Honoring Soldiers in Iraq

November 11, 2007
Martha Raddatz, ABC’s chief White House correspondent, discusses her coverage of the war in Iraq and her new book “The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family.” Veteran journalist and NECN Anchor Chet Curtis moderates.

Richard N. Goodwin

November 4, 2007
Richard N. Goodwin, an advisor and speechwriter to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, shares memories and reflects on the changes in the political landscape since the 1960s. His wife, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, will moderates.

South Africa

October 30, 2007
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret Marshall and Justice Richard Goldstone, who served on The Constitutional Court of South Africa, examine the long road toward freedom and justice in South Africa. Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr . moderates.

Cuban Missile Crisis

October 17, 2007
On 45th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Counsel and Adviser to President John F. Kennedy, shares his memories of some of the most harrowing days in U.S. history with Graham Allison, Professor of Government at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Jackie Robinson Tribute

October 16, 2007
Jackie Robinson’s daughter, Sharon Robinson, Director of Educational Programming for Major League Baseball, and Scott Simon, author of Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball, pay tribute to Robinson during this 60th anniversary year of his having broken the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Tom Oliphant, former Boston Globe columnist and author of Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family’s Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers, moderates.

Ken Burns

September 28, 2007
Filmmaker Ken Burns shows excerpts from and discussed his new documentary about World War II, The War, with veteran journalist and news commentator Mike Barnicle.

Exploring Space

September 17, 2007
September 12th marks the 45 th anniversary of President Kennedy’s Rice University speech about the importance of space exploration. NASA Astronaut and Needham, Massachusetts native Sunita Williams shares her experiences about having been a crew member on the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle, and having set a new record for the longest spaceflight by a woman. Robin Young, host of WBUR’s Here & Now , moderates.

Alan Alda

September 10, 2007
Alan Alda discusses his memoir “Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself” chronicling the turbulent 1960s to the aftermath of 9/11, with former Boston Globe columnist Tom Oliphant.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

September 4, 2007
Before launching her journalism career, Charlayne Hunter-Gault made civil rights history as the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Georgia in 1962. Ms. Hunter-Gault discusses her trailblazing career, changes in broadcast journalism, and her life in South Africa, with Gwen Ifill, host of the PBS program Washington Week.

The Art of Entertaining

June 18, 2007
In conjunction with the exhibit Jacqueline Kennedy Entertains: The Art of the White House Dinner, Judith Martin , a.k.a. Miss Manners, pays tribute to Mrs. Kennedy’s legendary skills as a hostess. Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Boston Globe, moderates.