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On Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard talks with biographer Arlene Corsano about Rose Marie McCoy, one of the only African-American women to be part of the legendary Brill Building songwriting scene.

On today’s show you will hear about this songwriter who composed hits for legendary artists like Big Maybelle, James Brown, Ruth Brown, Nat King Cole, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Mathis, Bette Midler, Elvis Presley and Ike and Tina Turner.

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard has a conversation with Edward Bullmore discussing the science behind the methodology he outlined in his new book The Inflamed Mind .

Scientists predict that depression will be the largest cause of disability worldwide in the next 20 years. But treatment for it hasn’t changed much in the last three decades.

In his new book “The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression” released on December 31 on Picador, University of Cambridge Professor of Psychiatry Edward Bullmore reveals the link between depression and the inflammation of the body and brain.

“The Inflamed Mind” goes beyond the clinic and the lab to examine how mind, brain and body all work together in an often-misguided effort to help us survive in a hostile world.

Today, on Leonard Lopate at Large, Kathryn and Ross Petras, authors of the book “You’re Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words–and Their Tangled Histories of Misuse,” take your pronunciation-related phone calls.

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large: A very special in-studio performance of Bach’s cello suites from Amit Peled!

Amit Peled

Israeli-American cellist Amit Peled’s latest album, “Bach Suites, Volume 1” is slated for release on February 1 on the CTM Classics imprint. Recorded on a Goffriller cello from the year 1733 formerly owned by legendary virtuoso Pablo Casals, the album features Bach’s first three suites.

The album marks the first time that Bach’s Suites have been recorded on the instrument since Casals’ own path-breaking venture in 1936.

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Paul Keil and Jesse Eisinger join Leonard in the studio to discuss their disturbing findings on exactly who the IRS audits. Budget cuts have crippled the IRS over the past eight years. Enforcement staff has dropped by a third. But while the number of audits has fallen across the board, the impact has been different for the rich and poor according to Paul Keil and Jesse Eisinger’s ProPublica expose “Who’s More Likely to Be Audited: A Person Making $20,000 — or $400,000?”

Today is a special call-in day…listeners calling in with ideas on people and topics to cover in the coming year!

On today’s edition of Leonard Lopate at Large, in the first episode of the new year, Joshua and Staffan make their case on why nuclear energy could be the last thing standing between us and the earth’s destruction.

Climate change may be nearing a catastrophic tipping point, but it is not too late to work towards a solution.

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In their new book “A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow” Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist explain how nuclear power combined with renewables can replace fossil fuels, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and head off climate-change disaster. They challenge the left to rethink the idea that nuclear power is too dangerous and challenge the right to face the reality and perils of climate change.  

On today’s Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard Lehrman talks about his experience composing and performing with some of the biggest names in classical music and some exciting upcoming performances of his music.

Leonard Lehrman is the protégé of Elie Siegmeister, who called him his “Continuator.” His 232 compositions have been heard on six continents. His other teachers included Nadia Boulanger, Olga Heifetz, Earl Kim, Jean-Jacques Painchaud, Lukas Foss and Robert Palmer.

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard welcomes back his brother Phillip to the show, discussing some of his picks for the best films in the last part of 2018. Novelist, critic, poet and essayist Phillip Lopate has received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants.

Phillip is currently a professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where he teaches nonfiction writing.

On today’s Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard’s conversation is with Manona Rossol on lead exposure and its health problems. Monona Rossol is a chemist, artist, and industrial hygienist. She was born into a theatrical family and worked as a professional entertainer from age 3 to 17. She enrolled in the University of Wisconsin where she earned: a BS in Chemistry with a minor in Math, an MS majoring in Ceramics and Sculpture, and an MFA with majors in Ceramics and Glassblowing and a minor in Music. While in school she worked as a chemist, taught and exhibited art work, performed with University music and theater groups, and worked yearly in summer stock. After leaving school, she performed in musical and straight acting roles in Off and Off Off Broadway theaters and cabaret.

Currently, Monona is President/founder of Arts, Crafts and Theater Safety, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing health and safety services to the arts. She also is the Health and Safety Director for Local 829 of the United Scenic Artists, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). She has lectured and consulted in the US, Canada, Australia, England, Mexico and Portugal.