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This week we present an encore broadcast. WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with two bluegrass legends, Earl Scruggs and Ralph Stanley. Earl Scruggs died in 2012 while Ralph Stanley died in 2016. In the first interview, Alan talks with Earl and his wife Louise who died in 2006, followed by the interview with Ralph Stanley.

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An encore 2015 In Conversation interview with WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Folk Icon Arlo Guthrie. The pair spoke at the Mahawie Theatre in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Alan and Arlo talk about the movie Alice’s Restaurant.

Photo courtesy of Eric Brown

An encore interview with WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaking with James Reston Jr. Reston is the author of “The Accidental Victim: JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald and The Real Target in Dallas.”

Photo courtesy of James Reston Jr.

We’re honoring Veterans with an encore In Conversation interview between WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Paul Elisha — a  WWII veteran, poet, professional musician, and longtime voice on WAMC who died in 2015 at age 92.

We present an encore Power of Words. WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Historian Dr. Richard Pfau discuss President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine speech.

Photo courtesy of the U.S. National Archive.

WAMC’s Alan Chartock In A 2012 Conversation with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, folk musician and former member of The Byrds, Roger McGuinn.

Photo courtesy of Roger McGuinn.

This week, WAMC’s Alan Chartock in a 2010 encore In Conversation, with the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sydney Schanberg and actor Sam Waterston about “The Killing Fields,” the movie inspired by Schanberg’s coverage of the civil war in Cambodia during the 1970s.

Photo credit Dith Pran.