Singing for Justice: Arlo Guthrie

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Monday, May 15, 2006.
Arlo Guthrie looks back at the cultural impact of protest music that began during President Kennedy’s administration and continues in America today. Dick Pleasants, host of The Morning Express at WUMB, will moderates.

Robert Dallek: J.F.K. in His Own Words

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Sunday, June 11, 2006.
Acclaimed biographer Robert Dallek plays and comments on excerpts from some of President Kennedy’s most memorable speeches, press conferences and debates. Boston University historian Bruce Schulman moderates.

The Pentagon and the Presidency: James Carroll

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Monday, June 12, 2006.
James Carroll discusses his new book House of War in which he argues the Pentagon has, since its founding, operated beyond the control of any force in government including the President himself. Sarah Sewall , Director of the Program on National Security and Human Rights at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and Retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor, author of Breaking the Phalanx and Transformation Under Fire, joins him. NPR National Security Correspondent Tom Gjelten moderates.

Brokering Peace: Senator George Mitchell

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Monday, September 18, 2006.
Senator George Mitchell, who served as Chairman of the Peace Negotiations in Northern Ireland that led to the historic Good Friday Peace Agreement, analyzes the primary issues involved in resolving the conflicts in Northern Ireland and the Middle East. Kevin Cullen of the Boston Globe moderates.

Rebuilding Afghanistan: Chayes and Junger

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Monday, September 25, 2006.
Former National Public Radio correspondent Sarah Chayes, who has been living in the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, and award-winning journalist Sebastian Junger, who has covered Afghanistan for ABC News and other publications, discuss efforts to help reconstruct Afghanistan after 9/11. Jessica Stern, an expert on terrorism who teaches at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, moderates.

Michael Patrick MacDonald

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Tuesday, October 3, 2006.
Michael Patrick MacDonald continues his memoir, All Souls, of growing up in South Boston in a new book, Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under. Maureen Dezell, a former staff writer for The Boston Globe and author of Irish America: Coming into Clover, moderates.

Barack Obama

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Friday, October 20, 2006.

Senator Barack Obama will discuss his new book, The Audacity of Hope, with New York Times columnist Bob Herbert

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Religion and Politics in America

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Monday, October 23, 2006.
Rev. Richard Cizik, Vice President of Government Affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals; retired Senator John Danforth, author of Faith and Politics; and Rev. Barry Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State and author of Piety & Politics, examine the evolving role of religion in American politics. Renee Loth, editor of the editorial page of The Boston Globe, moderates.

Operation Homecoming

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Saturday, November 11, 2006.
Operation Homecoming is a program created by the National Endowment for the Arts to encourage returning soldiers to write about their wartime experiences. Their poems, essays and stories will soon be published in a literary anthology. Soldiers having recently returned from Iraq who have participated in this program read from their works. Andrew Carroll, editor of the anthology and author of the bestselling War Letters, moderates.

Interpreting the Mid-Term Elections

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006.
Robert Blendon, Director of the Harvard Opinion Research Program, and Andrew Kohut, Diretor of the Pew Research Center, interpret the results of the Novemer 7th elections. NECN host, Jim Braude, moderates.

Tribute to Arthur Schlesinger

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Monday, November 27, 2006.
Historians Alan Brinkley, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Sean Wilentz look back at the extraordinary life and career of one of America’s foremost historians. John Seigenthaler, founder of the First Amendment Center, moderates. Arthur Schlesinger was special assistant to President John F. Kennedy and won the Pulitzer Prize for A Thousand Days, his biography of President Kennedy .

Patrick Hemingway

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Sunday, December 3, 2006.

Patrick Hemingway, the son of Ernest Hemingway, discusses his father’s writing and legacy with Stanley Katz, President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies and chair of the Societies’ Social Research Council Working Group on Cuba through which he has done extensive work with the Hemingway materials remaining in Cuba. The Kennedy Library is the major repository of Ernest Hemingway’s papers.

Eyes on the Prize Revisited

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Monday, January 17, 2005, Martin Luther King Day, 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Callie Crossley, Judy Richardson and Judith Vecchione, producers of this award-winning documentary, will screen segments of the series and discuss its making.

Combating Global Poverty

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Sunday, February 6, 2005.
Dr. Paul Farmer, who for the last 20 years has worked with poor communities to combat infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, and Harvard economist Amartya Sen, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on world poverty, will discuss strategies to help eliminate the spread of disease and hunger in the developing world with the Director of Harvard’s Center for Global Poverty, Dr. Lincoln Chen.

A Conversation with Tim Russert

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Tuesday, February 15, 2005.
Tim Russert, host of NBC’s Meet the Press, will share his insights from 20 years in broadcast journalism covering politics with NPR senior national correspondent Linda Wertheimer.