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Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Lawrence Wright and Mary Chapin Carpenter, September 7, 2010

Author: Bob Edwards

Format: Original Recording

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-10

Publisher: XM Satellite Radio

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Lawrence Wright earned the Pulitzer Prize for his historical account of Al-Qaeda, The Looming Tower, which, in part, traces the roots of the anti-American jihad to the 1940s. Afterwards, the author wrote a one-man show about his experience with Islamic fundamentalists and award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has produced a documentary based on that show. Wright discusses My Trip to Al-Qaeda and U.S. relations with Muslims nine years after the attack on the World Trade Center. Wright also is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Then, In 1981, newly graduated American civ major Mary Chapin Carpenter applied for a number of jobs that didnt pan out. After a series of closed doors, Carpenter finally turned to music, her favorite hobby, to try to pay the bills. Five Grammys and three Platinum albums later, Carpenter is one of Americas most successful female singer/songwriters. Her latest album is titled The Age of Miracles. [Broadcast Date: September 7, 2010]

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Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Scott Paul and David Bradley, September 6, 2010

Author: Bob Edwards

Format: Original Recording

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-10

Publisher: XM Satellite Radio

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

The manufacturing industry in the United States has long been in decline, but the loss of factory jobs has been especially brutal during the recession, with nearly two million disappearing since December 2007. Scott Paul is the Executive Director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing and hell explain how U.S. policies have undermined the manufacturing industry.

Then, FDRs Works Progress Administration (WPA) funded four arts program. One of those, the Federal Writers Project, employed thousands of writers and started the careers of some of Americas most famous authors like Studs Terkel, Ralph Ellison, Richard Writer, Saul Bellow, and Zora Neale Hurston. Bob talks with writer David Bradley about the documentary titled Soul of a People: Writing Americas Story. [Broadcast Date: September 6, 2010]

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Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Andre Agassi, David Broder, and Dan Gediman, September 3, 2010

Author: Bob Edwards

Format: Original Recording

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-10

Publisher: XM Satellite Radio

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

David Broder of The Washington Post joins Bob to talk politics. Next, in his memoir, Open: An Autobiography, Andre Agassi goes well beyond his on-court wins and losses to reveal his secrets (e.g., he hates tennis) and others (e.g., the Association of Tennis Professionals tolerated his drug use). Agassi discusses his abusive father, the hairpiece he wore during tournaments, the shoe lifts Brook Shields made him wear to their wedding, and much more.

Then, in this weeks installment of our ongoing series This I Believe, Bob talks with curator Dan Gediman about the essay of Elizabeth Deutsch. When she was 16, she won a This I Believe essay contest in the Cleveland Press newspaper. Her prize was a trip to New York City to record her essay for broadcast on the original series. Deutsch went on to become a professor of plant breeding at Cornell University. [Broadcast Date: September 3, 2010]

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Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Jann Turner, Kenneth Nkosi, Rapulana Seiphemo, and John Crawford, September 2, 2010

Author: Bob Edwards

Format: Original Recording

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-02-10

Publisher: XM Satellite Radio

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

In 1978, anti-Apartheid activist Rick Turner was gunned down at his familys home in Durban, South Africa. Twenty years later, his daughter Jann Turner met actors Kenneth Nkosi and Rapulana Seiphemo on the set of a South African soap opera. Now the three friends have a production company, Stepping Stone Pictures, which creates positive images reflecting the promise of post-Apartheid South Africa. One summer, the trio took a memorable road trip that became the basis of their debut feature film, White Wedding.

Then, President Obama declared the end of combat in Iraq this week. John Crawford is a combat veteran who wrote about his experiences in a book called The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq. [Broadcast Date: September 2, 2010]

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Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Lawrence Powell, Maurice Landrieu, and Kerry Mitchell Kraft, September 1, 2010

Author: Bob Edwards

Format: Original Recording

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-10

Publisher: XM Satellite Radio

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

We continue No Place Like Home, our series of interviews gathered in coastal Louisiana, with a look at the past, present and future of New Orleans as the city marks the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Tulane University professor Lawrence Powell provides some historical perspective.

