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M-F 8-9 AM ET
Encore presentations: M-F 9-10 AM, M-F 10-11 AM, M-F 8-9 PM
M-F 7-8 AM (we replay each show the following morning at 7:00 AM)
Sat 8-9 AM (A replay of Friday’s show)
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THE BOB EDWARDS SHOW
July 21-25, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
Bob talks politics with David Broder of The Washington Post . Then, the story of a mediocre artist who's real talent lay not in painting, but in psychological manipulation. Bob talks with Edgar Award-winning writer Edward Dolnick about his new book The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century. It exposes one of western art's greatest forgery stories.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
The collapse of the sub prime mortgage industry has cost many people their homes, worsened the credit crisis and shaken up Wall Street financial firms. In their new book, Chain of Blame, authors Paul Muolo and Mathew Padilla detail the growth of sub prime lenders and how mortgages turned into a Wall Street bubble. Then, after 23 years with the British Security Service Dame Stella Rimington was named first female director of Britain's MI5 in 1992. Now retired, Rimington pulls from her experiences to write…spy novels. She talks with Bob about her latest book Illegal Action.
Wednesday , July 23, 2008
Michael Massing writes on media and foreign affairs for the New York Review of Books. Massing recently went to Iraq for the magazine to report not just on the situation there, but also on how the embedding program for journalists has evolved over the past five years. Then,
Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs' most recent book is One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War. Dobbs spent years carefully researching the Cuban missile crisis, unearthing new material for an hour-by-hour account of the Cold War’s apex.Thursday, July 24, 2008
First, a look at the world of film with our resident entertainment critic David Kipen. Then, independent filmmaker Nanette Burstein retreated back to high school to document five seemingly stereotypical teens during their senior year. The group reads like a John Hughes' casting call: the jock, the geek, the princess, the artsy girl, and the heartthrob. But American Teen doesn't shove this group into their neat, Hollywood-ized boxes; instead it captures the real-life pressures of growing up in America. Then, Ray Benson, legendary front man of western swing group Asleep at the Wheel, joins Bob in studio for a talk about the ever-changing line-up of the band and what they’re planning next.
Friday, July 25, 2008
'Whatever happened to my flying car?' and other questions about promised technologies are answered by Nick Sagan in the book, You Call This the Future? Nick is the son of the late astronomer Carl Sagan and our next guest, Linda Salzman-Sagan. She was the co-producer of the phonographic time capsule that was launched aboard the Voyager Spacecraft in 1977. The capsule has left the solar system and is drifting through space, waiting to be found by intelligent life forms. Salzman-Sagan talks about the sounds and images she selected to represent all of humanity.