How does one even begin to mount the production of a new drama series? And how do you get it all done in Botswana? We’ll spend this hour with Amy J. Moore, who at least had a very popular story to start with. Moore is the producer of the new series “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” which debuts March 29 on HBO.
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What are we sacrificing in the never-ending search for more oil reserves? We’ll discuss a growing North American environmental concern this hour with journalist Andrew Nikiforuk, author of the new book “Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent” (Greystone, 2009).
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Which countries still have growing economies and are there smart investment opportunities in those countries for American businesses? We’ll talk this hour with University of Maryland Professor of Strategy and Organization, Anil K. Gupta. He’s the co-author of the new book “Getting China and India Right: Strategies for Leveraging the World’s Fastest-Growing Economies for Global Advantage” (Jossey-Bass, 2009).
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What has happened to the music business over the last decade? Kids are still forming bands and thousands still attend conventions and festivals like SXSW and Coachella every year. But the sales figures just aren’t what they used to be. We’ll examine the music biz this hour with journalist Steve Knopper, author of “Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age.”
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What would you do to ensure that your child was a “normal” height? Would growth hormones be out of the question? We’ll explore the issue this hour with Christine Cosgrove, co-author of the new book “Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry’s Quest to Manipulate Height.”
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Four and a half decades ago, many Americans were locked in a struggle for basic rights and equal treatment. We’ll look back this hour with Mark McPhail of SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts and photographer Herbert Randall who are both participating in the SMU Symposium “Keeping the Faith: Civil Rights and Social Justice 45 Years after Freedom Summer.” Texas writer Joe Nick Patoski will join us during the Scene segment to chat about his biography, “Willie Nelson: An Epic Life,” which was awarded the 2009 TCU Texas Book Award last night.
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Where are the inconsistencies in The Bible and why aren’t they better known? We’ll explore biblical contradictions this hour with noted University of North Carolina religious studies professor, Bart D. Ehrman whose new book is “Jesus Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don’t Know About Them).”
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From the Archive: Can karaoke transform your life? We’ll spend this hour with Brooklyn journalist Brian Raftery who has written about his experience in the new book “Don’t Stop Believin’: How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life.”
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Is there a solution for world poverty? Peter Singer thinks so. We’ll spend this hour with Singer, professor of bioethics at Princeton University. His new book is “The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty” (Random House, 2009).
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What does Soul Music mean to you? We’ll talk with documentarian Jeffrey Levy-Hinte whose new film “Soul Power” looks back at the 1974 music festival in Zaire which featured BB King, Celia Cruz, James Brown, Bill Withers and others.
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Will Western society every truly understand the complexities of Africa? We’ll talk this hour with Richard Dowden, director of the Royal African Society and author of the new book “Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles” (Public Affairs, 2009).
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What roles did corruption, irresponsibility and duplicity play in causing the current economic crisis? We’ll talk with Rushworth M. Kidder, President and Founder of the Institute for Global Ethics which has just published his book “The Ethics Recession: Reflections on the Moral Underpinnings of the Current Economic Crisis” (2009).
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