This week we present an encore broadcast. WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with well-known Lincoln scholar and prolific author Harold Holzer about his book, “ The Presidents vs. The Press: The Endless Battle Between The White House And The Media: From The Founding Fathers To Fake News. “ Photo courtesy of Henry Ballone.
Sep 30, 2021•53 min
This week we present an encore broadcast. WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Scott McVay, author of “Surprise Encounters With Artists and Scientists, Whales and Other Living Things.” Photo courtesy of David Kelly Crow.
Sep 16, 2021•55 min
This week we present an encore interview. WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with the late, award-winning director and producer Arthur Penn. Dr. Arthur Penn was born on September 27, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He 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....
Sep 09, 2021•57 min
This week we present an encore broadcast, WAMC’s Dr. Alan Chartock speaks with Dr. Roger Landry about his book “ Live Long, Die Short: A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging .” Photo courtesy of Dr. Roger Landry’s official Facebook page.
Sep 02, 2021•55 min
This week we present an encore broadcast. WAMC’s Dr. Alan Chartock speaks with Claudia Coenen, a creative grief counselor and certified Thanatologist. The pair discuss dealing with grief. Claudia is the author of two books: Shattered by Grief: Picking Up the Pieces to Become Whole Again. Photo courtesy of The Karuna Project
Aug 26, 2021•54 min
This week, WAMC’s Dr. Alan Chartock speaks with Dr. Vincent Verdile, Dean of the Albany Medical College .
Aug 19, 2021•53 min
This week, WAMC’s Alan Chartock in an award-winning encore conversation with David Kaczynski, the brother of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. Kaczynski is the former Executive Director of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty. Photo courtesy of Flickr/ LightStamp .
Aug 12, 2021•58 min
This week we present an encore broadcast: WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Daniel Ellsberg. He is an activist, lecturer, author, and former U.S. military analyst. Ellsberg is best known for releasing the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Photo courtesy of WikiCommons/Dr. Bernd Gross.
Aug 05, 2021•57 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 courtesy of Public Domain Pictures .
Jul 29, 2021•54 min
This week we present an encore broadcast from 2004. WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Folk Legend Tom Paxton . Photo courtesy of Alan Messer.
Jul 08, 2021•55 min
This week, WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Mark Volpe, President, and CEO of The Boston Symphony Orchestra . Photo courtesy of the BSO.
Jul 01, 2021•54 min
This week, we present an encore broadcast. WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Mary Beth Pfeiffer; an award-winning investigative journalist and author of the book Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change . Photo: Jim Smith Photography.
Jun 24, 2021•58 min
This week, WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Eugene (Gene) Carr, the Festival Director of Berkshire Busk, a new 10-weekend street festival in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The festival begins July 2nd and continues every Friday and Saturday evening until Labor Day weekend. Find out more at www.berkshirebusk.com . Photo courtesy of Eugene Carr.
Jun 17, 2021•53 min
This week in honor of Memorial Day, we bring you an encore broadcast. WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Richard Marowitz, a Jewish soldier in WWII. He found Hitler’s hat in the German dictator’s Munich apartment. (more…)
Jun 03, 2021•57 min
This week we present an encore broadcast. WAMC’s Dr. Alan Chartock speaks with Peter Canellos, author of “ The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero .” (more…)
May 27, 2021•53 min
This week, we present an encore interview with WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with William K. Black. Black is an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC). He is also a Distinguished Scholar in Residence for financial regulation at the University of Minnesota Law School, and a white-collar criminologist. Black is the author of “ How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S & L Industry . “ (more…)...
May 13, 2021•58 min
This week, in celebration of what would have been folk music icon Pete Seeger’s 102nd birthday we present an encore broadcast. WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Pete Seeger in Pete Seeger: A Life Hour 2 . (more…)
May 06, 2021•58 min
This week we present an encore broadcast of WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation With Jim Haskell. Haskell is the author of Two Tents: Twenty-One Years of Discovery on the Appalachian Trail. (more…)
Apr 29, 2021•53 min
This week we present an encore broadcast with WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Dr. Jason Fung. Fung is 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 . (more…)...
Apr 15, 2021•55 min
This week we present an encore presentation of WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Dr. Robert Miraldi. Miraldi is an award-winning Journalist, Professor, and Author of the book Seymour Hersh: Scoop Artist . (more…)
Apr 08, 2021•59 min
This week we present an encore interview. WAMC’s Dr. Alan Chartock In Conversation with Stephan Talty, Author of The Secret Agent: In Search of America’s Greatest World War II Spy . (more…)
Apr 01, 2021•53 min
This week, we present an encore of WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Dr. Roger Landry discussing his book Live Long, Die Short: A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging . (more…)
Mar 11, 2021•55 min
This week, WAMC presents an encore Power of Words. In honor of Women’s History Month, WAMC’s Dr. Alan Chartock and Professor and Historian Dr. Allida Black discuss First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Women’s Rights are Human Rights speech in Beijing, China on September 5th, 1995. (more…)
Mar 04, 2021•59 min
This week, WAMC presents an encore Power of Words . WAMC’s Alan Chartock, speaks with H. Carl McCall and Dr. J. W. Wiley about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream Speech . (more…)
Feb 25, 2021•56 min
This week, we present an encore In Conversation interview from 2013 with WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Dr. David Nasaw. Nasaw is the author of the New York Times best-selling book The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy . (more…)
Feb 18, 2021•54 min
This week, we present an encore Power of Words with WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Dr. David Woolner, Former Associate Professor of History at Marist College. The pair discuss Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inaugural address. In addition, listeners will hear the speech as it was delivered on March 4th, 1933. (more…)
Jan 21, 2021•55 min
This week, we present an encore broadcast of WAMC’s Dr. Alan Chartock is in conversation with Author, Journalist, Editor, Columnist, and (unofficial) Berkshire Historian Bernard Drew. (more…)
Jan 14, 2021•52 min
This week we present an encore broadcast of a 2011 Power of Words . WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Historian Dr. Christopher Breiseth discuss FDR’s Four Freedoms Speech. In addition, listeners will hear the speech as it was delivered on January 6, 1941. (more…)
Jan 07, 2021•1 hr
This week we present an encore airing from the Power Of Words series. WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Author and Historian James Ledbetter about President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address. In addition, listeners will hear the speech as it was delivered on January 17th, 1961. Photo Credit: Wikicommons.
Dec 31, 2020•56 min
This week, we present an encore 2004 In Conversation interview with WAMC’s Dr. Alan Chartock and Folk Legend Tom Paxton. Photo courtesy of Tom Paxton’s Official Facebook Page
Dec 24, 2020•55 min