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Lemon Andersen
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Monday, October 5, 2009 at 11:00 am

Ex-convict and crack dealer Lemon Andersen lost his parents young, and found his way from jail to stage. He’ll talk about his new one-man show, “County of Kings.”

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Two Men of Florence
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Friday, March 13, 2009 at 11:00 am

Galileo Galilei and Pope Urban VIII, back, onstage, in a play by Richard Goodwin. Faith and science tangle again.

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Prisoners’ Tales
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 11:00 am

We talk with three ex-convicts who tell the stories of their lives, in and out of prison, in a provocative new play, “The Castle.”

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Playwright Neil LaBute
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 11:00 am

A conversation with playwright Neil LaBute.

 
Recent Shows
Poker: America’s Game
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

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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