. What makes them? And how they shape our language and our view of the world

 
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Attorney General Eric Holder gestures as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Department. (AP)

IRS and AP scandals. White House damage control. More military sex abuse. Angelina Jolie. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Friday, May 17, 2013

Adventures in live radio. Richard Snow, our guest for our show on Henry Ford, was held up — possibly by a faulty Model T? — so we’re running a terrific archive show on great quotations.

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Floyd Abrams On Obama Vs. Nixon
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Floyd Abrams — one of the country’s leading authorities on the First Amendment — joined us today to talk about revelations that the Justice Department seized two months of phone records from the Associated Press.

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Dr. Judy Garber On Angelina Jolie’s Cancer Decision
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Dr. Judy Garber — director of the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — joined us for the final segment of our show today to talk about star Angelina Jolie’s decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.

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