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The Leonard Lopate Show / August 18, 2005

The Leonard Lopate Show

Thursday, August 18, 2005
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  • Global Impact

    In this week’s Underreported feature, African MCs TY and Oke, and Ben Herson of Nomadic Wax, tell us about a new movement of underground African hip-hop gaining ground in the US. Next, John Irving describes his new novel, the largely autobiographical Until I Find You. Then, John and Janet Pierson tell us about the year they spent screening free movies for the locals of a remote island in Fiji. And geneticist Sean Carroll explains some of the principles and findings of the new science of evolutionary developmental biology, or Evo Devo for short.

African Underground Hip-Hop

African MCs TY (UK/Nigeria) and Oke (Nigeria), and Ben Herson (the founder of the record label Nomadic Wax), discuss how African hip-hop is becoming an underground movement here in the US.

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Until I Find You

John Irving, author of The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules, discusses his eleventh, and perhaps most personal, novel: Until I Find You.

John Irving will be reading from Until I Find You at Barnes & Noble, Union Square (Thursday, August 18 at 7PM.
He will NOT be signing books at the event, although a limited number of pre-signed copies will be available.

Reel Paradise

John and Janet Pierson moved their family to a remote island in Fiji for a year in order to run a movie theater for the locals. They screened all the films for free, and discovered a new level of enthusiasm and appreciation for film from people who would otherwise never have been able to afford to see those movies. Their experiences are captured in the documentary “Reel Paradise.”

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Evo Devo

Sean Carroll is a professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s one of the leading figures in the new science of evolutionary developmental biology, or Evo Devo. His new book Endless Forms Most Beautiful looks at how genes shape the development of biological diversity across species.

Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton

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Though a doctor by training (who created the hit television series “ER”), Michael Crichton’s name will always be more readily associated with the bestselling thrillers, “The Andromeda Strain” and “Jurassic Park.” He died just recently at the age of 66. But you can still hear his interview from 1990 with Leonard about “Jurassic Park.”

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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