Bob Edwards Weekend: author Mac Destler; authors and former hostages Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell and Tom HowesAn episode of: Bob Edwards Weekend
Retired Marine General James L. Jones is the new National Security Advisor. MAC DESTLER talks about the history and responsibilities of the job. Destler is a professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland and the author of numerous books on American foreign policy. His newest is "In the Shadow of the Oval Office."
Later, the story of three men who were taken hostage by a leftist guerrilla group. MARC GONSALVES, KEITH STANSELL, and TOM HOWES were captured by the FARC after their plane crashed in the mountainous jungle of southern Colombia in 2003. At the time of ther capture, they were working to gather counter-narcotic intelligence for the US Department of Defense. The three men are now free after being held hostage for more than five years. They've co-written a new book about their experience called "Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle."
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Wetlands expert and professor Denise Reed; musician Tab Benoit
Published: 2010-08-24 12:44:47Our series No Place Like Home continues, this hour focusing on the environmental and economic importance of the wetlands of coastal Louisiana. Those swamps and marshes have been receding for decades now and big events like Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill speed their disappearance. Bob talks with DENISE REED on the back porch of her home in Montegut, Louisiana. She’s an expert on the formation and degradation of wetlands.
Part four of NO PLACE LIKE HOME concludes with a boat ride with musician TAB BENOIT. He’s from Houma, Louisiana and takes us to see a healthy swamp and then one killed by salt water intrusion. Benoit is the founder of the non-profit organization Voice of the Wetlands.
Artist Chuck Close and his biographer Christopher Finch; sportswriter and author Dave Zirin; executive director of This I Believe, Inc. Dan Gediman
Published: 2010-08-24 12:37:57American artist CHUCK CLOSE is a master of highly detailed, larger-than-life portraits that bring out his subjects’ intellectual depth. Writer and personal friend CHRISTOPHER FINCH’S biography Chuck Close: Life takes readers through Close’s art student days in Seattle to his professional success with critics and the public alike. In 1988, Close suffered a spinal artery collapse, leaving him wheelchair bound but still painting. In 2000, President Bill Clinton awarded Close with the National Medal of Arts.
Bob talks with DAVE ZIRIN about his new book, Bad Sports: How Owners are Ruining the Games We Love. Zirin says the people who are supposed to be the stewards of professional sports are instead overly obsessed with squeezing every last dollar from fans – to the point that many fans are now alienated from the teams they grew up loving.
In this week’s installment of our ongoing series THIS I BELIEVE, Bob talks with curator DAN GEDIMAN about the essay of Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjold. He was the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving from 1953 – 1961. He worked to ease tensions between Israel and Arab nations, and to defuse the Suez crisis. Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in Zambia in 1961.
Emily Guidry Schatzel of the National Wildlife Federation; wildlife biologists Todd Baker and Sharon Taylor; workers at the bird rehabilitation center at Ft. Jackson, LA
Published: 2010-08-19 21:44:21This week in our series NO PLACE LIKE HOME, we'll focus on wildlife. While oil was still gushing out of the broken well in the Gulf of Mexico, and even now that the well is sealed, birds, turtles and many other animals are coated with goopy brown crude. Bob talks with EMILY GUIDRY SCHATZEL of the National Wildlife Federation about how her group is working alongside government agencies. Then, Bob talks with TODD BAKER of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and SHARON TAYLOR of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about the efforts to rescue, clean and relocate animals threatened by the oil spill. Finally, we travel to the bird rehabilitation center at Fort Jackson, Louisiana where dozens of brown pelicans have been cleaned and nursed back to health. Many have been relocated to safer areas in other states and dozens wait in outdoor pens for their new home to be found.
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Journalist Gene Weingarten; executive director of This I Believe, Inc. Dan Gediman
Published: 2010-08-19 21:38:06GENE WEINGARTEN is so good at what he does that he's won a Pulitzer -- twice. As a feature writer for the Washington Post, Weingarten muses about whatever strikes his fancy. One of his most well-known pieces was about an experiment he set up with the violin virtuoso, Joshua Bell. Weingarten stationed Bell and his violin outside of a busy subway stop to see if anyone noticed the beautiful music he played. Hardly anyone did. Weingarten talks with Bob about his favorite pieces from a new collection of his columns titled "The Fiddler in the Subway."
In this week's installment of our ongoing series THIS I BELIEVE, Bob talks with curator DAN GEDIMAN about the essay of writer and lecturer Ruth Cranston. She was born in Cincinnati, lived in 18 different countries during her life, including 10 years in Switzerland where she worked for the League of Nations. She wrote "World Faith: The Story of the Religions of the United Nations."
Businessman Mike Voisin; shrimper Charlie Robin; duck hunter John Serigny
Published: 2010-08-14 12:03:05We continue our series NO PLACE LIKE HOME with an hour on how hurricanes and oil spills have affected the culture and the seafood industry of coastal Louisiana. Bob talks with MIKE VOISIN, CEO of Motivatit Seafoods in Houma and tours his plant as workers process the much smaller than usual harvest of oysters.
Part Two of NO PLACE LIKE HOME continues with CHARLIE ROBIN, a fifth generation shrimper in Yscloskey, Louisiana. He's temporarily traded his shrimp nets for oil boom and is working for BP to skim the oil and save his future.
