Long-time friends and folk musicians Ellis Paul and Vance Gilbert join us for a look back at 2003 and a look ahead. We sing out the old and welcome new music and fresh covers of songs by Van Morrison, Lucinda Williams, Woody Guthrie, Neil Young and more.
Guests:
Ellis Paul and Vance Gilbert, songwriters, musicians, and [...]

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss on the tumultuous days of October 1967. War in Vietnam, student protests at home, and America on the brink of crisis.
Guests:
David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author and associate editor, The Washington Post. His latest book is “They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October [...]

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss on the tumultuous days of October 1967. War in Vietnam, student protests at home, and America on the brink of crisis.
Guests:
David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author and associate editor, The Washington Post. His latest book is “They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October [...]

Slogging along on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in his early years, the man born Nathan Brinbaum was looking for the key to stardom. He found the missing link in a young, pretty dancer named Gracie Allen. Gracie was every bit his match: charming and smart, with a natural sense for comedy. Their marriage was [...]

Earlier this month, some of the country’s best writers met in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the 2003 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism to share their best work. Tonight, we bring you Part Two of a series of readings from those writers–delivered in the authors’ own voices–as part of an annual On Point tradition.
Guests:
Jay Allison, independent [...]

Earlier this month, some of the country’s best writers met in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the 2003 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism to share their best work. We bring you the first part of a series of readings from those writers, delivered in the authors’ own voices, as part of an annual On Point tradition.
Guests:
Susan [...]

The beef recall is expanded to eight states and one U.S. territory.
Guests:
Guy Nelson, news director KUOW, Seattle, Washington

Firefighters in Glenview, Illinois were told to take down their indoor Christmas decoratons after some residents said they were offended. In Holliston, Massachusetts, town officials initially objected from a request from a rabbi to place a menorah outside Town Hall. ‘Tis the season to argue about holiday decorations.
Guests:
Cathy Young, contributing editor at Reason magazine, [...]

The saying “many happy returns” takes on new meaning around the holidays. From sweaters that are two sizes too big to vases to vases that are just too awful to display, the gift of receiving sometimes can be too hard to bear. But as Cambridge writer Joan Wickersham explains in this radio diary, there can [...]

After a string of early successes and an Oscar for directing, Hollywood superstar Mel Gibson fell into despair in his mid-thirties. He pulled himself out through the faith of his youth, a deeply traditionalist Catholicism that rejects even popes.
Gibson came out of his experience with the decision to make what he calls “a historically accurate” [...]

After a string of early successes and an Oscar for directing, Hollywood superstar Mel Gibson fell into despair in his mid-thirties. He pulled himself out through the faith of his youth, a deeply traditionalist Catholicism that rejects even popes.
Gibson came out of his experience with the decision to make what he calls “a historically accurate” [...]

Mother and daughter Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi have co-authored a new book on why two-income families are not better off, and why they’re even more likely to file bankruptcy. The myths and realities of what is making middle class America go broke.
Guests:
Elizabeth Warren, professor of law, Harvard University and co-author of “The [...]

Mother and daughter Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi have co-authored a new book on why two-income families are not better off, and why they’re even more likely to file bankruptcy. The myths and realities of what is making middle class America go broke.
Guests:
Elizabeth Warren, professor of law, Harvard University and co-author of “The [...]

Comic book artist Art Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize for “Maus: A Survivor’s Tale,” a beautiful story about his parents’ experiences during the Holocaust. He’s also the artist behind the 1993 Valentine’s Day New Yorker cover of a Hasidic Jew passionately kissing an African-American woman.
Spiegelman got his early start at the Topps Gum Co., [...]

Comic book artist Art Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize for “Maus: A Survivor’s Tale,” a beautiful story about his parents’ experiences during the Holocaust. He’s also the artist behind the 1993 Valentine’s Day New Yorker cover of a Hasidic Jew passionately kissing an African-American woman.
Spiegelman got his early start at the Topps Gum Co., [...]

Music of Christmas past. The history and art of Christmas music through the ages. From medieval to modern times, we take note of some of the best Christmas music through the centuries. Distinguished musical ensemble the Boston Camerata is our guide for an evening of song and celebration.
Guests:
Joel Cohen, Artistic Director The Boston Camerata
Anne Azema, [...]

Music of Christmas past. The history and art of Christmas music through the ages. From medieval to modern times, we take note of some of the best Christmas music through the centuries. Distinguished musical ensemble the Boston Camerata is our guide for an evening of song and celebration.
Guests:
Joel Cohen, Artistic Director The Boston Camerata
Anne Azema, [...]

Joan Baez burst into the spotlight in 1959 at the Newport Folk Festival at the age of 18. In the 1960s, she was the popular face of folk as she helped bring upstarts Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Phil Ochs to fame.
She marched alongside Martin Luther King in Selma, stood in the fields with Cesar [...]

Bestselling novelist Amy Tan on her first book of nonfiction “The Opposite of Fate” about familial bonds and fate. From “The Joy Luck Club” to “The Bonesetter’s Daughter”, we travel into the literary–and the real–world of writer Amy Tan.
Guests:
Amy Tan, bestselling novelist and author of the new book, “The Opposite of Fate: A Book [...]

Joan Baez burst into the spotlight in 1959 at the Newport Folk Festival at the age of 18. In the 1960s, she was the popular face of folk as she helped bring upstarts Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Phil Ochs to fame.
She marched alongside Martin Luther King in Selma, stood in the fields with Cesar [...]