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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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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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