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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 11:00 am

We’ll ask The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan, The New Yorker’s Nicholas Lemann, and Daily Beast chief Tina Brown.

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Friday, October 17, 2008 at 11:00 am

We listen back to American radio’s earliest days — Herbert Hoover, FDR, Amos ‘n’ Andy, and the radio revolution.

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Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 10:00 am

From the athletes, to media coverage, to China’s image, we’ll take stock of what we’ve seen in Beijing.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 10:00 am

Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, but you almost never see the casualties in American newspapers. We’ll hear the debate over censorship and battlefield images.

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 10:00 am

The Australian Rupert Murdoch, global press baron, plays hardball and big money with the news media on several continents. These days, he’s up to his elbows in American media.
If you read The Wall Street Journal, which he now owns, you’ve seen the changes. Whether you watch or avoid Fox News, you know its impact. And [...]

 
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.

 
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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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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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