ThoughtCast®
By Jenny Attiyeh
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A podcast and public radio interview program with authors, academics and intellectuals, hosted by Jenny Attiyeh.
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Rediscovering James Joyce in Dublin with editor Maurice Earls | James Joyce, 1915 James Joyce was born and raised in Dublin, and it was from Dublin he fled as a young man, to Trieste, in order to write Ulysses, perhaps the key novel of the early 20th century. But before he left, he began to write A Portr[...] | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Louis Menand, John Summers and Dan Aaron take on Dwight MacDonald | Louis Menand Back in the day when Dwight MacDonald was a household name (on the Upper West Side, at least) his critique of “middlebrow” American culture, and its inflated self-regard, singed eyebrows. Today, do his arguments still[...] | 10/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tales from Donegal, told in Kenny’s Bookshop | Charles McGlinchy In 1861 in Clonmany, on the Inishowen peninsula in the far north of County Donegal Ireland, Charles McGlinchy was born. His was a windblown, rough world, wracked with beauty and hardship. A weaver by trade, and a bachelor, [...] | 9/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tom Perrotta on Flannery O’Connor — a literary affinity | Note: This interview was broadcast on the WGBH sister stations WCAI/WNAN, and also on KUT, in Austin, Texas! Tom Perrotta, the author of Little Children, Election, The Abstinence Teacher and the upcoming novel The Leftovers, speaks with ThoughtCast [...] | 7/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Honor and Fair Play in Homer’s Iliad | An online watering hole for ideas. | 6/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The North Atlantic Right Whale: Our Urban Leviathan | The North Atlantic Right Whale: Our Urban Leviathan | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Creativity and Madness – with Shelley Carson | Faculty Insight is produced in partnership with Harvard University Extension School. This fourth interview of the series is with Shelley Carson, an associate of Harvard University’s Department of Psychology, a lecturer at Harvard Extension School, a[... | 3/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Harvard Critic Helen Vendler on Emily Dickinson | Note: This interview was broadcast on the WGBH sister stations WCAI/WNAN, Prairie Public Radio, and on KUT in Austin, Texas. Emily Dickinson When Helen Vendler was only 13, the future poetry critic and Harvard professor memorized several of Em[...] | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Faculty Insight: Islam in the West – a clash of civilizations? | Note: This interview was broadcast on WGBH radio, Boston’s NPR station for news and culture, on April 17, 2011! Faculty Insight is produced in partnership with Harvard University Extension School. This third interview of the series is with Joc[...] | 12/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Afternoon at the Tufts Wildlife Clinic | Note: This interview with Maureen Murray was broadcast on WGBH radio, Boston’s NPR station for news and culture, on April 17, 2011! Meet the patient, stoic Blanding’s Turtle, who arrived with a huge hole in her shell, yet managed to lay[...] | 6/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Coral reefs, hermit crabs and tube worms with Randi Rotjan | Note: This interview was broadcast on WGBH radio, Boston’s NPR station for news and culture, on April 17, 2011! The Cambridge Science Festival returns this week with Inspiring Minds: Meet Women in Science, a program at the Museum of Science that i[... | 4/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New England Poetry Club Prizewinner Richard Hoffman | Richard Hoffman The New England Poetry Club is apparently the oldest poetry reading series in the country. It was founded in 1915 by Amy Lowell, Robert Frost and Conrad Aiken. This spring, it awarded its Sheila Motton Prize to Richard Hoffm[...] | 4/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rebecca Goldstein: the atheist with a soul | Note: this interview was broadcast on WGBH, Boston’s NPR station for news and culture! Rebecca Goldstein Rebecca Goldstein’s latest work, called 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, is perhaps best described as a hy[...] | 1/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Conversation with Los Angeles Impresario Ernest Fleischmann | Note: this interview was broadcast on WGBH, Boston’s NPR station for news and culture, and was part of Classical KUSC ‘s A Tribute to Ernest, broadcast live from Walt Disney Concert Hall on 3/29/11. Ernest Fleischmann Ernest Flei[...] | 12/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The “New Biology” with Steven Pinker, Noga Arikha & Melvin Konner | Brave New World? The Center for the Humanities at Tufts University recently held a panel discussion on “The New Biology and the Self”, an apt topic for the likes of Steven Pinker, the Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family[...] | 11/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lydia Ratcliff: Vermont Farmer, Stubborn Survivor | An online watering hole for ideas. | 9/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The “Puzzle of Existence” with Jim Holt | Note: this interview was broadcast on the WGBH public radio affiliate WCAI, on the Cape and Islands! Jim Holt (photo: Michael Todd) In this ThoughtCast interview, science writer Jim Holt takes us on a jaunty tour of being and nothingness, exi[...] | 7/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonah Lehrer on Emotional Hijacking and “How We Decide” | Note: this interview was broadcast on WGBH in Boston as well as on the WGBH Cape and Islands affiliate WCAI/WNAN! Jonah Lehrer (photo credit: Lori Duff) Jonah Lehrer, the precocious author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, has come out with a n[...] | 7/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Dopamine Economy | Note: this story was broadcast on the WGBH public radio affiliate WCAI, on the Cape and Islands! dopamine brain Wall Street on Drugs: What motivated these former masters of the universe? And why did they act like kindergartners? ThoughtCast[...] | 4/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Architects Nader Tehrani and Robert Campbell @ CCAE | Nader Tehrani The Cambridge Center for Adult