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Bullying and Gay Youth

January 7, 2011 Uncategorized

Should society do more to stop the bullying of homosexual, lesbian, and transgender teens? We’ll discuss ways to protect gay youth with Fort Worth city councilman Joel Burns of the It Gets Better campaign and Sam Wilkes of Youth First Texas. In the Art&Seek segment, we’ll talk with violinist Matt Albert of eighth blackbird, the Grammy Award-winning music sextet that won SMU’s Meadows Prize for professional artists with an emerging international profile. The group is in town for its residency at SMU.

From the Archives: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

January 6, 2011 Uncategorized

Do the great oceans of the world have their own unique biographies? We’ll spend this hour with Simon Winchester, whose new book is “Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories” (HarperCollins, 2010).

From the Archives: An Experience of the Holocaust

January 6, 2011 Uncategorized

Almost seven decades later, tales of Nazi atrocities and personal experiences of the Holocaust are still coming to light. We’ll hear one such story this hour, with Zsuzsanna Ozsvath, The Leah and Paul Lewis Chair in Holocaust Studies, Professor of Literature and the History of Ideas at UTD and author of “When the Danube Ran Red” (Syracuse University Press, 2010).

From the Archives: Defending Against the Death Penalty

January 5, 2011 Uncategorized

From the archives: What will it take to finally eliminate bias against the poor and people of color in the American criminal justice system? We spent an hour in September with Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of Equal Justice Initiative Alabama.

From the Archives: The Natural History of Innovation

January 5, 2011 Uncategorized

From the archives: We all know the adage about necessity being the mother of invention, but are there ways to increase the occurrence of our collective eureka moments? We examined the phenomenon of innovation in October with Steve Johnson, author of “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” (Riverhead Books, 2010).

From the Archives: An Oscar-Winning Director

January 4, 2011 Uncategorized

How did a working-class English lad evolve into an Oscar-winning filmmaker? We’ll talk this hour with Danny Boyle, director of “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Trainspotting,” and the upcoming “127 Hours,” which opened last November.

From the Archives: The Triumph of Capitalism

January 4, 2011 Uncategorized

How did the United States transform itself from a largely agrarian economy to a powerhouse on the world stage and how did it happen so fast? We’ll spend this hour with H.W. Brands, the Dickson, Allen, Anderson Centennial Professor of History at the University of Texas in Austin and author of the new book “American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900” (Doubleday, 2010).

From the Archives: The Natural History of Innovation

December 30, 2010 Uncategorized

From the Archives: The Border

December 29, 2010 Uncategorized

From the archives: With running gun battles in the streets and an almost complete lack of Mexican news coverage on the violence and the cartels, what’s life really like these days for people who live along the U.S./Mexico border? We got an update in October with journalist John Burnett, who covers the southwest for NPR.

From the Archives: Defending Against the Death Penalty

December 28, 2010 Uncategorized

From the Archives: The Future of Iraq

December 27, 2010 Uncategorized

From the archives: What does the future hold for Iraq? We talked in September with Ambassador Ryan Crocker who served as the United States Ambassador to Iraq from 2007 to 2009. Crocker is now Dean of Texas A&M’s George Bush School of Government and Public Service.

PBS & The Changing Media Landscape

December 24, 2010 Uncategorized

From the archives: How will PBS navigate the unique challenges of a media landscape in flux? Last month we discussed changing technologies, fundraising issues, and the future of public television with Paula Kerger, President and CEO of PBS. In the Art&Seek segment, we talked with Atlee Phillips, Consignment Director for Heritage Auction Galleries, about Henry Arthur McArdle’s historic “lost” painting “The Battle of San Jacinto.”