WAMC's Alan Chartock hosts this encore Power of Words. Chartock speaks with Professor and Author Allida Black on First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's Declaration of Human Rights Speech. Photo courtesy of FDR Presidential Library & Museum/ WikiCommons.
Jun 30, 2022•59 min
This week we present an encore program: WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Dr. Amy Bass. Bass is a Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at New Rochelle College and Author of " One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game that Brought a Divided Town Together ."Additionally, Bass is a WAMC commentator. Photo courtesy of Dr. Amy Bass.
Jun 23, 2022•53 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Dr. Mariana Figueiro, Director of the Light and Health Research Center and Professor of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Photo courtesy of The Mount Sinai Light and Health Research Center .
Jun 09, 2022•57 min
This week, in honor of Memorial Day we present an encore broadcast. WAMC’s Dr. Alan Chartock speaks with Dr. Ivan Steen and Dr. Ann Pfau, about the infamous invasion during WWll. Photo courtesy of Flickr/ DVIDSHUB .
Jun 02, 2022•55 min
This week, we present an encore broadcast. WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with longtime music journalist Jesse Jarnow. Jarnow is the author of the book, " Wasn’t That A Time: The Weavers, The Blacklist, and The Battle for the Soul of America ." Photo courtesy of Da Capo Press.
May 26, 2022•54 min
This week we present an encore broadcast. WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock speaks with clarinetist, award-winning photographer, and author Arlene Alda about her book, " Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History ." Photo courtesy of Henry Holt & Co. Publishing/ MacMillan Publishing.
May 19, 2022•53 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Dr. Jeff Miller, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at SUNY New Paltz. Miller is the Author of " Democracy In Crisis: Lessons From Ancient Athens ." Photo courtesy of Dr. Miller.
May 12, 2022•58 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan, a Democrat who just began her third term.
May 05, 2022•55 min
This week we present an encore interview. WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with Hedi McKinley, Holocaust survivor, social worker, and long-time WAMC volunteer.
Apr 28, 2022•53 min
This week we present an encore broadcast. Alan Chartock speaks with Joshua Rubenstein. Rubenstein is the author of " Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life ." Photo courtesy of Yale University Press.
Apr 21, 2022•55 min
A 2013 encore conversation with WAMC's Alan Chartock and Dr. David Nasaw, author of the New York Times best-selling book " The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy ." Photo courtesy of Penguin Random House.
Apr 14, 2022•54 min
This week we present an encore broadcast: WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with the late, award-winning director and producer Arthur Penn. Dr. Arthur Penn was born on September 27, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Penn was most known for Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Little Big Man (1970) and The Miracle Worker (1962). He died on September 28, 2010 in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Photo courtesy of United Artists Corporation c. 1976....
Apr 07, 2022•57 min
WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with Mark Volpe, former President and CEO of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Volpe is a current professor, advisor and author. Photo: Marco Borggreve, courtesy of the BSO .
Mar 31, 2022•56 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with William K. Black. Black is an associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC). He is Distinguished Scholar in Residence for Financial Regulation at the University of Minnesota Law School, and a white-collar criminologist. Alan and Professor Black discuss his book " The Best Way To Rob A Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry ." Photo courtesy of University of Texas Press...
Mar 24, 2022•58 min
WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with James Reston Jr.. Reston is the author of " The Accidental Victim: JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald and The Real Target in Dallas ."
Mar 17, 2022•53 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Ukraine/Russia expert James Brooke, a veteran journalist and foreign affairs columnist who has worked for Voice of America, Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Berkshire Eagle, and more. Photo: WikiCommons.
Mar 03, 2022•53 min
In honor of Black History Month we present an encore Power of Words: WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with professor, author, activist Barbara Smith about Barbara Jordan’s keynote address to the 1976 Democratic National Convention. Photo: Barbara Jordan speaking at the 1976 DNC. Courtesy of the Library of Congress , Warren K. Leffler .
Feb 10, 2022•59 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock in an encore conversation with Dr. Joseph Tieri. Tieri is an osteopath and the author of “ End Everyday Pain For 50+ .” Photo courtesy of Ulysses Books.
Feb 03, 2022•57 min
Alan Chartock in an encore interview with Linda Marsa, author of “ Fevered: Why a Hotter Planet Will Hurt Our Health – And How We Can Save Ourselves .” Photo courtesy of Linda Marsa.
Jan 27, 2022•55 min
We present an encore broadcast: WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Dr. Martin Meadows, Professor and Philippines internment camp survivor during WWII.
Jan 13, 2022•53 min
An encore 2019 interview. WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Psychiatrist and Author Dr. Bick Wanck about his book “ Mind Easing: The 3 Layered Healing Plan for Anxiety and Depression .” Photo courtesy of Dr. Bick Wanck.
Dec 30, 2021•53 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock in a 2004 interview with folk music legend Tom Paxton.
Dec 23, 2021•55 min
This week we present an encore broadcast: WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Carlos Sluzki MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University School of Medicine. Sluzki is Professor Emeritus of Global and Community Health and Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University; and the author of “ The Presence of the Absent: Therapy with Families and their Ghosts .” Photo courtesy of Taylor & Francis....
Dec 16, 2021•52 min
This week we present an encore broadcast. WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with two bluegrass legends, Earl Scruggs and Ralph Stanley. Earl Scruggs died in 2012 while Ralph Stanley died in 2016. In the first interview, Alan talks with Earl and his wife Louise who died in 2006, followed by the interview with Ralph Stanley. Photo: Public Domain
Dec 02, 2021•54 min
An encore 2015 In Conversation interview with WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Folk Icon Arlo Guthrie. The pair spoke at the Mahawie Theatre in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Alan and Arlo talk about the movie Alice’s Restaurant. Photo courtesy of Eric Brown
Nov 25, 2021•59 min
An encore interview with WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaking with James Reston Jr. Reston is the author of “ The Accidental Victim: JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald and The Real Target in Dallas .” Photo courtesy of James Reston Jr.
Nov 18, 2021•53 min
We’re honoring Veterans with an encore In Conversation interview between WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Paul Elisha — a WWII veteran, poet, professional musician, and longtime voice on WAMC who died in 2015 at age 92.
Nov 11, 2021•58 min
We present an encore Power of Words . WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Historian Dr. Richard Pfau discuss President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine speech. Photo courtesy of the U.S. National Archive ....
Nov 04, 2021•58 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock In A 2012 Conversation with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, folk musician and former member of The Byrds, Roger McGuinn. Photo courtesy of Roger McGuinn .
Oct 21, 2021•55 min
This week, WAMC’s Alan Chartock in a 2010 encore In Conversation , with the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sydney Schanberg and actor Sam Waterston about “The Killing Fields ,” the movie inspired by Schanberg’s coverage of the civil war in Cambodia during the 1970s. Photo credit Dith Pran.
Oct 07, 2021•59 min