Education recently hosted a talk with the architect Nader Tehrani (an associate professor of architecture at MIT, and the co-founder of the influential Boston-based architecture and design firm O[...] | 3/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Economic Pits with James Poterba | Note: this interview was broadcast on the WGBH public radio affiliate WCAI, on the Cape and Islands! James Poterba What is the right expression to describe today’s economic nightmare? I’m sick of “mess” and “cr[...] | 2/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Samuel Huntington — on Immigration and the American Identity | An online watering hole for ideas. | 1/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The New York Review turns 45! | Note: this interview has been picked up by the public radio station WGBH, in Boston, and its sister stations WCAI and WNAN. Robert Silvers (credit Melanie Flood) The venerable New York Review of Books was launched amidst a newspaper strike i[...] | 12/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Getrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas & Janet Malcolm! | stein-toklas They were a strange pair: Gertrude Stein, the avant-garde writer, salonniere and collector of art and artists, and her lover and companion, the querulous Alice B. Toklas, standing beakishly in the background. But together they f[...] | 12/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Fiction Works — with James Wood | jameswood James Wood, the sincere, somewhat old-fashioned, unpretentious yet high-minded New Yorker literary critic, spoke at the Harvard Book Store recently about his new book, How Fiction Works. Click here: to listen (30 minutes). Also[...] | 11/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Public Radio goes Hollywood! | Note: This piece has been picked up by KYOU Radio, in San Francisco, and it’s also been mentioned on Current.org and the PRPD site — thanks for that! PRPD Public radio could easily be described as a smashing success story. Take NP[...] | 10/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Our American “Empire” with Niall Ferguson | Note: This interview has been picked up by the public radio stations WGBH, in Boston, its affiliates WCAI and WNAN, and WCVE in Richmond, VA. Niall Ferguson In some ways, the Scottish historian Niall Ferguson is the Russell Crowe of the acade[...] | 7/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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“The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It”!!! | Note: This program was broadcast on the public radio station WCVE. bookcover Cyber law expert Jonathan Zittrain is one of the canniest thinkers out there, pondering the wide world of the web, and his new book is called The Future of the Inter[...] | 7/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Griefer, Google Cooking and other Neologisms | Note: This piece was broadcast on Word of Mouth on New Hampshire Public Radio and on WCVE in Richmond VA. been there - done that Today’s online world is in overdrive. Think of it as a novelty factory – spewing out new ideas, products, and n[...] | 7/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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To friend or not to friend: Judith Donath on online social status | An online watering hole for ideas. | 5/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ethan Zuckerman’s homage to homophily | An online watering hole for ideas. | 5/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia – the word! | An online watering hole for ideas. | 5/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In Search of Neologisms with Esther Dyson | An online watering hole for ideas. | 5/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steve Reich Meets The Borromeo String Quartet! | Note: So far, this piece has been broadcast on the following public radio programs: New Hampshire Public Radio’s Word of Mouth, WDAV’s Artist Spotlight, Tapestry from 90.3 WBHM, in Birmingham, Alabama and KUAR, in Little Rock! Bo[...] | 2/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Origins of “Rock” | Note: this piece was broadcast on NJN (New Jersey Public Radio) and on WMUB, an NPR station in Oxford, Ohio. Why Not? What does the word rock mean? Simple enough question. But how did the term originate? Where — and why? These questions[...] | 12/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Zen and the Art of Writing – with Natalie Goldberg | Note: This program was broadcast on WCAI, KZMU and WFIU. It also received a 5-star review on PRX! Natalie Goldberg (self-portrait) Natalie Goldberg, the well-known painter, writer and writing teacher, who wrote the best-seller on how to write[...] | 9/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Future of Europe – with Alberto Alesina | Note: a portion of this interview was broadcast on the WGBH public radio affiliates WCAI/WNAN! Alberto Alesina Whither the European Union? This is not a question we (in America) often ask ourselves. But perhaps we should. As we now live in an [...] | 9/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Art & Science with Alan Lightman | Note: This program was broadcast on WCAI, the Cape and Islands affiliate of WGBH. Alan Lightman Alan Lightman, the MIT physicist and best-selling author of Einstein’s Dreams, is a man of unusual ability. Talented in both the sciences and[...] | 8/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jack Beatty, Public Intellectual | An online watering hole for ideas. | 7/24/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kwame Anthony Appiah: the Cosmopolitan Philosopher | Note: This program was broadcast on WCAI, an affiliate of WGBH, Boston. Kwame Anthony Appiah (Photo: Greg Martin) Princeton Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses cosmopolitanism on ThoughtCast! Born in England and raised in Ghana, Appiah [...] | 7/10/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The End of Our Universe among other timely topics… | Note: this program was broadcast on WGBH‘s sister stations WCAI & WNAN, on Sept. 9, 2007. Alex Vilenkin Want to know how the world is going to end? Just ask Russian cosmologist Alex Vilenkin. If it’s our own universe you[...] | 7/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Faith and Philosophy with Harvey Cox and Simon Blackburn | Note: this program was broadcast on the WGBH public radio sister stations WCAI/WNAN, on