I've been a little lax on getting some of the info out about new shows, sorry about that. Episode 5 has been out for a little while, so I need to get on the ball and announce that, in this episode, I speak with Marion Nestle, the author of Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine and Nalini Nadkarni about her new book, Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees.
Episode 5 runs 29:20 and can be heard by clicking here.
In this episode I speak with Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin about their new book, Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice and Robert Davis about his new book, The Healthy Skeptic: Cutting Through the Hype About Your Health.
I haven't written a lot about the production of this show, but I will note that this is the first time I've done a show with one remote guest and one guest in studio, as Fernando Gapasin was here in Portland.
The show runs 41:16 (the Solidarity segment ran a little long) and can be heard by clicking here.
Another month, another show for the UC Press. In this episode, I speak with David Ngaguri-Kenney and Philip Schrag about their new book, Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America and Mark Jurgensmeyer about his new book, Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State from Christian Militias to al Qaeda.
Episode 3 runs 34:06 and can be heard by clicking here.
In this episode, I speak with Bill Ivey of Vanderbilt University and former head of the NEA about the issues surrounding increasing private control of America's artistic heritage and Elias Aboujaoude of Stanford about the human side of some of his patients who suffer from impulse control disorder. The show runs 36:20 and can be heard by clicking here.
OK, I've been hinting around for a while that I had a new client, but I'm a little superstitious about making any full announcements until shows are in the can and getting ready to be sprung onto an unsuspecting world. I think I've crossed this line, so welcome to the UC Press Podcast, the podcast of the University of California Press, located in beautiful downtown Berkeley (my one Laugh-In reference. I'm trying to work more of them into general conversation, though).
In this first episode, I speak with Gayle Greene of Scripps College about her book, Insomnia, a field guide to insomnia. I was originally going to refer to it has a Baedeker's for insomnia, which is an OK metaphor and a bit of an inside joke with a friend of mine, but I started to wonder if anyone actually uses a Baedeker's any more, so I decided it might be a bit too obscure a reference and dropped it. The other segment is with Rajmohan Gandhi of the University of Illinois about his new biography, Gandhi: The Man, His People and the Empire. No pressure there when Mohandas Gandhi is your grandfather! It is a good and quite frank biography and I certainly hope he does not get too many cold stares at the next Gandhi family picnic.
Anyway, episode 1 runs 31:37 and can be heard by clicking here.
