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Today, Leonard’s conversation is with  economist Idrees Kahloon and Ben Freeman of the Center for International Policy talking about foreign policy. And discussing  Kahloon’s article “Crimea river: The swampy business of lobbying for foreign governments.”

Today Leonard talks with Carter Strickland of The Trust for Public Land,

a national nonprofit that was founded in San Francisco in 1972, which works with communities to develop open space. Their New York office opened in 1978. State Director Carter Strickland has been leading the way in building these parks, including remaking 197 school playgrounds across the five boroughs.

Read more:Forest Hills Times – Carter Strickland Trust for Public Land

Today  Leonard speaks to director Stephanie Welch and co-writer Andrew Kimbrell.

The documentary “A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics and the American Dream” reveals how biologically determined politics has disenfranchised women and people of color, provided a rationale for state sanctioned crimes committed against America’s most vulnerable citizens, and now gains new traction under the Trump administration. Featuring interviews with social thinkers such as Van Jones and Robert Reich, as well as prominent scientists, “A Dangerous Idea” is a radical reassessment of the meaning, use and misuse of gene science.

Today  Leonard speaks to director Stephanie Welch and co-writer Andrew Kimbrell.

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large,  Hannah Howard will talk about her book “FEAST: True Love in and out of the Kitchen”.

“Hannah Howard, a freshman at Columbia with a passion for the elite world of Manhattan’s restaurant scene, is intoxicated by food and desperate to learn all she can about its wonders, but her destructive eating disorder makes it nearly impossible. Before she can learn to love her relationship with food, though, she must first confront her relationship with her body, fears, insecurities, addictions, and all.” – Sadie Trombetta, Bustle

Today it is a special Food Friday edition of “Leonard Lopate at Large,” answering those questions about food foraging with Tama Matsuoka Wong, author of “Foraged Flavor: Finding Fabulous Ingredients in Your Backyard Or Farmer’s Market” and her fellow foraging expert John Gottfried.

Today, in studio, Leonard talks with Alexander Newley, the British artist best known for his ‘portrait of a portrait’ type paintings of some of the world’s most well-known faces across theatre land discussing his new book ‘Newley’ all about what it was like growing up with a film icon—Joan Collins, as a mother and Oscar-winning composer, stage genius and entertainer, Anthony Newley as a father.

Today on Leonard Lopate At Large, Leonard’s guest is Miriam Pawel, author of “The Browns Of California.”

Pawel, the author of ‘The Crusades of Cesar Chavez,’ bills her family saga as a ‘lens through which to tell a unique history of the 31st state,’ but it does much more. Her engaging narrative of the politics, ideas and policies of the two Edmund Browns illuminates the sea change in the nation’s politics in the last half of the 20th century.” – Lisa McGirr, New York Times Book Review

 

Today Leonard and Michael Wildes discusses the book “Safe Haven In America: Battles to Open the Golden Door” and reflect on a career spent fighting to keep good people in the country.

In “Safe Haven In America: Battles to Open the Golden Door,” Michael describes representing defecting KGB agents, whistleblowers, disillusioned Saudi diplomats, accused terrorists, professionals and celebrities, such as First Lady Melania Trump and soccer legend Pele. But the book also recounts his efforts help the victims of international child kidnapping cases, families that were all but destroyed by the attack on the World Trade Center, and a DACA recipient who endured a hate crime.

 

*****Please note there were recording playback audio problems with some of the music recorded today at WBAI, so some audio selections are missing or wrong…..thank you for your patience******

Today, on Leonard Lopate At Large,  Christian De Luca and Tom Crawford from the Orchestra of the Old Fairfield Academy Join Leonard in conversation.

On Thursday’s show, we take a musical journey into the past when Christian De Luca and Tom Crawford from the Orchestra of the Old Fairfield Academy describe what it’s like to perform classical compositions with instruments from the same era in which they were written.

Christian and Tom will also share some of the music they’ve made in this discussion on how much of a difference the period an instrument is made has on a performance.

Today Leonard talks with  Adrian Benepe

A senior vice president and director of city park development for The Trust for Public Land, Adrian Benepe is one of the nation’s experts on the nexus of the public, private, and nonprofit sectors in public-space development and management. Born and raised in New York, Adrian served as New York City Parks commissioner for 11 years under Mayor Michael Bloomberg prior to joining The Trust for Public Land.

During that time he oversaw a major expansion of the city’s park system, including restoring historic parks such as Central Park and Battery Park, adding 730 acres of new parkland including Hudson River Park, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and the High Line, and laying the groundwork for an additional 2,000 acres of parkland within the city.