wbur.org
support wbur today!
Past Shows — June, 2009
 
 
image
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 11:00 am

Naomi Shelton has been singing gospel all her life, and just released her first album, at age 66. She joins us.

Comments [8]
 
image
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 10:00 am

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of white firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut, reversing a decision endorsed by Judge Sonia Sotomayor. We’ll look at the case, and what it means for affirmative action.

Comments [48]
 
image
Monday, June 29, 2009 at 11:00 am

Karl Greenfeld grew up in the shadow of an autistic brother. He’ll talk about his new book, “Boy Alone.”

Comments [11]
 
image
Monday, June 29, 2009 at 10:00 am

Tuesday, June 30th, U.S. combat troops will be all but gone from Iraqi cities. We’ll talk with two reporters, an American and an Iraqi, about where the pullout leaves Iraq.

Comments [10]
 
Friday, June 26, 2009 at 2:52 pm

The week-in-the-news roundtable always involves tough choices on sound clips – what to include, what to leave out. Amid all the pressing hard news, we often give a nod to a notable person who’s passed away. But this week brought, well, a ridiculous range of choices.

Comments [2]
 
image
Friday, June 26, 2009 at 11:00 am

The ‘King of Pop,’ dead at 50. We’ll look back at the career, the image, the person, and the impact on popular music.

Comments [85]
 
image
Friday, June 26, 2009 at 10:00 am

Iranian crackdown. Health care politics in high gear. And the South Carolina governor’s Argentine affair. Our weekly news roundtable unpacks the headlines.

Comments [39]
 
image
Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 11:00 am

On Point and Planet Money, together at last! We talk with NPR’s Adam Davidson and David Kestenbaum about what they’ve learned covering the economic crisis, and where it’s going.

Comments [13]
 
image
Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 10:00 am

Does Athens’ big, new, ultra-modern Acropolis Museum give Greece a fresh claim on the Elgin Marbles, spirited away by a British lord two centuries ago? We’ll step into the fray.

Comments [19]
 
image
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 11:00 am

The true story of Bonnie and Clyde, 75 years after America’s most famous outlaw lovers went down in a hail of bullets.

Comments [11]
 
image
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 10:00 am

Will health care reform really make it through the Washington gauntlet this time? We’ll take a close look at the politics playing out now, and the road ahead for reform.

Comments [57]
 
image
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 11:00 am

Globalization backlash. A new critique out of the third world and black America.

Comments [21]
 
image
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 10:00 am

We’ll look at the crisis in Iran and the big waves it’s creating, from the Middle East to the White House situation room.

Comments [42]
 
image
Monday, June 22, 2009 at 11:00 am

“Death be not proud.” “My love is a fever.” We look at 500 years of poets making sonnets.

Comments [17]
 
image
Monday, June 22, 2009 at 10:00 am

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, top economic and policy advisor to the 2008 McCain campaign, on Obama’s agenda — and the future of the GOP.

Comments [41]
 
Friday, June 19, 2009 at 1:08 pm

On Wednesday night, June 24, On Point will tape a show before an audience in Boston with two stars of NPR’s “Planet Money,” Adam Davidson and David Kestenbaum. We need your online questions to put to them — about anything from the roots of the economic crisis to NPR’s coverage.

Comments [18]
 
image
Friday, June 19, 2009 at 11:00 am

Fred Astaire danced his way into American legend—the original dancing superstar. We look at the man behind the top hat and tails.

 
image
Friday, June 19, 2009 at 10:00 am

Protests rock Iran. New regs for Wall Street. And new gay rights for federal employees. Our news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Comments [61]
 
image
Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 11:00 am

Two big new surveys of the world’s “most livable cities” include almost no American cities. We’ll ask why, and what’s “livable” now.

Comments [62]
 
image
Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 10:00 am

President Obama rolls out the biggest financial market regulation revamp since the Great Depression. Is it enough? Too much? We’ll dig in.

Comments [30]
 
Recent Shows
The Future of Aging
Thursday, November 5, 2009 image

A surge of new strategies to “manage” aging — from diets to testosterone. We’ll get the story.

Comments [31]
 
Climate, Congress & Copenhagen
Thursday, November 5, 2009 image

The Copenhagen climate conference is one month away. US climate action is going nowhere in Congress. We’ll look at the global implications of America’s domestic climate politics.

Comments [73]
On Point Blog
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 [...]

More » | Comments [3]
 
For Love of Science – or Money?

A new study supports the idea that U.S. dominance in engineering and science is threatened — but not for lack of training and education. It has more to do with a lack of social and economic incentives.

More » | Comments [5]
 
Matthew Hoh’s Resignation Letter

Matthew Hoh, a former Marine captain, became the first foreign service official to publicly resign in protest over the war in Afghanistan. The move has generated a lot of reaction. You can read Hoh’s resignation letter, posted by The Washington Post, which reported on it here.

More » | Comments [4]