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On Point Today
Hour 2
Doris Lessing
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Doris Lessing

A conversation with Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing about the lives her parents might have lived, and the truth of who they became.

 
Hour 1
Russia and the West
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Rice Nato

Beyond the “Russian Bear” cliches. We’ll talk with an architect of NATO’s expansion, and one of the policy’s top critics, about what Russia’s invasion of Georgia really means for the West.


Recent Shows
Reading the OED
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 Reading the OED

One man, twenty-one thousand pages. When author Ammon Shea set out to read the entire Oxford English Dictionary, it did more than enrich his vocabulary. He’ll tell us why.

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The Inflation Surge
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 Food Shopping

Inflation accelerated in July at the fastest pace in seventeen years. We’ll look at the impact on American consumers — and the economy.

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On Point Blog
Re: Your Feedback
By Julie Diop

I’m a producer at On Point, and as I’ve been reading all the comments here on the new site, I’ve been thinking a lot about the sort of feedback we get on the show…
Often we work on shows and get no outside feedback on our work. Yes, there are the listener calls, but [...]

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24 / Babel / Love
By Tom Ashbrook

She’d been shot, on a bus, between jungle and mountains, and we had to get her home.
Nothing like having a loved one take a bullet to start a vacation off hot. To collapse the gap between news and life. Not that you asked, but here are my first 24 hours away from the microphone…
It [...]

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Hello, and hold the phone…
By Tom Ashbrook

Wow, I’m loving this new site already! Thanks for all the comments. Plenty to consider there. (What do we call half black and half white in America? Well, right or wrong, in our culture, we tend to say black. Which is telling and relevant in itself…  And may not satisfy you, contributor David…)
And [...]

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