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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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Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 11:00 am

In a new memoir, writer Nicholas Dawidoff tells how the voices from a distant Fenway Park fueled boyhood longings.

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Monday, August 4, 2008 at 11:00 am

Why do people commit suicide? In a new memoir, Joan Wickersham tries to unlock the mystery of why her own father took his life.

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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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Recent Shows
Poker: America’s Game
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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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