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ThoughtCast®, 56 episodes.

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A Conversation with Los Angeles Impresario Ernest Fleischmann

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Roosevelt Island’s Octagon Tower: A Proud Ruin

3

Spring Fever

4

Garibaldi and Meucci: two friends, two very different lives

5

Blacksmith House Poetry Series: Henri Cole and William Logan

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The Legendary Steinway Hall in Midtown Manhattan

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Our American “Empire” with Niall Ferguson

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Blacksmith House Poetry Series: Fanny Howe and Haleh Liza Gafori

9

The Restoration of the Neptune Fountain

10

Tom Perrotta on Flannery O’Connor — a literary affinity

11

Blacksmith House Poetry Series: Carl Phillips and Penelope Pelizzon

12

Kwame Anthony Appiah: the Cosmopolitan Philosopher

13

Harvard Critic Helen Vendler on Emily Dickinson

14

Tales from Donegal, told in Kenny’s Bookshop

15

Behind the Scenes at Law and Order

16

Rediscovering James Joyce in Dublin with editor Maurice Earls

17

Charles Simic’s the choice at San Francisco’s Dog Eared Books!

18

The history and future of the New England Forest

19

The End of Our Universe among other timely topics…

20

International news and the American attention span

21

The Mau Mau rebellion — a revisionist history

22

Zen and the Art of Writing – with Natalie Goldberg

23

Dancer, Choreographer Ron Brown

24

The North Atlantic Right Whale: Our Urban Leviathan

25

Women’s Work at the Bronx Museum of the Arts

26

Rebecca Goldstein: the atheist with a soul

27

The Dan Flavin Art Institute

28

The Peabody Sisters – with biographer Megan Marshall

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Dinosaurs on Thoughtcast

30

Poet Robert Pinsky takes on King David

31

Words @ Work: The Origins of “Rock”

32

Buffalo Dance: A Poem for NPR’s Poetry Month

33

Red Hook, Brooklyn, before the Gentrification

34

Alan Dershowitz on Preemption and the Hezbollah

35

“Why Does the World Exist?” with Jim Holt

36

KCRW’s Michael Silverblatt at the LA Times Book Festival

37

Chanticleer Backstage on ThoughtCast!

38

ThoughtCast Reflects on the Legacy of John McCain

39

John McCain’s Last Stand – on ThoughtCast!

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Philip Glass creates an opera – on ThoughtCast!

41

Lydia Ratcliff: Vermont Farmer, Stubborn Survivor

42

Samuel Huntington — on Immigration and the American Identity

43

Lessons from a Former Failed Bid for the Presidency?

44

Al Gore, Reconsidered

45

Art Therapy: A Place for Self-Expression while in Pain

46

The Hunt for Art Fakes with Tom Hoving

47

Revered New York Review editor Robert Silvers, R.I.P.

48

Paul Pascarella – An Artist of the Mesa and the Mountain

49

Andres Serrano @ The New Museum of Contemporary Art

50

Arianna Huffington on Picasso and the Clinton White House

51

Sandra Tsing Loh at the LA Times Book Festival

52

Black Bear Orphans and the Man who Reads Their Minds

53

An Afternoon at the Tufts Wildlife Clinic

54

In Search of Neologisms with Esther Dyson

55

The Borromeo String Quartet Meets Steve Reich!

56

Lisa Randall, Harvard physicist