Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

Michael Rechtshaffen of the Los Angeles Times recently wrote "for those who have ever wondered about that domed white, flying saucer-shaped structure perched on a particularly sparse patch of Landers, Calif., the provocative, if slight, documentary, ‘Calling All Earthlings,’ heeds the call...Jonathan Berman finds no shortage of cooperative family members, historians, conspiracy theorists, healers and artists (singer Eric Burdon among them) in an area long associated with off-the-grid living." Don't miss a conversation for UFO believers and skeptics alike when Leonard talks to Jonathan about what the latest research and first-hand accounts tell us about the search for extraterrestrial life in the universe.

Michael Rechtshaffen of the Los Angeles Times recently wrote "for those who have ever wondered about that domed white, flying saucer-shaped structure perched on a particularly sparse patch of Landers, Calif., the provocative, if slight, documentary, ‘Calling All Earthlings,’ heeds the call...Jonathan Berman finds no shortage of cooperative family members, historians, conspiracy theorists, healers and artists (singer Eric Burdon among them) in an area long associated with off-the-grid living." Don't miss a conversation for UFO believers and skeptics alike when Leonard talks to Jonathan about what the latest research and first-hand accounts tell us about the search for extraterrestrial life in the universe.

On Tuesday's "Leonard Lopate at Large," critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet and professor of writing at Columbia University Phillip Lopate (who also happens to be Leonard's brother) joins us for the premiere installment of our Underread Book Club with a discussion of Ivan Turgenev’s late masterpiece “Virgin Soil.” When it was published in 1877, "Virgin Soil" made Turgenev world famous; a month after it was published 52 young men and women were arrested in Russia on charges of revolutionary conspiracy and a shocked public in France, Britain and America turned to the novel for enlightenment. Its effect on American readers was enormous. Turgenev’s 1860s Russian radicals may remind you of 1960s American radicals and the political discussions often sound like the arguments being made today.

On Tuesday's "Leonard Lopate at Large," critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet and professor of writing at Columbia University Phillip Lopate (who also happens to be Leonard's brother) joins us for the premiere installment of our Underread Book Club with a discussion of Ivan Turgenev’s late masterpiece “Virgin Soil.” When it was published in 1877, "Virgin Soil" made Turgenev world famous; a month after it was published 52 young men and women were arrested in Russia on charges of revolutionary conspiracy and a shocked public in France, Britain and America turned to the novel for enlightenment. Its effect on American readers was enormous. Turgenev’s 1860s Russian radicals may remind you of 1960s American radicals and the political discussions often sound like the arguments being made today.

On Tuesday's "Leonard Lopate at Large," critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet and professor of writing at Columbia University Phillip Lopate (who also happens to be Leonard's brother) joins us for the premiere installment of our Underread Book Club with a discussion of Ivan Turgenev’s late masterpiece “Virgin Soil.” When it was published in 1877, "Virgin Soil" made Turgenev world famous; a month after it was published 52 young men and women were arrested in Russia on charges of revolutionary conspiracy and a shocked public in France, Britain and America turned to the novel for enlightenment. Its effect on American readers was enormous. Turgenev’s 1860s Russian radicals may remind you of 1960s American radicals and the political discussions often sound like the arguments being made today.

On Monday’s show, Leonard talks to one of America’s premier investigative journalists, Seymour “Sy” Hersh. Perhaps best known for exposing what came to be known as the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, which earned him the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Sy has also reported on the US military's mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the U.S. military’s killing of Osama bin Laden. His journalism and publishing awards also include five George Polk Awards, two National Magazine Awards, and more than a dozen other prizes for investigative reporting. Don’t miss this conversation with a man who changed the course of US history with his reporting at least twice.

On Monday’s show, Leonard talks to one of America’s premier investigative journalists, Seymour “Sy” Hersh. Perhaps best known for exposing what came to be known as the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, which earned him the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Sy has also reported on the US military's mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the U.S. military’s killing of Osama bin Laden. His journalism and publishing awards also include five George Polk Awards, two National Magazine Awards, and more than a dozen other prizes for investigative reporting. Don’t miss this conversation with a man who changed the course of US history with his reporting at least twice.

On Monday’s show, Leonard talks to one of America’s premier investigative journalists, Seymour “Sy” Hersh. Perhaps best known for exposing what came to be known as the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, which earned him the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Sy has also reported on the US military's mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the U.S. military’s killing of Osama bin Laden. His journalism and publishing awards also include five George Polk Awards, two National Magazine Awards, and more than a dozen other prizes for investigative reporting. Don’t miss this conversation with a man who changed the course of US history with his reporting at least twice.

Chaseholm Farm Creamery is a grass-based dairy farm nestled in a 350-acre patchwork of pastures, crop land, woods and waterways located just outside of Pine Plains, NY. The Creamery was founded in 2007 when Rory Chase returned home to the farm and started making cheese, retrofitting a barn his grandfather built in the early 1930s to serve as a cheesemaking plant and aging cave. It is one of only a handful of Farmstead outfits producing cow’s milk cheese from their farm’s own herd in the state of New York. Bobolink Dairy was founded by Nina and Jonathan White in 2002, on leased farmland, before the pair eventually moved their operation to a 186-acre farmstead in Milford, NJ in March of 2010. Each season, the dairy milks approximately 50 cows with a bumper crop of young heifers and bulls of their own new breed, the Bobolink Blacks, which are the result of crossing several common "modern" dairy breeds (Ayrshire, Guernsey, Jersey and others) with the ancient Kerry cattle of Ireland. In this Friday edition of “Leonard Lopate at Large” Rory Chase and Jonathan White give Leonard a masterclass in artisanal cheesemaking.

Chaseholm Farm Creamery is a grass-based dairy farm nestled in a 350-acre patchwork of pastures, crop land, woods and waterways located just outside of Pine Plains, NY. The Creamery was founded in 2007 when Rory Chase returned home to the farm and started making cheese, retrofitting a barn his grandfather built in the early 1930s to serve as a cheesemaking plant and aging cave. It is one of only a handful of Farmstead outfits producing cow’s milk cheese from their farm’s own herd in the state of New York. Bobolink Dairy was founded by Nina and Jonathan White in 2002, on leased farmland, before the pair eventually moved their operation to a 186-acre farmstead in Milford, NJ in March of 2010. Each season, the dairy milks approximately 50 cows with a bumper crop of young heifers and bulls of their own new breed, the Bobolink Blacks, which are the result of crossing several common "modern" dairy breeds (Ayrshire, Guernsey, Jersey and others) with the ancient Kerry cattle of Ireland. In this Friday edition of “Leonard Lopate at Large” Rory Chase and Jonathan White give Leonard a masterclass in artisanal cheesemaking.