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Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard has a a conversation with Ed Asner and Tovah Feldshuh about their celebrated past performances and what it’s like working together in this current production. Tovah Feldshuh and Ed Asner Will Star in The... Read More ›

On today’s Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard has a conversation with Andrew Roberts on Winston Churchill, and Robert’s new book Churchill: Walking with Destiny.

On today’s Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard has a conversation with Andrew Roberts on Winston Churchill, and Robert’s new book Churchill: Walking with Destiny.

Join us today for a special in-studio performance from Wadada Leo Smith on Leonard Lopate at Large, and a conversation about his storied career. Trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser Wadada Leo Smith has been a member of Chicago’s legendary AACM collective for the past five decades.

A finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music, he received the 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award and earned an honorary doctorate from CalArts, where he was also celebrated as Faculty Emeritus. A regular selection of the DownBeat International Critics Poll, In 2017 he topped three categories: Best Jazz Artist, Trumpeter of the Year and Jazz Album of the Year.

Smith has released more than 50 albums as a leader on labels including ECM, Moers, Black Saint, Tzadik, Pi Recordings, TUM, Leo and Cuneiform. His diverse discography reveals a recorded history exploring the social, natural and political environment of his times with passion and fierce intelligence. His 2016 recording “America’s National Parks” earned the trumpeter-composer rave reviews and a place on numerous best-of-the-year lists including the New York Times and NPR Music.

Join us today for a special in-studio performance from Wadada Leo Smith on Leonard Lopate at Large, and a conversation about his storied career. Trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser Wadada Leo Smith has been a member of Chicago’s legendary AACM... Read More ›

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard talks to NYU professor of media studies Mark Crispin Miller, who curated the series, about why he chose the works he did and discusses the complicated history behind some of the selections.

The Forbidden Bookshelf is a series of formerly banned books with the stated aim of “filling in the blanks of America’s repressed history by resurrecting books that focused on issues and events that are too often left in the dark, including abortion, organized crime, the CIA and financial inequality.”

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard talks to NYU professor of media studies Mark Crispin Miller, who curated the series, about why he chose the works he did and discusses the complicated history behind some of the selections. The... Read More ›

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard has a conversation with Dr. Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, an urbanist, curator, and artist known for her pioneering work in public arts and urban research for community engagement.

Her recent public art and dialogue project, Intersection | Prospect Heights, in partnership with the Brooklyn Public Library, engaged thousands of New Yorkers on the critical subjects of displacement and development.

Today Dr. Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani talks about her book “Contested City: Art and Public History as Mediation at New York’s Seward Park Urban Renewal Area” and some recent local projects she’s been involved in.

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard has a conversation with Dr. Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, an urbanist, curator, and artist known for her pioneering work in public arts and urban research for community engagement. Her recent public art and dialogue project,... Read More ›

In this “Food Friday” installment of Leonard Lopate at Large, Judith, Andrew and Ken discuss the origin of some of their favorite foods. Judith Weinraub is a former reporter and section editor for the Washington Post and the winner of two James Beard Awards.

Andrew F. Smith is editor of the Edible Series of books.  He teaches culinary history at the New School and is the author of The Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food.

Ken Albala is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific and founder of the Food Studies MA program in San Francisco.