Part Two of NO PLACE LIKE HOME concludes in Larose, Louisiana. Bob talks with JOHN SERIGNY, who's been hunting ducks at his camp near the coast for almost five decades. But as their wetland habitat disappears, so do the ducks.
Actor Robert Duvall; director David Michod and actor Ben Mendelsohn; Dan Gediman, director of This I Believe, Inc
Published: 2010-08-14 11:57:50ROBERT DUVALL's filmography features some of the greatest productions to come out of Hollywood: "To Kill A Mockingbird," "The Godfather," "Apocalypse Now," "Lonesome Dove," and "Tender Mercies," for which he won an Oscar. His latest film is "Get Low," in which Duvall stars as the town recluse who stages his own "living funeral."
In the new movie "Animal Kingdom," a 17 year old must learn to survive the death of his mother without knowing who to trust -- the police or his own family of criminals. The Australian thriller won the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance film festival. Writer-director DAVID MICHOD and actor BEN MENDELSOHN discuss the story, the characters and the ten-year process of completing the film.
In this week's installment of our ongoing series THIS I BELIEVE, Bob talks with curator DAN GEDIMAN about the essay of English novelist Aldous Huxley. He was born into a family of scientists and writers and is best known as the author of "Brave New World," but Huxley also wrote poetry, essays, screenplays and children's books.
Reporter Mark Schleifstein; environmental sociologist Shirley Laska
Published: 2010-08-08 01:26:31Today we begin a new series about coastal Louisiana. "No Place Like Home" examines the special challenges faced by that region, as Mother Nature and man continue to test its resilience. Bob talks with MARK SCHLEIFSTEIN, the environment reporter for the Times Picayune, which won a Pulitzer Prize for his post-Katrina coverage. Schleifstein has also been writing about the effects of the oil and gas industry on the Louisiana ecosystem.
Bob talks with SHIRLEY LASKA, the founder of the Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology at the University of New Orleans. She predicted the catastrophic effects of Hurricane Katrina, and her center studies coastal communities, examining the ways people cope with frequent disasters.
Musicians Bobby Bare Sr. and Bobby Bare Jr.; executive director of This I Believe, Inc. Dan Gediman
Published: 2010-08-08 01:22:50BOBBY BARE SR. and his son BOBBY BARE JR. join Bob to discuss a new CD they co-produced, which celebrates the songwriting of Shel Silverstein. It's called "Twistable Turnable Man" and features contributions from artists such as My Morning Jacket, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Todd Snider, Lucinda Williams and Nanci Griffith. The Bares each sing a song as well, with Sr. covering "The Living Legend" and Jr. singing the grown-up lead vocals with his daughter on "Daddy What If."
In this week's installment of our ongoing series THIS I BELIEVE, Bob talks with curator DAN GEDIMAN about the essay of Roger Baldwin. Baldwin founded the American Civil Liberties Union, and helped defend John T. Scopes, the Scottsboro Boys, the Ku Klux Klan, and many others. Born into a wealthy Boston family, Baldwin started his career as a social worker in St. Louis.
Musician Jon Cleary; preview of our series No Place Like Home
Published: 2010-07-31 23:03:34We conclude our series of interviews recorded at this year's New Orleans Jazz Fest with an import. JON CLEARY was born and raised in a musical family in a sleepy English town, but thanks to a traveling uncle he was introduced at an early age to the music and culture of New Orleans. Now Cleary has been living there for most of his life. He made the switch from guitar to piano and possesses an amazing grasp of the secret ingredients of New Orleans music. Cleary shares the recipe with Bob on one of the four pianos in his home studio in the Bywater neighborhood.
As our summer music series ends, we bring you a preview of our new series from southern Louisiana reporting on the endangered wetlands, the oil spill and how New Orleans is doing five years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. The series of interviews is titled "No Place Like Home: The Vanishing Culture of Coastal Louisiana."
United Farm Worker union vice president Giev Kashkoli; author Mary McDonagh Murphy; executive director of This I Believe, Inc. Dan Gediman
Published: 2010-07-31 22:57:33The United Farm Workers union has launched a new campaign called Take Our Jobs, in which immigrant "farm workers are ready to welcome citizens and legal residents who wish to replace them in the field." The online application warns that "duties may include tilling the soil, transplanting, weeding, thinning, picking, cutting, sorting and packing of harvested produce," among other difficult working conditions. GIEV KASHKOOLI is UFW National Vice president and describes the goal of the campaign and the likelihood of its success.
Fifty years ago, Alabama native Harper Lee's novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" hit bookstores across America, becoming an immediate bestseller and an American literary classic. In celebration of the book's anniversary, writer and filmmaker MARY MCDONAGH MURPHY compiled interviews with more than two dozen contemporary writers, historians, journalists and artists for her book "Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill a Mockingbird."
In this week's installment of our ongoing series THIS I BELIEVE, Bob talks with curator DAN GEDIMAN about the essay of journalist Lucy Freeman. She covered mental health and social welfare subjects for The New York Times. Her first book "Fight Against Fears" detailed her own psychoanalytic treatment for social fears and insomnia. Freeman went on to write more than 70 books ranging from psychology topics to mystery novels.
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