Radio Times on TV with Marty Moss-Coane

This Week

August 22, 2008

Presidential historian Robert Dallek on Nixon and Kissinger
Presidential historian ROBERT DALLEK's new book "Nixon and Kissenger: Partners in Power" explore the complicated relationship between Nixon and his national security adviser and secretary of state Henry Kissinger. Together, during the tumultuous Watergate era, the pair oversaw U.S. foreign policy including the opening to China, relations with the Soviet Union, diplomacy in the Middle East, and the Vietnam negotiations. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3

Author Kevin Sessums
Growing up gay in the American south during the 1960s. We talk with KEVIN SESSUMS author of Mississippi Sissy. He is a contributing editor to Allure magazine, and spent 14-years as a writer at Vanity Fair. He also served as executive editor to Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. He lives in New York City. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3

Recent Shows

August 15, 2008

Michael Pollan on the food we eat
In his new book, "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, author MICHAEL POLLAN argues that "instead of eating food, we're consuming 'edible foodlike substances,'no longer the products of nature but of food science." His advice for a healthy diet can be summed up in seven words -- Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3

Pulitzer Prize winning Author Geraldine Brooks
Pulitzer Prize winning author GERALDINE BROOKS visits Marty to talk about her new novel, "People of the Book," which tells the story of the journey of a rare illuminated Hebrew manuscript the Sarajevo Haggadah. Brooks previous work of fiction was March, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3

August 8, 2008

The Pentagon fire on 9/11
One story that has gone largely unnoticed is that the attack on the Pentagon created a huge fire and created unimaginable challenges for firefighters that day. We'll talk with PATRICK CREED co-author of Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save The Pentagon on 9/11. Creed is a volunteer firefighter a suburb of Philadelphia and serves as a U.S. Army Reserve officer. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3

The Women of Professional Baseball
We talk about women playing professional baseball and softball from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball league in the '40s and '50s to the current National Pro Fastball League. Marty talks to RUTH HARTMAN who played professional baseball during WW2 and AMY HARRE (Harry) who pitches for The Philadelphia Force. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3

August 1, 2008

Alpha Company
As the U.S. concludes its fifth year in Iraq, we take a look at the war through the eyes of the men in the National Guard's Alpha company. We talk with TOM INFIELD, whose series of articles about the Company were published in this week's Philadelphia Inquirer and SGT. ANTHONY KELLY who served in Iraq with Alpha Company from November 2004 - October 2005. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3

Sabriye Tenberken
In 2004, German-born teacher SABRIYE TENBERKEN, herself blind, and six of her blind Tibetan students climbed 21,000 feet up Mt. Everest, accompanied by a crew of blind and sighted guides. Their adventure is the subject of a new documentary, "Blindsight." Tenberken joins us in the studio along with JEFF EVANS, a sighted climber who served as one of the guides. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3

July 25, 2008

Is peace possible between Israel and the Palestinians?
We talk with AARON DAVID MILLER author of The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace. For the previous two decades, he served at the Department of State as an adviser to six Secretaries of State, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the Senior Adviser for Arab-Israeli Negotiations. Miller is currently a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3

Former Philadelphia columnist Steve Lopez
He's in Philadelphia to talk about his new book The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music. Lopez was a columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1986 to 1997 and now writes for The Los Angeles Times. The Soloist tells the true story of Lopez's friendship with a homeless man who he later learned once was a promising student at Julliard. The story is being made into a movie due out in November, with Robert Downey Jr. playing Lopez and Jamie Foxx playing Ayers. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3

July 18, 2008

Jan Egeland on the world's humanitarian needs
A conversation with JAN EGELAND, former UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs about our responsibility to help end suffering and loss of life in wars and disasters. His new book is A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Account from the Frontlines of Humanity. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3

Manil Suri
MANIL SURI talks about his second novel, The Age of Shiva. It tells the story of Meera, a woman living in Bombay in the 1960s, her troubled marriage, and her relationship with her son. Suri's first novel The Death of Vishnu was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He is a Mathematics Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3

July 11, 2008

Dr. Dan Gottlieb
We talk with DAN GOTTLIEB host of WHYY's Voices in the Family and author of the new book Learning From the Heart: Lessons on Living, Loving, and Listening. Gottlieb is a Philadelphia based psychologist and family therapist who in 1979 at the age of 33 became a quadriplegic in a car accident. In his new book he explores what all humans have in common, longing for love, understanding and security. Gottlieb writes the column Inside Out for The Philadelphia Inquirer and is author of several other books including Letters to Sam: A Grandfather's Lessons on Love, Loss and the Gifts of Life. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3

A conversation with author James McBride
JAMES McBRIDE's new book, Song Yet Sung, is the story of an escaped female runaway slave in 1850 and her perilous flight through the Eastern Shore of Maryland. McBride joins Marty in the studio to talk about his new novel and his career as an author, journalist and musician. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3

Note: Radio Times on TV was pre-empted on July 4, 2008

June 27, 2008

Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells was a crusader embroiled in the struggle against lynching. She was born in 1862 to slaves in Mississippi, and began her activist career by refusing to leave a first-class ladies' car on a Memphis railway. Her strong approach gained many supporters and just as many enemies, among blacks and whites. For all her work, she remains relatively unknown in the history of civil rights. Author, Paula J. Giddings joins host Marty Moss-Coane to discuss her powerful biography on Wells, Ida: A Sword Among Lions. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3

Injury among young female althletes
Millions of young girls have entered the world of competitive sports and are now experiencing serious injuries. Author, Michael Sokolove believes this is the downside to the women's sports revolution. He says that young female athletes tear their ACLs, the stabilizing ligament in the knee, at rates as high as eight times greater than their male counterparts. In his new book Warrior Girls, he demonstrates this point with Amy Steadman, who was destined to become one of the great female soccer players of her generation. Instead, she has undergone 5 surgeries on her right knee. This and more as Sokolove visits Radio Times on TV. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3

Note: Radio Times on TV was pre-empted on June 20, 2008

June 13, 2008

The Pentagon Fire on 9/11
There are hundreds of stories of tragedy and heroism from the terrorist attacks on 911, and when American Airlines Flight 77 was approaching the Pentagon on that day, 2 local firefighters witnessed the plane coming directly at them. For over twenty-four hours, Arlington firefighters and other local crews, battled some of the most dangerous circumstances imaginable. Amateur historian and volunteer firefighter, Patrick Creed teamed up with journalist, Rick Newman, to give a gripping account of ordinary men and women braving the inferno at the Pentagon. Patrick Creed joins host Marty Moss-Coane to discuss their book Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3

The Women of Professional Baseball and Softball
The All American Girls Professional Baseball League was founded back in the 1940's after many of the male baseball players went off to war. Ruth Hartman played for The Fort Wayne Daisies and The Racine Belles. The league was the inspiration for the 1992 movie, A League of their Own. The national Pro Fastball League was started in 2004. There are now six teams. The Philadelphia Force is part of it and plays out of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Amy Harre is a pitcher for the team. Hartman and Harre join Marty Moss-Coane to talk about women in baseball, then and now. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3

Note: Radio Times on TV was pre-empted on June 6, 2008