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Past Shows — July, 2008
 
 
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 11:00 am

Journalist and author Rick Bragg joins us to talk about his Deep South memoir of a difficult father, “The Prince of Frogtown.”

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Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 10:00 am

Housing prices nationwide continue to plummet in the latest numbers. We’ll check in around the country from Boston to L.A., and in between, to ask if housing is finally bottoming out.

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 11:00 am

A new book on parenting says you can shrug off the culture of “cool” and nurture well-rounded kids in a grow-up-too-fast world. We’ll talk with the author — and you.

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 10:00 am

We talk with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi about her rise to power, battles with Bush, an unpopular Congress, and the ‘08 elections.

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 6:31 am

If you landed at onpointradio.org and wondered what had happened — well, don’t worry, you’ve got the right address. We’ve just replaced the old edifice with something a little more, shall we say, architecturally ambitious. Call it our own small version of Web 2.0…

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 11:00 am

Are you a multi-slacker? A matador? A frazz master? We’ll look at the weird new vocabulary of today’s business world.

 
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 10:00 am

A huge immigration raid on an Iowa meatpacking plant in May sent shockwaves all the way to Washington. Now come stark revelations on conditions in that plant.

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Monday, July 28, 2008 at 11:00 am

Philippe Petit walked a high wire between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Now they’re gone. He looks back, in an acclaimed new documentary, “Man on Wire.”

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Monday, July 28, 2008 at 10:00 am

The Beijing Olympics are about to open. Whatever happened to all the campaigns to leverage China on Darfur, Tibet, and more, with the Games?

 
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Friday, July 25, 2008 at 11:00 am

A defense of marriage. A new book says staying in that long-term relationship can give purpose and meaning.

 
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Friday, July 25, 2008 at 10:00 am

Obama abroad. McCain on the homefront. The House passes a housing bill. Karadzic caught. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

 
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 11:00 am

We sat down with California poet Kay Ryan, recently named the next poet laureate of the United States, to talk about her wordplay, her worldview, and where it all comes from.

 
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 10:00 am

Oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky was once the richest man in Russia. Now he’s in prison and desperate to get out. We talk with the Bronx attorney who’s his lead legal strategist about power and the law in oil-rich Russia.

 
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 11:00 am

Filling the ranks in wartime. We talk with a US Army recruiter, his recruit, and the film director who features them up close in a new HBO documentary, “The Recruiter.”

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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 10:00 am

Days of reckoning in Detroit. With gas topping $4, and Ford announcing historic changes, we look at shrinking American cars and carmakers, and whether they can make the turn.

 
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 11:00 am

The environment and the green grass of home. Will Americans ever let go of their lawns?

 
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 10:00 am

With Senator Obama in Middle East, we look at what a President Obama’s real options would be in the tough terrain from Israel to Islamabad.

 
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Monday, July 21, 2008 at 11:00 am

Physics and the presidency. A top scientist says our challenges require breakthroughs.

 
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Monday, July 21, 2008 at 10:00 am

The United States is for sale. Budweiser’s Belgian now. A lot more is on the block. We ask what it means for Americans as the world buys us up.

 
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Friday, July 18, 2008 at 11:00 am

A new film shows off the soft side of Genghis Khan. We talk with the director of “Mongol.”

 
On Point Today
The Pandora Effect
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We’ll talk with the founder of Pandora, the online music service that claims it knows what you’ll want to hear.

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Week in the News
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Obama in China. Healthcare crunch time in the Senate. And the mammogram controversy rages on. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Recent Shows
Poker: America’s Game
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

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Google vs. Murdoch
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

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Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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