Next we join former New Orleans mayor Maurice "Moon" Landrieu for a driving tour of the destruction caused by the flooding, damage which still cuts across social and economic boundaries five years later.

Then we meet recent Tulane University graduate Kerry Mitchell Kraft. She was an incoming freshman in August 2005, on campus for orientation as Katrina approached. She evacuated, but then returned to finish school and plans to make her home in New Orleans. [Broadcast Date: September 1, 2010]

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Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Jeff Wise, Nancy Groce, and Stephen Winick, August 31, 2010

Author: Bob Edwards

Format: Original Recording

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-10

Publisher: XM Satellite Radio

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

In desperate situations, fear can give us the adrenaline we need for survival, or drive us to total terror and impede our ability to think clearly. Science writer Jeff Wise, columnist for Popular Mechanics, examines how and why we respond to fear in his book Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger.

Then, bad guys and outlaws are the subject for this installment with our resident folklorists Nancy Groce and Stephen Winick from the Library of Congress. [Broadcast Date: August 31, 2010]

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Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Jonathan Lethem and Michael Quinion, August 30, 2010

Author: Bob Edwards

Format: Original Recording

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-10

Publisher: XM Satellite Radio

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Jonathan Lethem describes his novel this way: "Its set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, its strongly influenced by Saul Bellow, Philip K. Dick, Charles G. Finney and Hitchcocks Vertigo, and it concerns a circle of friends including a faded child-star actor, a cultural critic, a hack ghost-writer of autobiographies, and a city official. And its long and strange. Chronic City is Lethems seventh novel. Its now out in paperback. His newest novel Freedom will be released on August 31, 2010. Then, Bob speaks with Michael Quinion of the website WorldWideWords.org. [Broadcast Date: August 30, 2010]

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Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Jesse Saperstein, David Broder, and Dan Gediman, August 27, 2010

Author: Bob Edwards

Format: Original Recording

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-27-10

Publisher: XM Satellite Radio

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

David Broder of The Washington Post joins Bob to talk politics. Then, when Jesse Saperstein was diagnosed Aspergers syndrome as a young man, he was glad at last to have a name for his social and behavioral problems. Aspergers, a mild form of autism, is often characterized by repetitive routines, peculiarities in speech, and a lack of social understanding, which includes trouble understanding empathy. Sapersteins book Atypical: Life with Aspergers in 20 1/3 Chapters humanizes the difficult world of autism.

And in this weeks installment of our ongoing series This I Believe, Bob talks with curator Dan Gediman about the essay of Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjold who 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. [Broadcast Date: August 27, 2010]

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Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Denise Reed and Tab Benoit, August 25, 2010

Author: Bob Edwards

Format: Original Recording

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-10

Publisher: XM Satellite Radio

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

This week in our series No Place Like Home, well head to the bayou to get a firsthand look at the marshes and swamps that are so important to coastal Louisianas culture and ecology. Denise Reed is a professor at the University of New Orleans, and shes been studying the wetlands for decades, monitoring loss and imagining ways to grow new land. Tab Benoit is concerned about wetlands loss, but you wont find him lecturing about it in a classroom. Benoit is a blues singer from Houma and a founder of the group Voice of the Wetlands. Hell take Bob on a boat ride through the swamps both healthy and depleted. [Broadcast Date: August 25, 2010]

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Title: The Bob Edwards Show, James Fallows and Lisa Schirch, August 24, 2010

Author: Bob Edwards

Format: Original Recording

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-10

Publisher: XM Satellite Radio

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Bob talks with James Fallows, National Correspondent for The Atlantic. In his wide-ranging blog at theatlantic.com, he comments on everything from the rise of China to the Presidents grammar. Then, Glen Lapp is one of ten humanitarian workers who were killed early this month in Afghanistan. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the medical workers were trying to convert Muslims. Lisa Schirch is professor at Eastern Mennonite Universitys graduate Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. She talks about Lapp, an EMU alum, their friendship, and their commitment to the effort in Afghanistan. [Broadcast Date: August 24, 2010]