This week on WAMC’s In Conversation With, Dr. Alan Chartock speaks with creative grief counselor Claudia Coenen. Coenen is a certified Thanatologist, and the author of Shattered by Grief: Picking Up the Pieces to Become Whole Again. Her new book is The Creative Toolkit.
Dec 17, 2020•54 min
This week, we present an encore airing of the Power of Words. WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with the late, best-selling author Joseph Persico. The pair discuss President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Day of Infamy speech after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Dec 10, 2020•54 min
This week, we present an encore airing of the documentary Pearl Harbor Over The Radio. WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Dr. Ivan Steen and Dr. Ann Pfau. The pair guide Alan through a series of audio clips that capture how Americans heard the news of Pearl Harbor over their radios.
Dec 03, 2020•59 min
This week, we present an encore interview with WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Folk Icon Arlo Guthrie. The pair spoke in 2015 at the Mahaiwie Theatre in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. They discuss the movie Alice’s Restaurant.
Nov 26, 2020•59 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. In addition, listeners will hear the speech as it was delivered on March 12th, 1947.
Nov 19, 2020•58 min
This week on WAMC’s In Conversation With, we’re honoring veterans with an encore interview between WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Paul Elisha. Elisha was a WWII veteran, poet, professional musician, and longtime voice on WAMC. He died in 2015 at the age of 92.
Nov 12, 2020•59 min
This week, we bring you an encore interview with Dr. Alan Chartock speaking with the late Joseph Persico. Persico is the best-selling author of Roosevelt’s Centurions: FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory During WWII.
Nov 05, 2020•55 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Laura Walker, President of Bennington College.
Oct 29, 2020•56 min
On this week’s WAMC In Conversation With… We have an encore airing of Dr. Alan Chartock’s conversation with Richard Marowitz. Marowitz was a Jewish soldier in WWII, who found Hitler’s Hat in the German dictator’s Munich apartment.
Oct 22, 2020•57 min
This week we present an encore interview, Dr. Alan Chartock in Conversation with Author Joshua Rubenstein. Rubenstein discusses his book Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life.
Oct 15, 2020•55 min
A 2013 encore In Conversation interview with WAMC’s Dr. 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.
Oct 08, 2020•54 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Scott McVay, Author of Surprise Encounters With Artists and Scientists, Whales and Other Living Things. (An encore airing)
Oct 01, 2020•55 min
Alan Chartock is in Conversation with Dr Robert Miraldi; Award-Winning journalist, professor and author of the book Seymour Hersh: Scoop Artist.
Sep 25, 2020•59 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Author, Journalist, Editor, Columnist, and (unofficial) Berkshire Historian Bernard Drew.
Sep 19, 2020•52 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with clarinetist, award-winning photographer and author Arlene Alda about her latest book Just Kids from the Bronx.
Sep 10, 2020•53 min
In an encore conversation, WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with activist, lecturer, author, and former U.S. military analyst Daniel Ellsberg; who is best known for releasing the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
Sep 04, 2020•57 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with well-known Lincoln Scholar and prolific author Harold Holzer about his new book; “The Presidents vs. The Press: The Endless Battle Between The White House And The Media: From The Founding Fathers To Fake News.”
Aug 27, 2020•53 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock hosts this special Power of Words program with Professor and Author Allida Black. Black discusses First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s Declaration of Human Rights Speech.
Aug 24, 2020•59 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Dr. Roger Landry about his book Live Long, Die Short: A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging.
Aug 01, 2020•55 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Cara Robertson, Author of The Trial of Lizzie Borden: A True Story.
Jul 23, 2020•51 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Architect, Artist, Author and Activist Beverly Willis.
Jul 16, 2020•53 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock is In Conversation With Ilana Steinhauer, Executive Director of Volunteers In Medicine Berkshires. You can learn more at https://vimberkshires.org/
Jul 09, 2020•57 min
An encore 2011 Power of Words, on this program WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Historian Dr. Christopher Breiseth discuss FDR’s Four Freedoms Speech. Listeners will hear the speech as it was delivered on January 6, 1941.
Jul 04, 2020•1 hr
WAMC’s Alan Chartock is In Conversation With Dr. Joseph Tieri. Dr. Tieri is an osteopath and author of End Everyday Pain For 50+, A 10 Minute-A-Day Program of Stretching, Strengthening, and Movement to Break the Grip of Pain.
Jun 30, 2020•57 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Dr. Jason Fung, a Canadian nephrologist and author who has written about intermittent fasting and how it helps reverse type 2 diabetes. Dr. Fung’s books include: The Obesity Code, The Complete Guide to Fasting and The Diabetes Code.
Jun 18, 2020•55 min
In honor of D-Day we present an encore of Alan Chartock’s In Conversation interview with Dr. Ivan Steen and Dr. Ann Pfau along with sound clips of how American’s heard about the D-Day invasion during WWII as the news broke over the radio.
Jun 12, 2020•55 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Dr. Thomas Patterson, the Bradlee Professor of Government & the Press at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Alan and Professor Patterson discuss his book Is the Republican Party Destroying Itself?
May 28, 2020•59 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Architect, Artist, Author and Activist Beverly Willis.
May 26, 2020•53 min
An encore airing of WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Dr. Martin Meadows, Professor and Philippines internment camp survivor during WWII.
May 14, 2020•53 min
WAMC’s Alan Chartock in an encore conversation with longtime music journalist Jesse Jarnow. Jesse’s new book is, “Wasn’t That A Time: The Weavers, The Blacklist, and The Battle for the Soul of America.”
May 10, 2020•54 min