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Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 11:00 am

The unmentionable. How couples talk - and don’t talk - about old loves.

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Monday, September 8, 2008 at 11:00 am

Author Anne Roiphe lost her husband of 39 years. Now she tells the unsentimental story of life after love.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 11:00 am

An American girl journeys back to her homeland to find a husband. We talk with Anita Jain, author of “Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India.”

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 11:00 am

Maybe we don’t want everything to boil down to science, but scientists keep chipping away at the mystery of everything we see and do. Now, they’re burrowing in on love.
You may think it’s moonlight and roses. They see evolutionary biology and neurotransmitters. Ninety-seven percent of mammals don’t pair up to raise their young. We humans [...]

 
Friday, November 30, 2007 at 11:00 am

They say love changes everything. But time changes love.
Just how much it can change became front page news last week, when the family of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor revealed that her husband had fallen in love with a fellow Alzheimer’s patient.
And she was happy for him.
What happens to the part of ourselves [...]

 
On Point Today
Hour 2
Huckabee on the GOP
Monday, December 1, 2008 Georgia Senate

Mike Huckabee joins us. We’ll get the Huckabee view of the GOP now, and the Republican Party in the Obama era.

 
Hour 1
After the Terror in Mumbai
Monday, December 1, 2008 India Three Days Of Terror

After the terror in Mumbai, we look at what the bloody attacks mean for India, Pakistan, and the United States.

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Recent Shows
Michael Palin (Rebroadcast)
Friday, November 28, 2008 Michael Palin

British actor Michael Palin on how Monty Python came to be.

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Home to Africa (Rebroadcast)
Friday, November 28, 2008 Helene Cooper

Helene Cooper and her amazing story of privilege and flight from Africa in “The House at Sugar Beach.”

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On Point Blog
The Party of Obama…
By Jack Beatty

Speaking to Tom in today’s second hour, Stanford historian David Kennedy noted that few would have predicted that the Democrats would nominate the nation’s first African-American president. The Democrats only “came over” on civil rights in the 1960s.

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Listening back on the ‘08 campaign…
By Wen Stephenson

As you count down the hours to the end of this long, long election campaign, if you’re tired of staring at the endless polls and projection maps, here’s an excuse to give your eyeballs a rest and just use your ears for a while.

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Enemies Within…
By Wen Stephenson

Sure, there’s a Halloween sound to our second hour today — a conversation with historian John Demos about his new book, “The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World.”

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