Conversations with Allan Wolper

Roma Torre is the Emmy Award winning anchor of Time Warner Cable's NY1 News and the theater critic for NY1 On Stage. She has used her celebrity to promote colonoscopies after she underwent successful colon cancer surgery. Roma is the daughter of the late Marie Torre. Marie Torre made journalism history in 1959 as a columnist for the now defunct New York Herald Tribune when she served 10 days in Hudson County Jail in Jersey City, New Jersey for refusing to disclose her source in a CBS controversy

["Roma Torre is the Emmy Award winning anchor of Time Warner Cable's NY1 news and the theater critic for NY1 On Stage. She has used her celebrity to promote colonoscopies after she underwent successful colon cancer surgery. That campaign recently won an Associated Press\nAward. She is the daughter of the late Marie Torre who made journalism history in 1959 as a columnist for the now defunct New York Herald Tribune when she served 10 days in Hudson County Jail in Jersey City, New Jersey for refusing to disclose her source in a CBS controversy involving actress Judy Garland.", OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', "Roma Torre is the Emmy Award winning anchor of Time Warner Cable's NY1 news and the theater critic for NY1 On Stage. She has used her celebrity to promote colonoscopies after she underwent successful colon cancer surgery. That campaign recently won an Associated Press Award. She is the daughter of the late Marie Torre who made journalism history in 1959 as a columnist for the now defunct New York Herald Tribune when she served 10 days in Hudson County Jail in Jersey City, New Jersey for refusing to disclose her source in a CBS controversy involving actress Judy Garland.")])]

Martin Garbus, a winner of the PEN First Amendment Award of honor, is one of the country's fiercest fighters for free speech. Garbus also received the James Joyce Award from the University of Dublin for Excellence in Law and the New York University Law Alumni Achievement Award. Garbus' boldface clients included Robert Redford, Nelson Mandela, Tom Brokaw, Spike Lee, Michael Bloomberg and the neo Nazis. He is writing a memoir of the Cuban Five, a case he calls the worst in American Legal history.

["Martin Garbus, a winner of the PEN First Amendment Award of honor, is one of the country's fiercest fighters for free speech. \nGarbus also received the James Joyce Award from the University of Dublin for Excellence in Law and the New York University Law Alumni Achievement Award. His boldface clients included Robert Redford, Nelson Mandela, Tom Brokaw, Spike Lee, Michael Bloomberg and the neo Nazis. He is writing a memoir of the Cuban Five, a case he calls the worst in American Legal history.", OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', "Martin Garbus, a winner of the PEN First Amendment Award of honor, is one of the country's fiercest fighters for free speech. Garbus also received the James Joyce Award from the University of Dublin for Excellence in Law and the New York University Law Alumni Achievement Award. His boldface clients included Robert Redford, Nelson Mandela, Tom Brokaw, Spike Lee, Michael Bloomberg and the neo Nazis. He is writing a memoir of the Cuban Five, a case he calls the worst in American Legal history.")])]

Michele Bratcher Goodwin's investigative research in human trafficking, the black market for body parts, reproductive rights, the politics of organ transplants, and bioethics has won her wide acclaim. She discloses how women in Florida were forced to give birth by cesarean surgery. Goodwin is a Chancellor's Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy at the University of California, School of Law, Irvine.

["Michele Bratcher Goodwin's investigative research in human trafficking, the black market for body parts, reproductive rights, the politics of organ transplants, and bioethics has won her wide acclaim. She \ndiscloses how women in Florida were forced to give birth by cesarean surgery. Goodwin is a Chancellor's Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy at the University of California, School of Law, Irvine.", OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', "Michele Bratcher Goodwin's investigative research in human trafficking, the black market for body parts, reproductive rights, the politics of organ transplants, and bioethics has won her wide acclaim. She discloses how women in Florida were forced to give birth by cesarean surgery. Goodwin is a Chancellor's Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy at the University of California, School of Law, Irvine.")])]

['Kim Friedman,one of Hollywood\'s most successful woman television directors, is the Instagram sensation known as Crazy Jewish Mom. \nHer daughter, Kate Siegel, recently wrote a book, Mother Can You Not, based on her relationship with her "Crazy Jewish Mom." \nKim\'s credits include cult favorite, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Dynasty, Love Boat, Beverly Hills 90210 Star Trek Voyager, and Lizzie McGuire. She has won two Los Angeles Drama Critic Awards.', OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', 'Kim Friedman,one of Hollywood\'s most successful woman television directors, is the Instagram sensation known as Crazy Jewish Mom. Her daughter, Kate Siegel, recently wrote a book, Mother Can You Not, based on her relationship with her "Crazy Jewish Mom." Kim\'s credits include cult favorite, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Dynasty, Love Boat, Beverly Hills 90210 Star Trek Voyager, and Lizzie McGuire. She has won two Los Angeles Drama Critic Awards.')])]

['Ed Kashi is a photo journalist whose sensitive lens has captured the racial profiling in Europe, the turmoil in Syria and Iraq, the West Bank, the Niger Delta, as well as in the United States. His award winning work has been shown in numerous film festivals and published in The New York Times and National Geographic Magazine. His photography is also featured in The Newest Americans project at Rutgers - University Newark.', OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', 'Ed Kashi is a photo journalist whose sensitive lens has captured the racial profiling in Europe, the turmoil in Syria and Iraq, the West Bank, the Niger Delta, as well as in the United States. His award winning work has been shown in numerous film festivals and published in The New York Times and National Geographic Magazine. His photography is also featured in The Newest Americans project at Rutgers - University Newark.')])]

['Gregory Pardlo, the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is called "a different kind of Derek Jeter" by the Poetry Foundation. Pardlo debunks the theory that African Americans are disinterested parents.\nHe is the second African American male poet to win the Pulitzer for poetry and the sixth African American poet overall to capture the highly coveted honor. The Pulitzer judges said his work "was rich with thought, ideas, and histories that were both public and private."', OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', 'Gregory Pardlo, the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is called "a different kind of Derek Jeter" by the Poetry Foundation. Pardlo debunks the theory that African Americans are disinterested parents. He is the second African American male poet to win the Pulitzer for poetry and the sixth African American poet overall to capture the highly coveted honor. The Pulitzer judges said his work "was rich with thought, ideas, and histories that were both public and private."')])]

Yuki Ohta created the SoHo Memory Project in New York City to educate the throngs of visitors who have turned the one time haven for mafia landlords, struggling artists and sweat shops into an international destination for fashionistas and foodies. In this edition of Conversations with Allan Wolper, Ohta discusses the impact that the May 25, 1979 disappearance of six year old Etan Patz had on the Soho area and the country. He was declared dead in 2011. Click above to hear the entire show with