the Cape and Islands, and on WRNC-LP! Harvey Cox Simon Blackburn In this half-hour, ThoughtCast talks with two very different men, with one thing i[...] | 6/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Public Media Maverick Jay Allison | Note: this program was broadcast on WGBH‘s sister stations WCAI & WNAN, and on KUT News, in Austin, Texas! Jay Allison Jay Allison has egalitarian instincts. He’s a maverick, who’s made it his mission to put the “p[...] | 4/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Astrophysics in Cambridge — at the Planetarium! | An online watering hole for ideas. | 4/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Marc Hauser on “Moral Minds” | Marc Hauser Note: This interview was broadcast on WCAI/WNAN, and is also featured on WGBH’s Science Luminaries series, as part of WGBH Science City. The provocative Harvard psychologist Marc Hauser recently spoke about “The Evolution of[...] | 4/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Doc Searls! | An online watering hole for ideas. | 3/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Henry Jenkins@Beyond Broadcast 2007 | Henry Jenkins Henry Jenkins, director of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program, talks with ThoughtCast about the path from “participatory culture” to “participatory democracy.” He was the keynote speaker for t[...] | 3/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The BBC and CBC weigh in… | An online watering hole for ideas. | 3/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Doug Kaye at the IMA | An online watering hole for ideas. | 2/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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WNYC’s Bill Swersey on “Open Source” | An online watering hole for ideas. | 2/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Two Questions: Redux | An online watering hole for ideas. | 2/24/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Two Questions | An online watering hole for ideas. | 2/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Integrated Media — are we there yet? | An online watering hole for ideas. | 2/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Economist Amartya Sen on “Identity and Violence” | Note: this interview was broadcast on WGBH Radio. And here’s a PRX review of the program! Amartya Sen Amartya Sen, the distinguished economist, philosopher, Nobel laureate and Harvard professor, talks with ThoughtCast about “Iden[...] | 11/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Future of Public Radio: Part 5 | An online watering hole for ideas. | 9/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Future of Public Radio: Part 4 | An online watering hole for ideas. | 9/25/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Future of Public Radio: Part 3 | An online watering hole for ideas. | 9/24/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Future of Public Radio: Part 2 | An online watering hole for ideas. | 9/23/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Future of Public Radio: Part 1 | An online watering hole for ideas. | 9/20/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alan Dershowitz on Preemption and the Hezbollah | Note: this interview was rebroadcast Jan. 21 at 10 pm on WGBH. It has also aired on WCAI/WNAN, WNED, KXOT and KYOU. And here are 2 reviews of this interview on PRX. Alan Dershowitz The controversial Harvard Law professor, author and celebrity[...] | 8/10/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beyond Broadcast: more state of mind… | An online watering hole for ideas. | 5/25/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beyond Broadcast: the state of mind | Branching Out I attended the Beyond Broadcast conference at Harvard Law School in in the spring of 2006, and here are some of the participants I grabbed for a quick ThoughtCast interview: For starters, there’s Pat Aufderheide, the direc[...] | 5/17/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dan Gillmor on ThoughtCast | An online watering hole for ideas. | 5/16/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lisa Randall, Harvard physicist | WGBH broadcast this ThoughtCast interview, and also features it on their “Science Luminaries” series, as part of “WGBH Science City.” It was also broadcast on WCAI/WNAN, public radio stations for the Cape and Islands. L[...] | 4/11/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Poet Robert Pinsky takes on King David | Note: The WGBH sister stations WCAI and WNAN broadcast this interview, and it also received a 5 star review on PRX! Robert Pinsky Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible – the shepherd, poet, warrior and adul[...] | 3/22/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Harvard Book Store author talks: Alan Dershowitz | An online watering hole for ideas. | 3/20/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Harvard Book Store author talks: Kevin Smokler | An online watering hole for ideas. | 12/11/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Peabody Sisters – with biographer Megan Marshall | Note: This interview was broadcast on WGBH radio’s “Arts and Ideas.” And here’s a review of the program on PRX! Megan Marshall Author Megan Marshall has recently written a well-received biography of the three Peabody s[...] | 12/8/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Web 2.0 and beyond — a conversation | An online watering hole for ideas. | 12/5/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Carol Bundy, Civil War biographer | An online watering hole for ideas. | 11/6/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Virgil’s Georgics | An online watering hole for ideas. | 9/1/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Harvard Book Store author talks: Carol Bundy | An online watering hole for ideas. | 8/1/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ilan Stavans: chameleon, critic | In honor of Hispanic History Month, WGBH radio, an NPR station in Boston, broadcast this ThoughtCast interview with Ilan Stavans twice. It was also picked up by KRZA, an NPR station in Alamosa, Colorado, and Georgia Public Broadcasting. And here[...] | 7/20/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Harvard Book Store author talks: David Ferry | An online watering hole for ideas. | 6/22/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 74 Episodes |
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