ThoughtCast® - An online watering hole for ideas

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Back when I was working as a reporter for WNYC TV, a public TV station in Manhattan, I covered the return of the dinosaurs to the American Museum of Natural History, after a three year absence. The updated exhibition focused on the link between dinosaurs and birds. Though it s hard to imagine a connection between the tiny city sparrow and the Tyrannosaurus Rex, there apparently is one!https://www.thoughtcast.org/podcasts/dinosaurs.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS Note: The WGBH sister stations WCAI and WNAN broadcast this interview, and it also received a 5 star review on PRX!Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible the shepherd, poet, warrior and adulterer in his Life of David. Is David a legend? A real, flesh and blood warrior who killed Goliath, and united the 12 Jewish tribes into one nation? Robert Pinsky delves into these questions, and into David s story, with relish.David s story has been told many times, and the tale has changed with each telling. There s the David of the Hebrew Bible, and another version of his life in the Talmud. We know he slept with Bathsheba, but was this a sin? An act of love? Of violence? It depends on whom you ask.David, who lived about 3000 years ago, was beloved of God, and as a result, he got away with more than his share. He was a seductive, wily politician, a doting father, a bitter old man. These contradictions in David s character spur Pinsky on, and he adds his own twist to the tale, as you will hear, on ThoughtCast!Click here: to listen (28:30 mins).https://www.thoughtcast.org/podcasts/pinskyfinalmono.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS On a beautiful spring day in the mid 1990s, I meandered the streets of Red Hook, when it was still a rundown Brooklyn neighborhood. I met its first art gallery owner, and the two longshoremen who ventured inside. This is one of my favorite stories for WNYC TV, the PBS station I worked for in Manhattan. (This station too is now history.)Let me know what you think!Click here (2:30 minutes) to listen!https://www.thoughtcast.org/podcasts/RedHookAudio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS Note: This interview was broadcast on the WGBH sister stations WCAI/WNAN, and also on KUT, in Austin, Texas!Tom Perrotta, author of the novels Mrs. Fletcher, Little Children, Election, The Abstinence Teacher and The Leftovers, speaks with ThoughtCast about a writer who fascinates, irritates and inspires him: Flannery O Connor.His relationship with her borders on kinship, and he admires and admonishes her as he would a family member, with whom he shares a bond both genetic and cultural.When asked to choose a specific piece of writing that s had a significant impact on him, Tom chose O Connor s short story Good Country People, but then he threw in two others Everything that Rises Must Converge and Revelation. As Tom explains, these three stories chart O Connor s careful trajectory, her unique vision, and her genius.Click here (30 minutes) to listen!This interview is the second in a new ThoughtCast series which examines a specific piece of writing — be it a poem, play, novel, short story, work of non-fiction or scrap of papyrus — that’s had a significant influence on the interviewee, that’s shaped and moved them.Up next: Harvard Classicist Gregory Nagy on Homer s Iliad, and the final, fatal battle between Hector and Achilles.https://www.thoughtcast.org/podcasts/perrotta30minsmonoFINAL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS

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